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Last updated: October 2026

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The World Health Organization is the world's health authority — coordinating outbreak response, setting treatment standards, and declaring emergencies. Headquartered in Geneva, its alerts are the first word in every pandemic.

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The Lab on Wheels Chasing Ebola's Fastest… — Magna Bureau

On the shore of Lake Albert, a mobile laboratory delivers its verdict in about an hour. But the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is still outrunning the science meant to stop it.

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Kenya Confirms First Imported Bundibugyo… — Magna Bureau

A Kenyan who had lived in the DRC for seven years flew from Entebbe to Nairobi visibly ill, died of Bundibugyo Ebola on October 5, and has put 55 people under contact tracing — while officials insist

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A Siberian plague lab loses a worker… — Magna Bureau

Daria Shipilova, 28, died days after a reported accident at Russia's Irkutsk anti-plague institute. Washington says Moscow is withholding information. Moscow says the media is lying.

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Gaza’s collapsing hospitals… — Magna Bureau

More than 15,000 patients wait for medical evacuation, oxygen stations are failing, and a cancer caught early still kills — the ‘ceasefire’ changed the bombing’s tempo, not the blockade’s logic, medic

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Foreign Aid to Africa Falls by Over 25… — Magna Bureau

With US and European aid drying up, Kenya's clinics are closing and mothers are paying cash. The continent is learning to fund its own survival.

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The Rich World’s War, the South’s Bill — Magna Bureau

The UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to

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The Le Pen put: France’s bond market starts… — Magna Bureau

Marine Le Pen outlined spending cuts and French bonds staged their biggest relief rally since the pandemic. Six months before the vote, the market has picked its candidate.

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