Epidemics, epizootics, crop pests and invasive species spread through trade, travel and ecological change, and a single spillover can become a global systemic shock. This section of the Health and Biosecurity subsite sets surveillance and outbreak records across human, animal and plant health so that signals from WHO, WOAH and IPPC reporting systems, laboratories and digital surveillance can be linked with case definitions, reporting lags and stated confidence. Every artifact of the area carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.
Nexus Standards (2026). Biological hazard standards: area brief, Health and Biosecurity (PROPOSED). https://nexustandards.com/health/biological-hazard-standards/. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.
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The hazard and threat families section of Health and Biosecurity. Scope as the area context entry states it (PROPOSED).
In scope 5
Out of scope 3
Jurisdictions No jurisdiction note is recorded for this area yet; jurisdiction narrows what applies and never implies that a Nexus profile satisfies a law.
Sources the area reads or proposes. Delivery follows GRIx first; a source is shown live only after an owner decision admits it for public pages.
No legal register row admits any of these sources for live display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from them here. A register row that exists records the source for the governed GRIx path; admission for public pages is a separate owner decision.
GBIF occurrence API and downloadspending admission
Global Biodiversity Information Facility · continuous
Per-dataset CC0, CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0; Foundry register: LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
build-time snapshotregister row exists
WAHIS animal health eventspending admission
World Organisation for Animal Health · event-driven
WOAH terms of use; licence to be recorded by Legal
browser-direct readproposed register row
WHO Disease Outbreak Newspending admission
World Health Organization · event-driven
WHO website terms (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO); link-out only
browser-direct readproposed register row
Hazards and threats 5
Sectors 4
Each coupling names the mechanism that links this area to another; select a card on the canvas to trace it. Mechanisms are stated in the context bank (PROPOSED).
Fig.RUNNING marks the area you are reading; DONE an area in the same subsite, QUEUED an area elsewhere and GATE a subsite reached. Tags give reading order only, never a status. Design, not a record.
Relations are register entries (NS-14), never conformance or equivalence statements; hover or focus a relation for its meaning. Names of standards bodies and their standards belong to their stewards and are used only to identify the documents; no text of an external standard is reproduced here.
adopt3
UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information ProfilesUNDRR and International Science Councilregister · undrr-isc-hazard-information-profilesDarwin CoreBiodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)proposed register rowInternational Classification of Diseases 11th Revision (ICD-11)World Health Organizationproposed register rowcrosswalk3
International Health Regulations (2005)World Health Organizationregister · who-international-health-regulationsTerrestrial Animal Health CodeWorld Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)proposed register rowInternational Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs)IPPC Secretariat (FAO)proposed register rowClosed or paywalled standards appear by name and link only; any compatibility profile of one is built on simulated data and kept on protected pages until an institutional arrangement with the issuing body is recorded. Nexus Standards is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by any standards body named here.
The working group may name closed standards later; they would be listed here by name and link only.
Indicator names and codes as their stewards publish them; values appear only from a governed GRIx source, never typed into a page.
The Nexus Standards the area context entry lists; the registry row lists NS-0, NS-3, NS-11. Every one is proposed or specified; none is adopted by an authority.
Status proposed · 12 rules stated. Read NS-0 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 0 rules stated. Read NS-3 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 6 rules stated. Read NS-11 · The rules for this area
Version and feed state per standard; every row reads source feed pending admission until a register row admits a feed.
Today · from the registryTest suites, conformance statements and attestations per standard; no attestation is recorded yet, and none would certify.
Today · in your browserPick a sector, hazard family, capability and artifact type; the registry routes the standards and says why.
A console computes from the registry and shows its reasons; it never decides, approves or certifies.
GCRI Canada may admit outbreak records with verification status, case definition and reporting lag as research evidence; GCRI Canada decides under its own evidence and research rules, and no approval is implied.
GRF may record surveillance networks publishing on the shared outbreak profile as part of a One Health dialogue; GRF decides under its own recognition rules, and no recognition or endorsement is implied.
GRA may read biological hazard records when it considers pandemic and agricultural risk finance; GRA decides under its own capital-readiness rules, and no approval, rating or investment view is implied.
