Disease Watch List

Mar 25

Mar 24 2025 The BBC

While the US is cutting science and research funding, the UK is publishing a list of potential pandemic candidates.

If this list does not make you want to get vaccinated or to fund research, I guess nothing will.

Anyway, here they are, two dozen nasty ways to die or get really sick:

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

Staphlylococcus

Group A and B Strep

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