Axios: With antibiotic resistance growing, WHO promotes monitoring tool “Due to the lack of new antibiotics in the pipeline, current drugs must be better monitored and prescribed before the problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) reaches a ‘Titanic’ stage, World Health Organization scientists warned Tuesday as they launch a campaign to…

Bloomberg Law: Ending Ebola Outbreak Top U.S. Global Health Priority, Azar Says “Ending the latest Ebola outbreak that’s infected more than 2,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo remains a top global health priority, President Trump’s health secretary said June 17. ‘We are committed to seeing this battle…

Associated Press: Kenya patient free of Ebola, as Congo, Uganda fight outbreak “Kenya remains free from Ebola as test results show that a sick woman does not have the deadly hemorrhagic fever, while neighboring Uganda and Congo battle a stubborn outbreak of the disease…” (Odula, 6/17). CIDRAP News: Ebola case…

Financial Times: Ebola outbreak demands more urgent attention Editorial Board “The World Health Organization has for a third time declined to declare the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which in the past week worryingly crept over the border into Uganda, a public health emergency — for technical…

Wall Street Journal: Reusing Syringes, Drips Infected Hundreds of Pakistani Children With HIV “Unsafe, but common, practices such as reusing drips and syringes caused hundreds of Pakistani children to be infected with HIV, according to a World Health Organization team investigating an outbreak in a poor southeastern town. The WHO’s…

Agence France-Presse: Half of Ebola outbreaks go ‘undetected’: study “…Researchers at the University of Cambridge used several independent datasets from the last major outbreak, in West Africa in 2013-2016, to simulate thousands of outbreaks. They calculated how often on average a spillover event could be expected to fizzle out before…

The Hill: Ebola outbreak in Africa spreads fake news in America “An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in two African nations is reviving false claims among right-wing conspiracists that the virus is present in the United States, highlighting the emerging threat that rumors spread through social media play in…

Associated Press: 5-year-old boy dies of Ebola as Uganda cases rise to 3 “A 5-year-old boy vomiting blood became the first cross-border victim of Ebola in the current outbreak on Wednesday, while two more people in Uganda tested positive for the highly contagious disease that has killed nearly 1,400 in…

New York Times: We Have the Resources to Prevent Cervical Cancer. Do We Have the Will? Mia Armstrong, 2019 graduate of Arizona State University and winner of Nicholas Kristof’s 2019 ‘win-a-trip’ contest “…Although cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer for women globally, claiming more lives than pregnancy and…

CIDRAP News: DRC daily Ebola totals show possible signs of slowing “Over the weekend and through [Monday] the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reported 23 new Ebola cases, 2 of them in health care workers and one involving a reintroduction of the virus into an earlier affected area. In…