Emerging threats

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

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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

“The combination of heavy monsoon rainfall, vast agricultural landscapes, a large population engaged in farming and fishing, common practices such as working barefoot or barehanded in soil and water, as well as traditional rituals involving close contact with wet soil, facilitate exposure to Burkholderia pseudomallei in India”: Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Kasturba Medical College

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

29 Oct 2025

10 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

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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

There’s a new outbreak of Ebola in Africa. Here’s what you need to know

15 Sep 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Ebola

Silhouette being pulled by strings like a puppet. Credit: TSViPhoto/Shutterstock

Why people embrace conspiracy theories: it’s about community, not gullibility

26 Aug 2025

5 min read

Cross-posts COVID-19

A woman in Nigeria prepares food. Image by KC Nwakalor / USAID via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

As climate change burdens grow, community mental health alarm bells ring

25 Aug 2025

12 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

All of the Chikungunya cases in England were associated with travel to regions which have had ongoing outbreaks of the virus. nechaevkon/ Shutterstock

Chikungunya: what travellers should know about this mosquito-borne virus

22 Aug 2025

5 min read

Cross-posts Chikungunya

Map of Europe. Credit: fertroulik/ Unsplash

Dengue-spreading mosquito racing north through Europe as climate warms

21 Aug 2025

4 min read

Dengue Climate change

Aedes aegypti mosquito biting a human. Credit: US Department of Agriculture

Larvae-eating fish and anti-mosquito drones: China battles largest-ever chikungunya outbreak

15 Aug 2025

3 min read

Chikungunya

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