3 global health challenges to watch in 2019
As 2019 begins, STAT reporters are taking a look at the stories they’re most eager to track during the year. Find all of our “three to watch” series here.
A couple years ago, the Zika virus startled the world with its until-then unrecognized ability to maim fetuses. A few years before that a camel virus — MERS — began infecting and killing people on the Arabian Peninsula. And a few years before that, H1N1 ignited the first flu pandemic in 41 years.
Does it kind of feel like we due for a new disease misadventure? Does Mother Nature have malign plans for 2019?
We have plenty of skills at STAT, but predicting the unpredictable is still out of our grasp. Know this, though: If some big new disease breaks out, we’ll be on top of it.
In the meantime,
