No Vaccine for Bundibugyo Ebola Outbreak, Health Officials Say
395 suspected cases, 106 deaths, two countries, no approved vaccine, no procurement pipeline — Shanelle Hall's PBS quote names what the institutional silence had not.
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At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Guard Changes Every 30 Minutes
While the President laid a wreath at noon, the Old Guard's twenty-one-step routine continued at the same cadence it has held since 1937.
Africa CDC Holds Second Ebola Briefing; W.H.O. Silent on U.S. Travel Ban
Jean Kaseya's continental agency named the U.S. travel ban; the WHO director-general spent Day Nine producing situation reports without naming the policy.
Showers and 50s Hit the Mid-Atlantic for a Third Holiday Day
Three forecasting cycles in a row, the same map — rain from the Gulf Coast to the Canadian border, a clear and warm West, and a wreath laying in the rain at Arlington at noon.
Hurricane Center Shows Empty Map a Week Before Atlantic Season Opens
Five basins empty seven days from June 1 — and the El Niño signal driving the empty map is the same one pushing saltwater onto Carolinas curbs at high tide.
Crawford Sausage Listeria Recall Is F.D.A.'s Live Cookout Alert
The pasta alert the paper carried for two weeks was terminated in November — the active live document on the FSIS page heading into Memorial Day Monday is a Chicago headcheese.
U.S. Measles Cases Hit 1,952; South Carolina Closes Its Outbreak at 669
The CDC's Thursday print held through the holiday weekend — 1,952 cases for the year, 336 short of 2025 — and the largest single outbreak of the year is now formally over.
Carlo Petrini, Who Built Slow Food From One Roman McDonald's Into a Movement of 150 Countries, Dies at 76
The Italian gastronome who founded Slow Food in 1986 against the opening of a Roman McDonald's died Friday in his Piedmont hometown of Bra; the movement now spans 150 countries.
Dame Jools Topp, Half of New Zealand's Topp Twins and a National Comic Voice for Forty Years, Dies at 68
The Topp Twins' Dame Jools Topp died Saturday at her Waikato home after twenty-two years with breast cancer; her sister Dame Lynda confirmed the death Monday.
U.S.D.A. Says Memorial Day Cookout Safety Comes Down to Four Temperatures
USDA Food Safety puts the day's whole food-poisoning prevention rail in four cooking temperatures and one out-time limit — the rest is hand-washing and a cooler.
Safety Council Projects 437 Driving Deaths Over Memorial Day Weekend
Record holiday road volume meets the National Safety Council's projection of roughly 437 traffic deaths — the household number behind the AAA travel-record headline.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Names Reading Begins at 1 p.m. Monday
At one on Monday on the Mall, volunteers begin reading every one of the 58,281 names on the wall — the day's non-Arlington Memorial Day ritual.
Backyard Poultry Salmonella Outbreak Hits 184 Cases Across 31 States
Three multistate Salmonella strains, 184 sick across 31 states, 53 hospitalized, one Washington death — the federal counter has not moved over the holiday and the pediatric share is still a quarter.
Europe Counts 12 Hantavirus Cases as Cruise Ship Passengers Stay Healthy
Twelve cases (ten confirmed), three deaths, no new death in over twenty days — the captain walked off in Rotterdam, and the Nebraska eighteen clear quarantine May 31.
U.S. Overdose Deaths Hold at 69,973 After Correction
The open correction holds — CDC NCHS's provisional 2025 total is 69,973, down 13.9 percent from 81,313, the third consecutive annual decline and the steepest in a generation.
Sabin's Sudan and Marburg Vaccines Stay in Phase 2; No Bundibugyo Candidate
The structural answer landed on Saturday — no Bundibugyo vaccine is being actively considered — and Monday extends the same finding by one document with no sponsor having moved a press line.