Category: Health
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The Bundibugyo outbreak in DR Congo has passed 8,116 confirmed cases and 3,924 deaths, the largest of its kind ever recorded. Uganda’s outbreak was declared over in August. The reason this one has been so hard to stop comes down to which Ebola species it is.
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Confirmed Ebola cases in DR Congo have passed 9,000 with over 4,300 deaths, up roughly 40 per cent in five weeks. The circulating species is Bundibugyo — the one the licensed vaccines were not built for.
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More than 83,000 cholera cases and 2,100 deaths in Sudan since July 2024. Cholera kills by dehydration and is treated with salt, sugar and clean water. Deaths on this scale measure whether people can reach care, not how dangerous the disease is.
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The Lancet Countdown’s Europe report finds higher heat mortality, drought, West Nile virus and tick risk in southern, eastern and western Europe — and a nearly 11-point gap in food insecurity between low-income and median-income respondents.
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World Patient Safety Day this year focuses on people living with long-term conditions. The reason is structural: chronic illness means more medicines, more clinicians and more handovers, and most safety systems were built around short acute episodes instead.
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A new systematic review estimates 402 to 433 million cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning among farmers and farmworkers every year — around 46 per cent of the world’s farming population. The figure is large, the method involves substantial extrapolation, and both facts matter.
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More than 6,300 confirmed cases and over 3,000 deaths in DR Congo since May. It is the second-largest Ebola outbreak on record, and the strain circulating is the one the vaccines were not built for.
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Catholic health providers are suing Illinois over its assisted-dying law. The fight is not over whether a doctor can refuse — it is over what an institution owes a patient after it has refused.
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Uruguay declared a nationwide health emergency on Friday after highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza was confirmed in backyard birds in Colonia. One flock triggered a country-wide response — and the reason is in how the virus travels, not in how bad this outbreak is yet.
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California growers are ploughing lettuce back into the ground and laying off pickers because shoppers are wary of illness. The measure that would settle whether the food safety system is failing is not the outbreak count.