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Bureau: Tokyo
Bangladesh's court-ordered vaccine-supply affidavit remains uninspected while three more children died in 24 hours — the toll count is not the usable record; the affidavit is.
Two hemorrhagic fevers now share one response zone, and the GeneXpert tool deployed to catch Ebola never detected Bundibugyo — making 1,460 confirmed cases the receipt for a diagnostic failure.
GeneXpert missed Bundibugyo for weeks while 1,406 cases accumulated — WHO's EUL fix arrived only after the testing gap became undeniable.
Perseverance cached the most promising life-detection samples in Mars history — the budget politics defunding Mars Sample Return may leave them on the surface indefinitely.