Global Scans · Global Trends in Infectious Diseases · Weekly Summary

• [New] Even when Congress reaches a budget deal, infectious disease surveillance will remain under threat due to recent CDC layoffs. The Sick Times - Chronicling the Long Covid crisis
• While communities in every region of the world are facing growing threats from climate change, disadvantaged communities have fewer resources and less recourse, so are disproportionately impacted by climate-driven heatwaves, extreme weather, and infectious disease outbreaks. The Global Climate and Health Alliance
• Even though 2025's flu vaccine may be somewhat of a mismatch for subclade K, infectious disease experts expect it to substantially heighten defences against infection and especially help prevent severe illness, hospitalizations, and deaths. Everyday Health
• Most donor countries, including the United States, have prioritized cross-border infectious disease threats over other health harms in climate-health adaptation financing and in their global health strategies. Council on Foreign Relations
• A large-scale screen of tuberculosis proteins has revealed several possible antigens that could be developed as a new vaccine for TB, the world's deadliest infectious disease. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Scientists have created a promising new compound that could mark a major step forward in the global effort to control tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease. ScienceDaily
• Any withdrawal or reduction in financial support poses a severe risk to the fight against the world's deadliest infectious disease, threatening hard-won gains and delaying life-saving breakthroughs. Public Health Update
• The highly infectious polio virus has been found in sewage samples in Gaza, putting thousands of Palestinians at risk of contracting a disease that can cause paralysis. CNN
• The patchwork systems of global and domestic monitoring for the next infectious disease threat should be expanded, linked and better funded; and public and private health agencies must improve coordination to be prepared for the next global disease threat. Medical Xpress
• As a gateway to East Africa through Port Mombasa, Kenya's capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats is critical. The White House
• The US network hopes to transform the analytic capacities for infectious disease outbreaks by combining machine learning and AI with the best available technologies and academic research. Technology Networks
• Despite moderate technical capacity, Brazil remains vulnerable to infectious disease threats due to fragmented health governance and limited cross-sectoral integration. BioMed Central
• For more than two decades, through both Republican and Democratic administrations, the U.S. government has explicitly recognized infectious disease as a growing threat to national and international security, a reality reinforced by multiple past epidemics, from SARS to H1N 1 to Ebola. Council on Foreign Relations
• The WHO is expecting TB to regain the lead as the deadliest single infectious disease in the near future, replacing COVID-19, which means that the global TB targets have been thrown off track. PubMed Central (PMC)
• The antibiotic resistance crisis and the next viral pandemic represent major infectious disease threats for the 21st century. OUP Academic
• By requiring emergency preparedness plans for independent labs, CMS could better ensure that Medicare patients have access to infectious disease diagnostic testing during public health emergencies. Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals
• Experts in infectious diseases, immune diagnostics and vaccines who have been working in Rwanda for years and will now engage on the needs of disease outbreak. The Clean Cooling Network
• Vaccine advisers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are expected this week to consider softening or eliminating recommendations for some routine childhood immunizations - which doctors say could significantly depress vaccination rates and trigger more infectious disease outbreaks. Blue Delaware

Last updated: 03 December 2025