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Nature commentary urges biosecurity plans to weigh disabling illness, not just death tolls

A letter in Nature responds to a feature on AI-enabled biological threats by arguing that biosecurity thinking is too narrowly focused on mortality. The author points to severe ME/CFS and post-COVID disability as evidence that a biological event can devastate a population's functional capacity without killing large numbers of people.

nature.com · 2026-09-22

Research funding surges into long COVID and related post-infection syndromes

Scientists are accelerating efforts to understand why some infections trigger lasting illnesses such as long COVID and ME/CFS. A 2024 estimate put the global number of long COVID cases at 400 million, costing roughly $1 trillion annually, spurring governments including the US and Germany to commit over $1.7 billion combined toward research into post-infection diseases.

nature.com · 2026-09-02