Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
CDC Requests Volunteers for Enhanced Ebola Airport Screenings
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued an urgent internal request for staff volunteers to assist with Ebola screening efforts at designated U.S. airports amid the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to an internal email, the agency is recruiting personnel across a range of public health and […]
May 27, 2026
Displacement Camps Raise Fears of Wider Ebola Spread in Eastern Congo
Aid workers and local leaders in Bunia, eastern Congo, are warning that overcrowded displacement camps with limited sanitation could accelerate the spread of Ebola. In one camp housing approximately 10,000 people, residents reportedly have access to only a single handwashing station and one infrared thermometer. Many families lack soap, clean water, and basic hygiene supplies, […]
May 27, 2026
U.S. to send Americans exposed to Ebola to makeshift hospital in Kenya
U.S. officials are planning to establish a quarantine facility in central Kenya within the next week to house Americans who may have been exposed to Ebola. The site would use biocontainment units transported from the United States to safely isolate individuals under observation. Discussions are ongoing regarding how confirmed Ebola cases would be managed if […]
May 27, 2026
Why a deadly, massive measles outbreak in Bangladesh has some U.S. health experts concerned
CBS News A measles outbreak in Bangladesh that has killed almost 400 people is spreading fast, and health experts say it could carry risks even for the U.S., where cases of the disease are already at levels not seen in decades as vaccination rates continue to fall. Most of those killed by the measles outbreak in Bangladesh […]
May 20, 2026
Inside the largest U.S. measles outbreak in decades: Records reveal spread in vaccine-hesitant community
Healthbeat Case #1 in what would become the largest U.S. measles outbreak in decades was a parent in South Carolina’s Upstate Region near Spartanburg. The next seven people to fall ill were all children. Three of them were being cared for at home – limiting their ability to spread the highly contagious measles virus to […]
May 20, 2026
Ontario resident being tested for Ebola after travel to East Africa, says Health Ministry
CBC East Africa is currently dealing with a deadly and fast-growing Ebola outbreak. An Ontario resident who recently travelled to East Africa is being tested for Ebola, according to the province’s Health Ministry. In an email to CBC News Wednesday, a spokesperson for Ontario’s Ministry of Health said that the patient is being assessed in […]
May 20, 2026
Iraq: First case of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever reported in Nineveh
Outbreak News Today The Nineveh provincial health directorate reported the first case of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) this year. The patient is a 27-year-old laborer from Qayyarah district south of Mosul, was admitted to hospital on May 15 with suspected infection before laboratory results received showing it was confirmed this week. In addition to this […]
May 20, 2026
Norway reports Europe’s first case of bird flu in a polar bear
The Local The H5N5 variant of the virus was detected in samples taken from a male bear about one year old and a walrus found dead in mid-May on the icy archipelago, around 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute said. “The results are part of a trend in which […]
May 20, 2026
Visualizing the Ebola outbreak in maps and charts
CNN The World Health Organization this week declared an outbreak of Ebola in Central Africa to be a public health emergency. Health officials are racing to trace contacts as the count of suspected cases rises. CNN is tracking the locations of confirmed cases in the outbreak, as well as historical cases and deaths. This page will be […]
May 20, 2026
Hantavirus-stricken cruise ship docks in the Netherlands for disinfection
PBS News The cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has docked at the Dutch port of Rotterdam for disinfection, wrapping up a troubled journey that put international health authorities on alert. The MV Hondius was still carrying 25 crew members and two medical personnel as it reached Europe’s largest port on Monday morning, […]
May 20, 2026
