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COVID. “Helen Branswell, a leading reporter on infectious diseases who wrote with foresight, urgency and clarity about the emerging danger of the Covid-19 pandemic, ahead of the vast majority of journalists and even many medical experts, died on Tuesday in Ottawa. She was 69.”
Oct 19 2026
MEASLES. “Bangladesh is battling to contain the world’s worst measles outbreak, a crisis exacerbated by weak data, inadequate outreach and vaccination gaps that experts say offers a warning to other nations about the deadly risk of falling immunization rates.”
Oct 19 2026
EBOLA. “How likely is it that Ebola will reach the United States?”
Oct 19 2026
PLAGUE. “There a plague outbreak in Russia? If the answer were a clear yes, there shouldn’t be much reason to worry. With swift medical intervention, plague is treatable. But in the nearly three weeks since a worker at a Siberian plague research unit died of a mysterious respiratory illness, state officials have been consistently tight-lipped about what happened and whether there were any further cases.”
Oct 19 2026
MEASLES. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending one of its scientists to Pennsylvania to help curb the state’s growing measles outbreak, a CDC spokesperson said Thursday. That person, a “disease detective” within the agency’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, is scheduled to arrive later this week.”
Oct 15 2026
EBOLA. “The WHO reported that Kenya’s national preparedness score rose from 66 percent in May to 82 percent in July. The assessment covered measures including surveillance, laboratory testing, isolation and treatment facilities, and trained response teams.”
Oct 15 2026
MEASLES. “Vaccines don’t save lives, vaccinations do. The difference between a vaccine and a vaccination is a trusted message from a trusted messenger. Otherwise, vaccines are going to be sitting cold in the fridge.”
Oct 14 2026
EBOLA. “I have worked in humanitarian health in this region for decades and helped lead responses to several Ebola outbreaks. I have never seen one get this far ahead of us.”
Oct 14 2026
PLAGUE. “Whether or not this case is ultimately confirmed as plague, the events in Irkutsk illustrate why the first few days of response to a suspected highly dangerous infection are so important. When a potentially transmissible and rapidly fatal disease is involved, actions taken before additional cases appear can determine whether an isolated infection becomes an outbreak.”
Oct 13 2026
MEASLES. “Pennsylvania and New York’s Democratic governors have taken vastly different approaches to fighting measles outbreaks in their states.”
Oct 11 2026
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