Emerging threats

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

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Wild meat is eaten by millions, but puts billions at risk – how to manage the trade

11 Apr 2025

5 min read

Cross-posts

A nurse carefully adjusts an intravenous drip for a dengue patient at a hospital in Peshawar. Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall and prolonged monsoon seasons have created ideal breeding grounds for dengue-carrying mosquitoes..

New climate report in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa warns of grave health impacts by 2050

1 Apr 2025

6 min read

Climate change Spotlight on climate change

Rohingya refugees relocating because of flooding and landslides in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh in 2019. A new study indicates that in some situations, vulnerable populations are simply unable to leave, even if they want to. Credit: UN Women/Allison Joyce

‘Trapped populations’ need help to escape climate risks

1 Apr 2025

3 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

People on a Sydney beach on a hot summer day. Image by Neerav Bhatt via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Hotter weather threatens heart health, Australian study warns

28 Mar 2025

3 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

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

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