WHO published advice on gender considerations in Ebola response as the Bundibugyo outbreak reached 9,704 confirmed cases in the DRC, spread to Kenya and Nigeria, and a nurse was killed responding to an alert.
The CDC's updated threats report estimates 9.7 million drug-resistant infections and 50,800 deaths a year in the US, far above its 2019 figures, though the agency says the reports are not directly comparable.
ECDC counts 291,272 cholera cases and 2,471 deaths worldwide in 2026, far below last year, but Nigeria's outbreak has tripled and deaths rose sharply in the past month.
The World Health Organization and INTERPOL signed a cooperation agreement covering chemical and biological incidents, mass gatherings, organ trafficking, falsified medical products and tobacco control.
A Russian anti-plague institute employee died of pneumonia with no pathogen identified. WHO says a lab exposure cannot be fully excluded; ECDC says the data allow no firm conclusion.
A new WHO guide published for World Mental Health Day urges countries to move people out of long-term psychiatric hospital care; only 9% of reporting countries have fully shifted to community-based services.
WHO's first guidelines on child and adolescent obesity put structured diet, activity and behavior programs first, and rule out drugs, surgery and devices for children under 10.
