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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
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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
A miles-long microalgae bloom in the Mediterranean Sea has been blamed for temporarily knocking offline many of Israel’s major desalination plants this week, threatening its main source of drinking water.
Sep 4, 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
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
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
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
The federal government issued a warning Thursday about potential cyber threats to water systems after 30 water plants in Minnesota were hit with cyberattacks that multiple U.S. officials tell ABC News may have been linked to Iran.
Aug 1, 2026
Learn how mRNA vaccines work, why serious risks remain rare, and how the technology could be used beyond COVID-19.
Jul 9, 2026
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) has added the first molecular diagnostic test for Bundibugyo virus (BDBV) to its Emergency Use Listing (EUL). The test detects the virus by identifying its genetic material in blood samples, helping confirm infection rapidly and accurately.
Jul 5, 2026
The World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), together with the Ministry of Health of Uganda and partners, have officially launched a centralized coordination platform to support the response to the ongoing Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak affecting the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with spillover to Uganda.
Jun 29, 2026
The study, published today in JAMA Network Open, found that adults who received the updated vaccine were about 50% less likely to require emergency department/urgent care (ED/UC) treatment for COVID and 55% less likely to be hospitalized than those who did not receive the vaccine.
Jun 24, 2026
Three laboratories in Democratic Republic of Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, the World Health Organization said, as the outbreak of the dangerous Bundibugyo species of the virus continues to grow.
Jun 14, 2026
Federal officials presented their response plan after two cases of the New World screwworm were confirmed in Zavala County, prompting a disaster declaration.
Jun 9, 2026
A Mass General Brigham study suggests more than 10 million cases are going undetected by current surveillance systems. Long COVID may affect roughly 1 in 6 patients based on an AI analysis of electronic health records of nearly 460,000 patients across 58 U.S. hospitals.
Jun 8, 2026
Dr. Peter Stafford was working with a missionary group in the Congo when he came down with the virus last month. The U.S. citizen who contracted Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was treated at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin was discharged from medical care today following the lifting of quarantine.
Jun 7, 2026
Several large data centers and crypto facilities planning to connect to the Texas power grid ahead of peak summer demand have failed key reliability tests, raising the risk of power outages just as electricity use hits its seasonal high, according to the state grid operator.
Jun 5, 2026
As Houston prepares to welcome hundreds of thousands of people for World Cup games, the city and county are taking precautions and have launched a dashboard to monitor travelers coming in from Ebola-affected countries.
AI data centres are energy-hungry and resource-intensive, requiring huge amounts of electricity generation, cooling systems, land and water supplies
Jun 4, 2026
CEPI funding will advance vaccine candidates towards clinical trials as quickly as possible.
Jun 1, 2026
Erin Brockovich has launched a map to track AI data centers across the country that are impacting residents' electricity, water and even their health.
May 29, 2026
One of the world's largest glaciers, located in Antarctica, is on the verge of collapse, amplifying concerns about sea level rise.
May 25, 2026
On 5 May 2026, the Swiss National Reference Center for Emerging Viral Infections (Geneva University Hospitals) confirmed a case of Andes strain in a Swiss resident who had travelled on the MV Hondius cruise ship.
May 8, 2026