The UK has released a list of the 24 pathogens that are the greatest risk of public health at the moment. These are:
- Adenovirus
- Lassa fever
- Norovirus
- Mers
- Ebola (and similar viruses, such as Marburg)
- Flaviviridae (which includes dengue, Zika and hepatitis C)
- Hantavirus
- Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
- Flu (non-seasonal, including avian)
- Nipah virus
- Oropouche
- Rift Valley fever
- Acute flaccid myelitis
- Human metapneumovirus (HMPV)
- Mpox
- Chikungunya
- Anthrax
- Q fever
- Enterobacteriaceae (such as E. coli and Yersinia pestis, which causes plague)
- Tularaemia
- Moraxellaceae (which cause lung, urine and bloodstream infections)
- Gonorrhoea
- Staplylococcus
- Group A and B Strep
The list is in no particular order. But the most disturbing presence is that measles, which researchers say would be impossible to control even with lockdowns, and is more deadly than covid.
Scientists are working on vaccines and treatments.
The initiative of tracking is a result of the covid pandemic, for which we were entirely unprepared.
Many have said that we will live to see another pandemic.
Notice Gonorrhea on the list? Antibiotic resistance is becoming a problem.
