CNN: More than 4,000 people have died from measles in Congo this year “More than 4,000 people have died from a measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, UNICEF, the United Nations’ children’s agency, said on Wednesday. There have been 203,179 cases of the preventable illness across…

CNN: Climate crisis raises risk of more Ebola outbreaks “The climate crisis is going to raise the risk that Ebola will spread farther and reach areas previously unaffected by the virus, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. The study found that the climate crisis will…

CIDRAP News: Butembo treatment center cleared of Ebola patients in DRC “For the first time since September 2018, the Butembo Ebola treatment center is clear of the deadly virus, as the last two patients still being treated were just released, according to the Twitter feed of Ibrahima Soce Fall, MD,…

CNN: The risk of a global pandemic is growing — and the world isn’t ready, experts say “The chances of a global pandemic are growing — and we are all dangerously under prepared, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In a report published on Wednesday by a panel of…

AFP: DR Congo ex-health minister charged with embezzlement: lawyer “Former Health Minister Oly Ilunga of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been charged with embezzling funds allotted for the fight against the deadly Ebola virus, his lawyer told AFP Tuesday. … Ilunga’s lawyers have rejected the embezzlement claim, saying accounts…

Fortune: Experts Warn We Aren’t Prepared for a Global Health Crisis: Brainstorm Health (Mukherjee, 9/18). The Guardian: Experts warn world ‘grossly unprepared’ for future pandemics (McVeigh, 9/18). Insider: Bill Gates warned that a devastating ‘quirk of nature’ could kill 30 million people in less than a year. Experts say we’re…

CIDRAP News: Violence, 15 new Ebola cases reported in DRC outbreak “After [Tuesday’s] warning by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) African regional office to not be overly optimistic about a recent drop in Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the agency [Wednesday] reported 15 new infections…

CNN: What keeps us from eradicating this deadly, contagious disease? Mary Ann Peters, chief executive officer of The Carter Center “…Sadly, the DRC is not the only place where persistent and brutal conflicts hobble campaigns to fight epidemics, eliminate disease, and deliver basic health care. … If we are to…

Reuters: After Dorian, disease is next threat on shattered Bahamian island “Piles of debris, decaying human and animal corpses, and fetid water on storm-hammered Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas are posing a new risk for those who survived Hurricane Dorian’s wrath: Disease…” (Fagenson/Caspani, 9/12). TIME: Hurricane Dorian Is Gone.…

U.K. Government: International Development Secretary calls on global leaders to step up Ebola response after more than 2000 people die of the diseaseU.K. International Development Secretary Alok Sharma released a statement on the DRC Ebola outbreak and the case of a Congolese girl who died of Ebola after crossing the…