; and (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate. (2) Global health security The term global health security means activities supporting epidemic and pandemic preparedness and capabilities at the country and global levels in order to minimize vulnerability to acute public health events that can endanger the health of populations across geographical regions and international boundaries. 191512. Sunset This subtitle (other than section 191507 ), and the amendments made by this subtitle, shall cease to be effective on December 31, 2024. C Securing America From Epidemics Act 191513. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Due to increasing population and population density, human mobility, and ecological change, emerging infectious diseases pose a real and growing threat to global health security. (2) While vaccines can be the most effective tools to protect against infectious disease, the absence of vaccines for a new or emerging infectious disease with epidemic potential is a major health security threat globally, posing catastrophic potential human and economic costs. (3) The 1918 influenza pandemic infected 500,000,000 people, or about one-third of the world’s population at the time, and killed 50,000,000 people—more than died in the First World War. (4) The economic cost of an outbreak can be devastating. The estimated global cost today, should an outbreak of the scale of the 1918 influenza pandemic strike, is 5 percent of global gross domestic product. (5) Even regional outbreaks can have enormous human costs and substantially disrupt the global economy and cripple regional economies. The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 and cost $2,800,000,000 in losses in the affected countries alone. (6) The ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak reflects the pressing need for quick and effective vaccine and countermeasure development. (7) While the need for vaccines to address emerging epidemic threats is acute, markets to drive the necessary development