Outbreaks, regulators and the health system, sourced to official statements and published data.
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Two workers trapped in a hydropower tunnel in Nepal were rescued alive on September 4, nine days after devastating floods swept the region. Mechanical foreman Sanjay Sah, 30, and m
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Carlton Neal Johnson, 35, is believed responsible for a mass shooting Wednesday at a downtown Minneapolis apartment complex that killed two residents and injured six others, includ
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The jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial became deadlocked after six days and more than 28 hours of deliberations. Clancy is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of he
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The Democratic Republic of Congo faces its worst Ebola outbreak on record, with confirmed cases exceeding 6,000 and nearly 3,000 deaths. The Bundibugyo strain is spreading faster t
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A Massachusetts jury entered deliberations after five weeks of testimony in the case of Lindsay Clancy, a 36-year-old former nurse accused of strangling her three children in Janua
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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, whose signature polka-dot works became a global cultural phenomenon in the final decades of her career, died on August 14, 2026, at a Tokyo hospital a
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The FDA approved daraxonrasib (Rasonque), made by Revolution Medicines, on Wednesday for advanced pancreatic cancer. In a 500-patient trial, median survival was 13.2 months compare
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Two unvaccinated people died of measles in Pennsylvania, the first measles deaths in the state in 35 years. The deaths occur as 2,777 measles cases have been reported nationwide in
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Peer-reviewed research published in The British Medical Journal documented chronic traumatic encephalopathy in at least one-quarter of former NFL players who died between 2016 and
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A fast-moving wildfire that began Saturday in western Nevada has grown to more than 23 square miles, prompting authorities to order some 42,000 residents to evacuate immediately an
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King Harald V, 89, remains hospitalized at Oslo University Hospital receiving antibiotics for a bacterial bloodstream infection as his health deteriorates, according to the palace.
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The Hawk Fire near Reno burned more than 10,500 acres on August 22, 2026, forcing evacuations of approximately 1,000 homes. Gov. Joe Lombardo declared a state of emergency for Wash
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A Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv around midnight killed at least 17 people and injured more than 40, according to BBC reporting of Ukraine's State Emergency Service. A ch
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A powerful earthquake struck Flores island early Saturday, killing at least 53 people and displacing around 5,000. The shallow quake, centered 15 kilometers below the surface, dama
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A 13-year-old girl, shot four times, called 911 during a shooting rampage in rural Michigan that killed five people across multiple locations. The suspected gunman, Chad Hickman, 3
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The FDA designated 1.6 million cartons of eggs a Class I recall on Wednesday, its most serious category, due to potential salmonella contamination. The eggs were first recalled Jul
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A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia on Monday, August 11 at 07:34 local time, killing at least 180 confirmed people with nearly 2,600 injured and almost 200 missing. More th
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Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed at least 2,011 people among 4,381 confirmed cases as of August 2026, per CBS News. The death toll doubled in just three weeks after reaching 1,000
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President Zelensky accused Russia of using North Korean ballistic missiles in strikes on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia on August 11, killing seven people and injuring at least
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As of July 25, 2026, Candida auris has been detected in 3,437 clinical cases across 27 U.S. states, according to provisional CDC data reported by Fox News. The fungus, classified b
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A 14-year-old opened fire at a school northwest of Bangkok on Friday, killing at least five school staff, his two grandparents, and a 12-year-old girl who died after hospitalizatio
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Rep. Marcy Kaptur, an 80-year-old Democratic congresswoman from Ohio, was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after a hit-and-run crash in Toledo on Sunday morning. She
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As of 30 July 2026, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached 3,605 confirmed cases and 1,587 deaths, surpassing the previous record from 2018-2020. The Bu
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The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted 12-10 on Thursday to advance Dr. Erica Schwartz's nomination as CDC director to a full Senate vote. Schwartz, 54, w
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Sen. Rand Paul released journal entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci spanning December 2019 to December 2022, ahead of a Senate hearing on COVID-19 origins. The diaries show tension betw
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A phase 1 trial of an experimental pancreatic cancer vaccine called mKRAS-VAX at Johns Hopkins triggered mutant KRAS-targeted immune responses in 18 of 20 high-risk participants. T