彼得·桑兹（Peter Sands）和他的同事们在2016年5月的《柳叶刀》杂志上所发表的研究表明，传染病爆发会造成巨大的经济成本，但它们很少甚至没有作为评估宏观经济风险的因素被考虑到。
As Peter Sands and his colleagues show in a May 2016 study in The Lancet, infectious-disease outbreaks have far-reaching economic costs, and yet they are rarely, if ever, factored into assessments of macroeconomic risk.