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Congo is running short of health workers to staff treatment centers for history's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak, particularly in the eastern province of North Kivu where cases have surged 73% over three weeks, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
Sep 26, 2026
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New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis.
Sep 25, 2026
The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.
Sep 23, 2026
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
Sep 22, 2026
Congo on Saturday began vaccinating healthcare staff against Ebola in Bunia, the epicenter of the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease in history as they are "particularly exposed and deeply involved in the response," the provincial governor said.
Sep 20, 2026
Fuelled by exceptionally warm Pacific waters, the El Niño climate pattern is intensifying and has yet to peak. Forecasters are almost certain it will persist through February 2027 – with unusually warm conditions expected across much of the world in the coming months.
Sep 14, 2026
Rabies is a zoonotic viral disease that is nearly 100% fatal, but it is preventable when PEP is given appropriately before patient symptoms start.
Sep 10, 2026
The guidance outlines the benefits, risks and unknowns associated with off-label use of Ervebo® during the ongoing BDBV outbreak and recommends that the vaccine be used only within research protocols.
Sep 7, 2026
In a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.
Sep 3, 2026
Scientists warn that free-living amoebae may be an underappreciated public health threat, capable of causing deadly infections and shielding other dangerous microbes from water treatment. Climate change and aging infrastructure could help these resilient organisms spread more widely in the years ahead.
Aug 28, 2026
Nepal - Tibet border - Hundreds are missing, including foreign tourists.
Aug 26, 2026
These temporary recommendations are issued by the Director-General of WHO for subsets of States Parties according to the public health risk associated with the Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) epidemic they face.
Aug 24, 2026
20 August 2026 | Rapid risk assessment
As the deadliest Ebola outbreak in DR Congo’s history continued spreading on Friday, UN responders renewed their urgent appeal for immediate international support, with existing funding for lifesaving work critically low.
Aug 22, 2026
Last week, the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) requested a release of Ervebo vaccines from the global Ebola virus disease vaccine stockpile, managed by the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision (ICG). The request was for use of the vaccine in the current Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak.
Aug 21, 2026
A Nature Methods paper borrows the alignment method used to tune chatbots and applies it to protein design, producing a heat-stable H5N1 hemagglutinin with only 45 tries.
Aug 20, 2026
H5N1 D1.1 spread across North America for months before detection. A new analysis reveals surveillance blind spots critical for pandemic preparedness.
A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, added to an existing treatment, slowed the return of melanoma and its spread to other parts of the body in a late-stage clinical trial, the drugmakers Merck and Moderna announced Wednesday, results that could herald a new, powerful approach in oncology.
Aug 19, 2026
New species and regional instability are factors – but decisions made in the US and Britain are also costing lives, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
Aug 17, 2026
An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has now killed 2,325 people, according to government figures. The UN says one person in the country is dying every 30 minutes of the disease.
The immune systems of people with long Covid may remain locked in a prolonged battle with remnants of the coronavirus, producing inflammation while failing to effectively eliminate its source, new research suggests.
Aug 14, 2026
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 13, 2026
“In some areas of eastern DRC, the Ebola outbreak is outpacing our response, making it imperative that we rapidly scale up every aspect of our efforts to contain it”
Aug 11, 2026
Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.
Aug 8, 2026
The vaccine, mFLUSIVA, is expected to be available for people 50 and older for the 2026-2027 respiratory illness season.
Aug 7, 2026