Authorities launched vaccinations in Kisangani as healthcare and front-line workers became the first priority in a response to the country's deadliest recorded Ebola outbreak.
The Robert Koch Institute's modelled assessment put the seasonal toll at its highest level in a decade of monitoring, with people over 75 most affected.
Neurosurgeons in London say they have completed the world’s first successful AI-assisted brain tumour operation, combining live imaging analysis with a conventional surgical team at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
On 2026-08-21, available reporting documented india's top court has ordered tough new steps to protect wild elephant herds as habitat loss and human-elephant conflict intensify, a move welcomed by campaigners on Friday.
The World Health Organization said the Democratic Republic of the Congo had been allocated 70,000 doses of Merck's Ervebo vaccine as officials worked to contain a major Ebola outbreak.
Researchers in Dhaka said most children who died during a measles outbreak had not been exclusively breastfed in infancy, while many vaccine-eligible patients in the hospital-based study had received no dose.
Merck and Moderna reported encouraging late-stage melanoma data for an individualized mRNA-based treatment, a result researchers described as an important test for cancer-vaccine technology.
On 2026-08-17, available reporting documented an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo had killed 2,325 people,, according to government figures.
Health authorities said 45 infections were recorded in one week, with the greater Athens area facing particularly intense transmission as mosquito-control work expanded.
Both units at Romania’s only nuclear power plant are set to be offline after drought and exceptionally low river levels reduced the water available for cooling.
Taylor Farms recalled prepared foods containing jalapeños after peppers linked to Coast Citrus Distributors were associated with a multistate Salmonella outbreak.