Threat board
- Respiratory season (influenza, COVID-19, RSV) Attention: high watch
As of 2026-10-06, this topic remains a global watch item rather than a single outbreak. The retrieved evidence points to continued seasonal movement in the main respiratory viruses—influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and RSV—with… - Antimicrobial resistance Attention: high watch
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains a persistent global health threat rather than a single outbreak. In this 14-day window, no new WHO Disease Outbreak News item or other official global case tally was identified… - Measles resurgence Attention: high active
Measles remains a global watch item because it is spreading wherever immunity gaps have opened, not because the virus itself is new. WHO’s latest published picture still points to broad resurgence: in 2025 it assessed… - Cholera Attention: high watch
Cholera remains a standing global health threat rather than a single outbreak. The most recent WHO global Disease Outbreak News available in this session said that between 2025-01-01 and 2025-08-17, 409,222 cholera or… - Mpox (clades I and II) Attention: elevated watch
Mpox remains a global watch condition rather than a single contained outbreak. WHO’s current global framing has not shifted in 2026: the agency says the overall public-health risk remains moderate for people with… - Dengue Attention: elevated active
Dengue remains a global public-health threat, but the most recent formal WHO global assessment available in this session is still the 2024 update rather than a fresh October 2026 situation report. WHO said in May 2024… - Poliovirus (wild and vaccine-derived) Attention: elevated watch
Poliovirus remains a live global watch issue because the disease is preventable but not yet eradicated, and both wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) and circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs) continue to appear… - Filoviruses (Ebola and Marburg) Attention: elevated active
Officially, the current global filovirus picture is dominated by one very large outbreak: Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). WHO’s latest update in this session,… - Avian influenza H5N1 Attention: moderate watch
As of 2026-10-06, no new official WHO Disease Outbreak News item on human H5N1 was retrieved for the last 7 days. The latest official global picture available in the retrieved WHO notices still describes H5N1 as a…