Financial Times: Measles outbreak is a reminder of the power of viral information Marietje Schaake, Dutch politician and member of the European Parliament “…While authorities scramble to contain [measles], the influence of information taken from the internet on people’s real-life choices is undeniable. … It is now time for systematic…

The Guardian: Rumor and violence rife as Congo Ebola outbreak surges out of control “…Since the [Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)] epidemic began last August, 1,340 confirmed and probable cases of Ebola have been recorded, more than 250 cases since the beginning of April, and 874 people have died…

Associated Press: South Sudan measles outbreak raises questions about vaccines “…As South Sudan emerges from a five-year civil war, more than 750 measles cases, including seven deaths, have been reported since January. That’s almost six times the number of cases for all of 2018, according to World Health Organization data.…

CDC’s “Our Global Voices”: I have seen Ebola. Now you have a vaccine. Rosalind Carter, epidemiologist at CDC’s Global Immunization Division, discusses the compassionate use of an experimental Ebola vaccine for health care and frontline workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as well as for workers in health…

National Geographic: The world’s second-biggest Ebola outbreak is still raging. Here’s why. “…Now, teams trying to track the spread of the disease are finding fresh cases with no obvious connection to previous patients, leading some health specialists to worry that the end of this epidemic is nowhere in sight. Efforts…

Council on Foreign Relations’ “Africa in Transition”: The Ebola Vaccine Is Highly Effective in Eastern Congo John Campbell, Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa Policy Studies at CFR, discusses the success of an experimental Ebola vaccine developed by Merck & Co being used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…

Foreign Policy in Focus: The Next Ebola Epidemic William Minter, editor of AfricaFocus Bulletin, examines the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including the application of lessons learned from the West African Ebola outbreak that ended in 2016. Minter also addresses the response to the…

U.N. Dispatch: There Has Been a 300% Increase in Measles Cases This Year Mark Leon Goldberg, executive editor of U.N. Dispatch, discusses recent World Health Organization (WHO) data showing a significant increase in measles globally. Goldberg also quotes from a piece by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and WHO Director-General…

MedPage Today: NIAID Director: Measles Not a ‘Trivial Disease’ “…Growing numbers of measles outbreaks in the U.S., as well as abroad, threaten children, pregnant women, as well as cancer patients and patients living with HIV, according to Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases…

NIH: Decline in measles vaccination is causing a preventable global resurgence of the disease “In 2000, measles was declared to be eliminated in the United States, when no sustained transmission of the virus was seen in this country for more than 12 months. Today, however, the United States and many…