{"id":9031,"date":"2025-03-25T17:35:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9031"},"modified":"2025-03-25T17:35:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:35:45","slug":"uk-draws-up-new-disease-threat-watch-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/25\/uk-draws-up-new-disease-threat-watch-list\/","title":{"rendered":"UK draws up new disease-threat watch list"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cr72d7p5dl2o\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK has a new watch list of 24 infectious diseases that could pose the greatest future threat to public health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some are viruses with global pandemic potential &#8211; like Covid &#8211; while others are illnesses that have no existing treatments or could cause significant harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Avian, or bird, flu is on the list, as well as mosquito-spread illnesses that may become common with rising temperatures from climate change, according to the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), opens in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/priority-pathogen-families-research-and-development-tool\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim is to steer scientists and investors into making new tests and vaccines or medicines in preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cr72d7p5dl2o\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"s  DqPalA \"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC The UK has a new watch list of 24 infectious diseases that could pose the greatest future threat to public health. Some are viruses with global pandemic potential &#8211; like Covid &#8211; while others are illnesses that have no existing treatments or could cause significant harm. Avian, or bird, flu is on the list, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9032,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031\/revisions\/9032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}