UK's Infectious Disease Watch List
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Priority pathogens: UK draws up new disease-threat watch list
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UK draws up new disease-threat watch list of 24 infectious diseases that could pose greatest future threat to public health.
Some are viruses with global pandemic potential - like Covid - while others are illnesses that have no existing treatments or could cause significant harm.
Avian , or bird, flu is on the list, as well as mosquito-spread illnesses that may become common with rising temperatures from climate change.
The aim is to steer scientists and investors into making new tests and vaccines.
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