• Infectious disease spread is increasingly common due to travel, human-animal contact, and climate trends. • Experts shared the emerging diseases they're most concerned about and how to prevent them. • This article is part of "IDWeek," a series on one of the leading conferences for infectious-disease experts.

It's been more than 10 years since the 2014 Ebola epidemic, when the often-fatal viral infection spread from remote villages in Central Africa, leading to the world's largest outbreak since the virus' 1976 discovery.

Today, we may be less prepared than we previously were for emerging infectious disease outbreaks, said Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, an internal medicine expert who specializes in infectious disease, during her presentation at the annual IDWeek conference for professionals

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