Consequence of Ebola outbreak to global health?

However, despite these negative impacts on public health and beyond, the EVD outbreak has brought some opportunities to West African countries that must be highlighted and sustained. First, the devastating pace of EVD led to a paradigm change in West Africa. The EVD which was perceived as a ‘simple’ public health concern at the beginning, then rapidly became a threat to national security, social and political stability and economic growth. This paradigm change required aggressive public measures to mitigate its devastating impacts.