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Bureau: Chicago
WHO Director-General Tedros announced at Monday's Africa CDC ministerial that two monoclonal antibodies will advance to clinical trials and obeldesivir will be evaluated as post-exposure prophylaxis.
Africa CDC's Kampala ministerial Monday produced Ramaphosa's Bundibugyo pledge, WHO's $3.9M Contingency Fund release, and Tedros's Tuesday flight to Kinshasa.
President Yoweri Museveni cancelled Uganda's June 3 Martyrs' Day pilgrimage — a Catholic-Anglican event drawing up to 2 million to Namugongo — after Uganda confirmed 5 cases and 1 death.
ECDC counted 904 suspected Bundibugyo cases in DRC — 119 suspected deaths, 101 confirmed cases — with a new Sud-Kivu case widening the outbreak beyond Ituri and Nord-Kivu.
The CDC's measles counter sits at 1,952 confirmed 2026 cases across 40 jurisdictions — 88% of 2025's 2,288 with seven months left — as South Carolina closed its 997-case Spartanburg outbreak.
The CDC's backyard-poultry Salmonella outbreak counter jumped 5.4x in two weeks to 184 cases across 31 states with 53 hospitalizations and one death in Washington, five hatcheries linked.
An American working with Bundibugyo patients in the DRC tested positive May 17 and was flown to Germany, with high-risk contacts moved to Germany and the Czech Republic.
South African epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim chairs the Africa CDC Emergency Consultative Group whose May 18 recommendation produced the Bundibugyo continental-security declaration.
The Crawford Sausage headcheese listeria alert from May 9 remains active after whole-genome sequencing on May 14 matched the outbreak strain across Indiana and Illinois.
2024 drug overdose deaths totaled 79,384 — down 24% from 2023's 105,007 and the largest one-year drop on record — yet the footprint still runs roughly 4,200 above 2019 levels.