Emerging threats

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

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The cause of ‘tomato flu’: the coxsackievirus. CDC/ Dr. Erskine Palmer

‘Tomato flu’ outbreak in India – here’s what it really is

1 Sep 2022

4 min read

Bats at the Kitaka mine in Uganda. The Marburg virus is transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads among humans through direct contact with the bodily fluids of infected people, surfaces, and material. Copyright: WHO /Christopher Black

Africa braces against Marburg virus after Ghana cases

31 Aug 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts Outbreaks Marburg

Sindhi cattle near Amazon rainforest: flexitarian diets could feed the growing world population without further encroaching onto wild habitat. Lucas Ninno via GettyImages

Eating less food from animal sources is key to reducing the risk of wildlife-origin diseases and global warming

29 Aug 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts COVID-19 HIV Ebola

Mosquitoes: there’s malaria, plus 5 other diseases they pass on to humans

24 Aug 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts Malaria Chikungunya Yellow fever

Scanning electron micrograph of monkeypox virus. Image captured at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Integrated Research Facility. Copyright: NIAID, CC BY 2.0

Monkeypox decision a shot in the arm for African health

23 Aug 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts Mpox

Over half of infectious diseases made worse by climate change

23 Aug 2022

3 min read

Climate change Outbreaks Data

Streptococcus pneumoniae, 3D illustration

How surveillance can detect shape-shifting bacteria to stop them evading vaccines

18 Aug 2022

4 min read

Pneumococcal Antimicrobial resistance Spotlight on pneumonia

Five charts on monkeypox, past and present

16 Aug 2022

4 min read

Mpox Data

Five things you need to know about Langya virus

12 Aug 2022

3 min read

Langya Explainer Pandemic preparedness

A health worker administering polio drops to a child during nationwide door to door campaign in UC Jalala in Texila, Pakistan. Gavi/2020/Asad Zaidi

What is vaccine-derived polio?

28 Jul 2022

4 min read

Polio Outbreaks Routine immunisation

Polio is endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2022. Sarah Poser, Meredith Boyter Newlove/CDC via AP

Polio in New York – an infectious disease doctor explains this exceedingly rare occurrence

27 Jul 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts Polio

Could vaccines save us from antimicrobial resistance?

26 Jul 2022

7 min read

Antimicrobial resistance Typhoid Vaccine development Spotlight on AMR

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