Health and health facilities

Khadijah Ibrahim Nuhu, senior advisor for JSI, welcomes the delivery of 10,000 Mpox vaccines alongside partners at the Abuja, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Nigeria during the outbreak in 2024.

Experts say extreme weather is boosting the odds that the pathogens carried by rodents will spill over into human populations.

Warming temperatures and changing precipitation patterns are projected to increase incidence, expand spatial distribution and extend the transmission season.

Extreme temperatures, both hot and cold, can lead to increased mortality, and there are many examples of such events.

Across India and beyond, voters are being asked to go to the polls in dangerously high temperatures, with democracy as well as their health at risk

Regions with greater socioeconomic inequalities are more affected by cold weather, whereas areas with higher levels of wealth and urbanization are at greater risk during heat waves and lower risk during cold spells.

As a hantavirus outbreak makes global headlines, CSIRO researchers are investigating how these rodent-borne viruses spread and why different strains target specific human organs, like the lungs or kidneys, with such varying levels of severity.

A tool designed to scan blood now offers us an exciting opportunity to read Earth’s history in finer detail and decipher hidden mechanisms.