Emerging infections
The epidemiology, detection and assessment of emerging infections.
Emerging infections have been appearing at an average rate of one per year globally.
See timeline and global map of emerging infections since 2003.
See Disease detectives: keeping track of new and emerging infectious diseases.
Human Animal Infections and Risk Surveillance group (HAIRS)
The HAIRS group is a multi-agency and cross-disciplinary horizon scanning group set up in 2004 in order to identify and assess emerging infectious risks to human health. Outputs include disease risk assessments and annual reports of topics discussed.
Epidemiology
Information on the reasons behind human infectious disease emergence, including how and why they arise.
Epidemic intelligence
Epidemic intelligence activities are undertaken by UKHSA to detect and assess potential emerging infectious disease threats to UK.
Emerging infection summaries
UKHSA’s Emerging Infections team uses an integrated horizon scanning approach which combines information on both human and animal health, to identify and assess outbreaks and incidents of new and emerging infectious diseases, reported nationally and internationally.
High consequence infectious disease summaries
UKHSA produces a monthly report that provides detailed updates on known high consequence infectious disease (HCID) events around the world.
Updates to this page
Published 12 February 2018Last updated 6 January 2023 + show all updates
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Updated link to timeline and global map.
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Added scanning process for epidemic Intelligence.
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Added 'High consequence infectious diseases: monthly summaries'.
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First published.