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Bureau: Chicago
Kampala produced a continental-named ten-country roster Saturday; the WHO director-general broke an eight-day silence the same day and did not say the words U.S. travel ban.
Friday night attackers burned an MSF Ebola tent in Mongbwalu, sending 18 suspected patients into the surrounding community — the second clinic burned in 48 hours.
The national Memorial Day observance is one footprint — 228,000 Arlington flags placed in four hours, 120 VA ceremonies, 26 American cemeteries abroad, and the wreath at noon Monday.
Congress appropriated $47.22 billion for NIH and the agency is still not approving grants at the rate the appropriation assumes.
The Americas regional WHO body has not refreshed its May 21 Epi Alert as Africa CDC operationalises and WHO Tedros breaks Day 8 of silence without naming the U.S. action.
Six days into the LPR exclusion rule and eighteen days before the World Cup opens, the White House task-force chief told the Congo squad they must complete a 21-day isolation or stay home.
The CDC's Thursday print added 110 new cases in a week and put the 2026 federal denominator within 336 of 2025's full-year total — open correction on Saturday's number.
Twelve cases, three deaths, no new death in twenty days — the captain disembarked symptom-free Saturday and the eighteen U.S. passengers in Nebraska clear quarantine May 31.
184 sick across 31 states, 53 hospitalized, one Washington death — and the largest cluster has an unusually high share of duck contact.
CDC NCHS provisional 2025 total is 69,973 deaths, down 13.9 percent from 81,313 — the third consecutive annual decline and the steepest in a generation.
Twelve days after the FDA commissioner walked out, the prepared-pasta public health alert is still live on the FSIS site and the agency still has no nominee.
The two cAd3 vaccines that finished Phase 2 enrolment are for the wrong filovirus; the Uganda outbreak strain has no clinical-stage candidate at all.
The annual Memorial Day food-safety reminder is regionally moot — the East is too cold for outdoor spoilage; the West is the part of the country actually grilling under the rule.
Overdose deaths fell to 69,973 in 2025 — the steepest drop in a generation — and the holiday weekend is the calendar slot most likely to reverse it for individual readers.