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☆ A shadow ‘financial crisis’ has cost the world $2 trillion
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-10 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

That’s a lot of damage – but it’s only a small fraction of what climate change has cost people around the world. A new report is flashing a warning signal about climate change and natural disasters, finding that their total economic damage has skyrocketed into the trillions. “Just as the global financial crisis was met with a swift and concerted response from world leaders, we need governments to understand that the economic impact of climate change necessitates a response of similar speed and decisiveness,” said John W.H. Trump has promised to undo climate regulations in the country, including rolling back pollution limits on tailpipes and power plants. Separate data released last week by Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service confirms that the world will likely surpass a grim milestone this year: 2024 is likely to be the hottest year on record.

Persons: Hurricane Helene, Hurricane, ”, John W.H, Denton AO, Donald Trump, Trump, ” Denton, Europe’s Copernicus Organizations: CNN, International Chamber of Commerce, United Nations, ICC Locations: Hurricane, Hurricane Milton, CoreLogic, Azerbaijan, Paris

☆ Why Mpox Vaccines Aren’t Flowing to Africans in Desperate Need
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Stephanie Nolen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

There are no vaccines for mpox available in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of a global health emergency declared last week, even though the country first asked for the shots two years ago and the manufacturers say they have supplies. “The most important thing we need right now are the vaccines,” said Dr. Samuel-Roger Kamba, health minister of Congo. They are trapped in a byzantine drug regulatory process at the World Health Organization. Three years after the last worldwide mpox outbreak, the W.H.O. still has neither officially approved the vaccines — although the United States and Europe have — nor has it issued an emergency use license that would speed access.

Persons: ”, Samuel, Roger Kamba Organizations: Democratic, World Health Organization Locations: Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, United States, Europe

☆ Opinion | Fighting Malaria: The Role of Two Groups
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Lives at Risk” (Science Times, July 23):The New York Times spotlights malaria, which kills nearly half a million African children annually, and the important role malaria vaccines are playing in reducing child deaths. The malaria vaccine pilots, for which the World Health Organization provided scientific and technical leadership, demonstrate the critical role W.H.O. advanced the first malaria vaccine (RTS,S) at the request of member states, even as global health partners focused their attention on other agendas. The pilots provided assurance that the vaccine is safe and highly effective — reducing child deaths by 13 percent. In some areas, combining the vaccine, insecticide-treated nets and chemoprevention can reduce malaria by more than 90 percent.

Persons: doesn’t Organizations: Science Times, New York Times, World Health Organization

☆ Middle East Crisis Netanyahu Under Pressure to Address Cease-Fire Calls in His Speech to Congress
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Ephrat Livni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Children walking near stagnant wastewater on their way to a food distribution point in Deir al Balah, in central Gaza, last week. The large number of people treated for war injuries — almost 90,000, Gaza’s health ministry says — and the surge in illness have overwhelmed Gaza’s diminished medical system. The Israeli military has launched two operations at Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, fighting deadly battles with militants there. Before the war, Gaza’s health care system was “reasonably well functional,” said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, the W.H.O.’s representative to Gaza and the West Bank. Now, fewer than half of its facilities remain even partly operational, he said, and its health care work force is severely depleted.

Persons: Sally Thabet, Deir al, “ Amoon, ”, Israel, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, poliovirus, Dr, Hanan Balkhy, —, Balkhy, Rik Peeperkorn, ’ Organizations: World Health Organization, Hamas, The New York Times, West Bank Locations: Deir al Balah, Gaza, Gaza City, Deir, Kandi, Gaza’s, Al, Israel

☆ Hepatitis A and Other Diseases Surge Among Gaza’s Displaced, U.N. Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Adam Sella | Matthew Mpoke Bigg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But living in a former minimart, sharing a toilet with 20 others and washing dishes with dirty seawater, no amount of hand sanitizer could help. One by one her girls fell sick with what doctors diagnosed as hepatitis A, a viral liver infection that is transmitted through person-to-person contact or contaminated food or water, and can spread quickly in unsanitary conditions. More than 100,000 people in Gaza have contracted acute jaundice syndrome, or suspected hepatitis A, since the war between Hamas and Israel began on Oct. 7, the World Health Organization said last week. There are also nearly one million cases of acute respiratory infections, half a million cases of diarrhea and 100,000 cases of lice and scabies, the W.H.O. On Friday, the agency’s chief, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that even polio, a disease that has been eradicated in much of the world, was present in Gaza.

