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MEASLES. “According to the New York State Department of Health measles update, New York has reported 25 confirmed measles cases in 2026, including six in New York City and 19 elsewhere in the state.”
Aug 20 2026
EBOLA. “Of particular concern, he says, is the lack of understanding about the true scale of the current outbreak and how far and how fast it is spreading through undetected cases. “I think it’s safe to say it could be unprecedented,” he says. “The words an epidemiologist should never want to hear are ‘unrecognised chains of transmission’.”” (1)
Aug 20 2026
EBOLA. “The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the deadliest in the country’s history with at least 2,325 people killed, according to government data, surpassing the toll from the 2018-20 outbreak.”
Aug 16 2026
EBOLA. “The Ebola outbreak currently ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was caused by a new transmission from animals to humans rather than by variants linked to earlier outbreaks, according to a new study published in the medical journal Nature Medicine.”
Aug 15 2026
WORLD CUP/ LA 28 SUMMER OLYMPICS. “The medical organisation of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games is moving forward on a central premise: it is not simply about reacting to injuries, but about building a healthcare network capable of operating simultaneously in the Village, the training centres and the competition venues spread across the region.”
Aug 13 2026
MEASLES. “Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal has torn into Donald Trump’s new crusade against childhood vaccines.”.. ..”his proposed regimen isn’t based on rigorous science, or really any science at all…”
Aug 12 2026
MEASLES. “An executive order signed by President Trump Monday would upend the childhood vaccine schedule by recommending splitting up the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot across three separate visits.”
Aug 10 2026
EBOLA. “In the past 12 weeks, the current outbreak has grown at eight times the pace of the world’s biggest Ebola outbreak, which took place in West Africa between 2018 and 2020.”
Aug 9 2026
MEASLES. “In mid-August, colleagues and I will review the evidence and decide whether the U.S. has maintained measles elimination. In many ways, our roles bookend that history. Several of these colleagues helped lead the national effort that ended endemic measles transmission in 2000.”
Aug 6 2026
EBOLA. “The U.S. State Department on Wednesday nearly doubled its financial commitment to the Ebola response in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, announcing plans to provide an additional $242 million to combat the second-largest outbreak of the disease in history.”
Aug 5 2026
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