[New] USAID's Global Health Security activities aim to increase Vietnam's effectiveness to prevent, detect, and respond to priority global health threats posed by infectious diseases.
U.S. Agency for International Development
[New] Whether biological threats arise naturally, by accident, or through a deliberate effort to weaponize infectious diseases, they pose grave risks to international security and stability, and significantly impact the welfare and health of people around the globe.
The Pandora Report
In Africa, the threats from emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are not new.
Nature
Malaria remains one of the most widespread infectious diseases, with roughly half of the global population at risk of infection.
George W. Bush Presidential Center
Heat stress is the leading cause of weather-related deaths and can exacerbate underlying illnesses, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, mental health issues, asthma, and can increase the risk of accidents and transmission of some infectious diseases.
Euronews
The world faces constant threats from emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.
archyde
The most significant risk factors in Africa include hypertension, diabetes, stroke, low educational attainment, depression, and infectious diseases like HIV.
BioMed Central
Changing climate conditions are becoming more suitable for the emergence and transmission of climate-sensitive infectious diseases like malaria, dengue fever or West Nile fever, also expanding the risk of transmission to previously unaffected areas of Europe, like northern regions.
European Environment Agency
The humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave was appalling and that the people of Gaza not only risk being killed or injured by relentless bombardments, they also run a growing chance of contracting infectious diseases like hepatitis A, dysentery, cholera.
The Guardian
Current Global Burden of Disease estimates do not account for several infectious diseases known to increase cancer risk in some lower-income regions, including Helicobacter Pylori and Schistosoma haematobium, which may lead to underestimation of cancer deaths linked to modifiable risks.
ScienceDaily
Climate change, as well as shifting patterns in land use and travel, keep increasing the risk of infectious diseases that can emerge and spread locally and globally.
phys.org
As deaths and injuries in Gaza continue to rise due to intensified hostilities, intense overcrowding and disrupted health, water, and sanitation systems pose an added danger: the rapid spread of infectious diseases, WHO said.
The Guardian
In Asia, especially in the poorer parts, infectious diseases are a major risk factor.
BioMed Central
The FDA needs streamlining to speed biomedical innovation, the NIH needs greater risk-taking in research, and the CDC needs to be laser-focused on preventing infectious diseases.
Reason.com
Last updated: 19 June 2026
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