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ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2026

Perspectives on the economic costs of disease outbreaks to health systems.

George Nyadimo Agot, Marshal Mutinda Mweu

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Article in The Pan African medical journal, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

George Nyadimo AgotDepartment of Public and Global Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
Marshal Mutinda MweuDepartment of Public and Global Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disease outbreaks are non-random public health phenomena attributed to known or idiopathic human, animal, and animal-based factors; a realm referred to as the One Health concept; a new global public health order for control and prevention of epidemics, endemics, and pandemics. These are diseases of viral, prion, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic origin, transmitted between vertebrate animals and humans and vice versa. Emergence and re-emergence of zoonotic diseases such as rabies, Ebola, COVID-19, monkeypox, avian influenza, anthrax, brucellosis, leptospirosis, and Lyme disease continue to affect populations across the world, pointing to unexpected budget impacts of the affected countries.

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Cost of IllnessDelivery of Health CareDisease OutbreaksGlobal HealthPublic HealthZoonosesAnimalsCommunicable Diseases, EmergingHumansOne Healthdisease outbreakseconomic costshealth systemsPerspectiveszoonotic diseases

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PMID42542872
PMCPMC13428646

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