Persons: Sally Thabet, Deir al, “ Amoon, ”, Israel, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, poliovirus Organizations: World Health Organization Locations: Gaza City, Deir, Deir al Balah, Kandi, Gaza

☆ More Ukrainians May Die in Attacks on Medical Sites in 2024, W.H.O. Data Suggest
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Eve Sampson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital on Monday highlighted the growing number of deadly attacks on medical facilities, vehicles and workers in the country this year. It adds to data from the World Health Organization and suggests that more Ukrainians may be on track to be killed in such attacks this year than last year. The organization also recorded 44 attacks on medical vehicles in that period. In all of 2023, the organization tallied 22 deaths and 117 injuries from 350 such attacks, and 45 more specifically on medical vehicles like ambulances. In all, the bombardment killed at least 38 people, including 27 in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, local officials said.

Organizations: Russian, World Health Organization Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, Ukraine’s

☆ The first vaccine for malaria received major regulatory approval in 2015.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Stephanie Nolen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

The first vaccine for malaria received major regulatory approval in 2015. That means that the next desperately needed vaccine stands every chance of running into those same problems. The people who desperately needed a malaria vaccine were in villages in sub-Saharan Africa. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation put up more than $200 million to test it. “If you go from very enthusiastic to very unenthusiastic and you’re the Gates Foundation, people pay attention.”— Dr. Robert Newman, former director, Global Malaria Program, W.H.O.

Persons: it’s, It’s, We’ll, ”, Joe Cohen, Melinda Gates, Dr, Robert Newman, — Organizations: U.S . Army, GlaxoSmithKline, GSK, PATH, Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates Foundation, Global Malaria Locations: Africa, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Saharan Africa

☆ Anything Can Happen, and Usually Does, on ‘Watch What Happens Live’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Shivani Gonzalez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two miniature horses, Aidan and Pearl, stood on the terrace of a tiny TV studio in SoHo earlier this month on a sweltering evening, one more equine guest than the producers of “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” anticipated. They were part of a bit for taping the late-night talk show’s 15th anniversary special and, apparently, booking a horse requires also booking it an emotional support horse. Andy Cohen, the show’s host and creator, brought his two children Ben, 5, and Lucy, 2, to meet the mini horses as producers whispered questions about the surplus. He soon headed back inside to provide emotional support of a different kind for the show’s humans. Five nights a week, viewers can see Oscar-winners re-enact scenes from “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City”; so-called Bravo-lebrities dish about just-aired dirty laundry; or Cohen and Hillary Clinton drink from a shotski, a ski with shot glasses glued to it that allows multiple people to simultaneously knock one back.

Persons: Aidan, Pearl, Andy Cohen ”, Andy Cohen, Ben, Lucy, Sonja Morgan, ”, Cohen, Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton Organizations: Housewives, New, Real Locations: SoHo, Salt Lake City

☆ Wendy Williams documentary will still air this weekend after legal guardian files lawsuit against Lifetime’s parent company
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Elizabeth | Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“Lifetime appeared in court today, and the documentary ‘Where Is Wendy Williams?’ will air this weekend, as planned,” a spokesperson for the network told CNN Friday. The legal guardian for Williams had filed suit against Lifetime’s parent company A&E Television Networks on Thursday in a New York State court, the source told CNN. The four-part docuseries, “Where is Wendy Williams?” provides a painfully candid depiction of Williams’ life as she struggles with health issues and alcohol abuse. A representative for Williams’ care team declined to comment on the documentary and would not confirm whether the care team is working in connection with the guardianship. Mark Ford, an executive producer on the documentary project, told CNN that nothing was filmed without Williams’ or her manager’s approval.

Persons: Wendy Williams, “, ”, Williams, Sabrina Morrissey, Wendy Williams Hunter, Morrissey, Mark Ford, ” Ford, Ford, Alex Finnie, “ We’ve, ” Finnie, Earl Gibson, Finnie, Wendy Organizations: CNN, E Television Networks, New York State, Lifetime, BET, Producers Locations: New York, Wells

☆ Middle East Crisis W.H.O. Describes Dire Conditions at One of Gaza’s Last Operating Hospitals
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Adam Sella | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Israeli forces raided the grounds of the facility — one of the last and largest hospitals still in operation in Gaza — late Thursday. Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Friday that the electric generators powering the hospital had stopped, and that five patients had died as a result. Before the raid, the Israeli military ordered an evacuation of thousands of displaced people who had taken shelter at the hospital. Israel has repeatedly said that Hamas uses hospitals for military activities, a claim Hamas regularly denies. On Friday, the Israeli military said medication bearing the names of Israeli hostages had been discovered during a search.

