Emerging threats

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

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How global warming could mean a greater risk of flesh-eating bacteria

27 Mar 2023

3 min read

Climate change

A man returning home with his family's allocation of long lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets. The World Health Organization has updated its malaria policy guidelines, recommending the use of nets treated with a combination of insecticides. Credit: Debbie Gueye, USAID on Pixnio

WHO clears combination malaria nets to dodge resistance

23 Mar 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts Malaria

Five key links between climate change and health

22 Mar 2023

5 min read

Climate change

“Time is running out”: WHO review warns there are not enough antibiotics in the pipeline to combat urgent health threat

17 Mar 2023

5 min read

Antimicrobial resistance Innovation

COVID, bird flu, mpox – a virologist on why we’re seeing so many viruses emerge

15 Mar 2023

5 min read

Cross-posts COVID-19 Mpox Bird flu

Marburg virus spreads through close contact with infected body fluids. Credit: NIAID/flickr, CC BY-SA

Marburg virus outbreaks are increasing in frequency and geographic spread – three virologists explain

14 Mar 2023

6 min read

Cross-posts Marburg Outbreaks

Cambodian health authorities have confirmed that there is no human-to-human transmission of bird flu following news of a man and his daughter getting infected. Copyright: Lorrie Graham/AusAID. (CC BY 2.0). This image has been cropped.

No ‘human-to-human infection’ of bird flu in Cambodia

6 Mar 2023

5 min read

Cross-posts Bird flu Pandemic preparedness

Fertilizer exports have been hampered by the exclusion of Russian banks from the global SWIFT payments system coupled with the reluctance of insurers to cover shipments in a war zone.

This is how war in Europe is disrupting fertilizer supplies and threatening global food security

2 Mar 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts Conflict & humanitarian

Gabriela Montenegro Bethancourt is one of seven women scientists to win the 2023 Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World by UNESCO's Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) and the Elsevier Foundation.

Q&A: Local context is key to nourishing children, says specialist

2 Mar 2023

7 min read

Cross-posts Explainer Research summary

Handing out of flour sack during free food distribution event.

Q&A: How to fix the worst malnutrition crisis in more than 40 years

2 Mar 2023

8 min read

Climate change COVID-19 Zero-dose children

Five things you need to know about Equatorial Guinea’s Marburg outbreak

21 Feb 2023

4 min read

Marburg Vaccine development Explainer

Woman with stomach pain. Credit: Vadym Pastukh/Shutterstock

Norovirus: what to know about this bug as northern hemisphere countries face outbreaks

20 Feb 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts Outbreaks

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