WHO Chief Says 5 Patients In Africa’s Ebola Outbreak Have Recovered (Live Updates)

Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff, Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/, Forbes

There have been more than 220 suspected deaths since the start of the Ebola outbreak.

WHO Chief Visits Bunia—Epicenter Of Africa’s Ebola Outbreak (Live Updates)

Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff, Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/, Forbes

There have been more than 220 suspected deaths since the start of the Ebola outbreak.

Ebola shows how Trump’s health policies are going global — and coming home

Russell Payne, Salon

Politicized public health agencies also make it harder to hold officials accountable

Trump focuses on keeping Ebola out of US over fighting outbreak abroad

Yahoo Entertainment

Kenyan court suspends US Ebola quarantine facility plan

Caolán Magee, Al Jazeera English

The plan to send Ebola-exposed US nationals to Kenya, which has no known cases of the virus, has provoked a backlash.

Ebola can be stopped — but only if world leaders prioritize public health

Nature.com

The deadly disease was identified half a century ago in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is unacceptable that it continues to take lives.

'Out of control': Doctors on the front line of Ebola outbreak speak out

Tom Soufi Burridge, Dragana Jovanovic, Aicha El Hammar Castano, Sarah Baniak, Abcnews.com

Doctors at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo told ABC News that the deadly virus is still spreading at an alarming rate.

Why the US won’t treat Ebola patients at home | The Excerpt

Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, USA Today

US keeps Ebola cases abroad as outbreak grows in Africa. Experts question travel policy, funding gaps and readiness for a deadly spread.

Ebola outbreak: What travel restrictions have countries imposed?

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

Canada, the Bahamas and the US are banning arrivals from affected countries to prevent the spread of the rare strain.

Out Of Control RFK Jr. Fires Leaders Of Preventative Services Task Force

Timothy Geigner, Techdirt

Alright, this is getting dire. In addition to all of the anti-vaxxer bullshit that has infected HHS thanks to RFK Jr.’s appointment to run the department, we have also made the point recently that an equally big problem is the talent drain occurring at HHS as…

Aid cuts and climate change drive deadly malaria surge in Zimbabwe

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

A surge in malaria cases in Zimbabwe is exposing fragile health systems and growing treatment shortages in rural areas.

A Discrepancy in Who Gets Diabetes During Pregnancy

Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic

One group is an outlier for gestational-diabetes risk, and no one can yet say why.

Can’t Do Anything Right: RFK’s ACIP Charter Changes Yanked For Not Following Procedure

Timothy Geigner, Techdirt

I’m starting to wonder if RFK Jr. can do anything right at all. After the courts put an injunction on Kennedy’s overhaul of the CDC’s ACIP panel on vaccines, as well as pretty much all of their recommendations since it was rebuilt on a foundation of anti-vaxx…

Quarantine sentences to ponder, that was then this is now edition…

Tyler Cowen, Marginalrevolution.com

Trump administration officials, confronted by overlapping outbreaks of Ebola and the hantavirus, have taken a more aggressive approach to locking down potentially exposed people than in past outbreaks, surprising many public health experts… Dr. Jay Bhattachar…

Doctor evacuated from Congo feels ‘helpless’ watching colleagues die of Ebola

Lauren Weber, (c) 2026 , The Washington Post, Yahoo Entertainment

Murmurs of a “casket disease” had already begun by mid-May, as patients began to die in waves. Patrick LaRochelle, an American missionary physician, was 20...

Texas Woman Jailed for Daring to Post Photos of Her Small Town’s Brown Tap Water

Jim Vorel, Jezebel

Police claimed the woman's Facebook posts of her own faucet water were creating "fear, panic, or unnecessary emergency response."

African Health Officials On Ebola: ‘This Is Too Much’ (Live Updates)

Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff, Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/, Forbes

Several treatment centers have been destroyed and tensions are rising in Congo, the center of the Ebola outbreak.

How Prepared Are We for a Public-Health Emergency?

Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker

Dhruv Khullar on how the recent outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola expose the shortsightedness of the United States’ retreat, under the Trump Administration, from its role as a global-health leader.

Ebola Outbreak: Attackers Burn Down Another Clinic In DRC As Outbreak Rages

Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff, Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/, Forbes

One American who contracted Ebola is receiving treatment in Germany.

Ebola Outbreak: Three New Cases Reported In Uganda As Outbreak Kills 177

Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff, Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/, Forbes

One American who contracted Ebola is receiving treatment in Germany.

The FDA Takes Its Turn Burying Studies Showing The Safety Of COVID, Shingles Vaccines

Timothy Geigner, Techdirt

The fuckery that is going on across HHS and vaccine programs is just plain incredible. As the Trump administration continues to provide whatever cover it can so that RFK Jr. can wreck shop on the health of Americans, the damage Kennedy is doing to our inocula…

Doctors Say the Axing of USAID Has Already Cost Lives in Latest Ebola Outbreak

Jim Vorel, Jezebel

"The response is too slow and inadequate, not anywhere close to the standards that are required in a response for an epidemic like Ebola."

Our Climate’s Wild Card

Jonathan Mingle, The New York Review of Books

Methane's part in the climate crisis remains largely overlooked, even though it is responsible for 30 percent of all global warming to date, and despite the fact that it's still possible to purge it from our skies.

COVID is shaping Americans' reaction to Ebola and hantavirus

Ava Berger, NPR

Some Americans seem to be extra-alarmed about Ebola and hantavirus in the wake of COVID-19. But public health experts say they don't expect another pandemic this time.