#public-health
8 posts tagged public-health.
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Ebola reaches Kampala and the world is unprepared
The Bundibugyo strain's spread from eastern DRC to Uganda's capital reveals how systematically dismantled global health infrastructure now faces its most serious test in a generation.
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Ebola's new math: 906 cases, no vaccine
The Bundibugyo strain's rapid spread through eastern DRC and into Uganda, with a 30–50% fatality rate and no available vaccine, tests whether a hollowed global health architecture can contain a genuine catastrophe.
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Ebola outpaces the response in Congo
With 900-plus suspected cases, hospital attacks, and a WHO director-general warning that containment is losing the race, the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo reveals what gutted global health institutions actually cost.
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Ebola crosses the Uganda border
The Ebola outbreak's confirmed spillover from eastern Congo into Uganda exposes the cost of gutted international health institutions and the dangerous gap between WHO alarm and actual containment capacity.
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Ebola rerouting exposes hollowed-out US response
America's Ebola travel rerouting is the right instinct but the wrong substitute for the gutted global health infrastructure that might have contained the DRC outbreak before it became a border question.
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Ebola triples: the cost of dismantling preparedness
The DRC Ebola outbreak's explosive growth — from 246 cases to 750 in a single week — is a direct consequence of the systematic dismantling of the US global health infrastructure that was built precisely to prevent this.
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Ebola returns to the DRC's forgotten war
A new Bundibugyo-strain Ebola outbreak in conflict-ravaged Ituri province has killed 65 and exposed 246 suspected cases, with Uganda already reporting spillover.
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The cruise ship and the limits of contact tracing
Hunting down passengers from the MV Hondius across a dozen countries is the right response to a hantavirus outbreak — and a useful test of whether the public-health establishment learned anything from the last decade.