disease outbreak

New global modeling shows that about 9.3% of the world’s land area is highly vulnerable to the risk of dangerous disease outbreaks. These hotspots are concentrated in Latin America and Oceania, where communities already face pressure from climate change and land development. The research also identifies the countries most vulnerable to outbreaks – and the least equipped to detect and contain them. Using machine learning and satellite data, researchers mapped epidemic-prone diseases across nearly every country on Earth. The work was led by Angela Fanelli, a veterinary epidemiologist at the Euro