Fig. 3

Initial survey prioritisation of diseases found to present the greatest risk of escalation. A: Global total and economic classification breakdown, B: Regional breakdown. As data was collected using a free-text box, participants were not restricted in the response options that they could provide. Hence, some participants identified specific diseases (e.g. tuberculosis, malaria, etc.), some identified disease groupings/classifications (e.g. respiratory infections, emerging diseases, etc.) and some interpreted the term ‘infection threat’ more broadly (e.g. antimicrobial resistance). In this figure we report the cumulative totals of the ‘raw’ responses provided by participants, with no researcher coding/grouping. Hence, if a participant only identified ‘Tuberculosis’ as the greatest infection threat in their setting, this was only included in the response total of tuberculosis responses and was not included in the response total for ‘Respiratory Infections’, or similar. Diseases/disease groupings that appear multiple times in each figure are colour coded for ease of comparison. ‘ = ’ indicates diseases that received the same number of responses in that stratification (e.g. in the Asia–Pacific region, COVID-19 and influenza were both identified as priorities by 13 survey participants).