Associated Press: New attack on Ebola center in Congo; 1 militia member killed “Militia members attacked an Ebola treatment center hours after another attack killed a staffer with the World Health Organization, a Congolese official said Saturday. … Such violence has deeply complicated efforts to contain what has become the…

Agence France-Presse: Yemen risks ‘massive resurgence’ of cholera: Oxfam (4/19). Bloomberg: Cholera Hits Kenyan Capital on Shortage of Clean Water: Report (Doya, 4/20). The Guardian: ‘The harder you look the more you find’: Nepal’s hidden leprosy (Ratcliffe, 4/22). Health Policy Watch: DNDi: ‘Bench-To-Bedside’ Approach Needed For Drug & Vaccine Response…

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Thousands feared at risk after Mexico reforms HIV+ regime “Thousands of Mexicans living with HIV or at risk of infection could be left without life-saving services after the government changed the way it funds treatment, according to public health experts and LGBT+ rights advocates. Reforms announced last…

ABC News: Staggering number of measles cases in U.S. just part of 300% global uptick (Keneally, 4/16). The BMJ: Measles cases rise 300% globally in first few months of 2019 (Mahase, 4/16). The Hill: Measles cases up 300 percent globally (Hellmann, 4/16). Washington Post: World Health Organization says measles cases…

CIDRAP News: DRC Ebola surge marks 2nd straight record-setting day “For the second day in a row [on Thursday], the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reported a record number of Ebola infections — this time, 20 cases — putting an exclamation point on the outbreak ahead of [today’s] World…

CIDRAP News: DRC sees record-setting day, with 18 Ebola cases “[Thursday] the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recorded 18 new cases in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri province, the largest single-day jump since the outbreak began last August. The previous record was 16 cases, on…

CIDRAP News: Ebola cases climb to 1,168 as more health workers infected “The surge in new Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continued at a brisk pace [Tuesday], with 14 new cases reported from a broad range of larger and smaller hot spots, the health ministry…

CIDRAP News: Ebola cases grow by 37 in 3 days as DRC has record day “With 37 Ebola cases reported in the past 72 hours, the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) raged on this weekend and [Monday], and the 16 cases reported [Sunday] are the most…

CIDRAP News: 2017 DRC Ebola event tied to novel strain as current outbreak grows “A new analysis of a 2017 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that occurred in a remote location and was limited to 16 cases involved a novel variant of the virus and…

CIDRAP News: Health worker among 7 new DRC Ebola patients “The health ministry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said a health worker in Musienene is one of seven new Ebola patients added to the outbreak [Thursday]. … The health care worker in Musienene brings the total number…