“Media reports say the situation is dire and not abating, with the healthcare system severely strained by nearly 57,000 measles admissions” www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/bang...

“Millions of people ‘would go entirely undetected by the diagnostic code that health systems and policymakers rely on to track the disease burden’” — I think the AI is overestimating because there is no objective defnition of long COVID for it to employ www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...

“Kids with autumn birthdays are more likely to get the annual flu shot and therefore less likely to catch the virus compared with those born in the summer” www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va... www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va...

”The new initiative includes $2.5M for new LymeX innovation challenges..supporting new treatments based on current medications and treatment methods, and using AI to reduce barriers to care and provide more information for patients” www.cidrap.umn.edu/tick-borne-d...

“Kenya is moving forward with the construction of a makeshift quarantine unit on Laikipia Air Base in Kenya for up to 50 Americans exposed to Ebola, despite a judge late last week blocking continued activity.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/three-...

In this piece I’m quoted about parasitic infections such as Naegleria, Giardia, Toxoplasmosis, and Babesiosis www.everydayhealth.com/infectious-d...

Another tool to tame COVID— PEP with ensitrelevir endpoints.news/shionogi-win...

“A recent study of Cepheid's point-of-care molecular vaginitis test has shown that it can provide more accurate diagnoses, resulting in more appropriate treatment, than existing methods, but challenges remain for its implementation” www.360dx.com/point-care-t...

“Vibrio has recently been confirmed from Long Island, New York, down to Florida. CDC tracking also shows multi-state outbreaks last year linked to Minnesota and Illinois” thehill.com/policy/healt...

“The funding would also support manufacturing & progression to later-stage trials if early ‌data ⁠are positive.. CEPI said it would also invest up to $8.6M for a shot developed by the Univ of Oxford..and an initial $3.2M for a vaccine developed by IAVI” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“Apparently the C.D.C. wants some kind of local guard or person to watch over the individual to ensure that they don’t leave their home” — doesn’t make sense and not medically indicated www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/u...

“One of two patients being monitored by Brazilian health authorities for possible Ebola infection in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro has tested negative” www.cbsnews.com/news/5-ebola...

“Tests of obeldesivir as PEP in monkeys have been encouraging. Between 80% and 100% of animals survived when they received the treatment 24 hours after being injected with the Zaire and Sudan strains of Ebola, or with the related Marburg virus.” www.science.org/content/arti...

“In Brazil, a man with a suspected case of Ebola in São Paulo tested positive for meningitis. Another suspected case emerged in Rio de Janeiro, where the patient tested positive for malaria” www.tbsnews.net/worldbiz/afr...

“On Monday, hundreds of youths marched to the gates of the air base, chanting anti-Ebola slogans” apnews.com/article/ebol...

“Trump’s order adds weight behind the study at a time when the administration had appeared to be trying to shift focus away from Kennedy’s more contentious vaccine policies”— it’s not a “study” but a fraud and RFK remains in power so there is no real shift apnews.com/article/chil...

"It is the policy ‌of ⁠the US that the core childhood vaccine schedule should be aligned with scientific evidence and best practices from peer, ​developed countries” — they cherry picked the ‘peer’ country to fit RFK’s irrational ideology www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“The decision aligns with the U.S. FDA's advisory panel” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“The headlines are scary, but honestly, the risk to the average traveler from these viruses is essentially nonexistent,” www.cnn.com/2026/05/29/h...

“Among a subset of children who were eligible for COVID19 vaccination, nearly all cases of MIS-C involved those who were not up to date with their vaccines” www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com/news/most-mi...

“Subgroup analyses showed that the relationship between frailty and infection risk was generally consistent across patient groups, though it appeared stronger among individuals with lower serum albumin levels.” www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com/news/frailty...

“Kenya has never recorded an Ebola case, and the main doctors’ union has expressed concern that the country’s health facilities would be ill equipped to handle an outbreak” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/w...

“One of the most important parts of the plan, the former officials said, was having a central leadership structure to coordinate speedy responses across agencies.” www.statnews.com/2026/05/30/t...

Travel bans, border closures are favorite tools of politicians even though they are counterproductive

The World Cup: a place for crowd diseases to spread, not Ebola or Hanta

“The Democratic Republic of Congo has faced Ebola before, 16 times, and has ended every outbreak. This is the 17th. That history gives me real confidence,” www.post-gazette.com/news/world/2...

