The agency has published a list of 24 high-risk infectious diseases as a reference tool for funders and researchers.

Researchers in the US have started a clinical trial of a vaccine against Nipah virus, a serious infection caught from animals that has a fatality rate of between 40% and 70%, developed by mRNA ...

These include measles, mumps and some respiratory tract infections, as well as the Nipah virus — which can spread from bats or pigs to humans — and causes brain swelling and death.

“Some examples of the negative effects of IAS on animals are the Nipah virus, which spread in 1998 (following an outbreak at pig farms in Perak) and Lumpy Skin Disease in 2021 due to imported cows.