Ebola Outbreak in Africa Reaches Widest Expansion Ever

22 October 2026 at 17:41

Health officials are urgently seeking answers about the origins of a case newly identified in Nigeria, the first in that West African nation.

Nizamiye Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria, where the country’s first Ebola patient was admitted this week. An African health official said that if authorities could not come up with ways to stamp out the outbreak, “the whole continent can be affected.”

Delhi’s Winter Season of Polluted Air Begins

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By: Anupreeta Das

21 October 2026 at 18:32

As air quality plummeted in India’s largest city, the government said it would act to curtail the haze that blankets the capital every winter.

The Guardian view on plague in Russia: what is most worrying is the lack of information | Editorial

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By: Editorial

18 October 2026 at 17:30

In the three weeks since a health worker’s death in Siberia, officials have stonewalled the WHO – setting a worrying precedent for future pandemics

Is there a plague outbreak in Russia? If the answer were a clear yes, there shouldn’t be much reason to worry. With swift medical intervention, plague is treatable. But in the nearly three weeks since a worker at a Siberian plague research unit died of a mysterious respiratory illness, state officials have been consistently tight-lipped about what happened and whether there were any further cases.

It is this uncertainty that has the World Health Organization (WHO) and international community worried: partly because there is a – very small – risk of an outbreak, and partly because it is yet another warning that the international coordination we rely on to prevent pandemics is fraying along with the rest of international politics, and could easily fail to protect us in the future.