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Press Releases
MSF Alert: Five Epidemics to Watch
January 25, 2016
GENEVA/NEW YORK—Five diseases with the potential to become epidemics in 2016 are being highlighted by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), as the World Health Organization’s executive board meets in Geneva this week.

Without proper investment in preventing and responding to outbreaks of cholera, malaria, measles, meningitis and a group of often-overlooked diseases spread by viruses and parasites, they are likely to pose an ever greater threat to people’s health in the year ahead.

“We know that thousands of lives will be at risk in the year to come, although the means exist to prevent these deaths,” said Monica Rull, operational health advisor for MSF. “Epidemics of cholera, malaria, measles and meningitis take place every year, incapacitating and killing many—and this needs to stop. At the same time, the threat posed by emerging and re-emerging virus and parasite-spread diseases—such as dengue fever, Zika, Ebola and Kala Azar—needs to be faced.”…