Health-worker infections in the Bundibugyo Ebola response have tripled to 112, with 35 dead, and Africa CDC has issued a formal appeal for responder protection as a US responder infected in Bunia was flown to Germany. Patient isolation has slipped to 39%, away from the 70% the CDC's model says decides the outbreak. Philadelphia retracted a false measles alarm but named a real airport exposure, and WHO published its first blueprint on fungal disease.
Ebola's containment now turns on paying and testing its own workforce, not on the money already pledged.
Africa CDC issued a formal responder-protection appeal on 11 July after health-worker infections in the Bundibugyo response tripled to 112, with 35 dead.
Health-worker infections in DR Congo's Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak tripled from 34 in mid-June to 112 by 11 July, with 35 of those workers now dead.
Africa CDC has formally appealed for better protective equipment, training and psychosocial support, arguing the workforce treating patients is now becoming a second front of the epidemic itself.
A US aid worker who tested positive in Bunia on 10 July was medically evacuated to Germany on 13 July, the Bundibugyo outbreak's third export beyond Africa.
A US aid worker helping fight the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in Bunia, DR Congo tested positive on 10 July and was flown to Germany for treatment on 13 July.
It is the outbreak's third case to leave Africa, after a French doctor in June and an earlier American in May, a reminder that no screening protocol fully seals a live epidemic's borders.
Patient isolation in DR Congo's Bundibugyo outbreak fell to roughly 39% by 13 July, sliding away from the 70% mark the CDC's model says decides the epidemic.
Patient isolation in DR Congo's Ebola outbreak fell to about 39% by 13 July, down from 44% earlier in the month, moving further from the 70% mark modellers say prevents the worst case.
The CDC's own model puts a 20,000-case worst case within reach at low isolation rates, so this slide matters more than the raw case count alone.
Front-line health workers in Ituri Province have walked off or threatened to strike over unpaid hazard pay and delayed salaries, according to Al Jazeera reporting.
QatarFront-line health workers in Ituri Province, DR Congo walked off the job or threatened to strike over unpaid hazard pay and delayed salaries, Al Jazeera reported.
The walkout strips case-finding and isolation capacity from an Ebola response already struggling to keep pace, even as donors have pledged hundreds of millions in outbreak funding.
A confirmed infectious traveller transited Philadelphia International Airport on 4 July; PDPH alerted unvaccinated passengers to watch for symptoms through 25 July.
A confirmed infectious traveller passed through Philadelphia International Airport's Terminals A, B and C on 4 July, prompting a public health alert issued a week later on 11 July.
Commissioner Palak Raval-Nelson said there's no broad threat to the public, but measles can linger in the air for two hours, so anyone unvaccinated in those terminals is asked to watch for symptoms.
Philadelphia's health department retested a Delaware County wastewater measles signal, found it negative, and retracted the original detection as a false positive on 6 July.
The Philadelphia Department of Public Health retracted a Delaware County wastewater measles signal on 6 July, after retesting came back negative.
Wastewater tests catch outbreaks before anyone visibly falls ill, but the same early-warning system that flagged a real poliovirus threat in New York in 2022 sometimes flags nothing at all.
The US national measles count reached 2,231 confirmed cases across 42 states by 9 July, on pace to pass last year's 2,289 before September.
US measles cases reached 2,231 across 42 states as of 9 July, on pace to beat 2025's 2,289-case total, the worst year since 1991, before September.
The tally keeps testing the 12-month transmission-chain limit that decides whether the US still counts as having eliminated measles, a status held since 2000.
The World Health Organization published its first blueprint on fungal disease on 1 July, estimating more than 300 million people suffer serious fungal illness each year.
SwitzerlandThe World Health Organization published its first dedicated Blueprint on fungal disease and antifungal resistance on 1 July, estimating over 300 million people suffer serious fungal infections yearly.
Fungal disease has sat outside global antimicrobial resistance tracking until now, which has focused on bacteria alone, so the Blueprint is WHO's first attempt to bring it into mainstream surveillance.
Direction: sideways to worsening. Isolation has oscillated between 35% (23 June) and 45.9% (14 June) for a month and now sits at 39%, below the 44% recorded in WHO's 3 July DON612 and short of the 70% the CDC's R0=2.51 model names as the collapse threshold. The tipping point is whether the Ituri hazard-pay strike ends: unpaid staff walking off the job removes exactly the isolation capacity the model says must grow, and DRC's Ministry of Health, not Africa CDC's donor pledges, controls that payroll decision.
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