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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.
JWST identified TOI-199b — a Saturn-sized exoplanet 330 light-years away with Earth-like temperatures and a methane-rich atmosphere — the first temperate giant studied in such atmospheric detail.
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.
NOAA released its 2026 Atlantic outlook on May 21 forecasting 8-14 named storms, 3-6 hurricanes, and 1-3 majors — below the 14/7/3 normal — as El Niño develops.
The National Hurricane Center introduced a gray X symbol to its Tropical Weather Outlook this season to flag areas with near-zero chance of tropical development.
A combined JWST and Hubble study of nearly 9,000 young clusters in four nearby galaxies, published May 6 as weic2608, found more massive clusters clear their natal gas faster.
NASA said May 1 that JWST observations of Sextans A — a 4-million-light-year dwarf galaxy with 3-7% solar metallicity — caught iron and silicon carbide dust forming without metal-rich precursors.
SpaceX's Starship Flight 12 — first V3 flight, first Pad 2 launch, first Starlink-imaging deploy — ended in an Indian Ocean splashdown after one engine loss.
TSA projected screening 2.8 million travelers on Memorial Day Sunday — the highest single-day Memorial Day total ever — against the all-time daily record of 2.95 million from summer 2024.
Q1 2026 domestic airfares ran 24% above 2025 as AAA projected 45.1 million Memorial Day travelers — the Financial Wire calling it higher prices, fewer carriers, record crowds.
May 2026 closes a year that took Robert Duvall, Catherine O'Hara, rapper Rob Base at 59, and Pink Floyd saxophonist Dick Parry at 83 in cumulative culture loss.
Brazil's $179 million Gol-Latam-Azul credit line crosses day three without a regional companion as Petrobras's 90% jet-kerosene hike still lacks any comparable Latin carrier figure.
The DRC selected Houston as its World Cup base camp April 15 and plays Portugal June 17 at NRG Stadium — the WHO no-border-closures advisory meets Title-42 at one Wednesday.