Emerging threats

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

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Marburg virus particles colourised. Credit: The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Ethiopia battles first-ever Marburg outbreak

20 Nov 2025

4 min read

Marburg Climate change

Using an AI tool in a smartphone to identify a disease-spreading mosquito. Credit: SciDev.Net

AI and citizens detect invasive mosquito in Madagascar

20 Nov 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Malaria Innovation

Public health officials spray the streets in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, in 2023 to eliminate mosquitoes that cause dengue fever. Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Images

COP30 report reveals how climate change is spreading infectious diseases to new regions

14 Nov 2025

5 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

Canada eliminated measles in 1998 but had a major outbreak in 2025. Credit: jure/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Canada loses its official 'measles-free' status

13 Nov 2025

5 min read

Cross-posts Measles

Hannah Livesay, biologist at the Grand River Mosquito Control District, points out the characteristic white markings of an Aedes aegypti mosquito shown under a microscope at her lab in Grand Junction, Colorado. Visual: Isabella Escobedo / Inside Climate News

A mosquito that can carry dengue has landed in the Rockies

12 Nov 2025

8 min read

Cross-posts Dengue

Chicken feed from a bucket of grain. Credit: Arisa Chattasa/ Unsplash

Could bird flu be quietly spreading undetected worldwide?

6 Nov 2025

5 min read

Bird flu Influenza

Emergency health services have been strained in Senegal after an outbreak of Rift Valley fever. Seyllou/AFP/Getty Images

Rift Valley fever: what it is, how it spreads and how to stop it

30 Oct 2025

6 min read

Cross-posts Rift Valley fever

Paddy fields in Thanjavur, India. Credit: Ricardo Martins/Flickr under CC BY 2.0

‘The Great Mimicker’: meet the deadly bacterium spreading worldwide

29 Oct 2025

11 min read

Outbreaks

Frontline health workers hug in a hospital corridor. Credit: Europa Press News/ Getty images

Violence Against Health Workers Must End

23 Oct 2025

5 min read

Cross-posts Health worker heroes

Ukraine war medics. Credit: Yevhenii Vasyliev / Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

The pernicious infections infiltrating Ukraine’s front lines

8 Oct 2025

18 min read

Cross-posts Antimicrobial resistance

A health worker cares for a sick child at a cholera treatment centre in Gedaref State, eastern Sudan, November 2024. Copyright: UNOCHA / Yao Chen

Cholera spreads across every state in Sudan

24 Sep 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Cholera

Health workers responding to an Ebola outbreak that swept West African countries in 2017. Copyright: UC Rusal Photo Gallery

DRC Ebola outbreak puts neighbours on high alert

23 Sep 2025

5 min read

Cross-posts Ebola Outbreaks

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