Each institution decides under its own rules what it reads as evidence; no pathway is an approval, a readiness statement or investment advice.
Outbreak, epizootic and pest records across human, animal and plant health with verification states and dual-use safeguards.
No working group is chartered yet; a community may charter this one under NS-13 through a docket.
This area has a row in registry/subsites.yaml (status planned), so it carries five depth pages and the register crosswalk of its domains.
The rules of each listed standard, read through the specification reader.
Depth · CrosswalkEvery register entry in the area's domains, by relation, with the crosswalk graph.
Depth · Records and schemasScope, record, schema explorer and how a UNI resolves.
Depth · ConformanceClauses, evidence and attestations; no step is a certification.
Depth · ReadinessThe area beside the three pathways, as a matrix.
3 Nexus Standards · 3 domains · 22 external standards · 18 issuing bodies · 1 consumers. Relations are register entries (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite), never compliance claims; names belong to their stewards.
Crosswalk graph47 nodes and 55 links from registry/external-standards.yaml, registry/subsites.yaml and registry/consumers.yaml. Relations (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite) are register entries, never compliance claims.
The registry holds no geography for the area itself: areas are not places. The one geography it implies is where the bodies that issue the area's external standards sit.
| Body | Seat | Register entries |
|---|---|---|
| ISO/TC 292 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| CHS Alliance, Groupe URD and Sphere | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission | Rome, Italy | 1 |
| HXL Working Group (UN OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data) | The Hague, Netherlands | 1 |
| Inter-Agency Standing Committee (Data Responsibility Working Group) | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| International Aid Transparency Initiative | New York, New York, United States | 1 |
| IPC Global Partners (FAO-hosted Global Support Unit) | Rome, Italy | 1 |
| ISO/TC 212 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| ISO/TC 34/SC 17 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| Sphere Association | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| WHO, FAO, UNEP, WOAH | Rome, Italy | 1 |
| World Health Organization | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| World Health Organization (World Health Assembly) | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
1 subsites: no geography in the registry (areas, not places) · 2 consumers: repositories, no geography · 19 Nexus Standards: documents, no geography · 5 issuing bodies without a fixed public seat, listed not drawn: WHO; United Nations General Assembly; UN Human Rights Council; World Organisation for Animal Health; International Plant Protection Convention · Programme regions of the ecosystem coverage register: named, not drawn (no coordinates in the registry)
Standards globe13 issuing bodies with a public seat, 22 register entries, H3 cells at resolutions 1 to 4. Seats are city coordinates, not registry fields; subsites, consumers and standards have no geography, so none is drawn. Plate carrée still map; globe with script.
| Area on the sites | Artifact kinds | Governing standards | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pandemics, outbreaks, antimicrobial resistance, biosecurity | data, dataset, model, map, report | NS-1, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-5 | therisk.global/challenges/ |
| Health and biosecurity (GCRI Canada field gateway; GRF and GRA counterparts) | data, dataset, report, map, documentation | NS-1, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-4, NS-5 | therisk.global/fields/health/ |
From the ecosystem coverage register: what the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) sites publish on this area, as claimed there and not evaluated here.
Peer-reviewed sources and published statistics on the publishers' own domains, as the context entry cites them. No Risk Academy faculty pathway is linked to this area yet; one is linked when a faculty publishes a pathway that fits.
Risk Academy disciplines that teach Biological hazard standards, with their courses; the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) subsites that carry those disciplines; and the Nexus Foundry systems the standards name. Mappings are proposed for review (Risk Academy standards map, 2026-10-17); a link says a page on the same subject exists, never an endorsement or a conformance statement; framework names in course titles are named and linked, never reproduced.
Propose a change, join the working group or name a source. Area entries are PROPOSED content for the Nexus Standards registry; a UNI identifies and never certifies, and nothing on this site is a certification, an approval or a readiness statement.
Nexus Standards documents CC BY 4.0 · tooling Apache-2.0 · counsel review pending (DEC-2026-10-16-NEXUS-STANDARDS-OPEN-LICENCE). External standards are named and linked under their own licences; a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies, it never certifies. · Generated from the Nexus Standards corpus at commit 437ae044c5cb (2026-10-17); proposed and open.