Armed conflicts weaken pandemic early-warning systems precisely where outbreak risk is greatest, enabling diseases like Ebola to spread undetected across borders. The Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda cases illustrate how conflict delays detection by weeks.
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theconversation.com/conflicts-ca... The world’s pandemic early-warning system is weakest in places affected by armed conflict, where the risk of outbreaks is often greatest.
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[The Conversation Africa] The Ebola outbreak that emerged in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and crossed into neighbouring Uganda may have been killing people for weeks before the alarm was raised. When Médecins Sans Frontières investigated in May 2026, it reported that at least 55 people had died since the beginning of April.