The UK’s agency for “high impact science” is setting its sights on fighting emerging biological threats and extending ... inspired by the frontier science work done at US government ...

United Kingdom health officials ... pose the greatest future threat to public health in a groundbreaking new assessment tool that aims to assist global research. The UK Health Security Agency ...

Health officials in Britain ... “A key recommendation of the UK COVID Inquiry’s Interim Report for Module 1 (Preparedness) was that prior to 2020 the UK was overly focussed on the risk of an influenza ...

UK health officials have, for the first time, published a list of the disease-causing organisms that they believe pose the greatest threat to public health. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA ...

highlighting where scientific research can be targeted to boost UK preparedness against health threats. We are using the tool as part of our conversations with the scientific community ...

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 - like Covid - while others are ...

Professor Isabel Oliver, Chief Scientific Officer for UKHSA, said the virus list is a tool to highlight how research can be targeted to increase UK preparedness against health threats.

Oropouche virus, spread by biting midges and some mosquitoes, is on the list The UK has a new watch list of 24 infectious diseases that could pose the greatest future threat to public health.

(Unsplash/representative ) The UK Health Security Agency's guide is designed to help researchers focus their efforts on certain viruses and bacteria that pose a threat to public health, as well as ...