https://rbtfl.xyz/en/track/biosecurity Animal, plant and human disease; the slow catastrophes. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-camps-0806 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-camps-0806 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Ebola Bundibugyo virus has spread into displacement camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN refugee agency UNHCR reported on August 6, infecting 19 internally displaced people and killing five; UN News described agencies as on high alert as the outbreak, which has no approved vaccine or treatment, reaches populations already displaced by conflict [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-second-largest-0731 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-second-largest-0731 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Bundibugyo strain Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo passed 1,500 deaths and 3,500 confirmed cases by July 31, making it the second-largest Ebola outbreak in recorded history after the 2014-16 West Africa epidemic; contact tracing is now missing four in five new cases, according to TechTimes, meaning the surveillance system has effectively lost sight of the chain of transmission [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ebola-drc-who-support-0804 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ebola-drc-who-support-0804 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The World Health Organization called on August 4 for increased international support to tackle the Bundibugyo strain Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has become the largest ever recorded in the country since being declared less than three months ago; UN agencies reported they were scaling up treatment centres, surveillance and field deployment, while no approved vaccine or treatment exists for the Bundibugyo strain [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-treatment-0803 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-treatment-0803 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The United Nations announced on August 3 that new UN-backed centres had opened in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to serve the [[ebola-bundibugyo-drc-pheic-2026|Bundibugyo strain Ebola outbreak]], as confirmed cases continued rising sharply; health authorities note there is no approved treatment or vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain, leaving the response dependent entirely on isolation, contact tracing and supportive care [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/rwanda-alcohol-0803 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/rwanda-alcohol-0803 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority ordered the immediate closure of eight alcoholic beverage manufacturers on August 2, revoked all their licences, recalled at least 38 spirits brands from the market, and revoked ethanol import licences, citing a deadly public-health crisis linked to illicit alcohol [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/australia-h5n1-mass-mortality-0803 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/australia-h5n1-mass-mortality-0803 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Australia's agriculture minister confirmed on August 3 the country's first H5N1 mass mortality event, with 49 greater crested terns found dead and 35 sick at a coastal site; 74 infections have been confirmed across four states, all in wild birds, with no commercial farm cases recorded; officials warned wider wildlife spread is likely [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/deepmind-alphafold-0729 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/deepmind-alphafold-0729 Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Google DeepMind has dissolved the dedicated team behind AlphaFold, the AI system that won its researchers the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for predicting protein structures; most researchers have been reassigned to a Gemini-centred scientific AI programme; chief author John Jumper and at least two colleagues have left the company, with some joining Anthropic; the move signals a strategic pivot away from standalone scientific AI toward foundation models [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/uganda-ebola-end-0728 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/uganda-ebola-end-0728 Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Uganda's Ministry of Health announced on July 28 that the country's 2026 Ebola outbreak has been contained, with Health Minister Chris Baryomunsi confirming Uganda is Ebola-free and no further community transmission has occurred. [repaired] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-3200-0727 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-3200-0727 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reached 3,200 confirmed cases and 1,405 deaths as of July 27, with the WHO reporting that cases rose by roughly 1,000 in just 10 days; the outbreak, concentrated in Ituri province, has now spread across five provinces, and experts warn it may continue for months [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/france-heat-deaths-0722 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/france-heat-deaths-0722 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Santé Publique France, France's national public health authority, reported 5,764 excess deaths during the country's heat wave from June 17 to July 2, 2026, as temperatures broke records; Fox News reported health officials described the episode as France's deadliest heat event since 2003 [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/japan-heatstroke-0723 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/japan-heatstroke-0723 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT More than 10,857 people in Japan were transported by ambulance for heatstroke in the week of July 13-19, more than double the number for the same period in 2025, the country's fire and disaster management agency reported. Temperatures reached 40°C in six locations on July 23 as a heat dome settled over the country. [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fda-peptide-panel-0723 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fda-peptide-panel-0723 