😷 BREAKING🚨 Canada launches a new National Advisory Committee on Preventive Health Services. It will be chaired by Dr. David Keegan, a leading advocate for masks in healthcare and on airplanes who filed human rights litigation on both fronts.

⚠️Ebola outbreak is tracking to be the worst ever. Cases: 569, deaths: 103. Global collaboration is essential, infectious pathogens don’t respect borders or nationalities. We are either all safe, or none of us are safe. nytimes.com/interactive/2026…

In Uganda, the ebola outbreak appears to be under control. Update 9 June 2026: Remains stable with 19 Cases; 2 Deaths; 5 Recovered; 10.5% CFR 15 out of the 19 confirmed cases are imported from RD of the Congo; the 4 local cases are linked to provision of care for these imported cases. The Ministry of Health is currently conducting active case searches, investigations, and tracing for all known contacts to ensure early detection and case investigation to guide surveillance interventions All high-risk contacts identified through contact tracing go through a mandatory 21-day follow-up. A no-flight list of contacts is updated regularly and shared with countries' immigration and internal affairs. Holding facilities at border points for travellers flagged as high risk. Screening of public transport passengers from high-risk districts/cities. Temporary suspension of all flights to and from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to enhance outbreak containment measures. Movement restrictions have been established for travellers to and from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with the exception of essential travel and cargo. All crew members, security and humanitarian teams, and other personnel/categories exempted from the travel restriction MUST undergo the mandatory screening protocols at Entebbe International Airport, without exemption. Robust inbound and outbound screening at the points of entry with a digital locator form. Airline operators shall ensure that all passengers complete the official Passenger Locator Form at the point of embarkation before boarding for Uganda. The Form shall be completed fully and accurately through the prescribed QR code or electronic link provided in paragraph (d) below. Any airline operator found in contravention of this requirement shall be subject to enforcement action and penalties as prescribed under the applicable regulations and the Uganda AIP. Humanitarian cargo flights arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) shall not carry passengers on board. Any operator found in contravention of this requirement shall, at its own cost, immediately return such passengers to their point of origin and shall be subject to enforcement action and penalties in accordance with the applicable regulations and the Uganda AIP. Intensified alert management nationally: In Uganda, the outbreak appears to be under controlnity and facility case-finding, alert and contact management, mortality surveillance, and border screening — concentrated in Kampala and Wakiso, where all confirmed cases have been identified. Source: evd-daily.health.go.ug/

NEW: Astronauts on the International Space Station ordered to shelter in spacecraft and prepare for evacuation over worsening air leaks in the Russian segment

To build a better health care system, we need to build better hospitals and clinics. We’re expanding and modernising our healthcare infrastructure across the country — so you can get the care you need, when you need it.

Every hero eventually disappoints someone. Not because they’re evil. Not because they’re stupid. Because changing your mind has a cost. To acknowledge that COVID still poses serious long-term risks would require many people to revisit years of assumptions, decisions, public statements, and personal behavior. That’s not just updating a belief. That’s rewriting part of your identity. And for most people, denial is cheaper than reconstruction. @DrInfoSec

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The Trump administration is sending ships to rip 900 ocean sensors out of the Atlantic and Pacific — and Congress already told them twice they couldn't do it.** They're doing it anyway.

It has begun. The US State Department is about to fund Russophile parties across Europe. The implementation of the White House new Security Strategy

The driving principle for PPE use should be the precautionary principle when case fatality is astronomically high, and no drugs or vaccines are available, as we argued during the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic, the worst in history. This should override "evidence reviews" for poorly studied diseases that occur sporadically. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

CNN's Clarissa Ward travels to Bunia in the Democratic Republic of Congo and speaks to the director-general of the World Health Organization about the Ebola crisis.

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