The Bundibugyo Outbreak Got Three Weeks of Silence Because the Cartridge Tested for the Wrong Ebola
WHO declared a PHEIC on Sunday because the lab cartridge ran on the wrong Ebola strain for three weeks while the open-casket funerals continued.
Nora Whitfield
Bureau: Chicago
Peter Stafford's Flight From Bunia Was the Institutional Gap With a Name
An American mission doctor at Nyankunde Hospital became the most photogenic case of an outbreak whose real protagonist is a procurement chain.
The Hurricane Outlook Prints Tomorrow And The Households Already Have Their Maps
Thursday's NOAA number lands into a kitchen that already has the cone, the El Nino card, the HeatRisk color, and the medicine cabinet shelf.
Backyard Chickens Send A Quarter Of Their Salmonella Cases To Children Under Five
The backyard-poultry outbreak is not a coop story anymore — it is a pediatric exposure ledger with one dead and 53 in hospital.
The Measles Counter And The November Clock Both Held This Week
Two instruments measure the measles story now — the case counter and PAHO's November review — and both held without changing this week.
GLP-1 And Alcohol Stayed Inside The Lancet Trial This Week
No new trial, no label change, no payer move — the alcohol-use claim stays inside its 108-patient population.
The FDA Recall Ledger Added Another Late-Spring Page
Late-spring recalls keep the consumer-health front a list of small, specific hazards, not a single emergency — and the salmonella row is the one to read first.
Heat Safety Week Ends Friday And The Medicine Cabinet Is Still On The List
Heat Safety Week closes Friday at the same hour the hurricane outlook prints, and the household checklist runs through the refrigerator.