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This summary identifies priority actions to address infectious disease outbreaks in conflict-affected regions.
Armed conflicts destroy health infrastructure, pathogen surveillance, and create conditions, such as overcrowding, displacement, contaminated water, malnutrition, absence of diagnostics and infection control, and supply chain failure, in which pathogens prone to causing outbreaks thrive.1 Gaza and Lebanon represent two currently documented such severe collapses. We summarize the epidemiological evidence and identify priority actions for the global infectious diseases community.
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