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Trials for a vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain are ongoing as DRC authorities try to control the Ebola outbreak.

pBird eggs intercepted in homemade incubators at Johannesburg airport as officials try to halt wildlife trafficking/ppSouth African police have arrested two Thai nationals in separate incidents for allegedly attempting to smuggle endangered parrot eggs out of the country as authorities try to stem the tide of wildlife trafficking./ppA 50-year-old Thai national was arrested at OR Tambo international airport in Johannesburg on 20 August, carrying 50 bird eggs in a homemade incubator in a hand-luggage bag, South Africas environment ministry said in a a href"https://www.dffe.gov.za/mediarelease/arrest_allegedwildlifetrafficker"statement/a./p a href"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/south-african-police-arrest-two-thai-men-smuggling-parrot-eggs"/a

A fire erupted early Wednesday in a nursery for newborns at a major government hospital in Pakistan's capital, killing 14 babies, according to hospital officials and the government.

pWest African country reports 46 suspected cases in outbreak declared in July, amid fears virus may be spreading undetected/ppMore than half of the mpox cases reported in Guinea-Bissau have been among children, local authorities have said, almost two months since the country announced an epidemic./ppA national outbreak was declared on 4 July, just over a week after a 27-year-old woman became the first confirmed case of mpox in the west African country. Since then, there have been seven confirmed cases and 46 suspected cases. Half of those patients have been children, with 16 under the age of four./p a href"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/24/children-half-mpox-disease-cases-guinea-bissau-epidemic-spreads-west-africa"/a

Scientists say the growing El Nio weather pattern is an "unprecedented event" and means 2027 is likely to be the world's hottest year on record.

pAt least 2,325 people have died from the virus, according to official data, with outbreak on track to be biggest in history/ppThe Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now the deadliest in the countrys history, with at least 2,325 people dead, according to government data, surpassing the toll from the 2018-20 outbreak./ppThe DRCs public health institute said confirmed cases had risen to 4,945, including 101 detected in the previous 24 hours./p a href"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/17/ebola-outbreak-drc-democratic-republic-of-congo-deadliest-in-history"/a

Police and riot squads have been deployed after three inmates were killed and nearly two dozen others were injured in separate prison riots across Sri Lanka. Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told parliament on Friday that one prisoner was killed when 40 inmates broke out of their cells at

When Karen McNenny was facing divorce about 15 years ago, she was afraid of what it would mean for her future: despair, debt and a lifetime of resentment, she says. At the same time, she was thinking of her two children, she says. She didn't want their father to become her enemy. So she and he

Central Africa’s Ebola outbreak could spread to be similar in scale to the worst outbreak in history, west Africa’s 2014-2016 outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people, according to a new analysis by US health officials. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday pub