As negotiations continue on the unfinished WHO Pandemic Agreement, a key architect warns that delays risk derailing the process, while Indonesia's health minister calls for the WHO to seek external financing sources beyond its own budget to support member countries.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's deadliest Ebola outbreak is overwhelming response efforts despite international funding, vaccines, and treatment centers. Health workers are going unpaid, leading to lapses in safety protocols, while community resistance and the outbreak's rapid spread threaten to turn it into a global pandemic.
Australia confirmed a second case of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu in Western Australia, prompting major poultry producer Inghams Group to implement complete lockdown across all its Western Australian farms and processing operations.
