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Infectious Disease

Most 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 & Food

WHO 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 & Weight

Your 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.