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SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2026
WHO Chief Tours Bunia as Five Ebola Patients Recover
Tedros opened a new treatment center Sunday in eastern Congo's outbreak epicenter, where suspected cases now top 900 and a strain with no approved vaccine is outrunning aid
THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2026
Uganda Shuts Congo Border as U.S. Plans Kenya Ebola Facility
Kampala sealed the frontier Wednesday against WHO advice, and the Trump administration said Americans exposed abroad will be routed to a new quarantine center in Kenya rather than home
MONDAY, MAY 25, 2026
Crack May Be Easing Pressure in Garden Grove Chemical Tank as DA Opens Probe
Orange County firefighters spent Sunday night testing whether a fissure spotted Saturday in a 7,000-gallon methyl methacrylate tank is bleeding off the explosion threat, with 50,000 still evacuated
SUNDAY, MAY 24, 2026
Newsom Declares Emergency as Garden Grove Chemical Tank Nears Explosion
Some 40,000 Orange County residents remained under evacuation orders Saturday as firefighters tried to cool a 7,000-gallon methyl methacrylate tank rising one degree an hour
SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2026
Uganda Ebola Cases Rise to Five as WHO Raises Congo Risk to Very High
Kampala confirmed three new infections Saturday including a driver and a health worker, a day after the WHO chief said the outbreak in the DRC is spreading rapidly
TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2026
American Doctor Contracts Ebola as Congo Toll Hits 131 and U.S. Restricts Entry
Dr. Peter Stafford, a missionary physician in Bunia, is being flown to Germany as Washington bars noncitizens who have been in the DRC, Uganda or South Sudan in the past three weeks
SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2026
WHO Declares Ebola Public Health Emergency as Bundibugyo Strain Reaches Uganda
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus invoked the agency's highest alarm Sunday for a Congo outbreak that has no approved vaccine and has already crossed two borders
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2026
Ebola Outbreak Declared in Eastern Congo With 65 Dead
Africa CDC said Friday that 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths have been recorded in Ituri province, five months after the country's last outbreak was declared over
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2026
Hantavirus Cruise Cases Rise to 11 as French Patient Goes on Artificial Lung
A 65-year-old French woman is in intensive care on an artificial lung, Spain confirmed a passenger case Tuesday and the CDC has declined to order home isolation for returning Americans
MONDAY, MAY 11, 2026
Hantavirus Cruise Lands in Omaha With First U.S. Positive Test
Seventeen Americans evacuated from the MV Hondius arrived at Offutt Air Force Base early Monday after one passenger tested mildly positive in flight and another showed symptoms
SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2026
Hantavirus Cruise Docks in Tenerife; CDC Calls U.S. Risk Extremely Low
The MV Hondius arrived in the Canary Islands early Sunday and began offloading more than 140 passengers as the CDC moved to tamp down outbreak fears in the United States
FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2026
Spain Readies Evacuations as Hantavirus Cruise Nears Tenerife
The MV Hondius is due off the Canary Islands this weekend as the U.K. flags a third suspected case, Singapore tests two residents and five U.S. states track returning passengers
MONDAY, MAY 4, 2026
WHO Confirms Suspected Hantavirus Outbreak on Atlantic Cruise Ship, Three Dead
The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius is anchored off Cape Verde with a body still onboard as the U.N. health agency works to evacuate two symptomatic crew members