Ítalo Pizarro is a teacher and leader of the Indigenous Pemón community of San Miguel de Betania. He has never been a miner, but he lives surrounded by mines in the Sifontes municipality of Bolívar state, Venezuela — one of the epicenters of both mining activity and malaria transmission in the country. He has had malaria five times, most recently in 2015, 2016, and 2017. Now the disease is once again a concern: one of his five‑year‑old students has malaria for the eighth time, and her mother for the fifteenth.

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On December 10, 2024, a woman arrived at a health facility in Pariak, a town in the state of Jonglei in South Sudan, with diarrhea, vomiting and symptoms of dehydration. She had recently returned from an area affected by cholera. In one of the most vulnerable countries in the world, where millions of people lack regular access to clean water and health services, this could have been the beginning of a new emergency.

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