UK prepares a clock list of new disease-dhma

The UK has a new clock list of 24 infectious diseases that can pose the biggest future threat to public health.
There are some global epidemic viruses â such as Kovid â while there are other diseases that have no existing treatment or can cause significant damage.
According to the UK Health Protection Agency (UKHSA), avian, or bird is in the flu list, as well as mosquito-filled diseases, which can be common with rising temperatures from climate change.
The objective is to motivate scientists and investors to prepare for new tests and vaccines.
âGlobal effortâ
Prof. Isabel Oliver, Chief Scientist Officer of UKHSA, says there is no ranking within the list, as the danger changes continuously.
And it will be updated at least once a year, to avoid repeating the Kovid epidemic, where the experts were planning to fully separate outbreaks â influenza.
Edinburgh at the University of Edinburgh said, âWhen reached Kovid, it took a long time to adjust our response to a different danger, which we ended in the lockdown as we ended in the lockdown.â
Since the epidemic, there have been many initiatives to better understand the diversity of the dangers of the UK and the world in the coming years.
âUKHSAâs pathogen priority practice is a welcome contribution in this global effort.â
âExtremely spreadableâ
A family of a virus called paramyxoviridae, including measles, is in the list.
Prof. Woolhouse said that this type of epidemic threat was most concerned about public-health agencies.
A novel measles-like virus would be highly spread and would be âeven impossible to control by strict lockdown, it would becomeâ worse than Kovid â.
âIt will also be quite fatal and, unlike Kovid, it would be a (major) threat to children,â said Prof. Woolhouse.
Prof. Oliver said UKHSA would consult animal-health colleagues for future updates, as many new and emerging outbreaks had zoonotic disease that used to jump species to infect humans.
There are also some bacteria, including gonorohia, where resistance to existing antibiotic remedies is becoming an issue.
24 diseases or list of pathogens
- Edinovirus
- Lasa fever
- Norovirus
- MERS
- Ebola (and similar viruses, such as Marburg)
- Flavividarde
- Hantavirus
- Cream-kango hemorrhagic fever
- Flu (including non-seasonal, avian)
- Nipah virus
- Oropouche
- Germ fever
- Acute fickle melitis
- Human metapnemoirus (hMPV)
- MPOx
- Chikungunia
- Bisharia
- Q fever
- Enterobacteriaceae (eg e. Coli and Yersinia pasteisWhich causes plague)
- Tularmia
- Moraxellaceae
- Genuine
- Stapilococcus
- Group A and B Strep