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT US Food and Drug Administration advisers voted on July 23 in favor of loosening regulations on popular peptide compounds. The recommendations, if adopted by the FDA, would allow specialized compounding pharmacies to legally produce peptides in the United States, where most peptides currently circulate in a grey market. [pending-decision] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-1000-deaths-0722 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-1000-deaths-0722 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Ebola death toll in the Democratic Republic of Congo passed 1,000 on July 22, with African health authorities confirming 1,031 deaths from the Bundibugyo variant; the WHO says the true scale may be two to four times larger than official figures; the outbreak was declared on May 15 and is the first caused by Bundibugyo, which has no approved vaccines or treatments; two US citizens were evacuated to Germany [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-930-deaths-0720 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-930-deaths-0720 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Al Jazeera reported on July 20 that the Ebola death toll in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surged to at least 930, with 37 new deaths recorded over a single weekend; the Bundibugyo virus strain has now spread faster than any previous Ebola outbreak in the DRC [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/nz-birdflu-0720 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/nz-birdflu-0720 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT New Zealand confirmed bird flu in a poultry flock last week, prompting Mainland Poultry, the country's largest egg supplier, to put more than 550,000 free-range hens into precautionary lockdown; Woolworths New Zealand said egg supplies should hold [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/taylor-farms-cyclospora-0718 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/taylor-farms-cyclospora-0718 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Taylor Farms recalled iceberg lettuce shipped to 27 US states on July 18 due to potential contamination with cyclospora, the intestinal parasite at the centre of a multistate outbreak that has now reached 34 US states; the recall follows an earlier link between cyclospora and shredded lettuce supplied to Taco Bell [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/tacobel-cyclospora-jul18 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/tacobel-cyclospora-jul18 Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified shredded lettuce from a single Mexico-based supplier, Taylor Farms, as the source of a cyclosporiasis outbreak at Taco Bell locations across five US states, with health officials still investigating the full case count [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/us-cyclospora-outbreak-jul16 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/us-cyclospora-outbreak-jul16 Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The US Food and Drug Administration and CDC identified shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms to Taco Bell restaurants as a probable vehicle for a cyclosporiasis outbreak spanning at least five states, with thousands of cases reported [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/likweli-colobus-jul15 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/likweli-colobus-jul15 Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A Yale-led team has formally described Colobus congoensis, a striking black primate with orange lips and loud, roar-like vocalisations, photographed first in 2008 in what became Lomami National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo; the species may already be endangered [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-2000-cases-jul14 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-2000-cases-jul14 Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo surpassed 2,000 confirmed cases by July 15, with the World Health Organization warning on July 14 that a majority of new infections now come from unknown chains of transmission, signalling a loss of contact-tracing control. [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/sudan-cholera-who-jul10 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/sudan-cholera-who-jul10 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The World Health Organization warned on July 10 that a new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed at least 114 people and infected more than 1,300 across multiple states, and could worsen sharply as rainy-season flooding spreads contaminated water; the outbreak compounds a humanitarian crisis already driven by the ongoing war between Sudan's army and the Rapid Support Forces [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/south-africa-msf-emergency-jul9 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/south-africa-msf-emergency-jul9 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Médecins Sans Frontières activated emergency medical teams across South Africa on July 9 after a surge in anti-migrant violence left at least 4 dead, injured many others, destroyed homes and disrupted access to healthcare; the group warned of growing humanitarian needs as tens of thousands of African migrants were displaced [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/us-cyclospora-michigan-0709 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/us-cyclospora-michigan-0709 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cyclospora cayetanensis infections in Michigan surpassed 1,250 as of July 9, with cases across at least 43 counties since late June; Southeast Michigan counties are most affected; US state health officials say produce is the likely vehicle but have not confirmed the source [escalating] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ebola-partners-trial-jul2 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ebola-partners-trial-jul2 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The WHO-sponsored PARTNERS trial enrolled its first patient in Bunia on July 2, testing remdesivir and MBP-134 as the outbreak spreads to Uganda and France and ranks as the second-largest Ebola