Friday, Oct 23

Health Digest

1. First Ebola patients in Kenya and Nigeria may have crossed paths at Uganda airport public-health Africa CDC is investigating whether the first confirmed Ebola patients in Kenya and Nigeria met at Uganda's Entebbe airport on Oct. 3, as the outbreak that began in Congo spreads.
2. US measles cases reach 4,588 this year, up 178 in a week public-health CDC data show 4,588 confirmed US measles cases as of Oct. 22, with 479 hospitalizations and 43 new outbreaks reported in 2026.
3. Moderna-Merck personalized melanoma vaccine cuts recurrence risk 42% in Phase 3 trial science Full INTerpath-001 results show intismeran plus Keytruda lowered the risk of melanoma returning or death by 42% versus Keytruda alone after about two years.
4. Study estimates summer heat killed more than 50,000 in Europe's cities science Researchers estimate 50,391 heat-related deaths in 854 European cities from June to August 2026, about two-thirds of them linked to human-caused climate change.
5. France reports first known human case of livestock Shamonda virus public-health French officials said a severely immunocompromised patient who died in early October had the first documented human Shamonda infection, and said there is no current risk to the public.