Emerging threats

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

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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

Which infectious disease is likely to be the biggest emerging problem in 2025?

6 Jan 2025

4 min read

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The H5N1 virus has been spreading among mammals, including elephant seals. Credit: Simon Hurry/Unsplash

Could bird flu be one mutation away from causing a pandemic?

18 Dec 2024

2 min read

Bird flu

Intense Tropical Cyclone Chido making landfall in Mayotte on 14 December 2024. Credit: SERVI imagery from ESA's Meteosat 12 Satellite

The surprise toll of tropical cyclones on our health

16 Dec 2024

4 min read

Climate change

Poliovirus found in wastewater in Spain, Germany and Poland – what you need to know

13 Dec 2024

5 min read

Cross-posts Polio

Mystery disease kills dozens in Congo – what we know so far

9 Dec 2024

4 min read

Cross-posts Outbreaks

A male Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta mulatta), sitting in Gokarna Forest, Near Kathmandu, Nepal. Credit: Charles J. Sharp/Sharp Photography/CC BY-SA 4.0

From macaque to man: the growing threat of zoonotic malaria

29 Nov 2024

10 min read

Malaria Spotlight on malaria

A mother using a mosquito repellent to protect her son from malaria before he sleeps. Credit: Gavi/2024

Africa's race against time to stop malaria drug resistance

25 Nov 2024

11 min read

Malaria Spotlight on malaria

Workers sort through discarded plastic in Bangladesh. Credit: Mumtahina Tanni via Pexels

Plastics are invading our bodies, not just our oceans

21 Nov 2024

8 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

Medical workers examine children to determine if they are malnourished at the CISP clinic in the Bonder district of Mogadishu, Somalia, 2017. Credit: Gavi/2017/Karel Prinsloo

Five ways in which the climate crisis is worsening antimicrobial resistance

21 Nov 2024

5 min read

Climate change Antimicrobial resistance Spotlight on climate change

Flies carry bacteria – and some of those are resistant to antibiotics. What we found in three South African hospices

19 Nov 2024

4 min read

Cross-posts Antimicrobial resistance

Vaccination activity in Mauritania in 2022. The recent emergence of Rift Valley Fever has sparked fears of a repeat of the 2022 outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease, which can spread to people as well as animals. Copyright: Courtesy of WHO Mauritania

Rwanda steps up measures against Rift Valley Fever

15 Nov 2024

4 min read

Cross-posts Rift Valley fever

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