Uganda, Feb. 15 -- Uganda's profile as a hotspot for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases requires adequate preparation to counter any outbreaks failure of which could leave the country in a vicious cycle of attacks, health activists have warned.

This, they say, not only costs lives but also has a negative economic impact where resources that would have gone to development are diverted to respond to outbreaks.

To counteract this, the activists have called on the government to channel more funds to the Ministry of Health, and related agencies for continuous surveillance.

The country has in the recent past suffered multiple outbreaks including Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Marburg, yellow fever, anthrax, rift valley fever, meningiti...