As cases rise in Central Africa, the world is racing to develop vaccines and treatments for a strain of Ebola that has none. A growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring Uganda is exposing a critical vulnerability in the world’s pandemic defense system: despite
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo — A fast-moving Ebola outbreak is spreading across eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and into neighboring countries. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has traveled to the epicenter with a stark message: the epidemic can still be stopped, but the window to
A new Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has killed at least 65 people and triggered growing concern among African and international health authorities over the risk of cross-border spread in one of the continent’s most fragile regions. The outbreak has emerged in Ituri province, near the
As the WHO coordinates a multinational response aboard a quarantined cruise ship, the United States finds itself navigating a public health emergency from outside the institution it helped build. A rare hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius has triggered a complex international public health response spanning multiple continents, exposing the
In a move that signals the accelerating convergence of artificial intelligence and global healthcare, Novo Nordisk has announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI aimed at transforming how medicines are discovered, developed, and delivered. The collaboration represents more than a technology upgrade. It is a strategic pivot toward a new model
Under the intense Amazon sun, where heat, flooding and infectious disease already shape daily life, Brazil used COP30 to launch the first global climate adaptation framework dedicated to the health sector. The Belém Health Action Plan gathered ministers, UN leaders and health authorities around a shared acknowledgment: climate change is
GENEVA — October 2025 — The global movement linking climate resilience and health systems has reached a major milestone. Tuvalu has become the 100th country to join the World Health Organization’s Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health (ATACH), marking a growing consensus that protecting public health must be
In a stark new assessment released this week, scientists warn that humanity has crossed seven of nine planetary “boundaries” — the biophysical limits that sustain Earth systems — placing the world on a perilous trajectory. The Planetary Health Check 2025 frames this as an existential moment: if humanity fails to