epidemic on record [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/measles-us-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/measles-us-2026 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT As of July 2, 2026, the United States had confirmed 2,170 measles cases across 41 states and 31 outbreaks, more than in any year since elimination was declared in 2000; a PAHO assessment scheduled for November 2026 is widely expected to formally strip the US of the status Canada lost in 2025, following 3 deaths and South Carolina's 847-case outbreak surpassing Texas in 16 weeks [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-fastest-growing-jul9 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-fastest-growing-jul9 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT African health authorities declared Thursday that the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has now killed more than 600 people and is spreading faster than any previous outbreak on record; the WHO puts the case fatality rate at 34%, and health officials say the virus is outpacing the response [escalating] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/african-swine-fever-europe-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/african-swine-fever-europe-2026 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT WOAH's mid-2026 report shows a 16% drop in European wild boar ASF cases versus 2025, yet Spain's first wild boar case in 30 years and a 21,000-pig Poland outbreak highlight continued westward spread [ongoing] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-kinshasa-ban-jun29 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/drc-ebola-kinshasa-ban-jun29 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Interior Minister Jacquemain Shabani extended a public-gathering ban to Kinshasa and three other provinces on June 27 as Ebola confirmed cases reached 1,274 with 360 deaths; none of the four targeted provinces has recorded a single case, and opposition coalitions say the measure is designed to derail a July 8 protest against constitutional reform [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/europe-heatwave-who-jun28 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/europe-heatwave-who-jun28 Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT WHO counts 150 million people under extreme temperatures; France alone accounts for nearly 1,000 of the excess deaths since June 24 [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/car-cholera-bimbo-mbaiki-jun26 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/car-cholera-bimbo-mbaiki-jun26 Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The health ministry confirmed 197 cases and 24 deaths in the Bimbo and Mbaiki districts southwest of the capital, the country's fifth recorded epidemic [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ebola-cdc-14bn-request-jun25 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ebola-cdc-14bn-request-jun25 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The jump from a $518 million plan to nearly three times that reflects the fastest case-growth rate in Ebola history; Uganda has confirmed 20 cases and France its first on the continent's edge [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/oblenio-bio-series-b-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/oblenio-bio-series-b-2026 Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pfizer Ventures leads with Deep Track, GV and Aditum; the asset LBL-051 comes from Nanjing's Leads Biolabs, another China-discovered drug advanced through a US company [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/biotech-vc-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/biotech-vc-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Global private capital deployed into drug development and health-technology companies, concentrated in the United States and Europe, funding the pipeline from which most new medicines emerge. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/cholera-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/cholera-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A bacterial waterborne disease in a WHO-declared grade-3 global emergency since 2023, killing thousands annually across 60 countries as climate shocks and conflict drive accelerating outbreaks. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/dengue-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/dengue-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A mosquito-borne viral disease endemic in 100+ countries, dengue set a global recorded high of 14.4 million cases in 2024 and is spreading as climate change widens its vector's range. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/h5n1-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/h5n1-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A highly pathogenic influenza A subtype entrenched in US dairy cattle and wild birds globally, with a historic 46% human case fatality rate and sustained pandemic concern. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/france-ebola-first-case-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/france-ebola-first-case-2026 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A French doctor who returned from a humanitarian mission in DR Congo boarded a commercial Kinshasa flight while nearly asymptomatic; WHO says global spread risk remains low but contact tracing is under way [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/europe-heat-deaths-thousand-jun28 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/europe-heat-deaths-thousand-jun28 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Santé publique France puts excess deaths since June 24 near 1,000, with 85% over age 65, as Spain counts 327 and the UK hits 37.3°C in Suffolk [transition] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/bluetongue-europe-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/bluetongue-europe-2026 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ireland's first confirmed case (Wexford, January 2026) and 347 cases in Great Britain since July 2025 mark the second consecutive year of BTV-3 expansion as warmer temperatures extend midge season northward [ongoing] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/h5n1-australia-first-detection