Diseases

Screwworm treatment for pets receives emergency US FDA approval

Pet owners can purchase nitenpyram tablets to treat New World screwworm infections in cats and dogs that are at least 0.9kg and four weeks old.

X-Men actor Tyler Mane shares breast cancer diagnosis to raise awareness among men

Tyler Mane, whose birth name is Daryl Karolat, said he was beginning chemotherapy in a video posted on Instagram on June 9.

No boots and masks running out: Why Congo’s Ebola medics are exposed

FILE PHOTO: A European Commission Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) crew member dressed in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) stands as essential medical supplies and emergency kits are loaded on an aircraft to support the affected regions in Bunia, Ituri province, amidst the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi, Kenya, June 4, 2026. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi/File Photo

Health experts to screen US wastewater for disease outbreaks during World Cup

FILE PHOTO: Temporary pipes divert sewage into the C&O Canal in order to repair the Potomac Interceptor, a six-foot-wide wastewater pipe, in Cabin John, Maryland, U.S., February 18, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo

US to give $49m more for Ebola response as CDC warns outbreak could match 2014 crisis

Congolese children Ibrah Asimwe and Alex Uketi read an advocacy poster as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain outbreak, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 20, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/

Congo warns of rapid community spread of Ebola, 71 new cases confirmed

A health worker is dressed up in personal protective equipment (PPE) at the Evangelical Medical Center, one of the facilities at the forefront of the response to the Ebola outbreak, as agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 31, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

US domestic treatment centers ready for Ebola even as Kenya plans persist

A health worker is dressed up in personal protective equipment (PPE) at the Evangelical Medical Center, one of the facilities at the forefront of the response to the Ebola outbreak, as agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 31, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

Kenyan President Ruto says allowing US to build Ebola facility in the country is the ‘right thing’

An activist protesting against the US Ebola facility under construction in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 2.

‘It’s still working’: More are living with cancer as era of targeted drugs takes hold

Menta “Steve” Wallace and his wife, Jo Linda, at their home in Texas. Menta is taking the experimental pancreatic cancer drug daraxonrasib.

WHO says suspected Ebola cases drop to 116 after hundreds are ruled out

Health workers fighting the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo get dressed in personal protective equipment.

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