India, May 18 -- As infectious disease outbreaks become more frequent, they are also becoming more damaging, with widening health, economic, political and social impacts, and less capacity to recover from them, a new report of an independent monitoring and accountability body to ensure preparedness for global health crises has said.

The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB)'s report titled 'A World on the Edge: Priorities for a Pandemic-Resilient Future', launched in the margins of the 79th World Health Assembly on Monday, warned that a decade of investment has not kept pace with rising pandemic risk. New initiatives have improved aspects of preparedness, but overall these efforts are being offset by the growing effects of rising g...