Associated Press: Ebola spreads to major Congo city as vaccines a concern “The second-largest Ebola outbreak in history has spread to a major city in eastern Congo, as health experts worry whether the stock of an experimental vaccine will stand up to the demands of an epidemic with no end…

The Lancet Global Health: Yemen needs a concrete plan — now Editorial Board “…[The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is] an opportunity to learn, in the hope that this situation can be reversed in Yemen, and prevented elsewhere. … In May 2018, The Lancet Global Health published a modeling study by…

Boston Globe: Caring about the Congo shouldn’t require an Ebola epidemic Abraar Karan, global health physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School “What is it about Ebola that so captivates the Western world? In recent weeks, an epidemic of the infamous hemorrhagic fever virus in the…

STAT: It isn’t crazy to conduct an Ebola clinical trial in a war zone — it’s necessary Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust “…There is no question that the current Ebola outbreak in the DRC would be far, far worse if there were no vaccine available. That vaccine exists…

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Lack of Preparedness and Insecurity Hampered Response to Cholera Epidemic in Yemen “…The new report [from the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health], ‘Cholera in Yemen: a case study of epidemic preparedness and response,’ calls for better anticipation of and preparedness for epidemics…

VOA News: Congo’s Worst Ebola Outbreak Hits Women Especially Hard “The Democratic Republic of Congo is in the throes of its worst-ever Ebola outbreak, with more than 420 cases in the country’s volatile east, and a mortality rate of just under 60 percent. But this outbreak — the nation’s tenth…

Associated Press: WHO says it can fight Ebola outbreak despite U.S. withdrawal “The head of the World Health Organization said Monday it can fight the deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo despite the withdrawal of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, insisting: ‘We can cover it.’ The comments by…

WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean: Polio outbreak in Syria successfully stopped “The polio outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) detected in 2017 in Syria has been successfully stopped, with no international spread, according to experts. An official outbreak response assessment, comprising experts in global public health,…

Al Jazeera: Q&A: Conflict, resistance hampering WHO’s Ebola efforts in DRC “…Al Jazeera spoke to Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, regional director of WHO Africa, about the spread of the outbreak [in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)], lessons learned from the earlier outbreaks, and what the future holds for health issues…

Devex: WHO says international spread of polio still a public health emergency “The international spread of polio virus continues to be a problem four years after the WHO’s Emergency Committee designated it a public health emergency of international concern. The committee on Friday announced it would extend the emergency by…