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‘It’s not science, it’s coercion’: health experts decry RFK Jr order on hantavirus quarantine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/20/rfk-jr-hantavirus-quarantine #Hantavirus #UsNews #RobertFKennedyJr #Health #InfectiousDiseases #WorldNews #Science

‘It’s not science, it’s coercion’: health experts decry RFK Jr order on hantavirus quarantine

Kennedy overrides CDC order saying an American who came into contact with hantavirus can self-quarantine

The Guardian

The Guardian Feeds 2d ago

CDC to tap $107m in emergency funding for Ebola response in DRC and Uganda
By Jessica Glenza

Number of people infected now tops 1,000 though health officials say the global risk remains low

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/18/cdc-emergency-ebola-funding

#Trumpadministration #Ebola #DemocraticRepublicoftheCongo #Uganda #Infectiousdiseases #Health #USnews #Africa #JessicaGlenza

CDC to tap $107m in emergency funding for Ebola response in DRC and Uganda

Number of people infected now tops 1,000 though health officials say the global risk remains low

The Guardian

World news | The Guardian 2d ago

CDC to tap $107m in emergency funding for Ebola response in DRC and Uganda https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/18/cdc-emergency-ebola-funding #TrumpAdministration #Ebola #DemocraticRepublicOfTheCongo #Uganda #InfectiousDiseases #Health #UsNews #Africa

CDC to tap $107m in emergency funding for Ebola response in DRC and Uganda

Number of people infected now tops 1,000 though health officials say the global risk remains low

The Guardian

World news | The Guardian 3d ago

Ancient DNA provides evidence of earliest known plague outbreak https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/17/ancient-dna-evidence-earliest-known-plague-outbreak #Archaeology #InfectiousDiseases #Microbiology #Science #Biology #WorldNews #Russia #Europe

Ancient DNA provides evidence of earliest known plague outbreak

Discovery in Siberia suggests bacterium from raw marmots devastated hunter-gatherer tribes about 5,500 years ago

The Guardian

TrueInfections 4d ago

"The World Health Organization has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a public health emergency of international concern, with more than 100 reported deaths in its east of the country and potentially over 1000 people infected. The cause is a more recently discovered form of the Ebola virus called Bundibugyo. After an incubation period of 10 days or ..."

https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked-scientists-podcast/ebola-outbreak-drc-and-artemis-iii-preparation

#PublicHealth #Zoonosis #InfectiousDisease #Ebola #Africa #DRC #InfectiousDiseases

Science | The Guardian 5d ago

Right now, we could be living through a hantavirus disaster. The world avoided that, and this is why | Devi Sridhar https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/15/mv-hondius-hantavirus-public-health-world-isolation #Hantavirus #InfectiousDiseases #Health #Science #Society #UkNews #WorldNews

Right now, we could be living through a hantavirus disaster. The world avoided that, and this is why

As the isolation period comes to an end for those caught up in the outbreak on a cruise ship, let’s celebrate a good news story, says Devi Sridhar of Edinburgh University

The Guardian

Front Page [Unofficial]6d ago

The intriguing reason why people in the past looked a lot older than people today

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/why-people-looked-older-than-today-ex1/

Headlines Africa 6d ago

Africa: Ebola, Hantavirus, Diphtheria - How Distrust in Health Care Is Fuelling Multiple Outbreaks Across the Globe: [The Conversation Africa] The first half of 2026 has been marked by three different disease outbreaks: Ebola, hantavirus and, in Australia, diphtheria. Each has exposed vulnerabilities in how we detect, communicate and respond to infectious disease outbreaks. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TT2hcC #Ebola #Hantavirus #Diphtheria #HealthCare #InfectiousDiseases

ABC Feeds 6d ago

Australians are dying from a disease that was almost eliminated years ago
By Laetitia Lemke

Forty-two babies in Australia died from congenital syphilis between 2011 and 2025, with the outbreak driving health workers into communities to raise awareness of the old-world disease.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-15/syphilis-outbreak-spreads-across-australia-sti-testing-treatment/106214402

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Australians are dying from a disease that was almost eliminated years ago

Forty-two babies in Australia died from congenital syphilis between 2011 and 2025, with the outbreak driving health workers into communities to raise awareness of the old-world disease.

the Humanist view Jun 12

Role of cultural anthropology in Ebola control

https://nowaraga.com/2021/06/12/disease-management-task-force-needs-cultural-anthropologists/ The address that His Excellency President Yoweri Kagutta Museveni gave a couple of days ago, on the Ebola Virus Disease, reminded me of this post, "pandemic management task forces need cultural anthropologists" that I authored during the Covid pandemic. President Museveni implied human induced causation of the spread of Ebola from other animals to humans. He said something to the effect: "If bats […]

https://nowaraga.com/2026/06/12/role-of-cultural-anthropology-in-ebola-control/