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The United States Isn't Ready for a Bird Flu Epidemic

Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm discusses what's keeping the United States from closing public health gaps

Food
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Timeline: H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak in the U.S.

by Samuel V. Scarpino, Allison Krugman

A weekly updated timeline for H5N1 outbreak events

Dairy farmer Brent Pollard's cows stand in their pen at a cattle farm.
Trade

Cattle Veterinarians Express Confusion over U.S. Response to Bird Flu

by Rachel Nuwer

Denial and a lack of unity across states are limiting a swift response to the novel outbreak

A field ecologist with the USAID-funded PREDICT Ebola Host Project uses mist netting to capture and study bats, an animal host species of the zoonotic Ebola virus.
Environment

Eyes on Disease X: Ranking the Next Pandemic

by Jane Fieldhouse, David Wolking, Nistara Randhawa, Timothy Endy, Angel Desai

University of California, Davis has expanded its SpillOver tool to assess the pandemic potential of dangerous pathogens

A beared pig in his enclosure at Berlin Zoo, in Berlin, Germany.
Environment

Aporkalypse Now: Bearded Pigs Face Environmental Peril

by Carrie Arnold

How African swine fever created a conservation catastrophe

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Governance

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Africa: Tackling Safety Concerns for Optimal Uptake

by Alemayehu Duga, Dorothy Njagi, Mary Nyikuri, John Ojo, Mosoka P. Fallah, Tajudeen Raji

To accelerate vaccine uptake, African countries have to battle the growing reservations toward the vaccine

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Governance

Poultry Vaccine Hesitancy

by Erin M. Sorrell, Michael Montague, Richard Bruns

When trade restrictions prevent effective public health interventions

A woman stands at the balcony of her house which will be demolished to build new apartments in downtown Shanghai, China, on December 1, 2010.
Urbanization

Pandemic Urbanism

by S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly, Roger Keil

Emerging infectious disease on a planet of cities

A protestor participating in a "Fridays for Future" march calling for urgent measures to combat climate change holds a globe designed to look like it is on fire, in Mumbai, India, on September 27, 2019.
Governance

The Rise of Infectious Diseases Due to Climate Change

by Vinayak Mishra

Building resilience to climate-linked diseases in India and other countries and communities most at risk

A black and white cow stands on caked and cracked mud before a small patch of muddy, gray water at a dam near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on January 18, 2020.
Environment

In Parched Zimbabwe, Climate Change Pushes Tsetse to New Areas

by Andrew Mambondiyani

Health experts will monitor tsetse-caused sleeping sickness to stem its spread