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FT Health: Communicable Diseases

Despite pledges to learn the lessons of Covid-19, caution is already waning. Plus: crisis turned a spotlight on healthcare services; climate change and urbanisation drive rise in ‘zoonotic’ illnesses; return of polio to US highlights impact of anti-vax campaigners

© Luke Dray/Getty. Red Cross workers prepare to bury a child suspected of dying from Ebola in Uganda

Austerity dilutes effort to combat pandemics
Cuts in donations pose threat to projects that curb spread of diseases
Evidence builds of viruses’ role in Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers focus on pathogens including Covid, herpes and Epstein-Barr virus
Polio returns to the US after decline in vaccine uptake
Health threat re-emerges globally as jab coverage misses targets
Monkeypox recedes as doctors draw lessons for future outbreaks
Engagement with at-risk groups forms a vital part of any response
Dangers of invading nature become ever starker
Infections that jump from animals to people are on the rise, as Covid has shown
Covid lessons for a reset of the world’s health systems
Flaws were exposed in hospital design, training and funding
We must stop being one step behind whichever virus comes for us next
This is how the world can get faster and smarter in its ability to respond to outbreaks of new infectious diseases
Vaccine market failures will hinder us in next pandemic
Lack of fair access is ‘one of the biggest chinks in our armour’