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High-consequence outbreak that overlaps reduced financing and thin surveillance

A conditional statement under stated assumptions, never a prediction.

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Contents
  1. ·Edition home
  2. ·Executive summary
  3. 1Health threats cross every line
  4. 2Key findings
  5. 3Systems and sectors at baseline
  6. 4Risks and capability
  7. 5High-consequence outbreak that overlaps reduced financing and thin surveillance
    1. 5.1 Assumptions
    2. 5.2 The cascade, step by step
    3. 5.3 The scenario as a table of steps
  8. 6Readings from the other desks
  9. 7The 2027 agenda
  10. 8Systems in depth
  11. AMethodology
  12. BData appendix
  13. CReferences and record
  14. ·Complete edition, for print

5.1Assumptions

Scenario SCN-SR08-OUT-01: what is assumed, and what is held constant.

Baseline
the 2026 reference state in this edition
Drivers
a filovirus or novel influenza outbreak begins in a region with thin surveillance, while aid for health stays near its 2025 level
Analogues
Bundibugyo virus disease, 2026; mpox, 2024 and 2025475
Interventions
none modelled: the specification describes the unmitigated case
Run state
narrative specification; quantified run scheduled for 2027

5.2The cascade, step by step

  1. 1

    BIO → HLT

    a pathogen passes from an animal host to people; early cases go undetected

    2026

  2. 2

    HLT → HLT

    transmission spreads across health zones and a city

    2026

  3. 3

    HLT → TRD

    neighbouring states consider border and trade measures

    2026

  4. 4

    FIN → HLT

    emergency funding is released in small steps against a larger need

    2026

  5. 5

    HLT → HLT

    routine immunisation and care are displaced by the response

    2025 · 2026

  6. 6

    HLT → FIN

    costs accumulate and later outbreaks meet a weaker base

    2026

5.3The scenario as a table of steps

How the shock in scenario SCN-SR08-OUT-01 would travel through Health Security, One Health and Biosecurity’s coupled systems, step by step, under the assumptions the edition states.

StepWhat happensSource
01 Biodiversity to healthA pathogen passes from an animal host to people; early cases go undetected. Analogue or source: 2026.Edition SR-08, scenario SCN-SR08-OUT-01, step 1
02 Health to healthTransmission spreads across health zones and a city. Analogue or source: 2026.Edition SR-08, scenario SCN-SR08-OUT-01, step 2
03 Health to tradeNeighbouring states consider border and trade measures. Analogue or source: 2026.Edition SR-08, scenario SCN-SR08-OUT-01, step 3
04 Finance to healthEmergency funding is released in small steps against a larger need. Analogue or source: 2026.Edition SR-08, scenario SCN-SR08-OUT-01, step 4
05 Health to healthRoutine immunisation and care are displaced by the response. Analogue or source: 2025 · 2026.Edition SR-08, scenario SCN-SR08-OUT-01, step 5
06 Health to financeCosts accumulate and later outbreaks meet a weaker base. Analogue or source: 2026.Edition SR-08, scenario SCN-SR08-OUT-01, step 6

A teaching model of a conditional scenario under the edition’s stated assumptions: not a forecast, not a prediction and not a warning. Sources: Health Security, One Health and Biosecurity 2026, scenario SCN-SR08-OUT-01 (2026); Health Security, One Health and Biosecurity 2026, references (NR-CIT-1) (2026).

Notes

Numbers are the edition’s reference numbers, so a note reads the same in every chapter. The full list, with every source and its licence, is in Annex C. Annex C, references

  1. 47ECDC (ed.), Ebola disease outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, update of 30 September 2026 (cases up to 27 September 2026: 8,116 confirmed and 3,924 deaths; seven provinces; 63 of 167 health zones; Uganda 20 confirmed cases). European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  2. 5WHO (ed.), Fifth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the upsurge of mpox 2024, statement published 30 October 2025 (Director-General determination of 5 September 2025). World Health Organization, Geneva. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back

Cite this chapter

Valadbaygi, S. (Ed.). (2026). Chapter 5: High-consequence outbreak that overlaps reduced financing and thin surveillance. In Strategic Systems Report 2026: Health Security, One Health and Biosecurity (Baseline Edition 2026, Report No. NR-STRATEGIC-HEALTHSECURITY-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE) [Draft under review]. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

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Pandemic

Workforce absence ripples from clinics into grid operations, logistics and farm labour.

W · E · I · F · H · B

Sectors
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Relations
6 of 15
Coupling
0.41 share of total

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  • Food → Health · nutrition0.7
  • Infrastructure → Health · access to care0.5
  • Energy → Food · fertiliser, machinery and cold chains0.5
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