https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/h5n1-australia-first-detection Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Western Australia confirmed the continent's first H5N1 wild-bird detection June 20; South Australia followed June 24; seabirds from Heard Island are the suspected vector; no poultry infections yet [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/south-africa-pepfar-phaseout https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/south-africa-pepfar-phaseout Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT State Dept confirmed the phased drawdown on June 19; UNAIDS head Byanyima warns of preventable deaths; Pretoria has not received formal notification and is scrambling to find alternatives [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/h5n1-poultry-dairy https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/h5n1-poultry-dairy Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT More than 500 dairy herds and fresh poultry losses keep egg prices elevated while researchers map new transmission routes [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/sri-lanka-dengue-surge-jun26 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/sri-lanka-dengue-surge-jun26 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 28 deaths and a doubling of cases in early June, blamed on monsoon rains and debris left by Cyclone Ditwah, put 2026 on track to rival the 2019 record [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/australia-h5-bird-flu-first-case-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/australia-h5-bird-flu-first-case-2026 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A sick brown skua near Esperance tests positive on June 20, ending Australia's H5-free status as a second seabird is checked [transition] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/mpox-madagascar-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/mpox-madagascar-2026 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT As of mid-June 2026, Madagascar has reported 689 confirmed clade I mpox cases, the highest national total globally, following the December 2025 detection of clade Ib [ongoing] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/mpox-clade-i-decline-june-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/mpox-clade-i-decline-june-2026 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT As of June 14, 2026, Madagascar reported 689 confirmed clade I mpox cases in the preceding six weeks, more than any other country, while the Democratic Republic of Congo and all other African nations each fell below 100 cases in the same window, continuing a downward trend in Africa-wide clade I transmission that began in May 2025 [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/china-invivo-gene-editing-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/china-invivo-gene-editing-2026 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Huida claims first CRISPR injected into a human brain; YolTech's LNP edit becomes China's first in-vivo gene-editing drug in trials [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/dna-synthesis-screening-letter-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/dna-synthesis-screening-letter-2026 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Altman, Amodei, Hassabis and 60+ others back a law to screen and log nucleic-acid orders as AI tops PhD virologists on lab questions [pending-decision] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/measles-americas-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/measles-americas-2026 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mexico leads with 10,049 cases, followed by Guatemala and the United States, as the Region of the Americas records 21,431 confirmed cases and 31 deaths through late May 2026 [ongoing] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ebola-bundibugyo-drc-pheic-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ebola-bundibugyo-drc-pheic-2026 Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT More than 1,500 people have died from the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola in eastern DRC, per government figures released July 30; the country struggles to halt spread with no approved vaccine for this variant; the outbreak began May 2026, was declared a WHO PHEIC, and a French doctor became the first European case in June after returning from Ituri [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/asf-germany-nrw-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/asf-germany-nrw-2026 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT NRW has recorded 515 infected wild boar and 701 total casualties, while Saxony lost its newly regained disease-free status in April, leaving Germany's western border states under sustained ASF pressure in 2026 [disrupted] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/intellia-lonvo-z-invivo-crispr-bla-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/intellia-lonvo-z-invivo-crispr-bla-2026 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Phase 3 HAELO cut hereditary-angioedema attacks 87%; rolling BLA for lonvo-z opens the path to the first marketed in-body gene edit [pending-decision] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/wheat-rust-yr15-europe-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/wheat-rust-yr15-europe-2026 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A new race of wheat yellow rust, designated 'Champion' by the Global Rust Reference Centre in Denmark, overcame the widely planted Yr15 resistance gene across northern and central Europe in 2025-2026; nearly 50% of England's national wheat area carries Yr15, and similar foci were confirmed in France, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic, prompting AHDB to release emergency revised resistance ratings [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/evo2-generative-genome-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/evo2-generative-genome-2026 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Arc Institute's 40B-parameter DNA foundation model predicts disease mutations and designs bacterial-scale genomes, the design-tool side of the biosecurity debate [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/foot-and-mouth-sat1-europe-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/foot-and-mouth-sat1-europe-2026 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT SAT1, a serotype previously confined to Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, was confirmed in Cyprus in February 2026 and on the Greek island of Lesbos in March 2026, infecting over 4,400 animals across 76 farms [ongoing] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fmd-cyprus-greece-sat1-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fmd-cyprus-greece-sat1-2026 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Outbreaks in cattle and sheep in Cyprus (February) and Greece (March) involve the SAT1 serotype, distinct from the 2025 European strains, raising the risk of a new introduction pathway from Africa via the Eastern Mediterranean [disrupted] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/wheat-rust-pacific-northwest-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/wheat-rust-pacific-northwest-2026 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Washington State University forecasts 40-60% yield losses on susceptible varieties in eastern Washington, Oregon and Idaho as the disease is found across the region at unusually early dates [concluded] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/polio-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/polio-2026 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT WHO's 44th IHR Emergency Committee met on March 4, 2026, confirming that poliovirus remains an international emergency, with six wild poliovirus cases in 2026, cVDPV2 circulating in the Lake Chad Basin and Horn of Africa, and a UK environmental detection [ongoing] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/marburg-ethiopia-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/marburg-ethiopia-2026 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Declared over on January 26, 2026, after two incubation periods with no new cases, the outbreak began in Jinka town in November 2025 and killed all five probable cases alongside nine of fourteen confirmed patients [concluded] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/polio-pakistan-2025 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/polio-pakistan-2025 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pakistan recorded 65 wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in 2024 and more than 30 in the first six months of 2025, with environmental surveillance detecting WPV1 in sewage samples across at least 28 districts; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province accounted for the majority of cases, where access for vaccination teams remained constrained by conflict, with Afghanistan remaining the only other WPV1-endemic country globally [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/desert-locust-east-africa-2024 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/desert-locust-east-africa-2024 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The 2019-2021 desert locust crisis, the worst in 70 years, destroyed crops across East Africa, Yemen, and South Asia; by 2022 the upsurge was officially controlled, but FAO's Desert Locust Watch through 2024-2025 documented continued breeding in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Sudan, localised outbreaks in Eritrea and Djibouti, and a spring 2025 surge in southern Arabia that required emergency aerial spraying across Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Oman; the structural drivers of rapid population growth, La Nina rainfall patterns, and reduced surveillance capacity in conflict zones remain [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/panama-disease-tr4-latin-america https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/panama-disease-tr4-latin-america Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4 (Foc TR4), the soil-borne fungal pathogen that killed the Gros Michel banana variety in the 1950s, was confirmed in Colombia in 2019 and in Peru by 2022, placing it within the major banana export zones of northern South America that supply most of the world's Cavendish banana trade; the FAO-coordinated International Alliance Against Panama Disease estimates Foc TR4 threatens $25 billion annually in global banana trade with no commercially available variety-resistant replacement for the Cavendish [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fall-armyworm-africa-asia https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fall-armyworm-africa-asia Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Spodoptera frugiperda, the fall armyworm native to the Americas, was first detected in Africa in 2016 and had spread to all 54 African countries by 2018; it reached India and South Asia in 2018 and China by 2019; the FAO estimates annual maize and sorghum losses of $9.4 billion across sub-Saharan Africa alone, concentrated among smallholder subsistence farmers without access to pesticide or biological control inputs [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/bluetongue-btv8-europe-2025 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/bluetongue-btv8-europe-2025 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bluetongue virus serotype 8 (BTV-8) re-emerged in France in September 2023 following a 13-year absence and spread to Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands in 2024, while BTV-5 appeared simultaneously in Italy and France; by early 2025 three serotypes were circulating in continental Western Europe, prompting emergency trade restrictions on live cattle and sheep movements from France, Germany, and Belgium [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/marburg-rwanda-2024 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/marburg-rwanda-2024 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rwanda confirmed its first Marburg virus disease outbreak on September 27, 2024, with 66 confirmed cases and 15 deaths by the time WHO declared the outbreak over on December 20, 2024; 80% of cases were healthcare workers at King Faisal Hospital and Rwanda Military Hospital in Kigali, where the index case had worked in an intensive care unit; WHO and Rwanda's rapid containment set a new benchmark for haemorrhagic fever outbreak response in Africa [active]