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Category Archives: On the Horizon
Déjà flu: can science help the NHS cope with the annual burden of respiratory infections?
Last winter’s flu season was widely covered as having put huge pressure on the NHS, with reports the NHS is being thrown into ‘crisis’. What went wrong? And how can the NHS be supported in the future? At the Microbiology … Continue reading
Researchers are hunting for viruses that could cause the next pandemic
Scientists around the world are looking for the next SARS or MERS virus in wildlife from disease emergence ‘hotspots’. giulia/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 In late 2002, a new kind of lung infection began to emerge in the Guandong province of southern … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Microbiology, Emerging Diseases, On the Horizon, Virology
Tagged coronavirus, MERS, SARS
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On the Horizon: What is Oropouche virus?
In this edition of our On the Horizon series, we take a look at an obscure virus that may cause an important emerging disease in 2017, or may remain in obscurity for much of the world. That is, except for … Continue reading
On the Horizon: Monkeypox
On 8 May 1980, after a global vaccination campaign, the WHO declared that smallpox had been eradicated. Wiping out this viral disease, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of millions of people throughout history, should be considered one of … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Emerging Diseases, On the Horizon, Virology
Tagged Monkeypox, smallpox, vaccines
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On the Horizon: Rift Valley fever
In 1930, a new disease was reported in sheep on a farm near the town of Naivasha, in the central Rift Valley region of Kenya. This disease caused mass spontaneous abortions among pregnant ewes and the death of newborn lambs. … Continue reading
On the Horizon: Hantaviruses
In early 2013, a man in North Wales was rushed to hospital showing symptoms of serious kidney problems. The source of his infection? His pet rats. Tests revealed that the causative agent was a rodent virus known as Seoul virus. … Continue reading
On the Horizon: Nipah virus
Our past two articles in the On the Horizon series have focused on diseases that were first identified decades ago. In this edition of the series, we’ll be looking at a virus that was only discovered at the very end … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Diseases, On the Horizon
Tagged Bangladesh, Emerging disease, Nipah, Palm sap
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On the Horizon: Xylella fastidiosa
It’s not just humans and animals that are affected by emerging diseases. In this latest addition to the On the Horizon series, we learn about a poorly understood bacterium that causes significant hardships to farmers across the world. The Apulia … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Diseases, On the Horizon, Plant Microbiology
Tagged Brazil, Italy, olives, plant disease, Xylella
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On the Horizon: The spread of Lassa fever
On the Horizon is the Society’s blog series on emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. For this article, we spoke to Dr Lina Moses from Tulane University in New Orleans about Lassa fever, a viral infection spreading across parts of West … Continue reading
On the Horizon: an introduction
Over the next few weeks and months, we’ll be publishing a collection of articles about emerging diseases in our On the Horizon series. In this first post, we spoke to David Heymann, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Diseases, On the Horizon
Tagged climate change, Emerging disease, Rift valley, WHO, World Bank
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