{"id":9307,"date":"2025-04-23T14:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9307"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:28:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:28:38","slug":"pandemics-pathogens-and-being-prepared-why-the-work-to-identify-emerging-threats-never-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/23\/pandemics-pathogens-and-being-prepared-why-the-work-to-identify-emerging-threats-never-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemics, pathogens and being prepared: why the work to identify emerging threats never stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/apr\/23\/pandemics-pathogens-and-being-prepared-why-the-work-to-identify-emerging-threats-never-stops\">The Guardian<\/a> As the UK Pandemic Sciences Network conference kicks off in Glasgow, virus expert Prof Emma Thomson says new technologies are boosting science\u2019s ability to fight novel strains of infectious diseases<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supported by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.theguardian.com\/commercial\/sponsor\/22\/Feb\/2024\/f459c58b-6553-486d-939a-5f23fd935f78-Guardian.orglogos-for%20badge.png\" alt=\"theguardian.org\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2010\/sep\/14\/about-this-site\">About this content<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/kat-lay\">Kat Lay<\/a>, Global health correspondentWed 23 Apr 2025 03.50 EDTShare<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof Emma Thomson is someone who knows a thing or two about pandemics. As the recently appointed director of the Medical Research Council, University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) and a World Heath Organization consultant, Thomson is one of the country\u2019s leading virus experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe used to think that pandemics would occur maybe once in our lifetimes. Now, it\u2019s definitely within the next few years. It could even be tomorrow,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, Thomson says, \u201camazing\u201d advances in technology, including genetic sequencing, mRNA vaccines and artificial intelligence (AI), are boosting the world\u2019s ability to deal with these threats, even as travel, urbanisation and the changing climate make pandemics much more likely. The key will be sustaining those capacities and making sure they are available everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/apr\/23\/pandemics-pathogens-and-being-prepared-why-the-work-to-identify-emerging-threats-never-stops\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian As the UK Pandemic Sciences Network conference kicks off in Glasgow, virus expert Prof Emma Thomson says new technologies are boosting science\u2019s ability to fight novel strains of infectious diseases Supported by About this content Kat Lay, Global health correspondentWed 23 Apr 2025 03.50 EDTShare Prof Emma Thomson is someone who knows a [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"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\/9307","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=9307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11754,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307\/revisions\/11754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}