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Official feed of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) providing regular news updates on the work of the organisation.

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🟣 COVID-19 PCR positivity in hospital settings increased to 9.1%, compared with 7.9% the week before 🔵 RSV activity remained low and is circulating at baseline levels

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UK mosquitoes can be annoying, but did you realise that they used to carry a form of malaria? 🦟 Human malaria was eliminated here in the early 20th century through a combination of land drainage and mosquito control. 🧪

Text graphic with a blue to green gradient background. Text reads: "Did you know? Historically known as ‘ague’, malaria was once common in the marshy areas of southern England but had largely disappeared by the 19th century." A white emblem of marsh plants appears at the bottom right.
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Sharaine works at Porton Down, in what is sometimes called our 'top secret lab'. 🔬 🧪 Go behind the scenes and find out about her work on phages - a possible alternative treatment for antibiotics. 🧫

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The polio vaccine, once given on a sugar cube in the UK, has helped protect millions from a life changing disease. Thanks to the NHS vaccination programme, polio is now extremely rare in the UK. Vaccination works. ✅

Black-and-white graphic featuring a historic photograph of a child watching the polio vaccine being added to a sugar cube on a spoon. Large white text over the image reads, “Do you remember polio?”
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⚠️ An amber Heat-Health Alert has been issued for East Midlands, East of England, South East of England, & London. A yellow Heat-Health Alert is in place for all other regions of England apart from the North East. Alerts are in place from 9am Monday 3 to 9am Wednesday 5 August.

Map of the UK showing Heat-Health Alert levels. Amber alerts are in place across London, the South East, East of England and East Midlands (shown in orange). Yellow alerts cover the North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, West Midlands and South West England (shown in yellow). The North East is shown in green, indicating no alert. The map includes logos and website links for Public Health Scotland, the Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland, and Public Health Wales. A key at the bottom explains the alert colours: green for no alert, yellow for yellow alert, orange for amber alert and red for red alert.