Horror outbreak swerved as new ‘cutting edge’ tools to help predict next pandemic arrival

She said: “Changes in global temperatures, or extreme weather like floods and droughts, can increase the risk of infectious disease transmission and spread.”

This could happen through environments becoming more attractive to vectors like mosquitoes, or could even arise from a lack of access to adequate healthcare due to crises and collapsed health systems.

She continued: “This, alongside other factors, can increase the risk of emerging and escalating infections which could pose a pandemic risk, impacting large regions of the world including the UK.

“The role that climate plays through its impact on the interactions between insect vectors, animal hosts, human behaviour and the human immune system should not be underestimated.

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