Hantavirus Quietly Became a Sixteen-State CDC Monitoring Event
The CDC is now watching 41 people in 16 states for Andes-strain hantavirus exposure, and Jay Bhattacharya has explained on the record why he isn't briefing daily.
Life
The US Is Inside the Last Six Months of Its Measles Elimination Status
A May 8 Lancet letter and CIDRAP analysis say the United States is on track to lose the 2000 measles-elimination designation when PAHO meets in November.
Sonrotoclax Joins the BCL-2 Toolkit With a Two-Line BTK Gate
The FDA's May 13 accelerated approval of sonrotoclax is real but small — two prior lines including a BTK inhibitor, 52 percent response, a confirmatory trial still pending.
Daraxonrasib's Pancreatic-Cancer Result Is Now in the NEJM Record
The NEJM publication of Phase 1/2 daraxonrasib data is the durable record — line of therapy and grade-three adverse events are what patients should read.
CDC Overdose Data Show a Third Straight Year of Decline at Fourteen Percent
Provisional 2025 overdose deaths fell about fourteen percent — the third straight year of decline and the longest sustained drop of the synthetic-opioid era.
Bhattacharya's CDC Picks No Daily Briefing Six Weeks From World Cup Kickoff
The acting CDC director put the agency's outbreak-communications protocol on the record six weeks before the largest mass gathering in tournament history.
Met Office Puts the May Mauna Loa CO2 Peak Above 432 PPM
The UK Met Office's annual forecast puts the May 2026 Mauna Loa CO2 peak at 432.2 ± 0.6 ppm; the NOAA daily readings are tracking in line.
Hantavirus Returnees Are Being Monitored in Nebraska and Georgia
Eighteen American passengers from the MV Hondius are under federal monitoring in two states, on an Andes-strain protocol with rules most readers have never had to read.
Microplastics-as-Climate Coverage Still Needs a Forcing Scale Bar
A week after the Fudan-Duke forcing finding, coverage is still skipping the milliwatts-per-square-meter number that lets a reader weigh the claim against CO2.
The Right-Whale Twenty-Three-Calf Season Stands With No NOAA Amendment
NOAA Fisheries issued no Saturday change to the 23-calf 2026 season — the best in seventeen years against a population still under 400 animals.
Lake Powell at 13 Percent Is Still Being Held Up by Flaming Gorge Releases
Bureau of Reclamation issued no Saturday amendment; Powell still sits near 13 percent and Flaming Gorge is still releasing 1,100 cfs to keep Glen Canyon above minimum power pool.
The FDA's All-Oral AML Regimen Is Still an Eligibility Story
An oral combination for newly diagnosed AML is approved for a narrow population, and the label has not widened overnight.
What the CDC Vessel Sanitation Program Did, and What Cruise Passengers Can Ask Now
The CDC program that inspected cruise ships has been cut, and the questions a passenger can still ask before boarding have not moved.
Jay Bhattacharya Defends the No-Daily-Briefing CDC Six Weeks From a Three-Country World Cup
An emerging-disease cluster in 16 states meets a CDC director who has decided silence is the discipline.