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The WHO Halted a Global Drug Trial on Data a Tiny Company Would Not Let Auditors See
Ninety-six thousand patients across six continents, supplied by a Chicago firm that would not open its database to independent auditors, and the WHO changed course in days.
Infectious DiseaseFor Nineteen Years, Bundibugyo Was a Footnote in the Ebola Family. It Has Killed More Than 3,000 People Since Congo Confirmed It in May.
Congo confirmed a little-known Ebola cousin on May 15. By September it had reached 61 health zones, killed nearly half of its confirmed patients, and traveled abroad in infected and evacuated people, and the celebrated Ebola vaccine was never built to stop it.
InvestigationsThe Ebola Vaccine 2,000 Congolese Frontline Workers Received Isn't Known to Work on the Strain Killing Them
Bundibugyo Ebola has no licensed vaccine, so the response is dosing frontline workers with Ervebo, approved only against a different strain, while the State Department fast-tracks $50 million to CEPI and a four-candidate portfolio that includes Moderna, in an outbreak the surveillance system missed
Infectious DiseaseMost of These Ebola Patients Aren't Bleeding. That's Why It's Spreading.
A Bundibugyo virus outbreak in DRC and Uganda has topped 1,100 confirmed cases, yet roughly nine in ten patients show no bleeding, the symptom everyone is trained to look for.
Nutrition & FoodWHO Tripled the Foodborne Death Toll. The Food Didn't Get Deadlier.
WHO's new estimate says unsafe food kills 1.5 million people a year, more than triple its 2015 figure, even as it admits the burden has fallen. The jump is an accounting change, not an epidemic.
Metabolic & WeightYour Kidneys Are Quietly Failing. The WHO's Plan Skips What's Actually Killing Them.
The Lancet is pushing fast implementation of the first WHO kidney resolution, which expands screening and treatment access while leaving the ultraprocessed food and sugar driving the global CKD doubling untouched.