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ReviewCureus2025

The Role and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence in Combating Infectious Disease Outbreaks.

Hiba H Ali, Haya M Ali, Hera M Ali, Mohamad A Ali, Ahmed F Zaky, Anisa A Touk, Abdulkarim H Darwiche, Abdollfatah A Touk

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Review in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Hiba H AliCollege of Medicine, Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, SAU.
Haya M AliCollege of Medicine, Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, SAU.
Hera M AliCollege of Medicine, Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, SAU.
Mohamad A AliCollege of Medicine, Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, SAU.
Ahmed F ZakyCollege of Medicine, Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, SAU.
Anisa A ToukCollege of Medicine, Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, SAU.
Abdulkarim H DarwicheCollege of Medicine, Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, SAU.
Abdollfatah A ToukCollege of Medicine, University of Science and Technology, Irbid, JOR.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative tool in the management of pandemics, significantly enhancing disease prediction, diagnostics, drug discovery, and vaccine development. This manuscript explores AI's multifaceted applications during infectious disease outbreaks, from predictive modeling and outbreak forecasting to the acceleration of vaccine development and antimicrobial resistance detection. AI-driven technologies, including deep learning and reinforcement learning, have shown remarkable effectiveness in improving diagnostic accuracy, streamlining drug discovery processes, and providing real-time decision-making support for healthcare providers. However, despite its substantial contributions, the deployment of AI in pandemic management faces key limitations, including concerns about data privacy, model transparency, and the need for constant updates to adapt to emerging pathogens. The integration of AI with human expertise is essential to optimize global health outcomes and address these challenges. This review highlights both the potential and the obstacles to fully leveraging AI in pandemic response, proposing pathways for overcoming current limitations and maximizing AI's impact on future outbreaks.

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artificial intelligencedeep learninginfectious diseasesmachine learningneural networksoutbreakpandemicreinforcement learning

Identifiers

PMID39917100
PMCPMC11800715

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