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Emerging threats

News and features on the emerging threats to human health, from climate change to AMR.

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Japanese encephalitis has claimed a second life in NSW and been detected in Brisbane. What is it?

17 Mar 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Japanese encephalitis

The resurgence of measles in Canada is a stark reminder that we cannot take public health achievements for granted. (CDC and NIAID), CC BY

Measles: A resurgent threat in Canada

3 Mar 2025

5 min read

Cross-posts Measles

Bat in flight during dusk. Credit: Unsplash, Igam Ogam

A new coronavirus has just been discovered. Should we be worried?

25 Feb 2025

3 min read

COVID-19

Woman with flu symptoms. Credit: Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels

Six things you need to know about this year’s brutal flu season

17 Feb 2025

4 min read

Influenza Bird flu

Health workers at a health outpost during the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2019. Credit: Gavi/2019/Frederique Tissandier

What is Sudan virus disease and how does it differ from other forms of Ebola?

7 Feb 2025

6 min read

Ebola

Avian influenza control zones have been put in place in England, Scotland and Wales to control the virus’s spread among birds. Credit: Alan Morris / Shutterstock

Bird flu cases surging in UK but risk to humans remains low

31 Jan 2025

3 min read

Cross-posts Bird flu

A laboratory worker analysing test samples at Kinshasa’s Institut National de la Recherche Biomédicale. Photo: Institut National de la Recherche Biomédicale

Mpox in the DRC: residents of the slum at the centre of Kinshasa’s epidemic have little chance of avoiding this major health crisis

28 Jan 2025

6 min read

Cross-posts Mpox Outbreaks

The H5N1 virus has been found in poultry and cattle farms across southwest and central Michigan. Matthew Hatcher/AFP via Getty Images

Bird flu flares up again in Michigan poultry – an infectious disease expert explains the risk to humans, chickens, cows and other animals

21 Jan 2025

6 min read

Cross-posts Bird flu

A love of fungi called false morels could have had tragic consequences in the French village of Montchavin. CREDIT: KNOWABLE MAGAZINE

A devastating nerve disease stalks a mountain village

16 Jan 2025

14 min read

Cross-posts Outbreaks

A firefighter in the Xingu Indigenous Territory. Image courtesy of the Alto Xingu Family Institute (IFAX)

How are ‘heat domes’ hurting our health?

15 Jan 2025

17 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

A Covid-19 dashboard showing data in March 2020. Visual: Anton/Unsplash

The Elusive Goal of Nationwide Disease Prediction

10 Jan 2025

12 min read

Cross-posts Innovation Pandemic preparedness

A mother and a child are now refugees at a transit centre in Renk, South Sudan where they arrived with others on 18 December after fleeing escalating violence in Sudan where the health system is collapsing from shortages of medical supplies, a loss of doctors, and destroyed or looted medical facilities. Copyright: Reason Moses Runyanga / UNHCR.

AI diagnostics can ease health crisis in war-torn Sudan

7 Jan 2025

3 min read

Innovation Conflict & humanitarian Cross-posts

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