In this piece I’m quoted about medical countermeasures against Ebola and other aspects of the outbreak jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“A man from the DRC presented w/ a fever after recently visiting the African ‌country..The patient is in isolation at a ⁠hospital specializing in the care of suspected or ⁠confirmed cases of the disease”— was he in an outbreak impacted province? www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“..why Mongbwalu is the center of the outbreak. Fruit bats..roost in huge numbers in trees on the edge of the town..Gold mining & conflict mean that a diverse stream of people is constantly flowing thru the town. Displaced people flock to Mongbwalu” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...

In this piece I’m quoted about how I think, despite any evidence of major efficacy, politicians will always use travel bans because they feel it makes them appear decisive (it objectively doesn’t) www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

In this TV interview I discuss how Ebola is a containable disease, why a PHEIC doesn’t = world wide threat, and how Ebola is not an objective threat to the World Cup youtu.be/SxcxN8j4xk8?...

At about 9:40 AM eastern I’ll be discussing the latest on Ebola on WCNC. Watch live here www.wcnc.com/watch

“monitoring an uptick in mpox cases in Boston” www.wcvb.com/article/bost...

“Luckily, the hospitals have a long track record of working closely with each other to coordinate across the bigger hospitals and the rural hospitals as well to make sure that we’re level-loading, that no one hospital gets in over their head” komonews.com/news/local/s...

“Fujifilm Pharmaceuticals donated 1,400 tablets of favipiravir, which the European Medicines Agency has identified as the most likely candidate to use under clinical-trial or compassionate-use protocols.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/hantavirus/e...

“makers Moderna and Sanofi discussed data on mice research suggesting that vaccines targeting XFG trigger higher antibody concentrations against circulating SARS-CoV-2 strains than Pfizer’s and Moderna’s current LP.8.1-targeting vaccines.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/fda...

“If a mosquito bites someone who applied DEET to their skin ..the concentration of the repellent is too low to repel the mosquito, but still strong enough for the insect to smell it, the mosquito may be more likely to bite people who smell of DEET,” www.cidrap.umn.edu/dengue/scent...

“The potential seriousness of the disease is also highlighted in a report yesterday in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, with the authors noting a 72% rate of pneumonia in hospitalized patients.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-n...

“The most promising vaccine candidate identified by the experts was the rVSV Bundibugyo vaccine, developed by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. That vaccine, however, would likely need seven to nine months before it would be ready for evaluation” www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/who-ch...

At about 4:07 pm eastern I’ll be discussing the latest on Ebola on Bloomberg TV. Watch live here www.bloomberg.com/live/us

Latest Substack post by me ameshadalja.substack.com/p/the-foreig...

“Surveillance is very, very, very weak. Case management is catastrophic.” www.economist.com/middle-east-...

“In contrast to high-income countries, where mortality ranges from 16% to 26%..significantly higher rates in the countries analyzed..an overall mortality rate of 37.1%, which increased to 59.3% among patients requiring respiratory support.” www.healthcarehygienemagazine.com/icu-pneumoni...

“OpenAI's new Rosalind Biodefense Program will offer its GPT-Rosalind model for life sciences research to "trusted developers" operationalizing biodefense tools..launch support for epidemiological modeling, early detection, screening, preparedness..” www.axios.com/2026/05/29/o...

In this piece I’m quoted about the Kenya plan for treating Ebola-infected Americans — it wasn’t a medically sound or medically motivated decision, it was entirely political www.thetimes.com/world/africa...

“With 154 cases reported in 15 counties so far in 2026, Florida has reported nearly twice the total number of measles cases reported in the last 25 years” www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2...

“When one country holds itself at arm’s length from other global-health actors during an international crisis, ‘at best it wastes resources,’” www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

“another key question that came up during the day, as to whether annually in late spring was the right timing for COVID shot strain selection, given that it has both late summer/early fall & winter surges, rather than just peaking in the winter as influenza does” www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

"We can't make a recommendation ​if we don't have data, and that's one of my great concerns," www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The proposed Ebola unit for Americans in Kenya; the invocation of Title 42 and its extension to green card holders; and the pausing of visa issuance from the DRC, S.Sudan, Uganda; and Title 42 during COVID all fit a pattern