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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivers remarks while President Donald Trump listens during a news conference to announce a link between autism and childhood vaccines and the use of popular pain medication Tylenol for pregnant women and children, claims which are not backed by science, at the White House in Washington in September last year.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 11, 2026
Trust in science falls as COVID-era confidence fades, global survey finds
The retreat has potentially far-reaching consequences for public health as vaccination rates decline and preventable diseases resurge.
A worker visits a patient in an isolation unit at an Ebola treatment center in Monigi, Congo, in June.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2026
Ebola spreads ‘like wildfire’ as health workers battle exhaustion
The widening footprint of hot spots is straining a humanitarian response weakened by major aid cuts.
A team of volunteer medical workers carry away the body of a truck driver who collapsed and died in Marabo, Congo, on Aug. 22.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 29, 2026
Ebola is hollowing out basic healthcare as Congo’s outbreak surpasses 8,000 cases
Use of seven essential health services has fallen 42% in four major Ebola hotspots in Ituri province, the outbreak’s epicenter, according to ACAPS.
A M23 rebel group member stands guard as provincial authorities visit the Rodolphe Merieux Laboratory, National Biomedical Research Institute, where samples from suspected Ebola cases are tested, in Goma, Congo, on May 19.
WORLD
Sep 3, 2026
Congo continues struggling to pay the people fighting its Ebola outbreaks
Congo recorded 3,007 deaths from Ebola as of Monday, and payment disputes are interfering with some of the basic work needed to contain the outbreak.
Congolese medical workers carry children tested and cleared off from Ebola from Saint Nicholas orphanage, at the Centre Medical Evangelique in the town of Bunia, Ituri province, Congo, on June 9.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 14, 2026
Ebola is driving up maternal deaths as pregnant women in Congo avoid hospitals
Medical staff and supplies are also being diverted to fight the virus.
A volunteer makes announcements while intercepting a passenger boat after a passenger who had disembarked earlier died following the development of symptoms consistent with Ebola, in Kinshasa, Congo, on Aug. 5.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 10, 2026
Ebola case count set to increase as Congo officials track hidden infections
The shift comes as confirmed cases climbed to 4,209 and deaths totaled 1,916, pushing the outbreak’s crude case-fatality ratio to 45.5%.
Workers line up to disinfect their protective equipment at General Referral Hospital of Mongbwalu during the Ebola outbreak response in Mongbwalu, Ituri province, eastern Congo, on May 20.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 27, 2026
Ebola outbreak in Congo set to become second-largest on record after confirmed cases reach 3,200
The latest figures highlight the scale of the epidemic, though expanded surveillance and retrospective case finding have also contributed to the rapid rise in reported infections.
A health worker checks his personal protective equipment during a training exercise by Doctors Without Borders in Kenya on July 10.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 20, 2026
U.S. and Congo Ebola travel curbs may hamper humanitarian aid response
The overlapping restrictions threaten to slow the deployment and rotation of doctors, nurses and other specialists needed to contain the epidemic.
A health worker takes a woman’s temperature as part of Ebola screening efforts in Goma.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 18, 2026
‘Walking Ebola’ helps explain why Congo’s outbreak is so hard to stop — and how to treat it
The virus’s slower progression leaves patients sick enough to spread the virus but not so unwell to stop them moving through their communities.
Health workers in personal protective equipment practice safety check protocols on each other during a training by Doctors Without Borders in Kenya on Friday.
WORLD
Jul 14, 2026
First human trial of Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine begins
The early-stage trial will enroll 50 healthy adults to assess the vaccine’s safety and immune response.
Employees at the National Institute of Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, Congo, on Wednesday
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 6, 2026
Experimental Ebola trial begins in Congo as death toll tops 500
The outbreak has already infected almost 1,600 people in Congo and seeded a small number of linked cases in neighboring Uganda.
A health worker takes a woman's temperature as part of Ebola screening efforts in Goma, Congo, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 29, 2026
As recoveries rise, doctors are finally learning how Bundibugyo Ebola behaves
The number of recoveries reported by Congolese health authorities almost doubled in a week, even as treatment centers admit dozens of patients daily.
A healthcare worker takes samples from a patient suffering from Ebola.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 26, 2026
Ebola scientists lack access to virus samples behind Congo’s largest Bundibugyo outbreak
The issue highlights growing disputes over pathogen sharing and the difficulty of moving infectious materials across borders for research.
Nyamurongo cemetery, one of the burial sites receiving a large number of people who have died from Ebola since the beginning of the recent outbreak in Bunia, Ituri Province, Congo, on Saturday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 16, 2026
Ebola cases top 800 in Congo as aid groups warn outbreak may be larger than reported
The outbreak, already the third largest Ebola epidemic on record and the biggest caused by the Bundibugyo strain, has spread across eastern Congo and into neighboring Uganda.
Health workers disinfect the entrance to a house before removing the body of a person whose suspected cause of death was Ebola, in Mongbwalu, Democratic Republic of Congo, last month.
WORLD
Jun 4, 2026
Ebola burial team attacked and 11 patients flee care in widening outbreak in Congo
The developments underscore the challenges facing responders as the outbreak takes on a growing international dimension while work to contain it inside the country remains fragile.
Red Cross workers prepare to lower the coffin of a doctor who worked at a medical center and died of the Ebola virus, in Bunia, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 26.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 2, 2026
Tracking down Ebola survivors in remote mountains to find a cure
The road into Bundibugyo winds through steep green mountains along Uganda’s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, where villages cling to hillsides and people have long moved easily between the two countries on foot.
Health workers at a new Ebola treatment center in Bunia, Congo, on Sunday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 1, 2026
Congo’s Ebola footprint widens as officials race to gauge epidemic’s true scale
One of the most complex Ebola outbreaks in years is unfolding across areas impacted by armed conflict, mass displacement and weak health infrastructure.
Health workers are sprayed with disinfectant in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Monday.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 28, 2026
Congo seeks experimental Ebola antibody as cases surpass 1,000
The outbreak is straining health systems in eastern Congo, where violence, displacement and distrust of authorities have hit efforts to contain the Bundibugyo strain’s spread.
Shionogi's pharmaceutical research center in the city of Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. The firm's COVID-19 pill cut the risk of infection among people exposed to the disease at home, according to a recent study.
JAPAN / Science & Health
May 14, 2026
Shionogi pill prevents COVID-19 in household exposure study
The results mark the first late-stage success for an oral antiviral used to prevent COVID-19 after exposure.
Passengers on a third evacuation flight from Tenerife arrive at Eindhoven Air Base in Eindhoven, Netherlands, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
May 13, 2026
Uncertainty over hantavirus spread complicates global response to cruise ship outbreak
While some repatriated passengers are being placed in biocontainment units, such as in France, passengers in the Netherlands are being asked to self-isolate for six weeks.

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