Science Speaks Highlights Outbreak Risks and Impacts

From the development of a website presenting findings from Joint External Evaluations of outbreak preparedness, to a tuberculosis outbreak sparking prison reform and the underestimated costs of the Ebola crisis, the IDSA/HIVMA global Science Speaks blog reported on global reasons to control local outbreaks with coverage of:

• A website tracking outbreak preparedness in countries around the world;
• How prison conditions amplified tuberculosis risks in a surrounding community;
• The uncounted costs of the West Africa Ebola crisis.