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Health and science: A guide to our most popular blog posts of 2024 

Lots of people were interested in reading about protecting their health in 2024 – around a million people in fact.   This was the number of readers who came to our blog in the last year for advice and information on a huge range of topics, from tick bites to...

What winter bug do I have? Know the signs and symptoms 

We see cases of flu, RSV, COVID-19 and norovirus throughout the year, but in winter they circulate at the same time and can reach high levels.   We also track other respiratory viruses – rhinovirus, adenovirus, human metapneumovirus (hMPV) and parainfluenza...

How we monitor invasive mosquitoes and stop them spreading in the UK

As we release data showing a significant rise in travel-related infections like dengue and malaria, we speak to Colin Johnston, Senior Medical Entomologist at UKHSA, about his team’s work on invasive mosquito surveillance. Read on to find out how we are monitoring our...