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A volunteer makes announcements while intercepting a passenger boat after a passenger who had disembarked earlier died following the development of symptoms consistent with Ebola, in Kinshasa, Congo, on Aug. 5.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 10, 2026
Ebola case count set to increase as Congo officials track hidden infections
The shift comes as confirmed cases climbed to 4,209 and deaths totaled 1,916, pushing the outbreak¡¯s crude case-fatality ratio to 45.5%.
Red Cross workers walk in a formation as they disinfect Rwampara General Hospital before handling the body of a person who died of Ebola, in Rwampara outside Bunia, Ituri province, Congo, on May 21.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 6, 2026
Why Congo¡¯s Ebola outbreak is spreading faster than previous epidemics
Health officials say the current epidemic is spreading five times faster than previous outbreaks did at this stage.
Congolese medical workers carry children tested and cleared off from Ebola from Saint Nicholas orphanage in Ituri province, Congo, on June 9.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 5, 2026
WHO pleads for more support to tackle Ebola outbreak
The outbreak is the biggest ever to have hit the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite being declared less than three months ago.
Members of the Civil Protection, a local community-based team that works to help mitigate the spread of the Ebola virus and ensure burials happen safely and quickly, load the body of an unidentified man into a coffin after retrieving it from his house, in Bunia, Ituri province, Congo, on July 10.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 29, 2026
A day in the life of Congo¡¯s overstretched Ebola surveillance teams
In clinic after clinic, an inspection of the records showed staff had ?failed to report some suspected Ebola cases to central authorities.
Workers line up to disinfect their protective equipment at General Referral Hospital of Mongbwalu during the Ebola outbreak response in Mongbwalu, Ituri province, eastern Congo, on May 20.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 27, 2026
Ebola outbreak in Congo set to become second-largest on record after confirmed cases reach 3,200
The latest figures highlight the scale of the epidemic, though expanded surveillance and retrospective case finding have also contributed to the rapid rise in reported infections.
A health worker checks his personal protective equipment during a training exercise by Doctors Without Borders in Kenya on July 10.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 20, 2026
U.S. and Congo Ebola travel curbs may hamper humanitarian aid response
The overlapping restrictions threaten to slow the deployment and rotation of doctors, nurses and other specialists needed to contain the epidemic.
A health worker takes a woman¡¯s temperature as part of Ebola screening efforts in Goma.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 18, 2026
¡®Walking Ebola¡¯ helps explain why Congo¡¯s outbreak is so hard to stop ¡ª and how to treat it
The virus¡¯s slower progression leaves patients sick enough to spread the virus but not so unwell to stop them moving through their communities.
Employees at the National Institute of Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, Congo, on Wednesday
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 6, 2026
Experimental Ebola trial begins in Congo as death toll tops 500
The outbreak has already infected almost 1,600 people in Congo and seeded a small number of linked cases in neighboring Uganda.
A woman with an umbrella walks at Plaza Puerta del Sol during a spring heat wave in Madrid on May 27.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jul 2, 2026
Net-zero champion Europe snared by climate change on its doorstep
June¡¯s record-breaking heat wave in Europe has focused minds on the urgency of adapting to global warming in a continent once complacent about its relatively gentle climate.
A healthcare worker takes samples from a patient suffering from Ebola.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 26, 2026
Ebola scientists lack access to virus samples behind Congo¡¯s largest Bundibugyo outbreak
The issue highlights growing disputes over pathogen sharing and the difficulty of moving infectious materials across borders for research.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks with international health officials from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Ugandan health authorities during a news conference at the Ebola isolation unit at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, on June 8.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 25, 2026
Global Ebola risk ¡®remains low,¡¯ WHO chief says after France case
France announced its first confirmed case of Ebola identified on its territory: a doctor who had flown back from the?Congo.
Nyamurongo cemetery, one of the burial sites receiving a large number of people who have died from Ebola since the beginning of the recent outbreak in Bunia, Ituri Province, Congo, on Saturday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 16, 2026
Ebola cases top 800 in Congo as aid groups warn outbreak may be larger than reported
The outbreak, already the third largest Ebola epidemic on record and the biggest caused by the Bundibugyo strain, has spread across eastern Congo and into neighboring Uganda.
Volunteers wearing protective equipment prepare to recover the body of a 3-year-old child presumed to have died from Ebola in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Thursday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 14, 2026
Health workers struggle to contain Ebola in Congo camps as distrust grows
Since the Ebola outbreak was ?declared a month ago, several treatment sites have been attacked by locals ?angry about not being able to bury their loved ones.
Health workers retrieve the body of an unidentified Ebola victim in Mongbwalu, a gold mining town in Congo.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 12, 2026
A cracked coffin, a funeral and the hunt for Ebola¡¯s patient zero
The Ebola outbreak has caused about 635 confirmed infections and at least 127 deaths in eastern Congo, but the true toll could be much higher, officials say.
People react while Red Cross workers walk in a formation as they disinfect Rwampara general hospital before handling the body of a person who died of Ebola, as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, in Rwampara outside Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 21.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 10, 2026
U.S. urges Europe to impose Ebola travel bans ahead of World Cup
The Ebola outbreak has complicated some travel ahead of the FIFA World Cup, which will be hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico and begins on Thursday.
A Congolese woman waits for medical workers outside the house of a man who died of Ebola, in Quartier Shuni 1, a residential sector in Mongbwalu in the Djugu Territory of Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 24.
WORLD
Jun 10, 2026
Congo says number of confirmed Ebola cases rises to nearly 600
Mistrust and resistance have hampered the ?response, with attacks on burial teams and treatment centers ?reported, while medics are struggling to secure basic equipment.
A health worker dries gumboots and gloves under the sun at the Mulago National Referral Hospital isolation unit in Kampala, Uganda, on Monday.
WORLD
Jun 9, 2026
Congo says Ebola deaths top 100 as armed groups threaten response
The outbreak of the Bundibugyo ?strain of Ebola was announced on May 15, though ?officials have ?since said it went undetected for weeks.
Health workers disinfect the entrance to a house before removing the body of a person whose suspected cause of death was Ebola, in Mongbwalu, Democratic Republic of Congo, last month.
WORLD
Jun 4, 2026
Ebola burial team attacked and 11 patients flee care in widening outbreak in Congo
The developments underscore the challenges facing responders as the outbreak takes on a growing international dimension while work to contain it inside the country remains fragile.
An activist speaks to Kenyan police officers while attempting to enter the Milimani Law Courts during a protest against a U.S.-built Ebola quarantine center planned to begin operations at Kenya's Laikipia Air Base, in Nairobi on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jun 3, 2026
Protests over U.S. Ebola site in Kenya kill two; court keeps suspension
The proposed 50-bed unit on an air force base for Americans exposed ?to the virus has angered many Kenyans.
Health workers at a new Ebola treatment center in Bunia, Congo, on Sunday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 1, 2026
Congo¡¯s Ebola footprint widens as officials race to gauge epidemic¡¯s true scale
One of the most complex Ebola outbreaks in years is unfolding across areas impacted by armed conflict, mass displacement and weak health infrastructure.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
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