U.S. & WORLD / CATEGORY
Health
Current developments, their context, and questions still open.
World
Congo’s Ebola deaths pass 5,000, with no vaccine for this strain and 80% of new cases untraced
It is already the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak on record and has reached Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria.
World
Funding pressures force reductions in Gaza food assistance
Monthly food-aid coverage would fall from about 1.6 million people to 1.1 million, a reduction of roughly 31%.