Persons: Khan Younis, indescribable ”, Israel, ”, Moshe Tetro, Tetro Organizations: Nasser Medical Center, World Health Organization, Nasser, Health, Ministry, Hamas Locations: Khan Younis, Gaza, Khan, Israel, Qatar

☆ The Measles Outbreak in Europe is a Warning to America - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( David Wallace-Wells | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In 2022, there were 941 reported cases of measles in the World Health Organization’s European region. And it appears even more significant compared to recent years, when efforts to limit Covid also resulted in almost entirely eliminating measles in Europe in 2021. But as the year drew to a close, the European measles outbreak kept growing. Almost certainly, the virologist Rik de Swart of Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam tells me, these official case totals are significant underestimates. The epidemiologist Bill Hanage, also at Harvard, lamented it to me as a “chronicle of an outbreak foretold.”

Persons: Rik de Swart, Michael Mina, Bill Hanage, ” Organizations: Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Harvard Locations: Europe, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Britain, West Midlands, Rotterdam, Harvard

☆ Europe Faces a Measles Outbreak
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Apoorva Mandavilli | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Some cases of measles can be mild, but up to half of infected children may need medical attention, said Dr. David Sugerman, who leads the measles team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Children with measles may develop diarrhea and dehydration, pneumonia that leads to long-term respiratory difficulties, and brain inflammation that results in neurological problems, Dr. Sugerman said. Deaths from measles rose worldwide by 43 percent between 2021 and 2022, according to a report in November from the W.H.O. Measles is among the most contagious infections, and the virus can linger in the air for up to two hours. In the United States, the measles vaccine is given twice, at 12 to 15 months old, and at 4 to 6 years of age.

Persons: David Sugerman, Sugerman Organizations: Centers for Disease Control, Prevention Locations: United States

☆ Stephen Sondheim Doesn’t Want to Be Your Savior - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Ben Brantley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

It should be noted that, when he was alive, Mr. Sondheim was aware of and amused by rampant tendencies to deify him. Consider this sardonic ditty from a show called “Sondheim on Sondheim,” a 2010 Broadway revue commemorating his 80th birthday. He wrote the song in response to a 1994 headline in New York magazine that asked, “Is Stephen Sondheim God?” His musical answer: “You have to have something to believe in. There’s a half-voiced fear among musical acolytes, understandable in a time in which theater itself is newly under siege, that on some level Stephen Sondheim represents the end of the line for a once-flourishing art form. Yet none, with the qualified exception of Mr. Miranda, seem likely to engender the kind of enduring, passionate cult that Mr. Sondheim has inspired.

Persons: Shakespeare, Auden’s, Yeats, Mr, Sondheim, ”, “, Stephen Sondheim God, I, Stephen Sondheim, Lin, Manuel Miranda, Michael John LaChiusa, Adam Guettel, Michael R, Jackson, Jeanine Tesori, Miranda, Sondheim’s Locations: ”, New York, There’s

☆ W.H.O. Says China Has Shared Data Indicating No Novel Pathogen
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Vivian Wang | More About Vivian Wang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The World Health Organization said that China had shared data about a recent surge in respiratory illnesses in children, one day after the agency said it was seeking information about the possibility of undiagnosed pneumonia cases there. The Chinese data indicated “no detection of any unusual or novel pathogens,” according to a W.H.O. statement on Thursday. The data, which included laboratory results from infected children, indicated that the rise in cases was a result of known viruses and bacteria, such as influenza and mycoplasma pneumoniae, a bacterium that causes usually mild illness. Hospital admissions of children had increased since May, as had outpatient visits, but hospitals were able to handle the increase, China told the global health agency.

Organizations: World Health Organization Locations: China

☆ W.H.O. Asks China for Details on Surge of Respiratory Illness in Children
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Vivian Wang | Siyi Zhao | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The World Health Organization has formally requested that China share detailed information about a recent increase in respiratory illnesses, citing unconfirmed media reports of undiagnosed pneumonia in children. China has been reporting a jump in respiratory illnesses for months. Chinese media reports have described long lines at pediatric hospitals, and doctors have said that this year’s wave appeared to be more severe than those of previous years. But some news and social media reports have described crowds of children at hospitals with pneumonia, without specifying the exact cause of illness. requested more information from China.

Organizations: World Health Organization Locations: China

☆ Israel-Hamas War U.N. Says Gaza Hospital Has Become ‘Death Zone’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Vivek Shankar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Nearly four days after the Israeli military stormed the biggest hospital in the Gaza Strip, U.N. workers described the complex as a “death zone” where several patients had died because medical services had been shut down. The W.H.O., a U.N. agency, said that movement came after an evacuation order from the Israeli military. Capturing the hospital — and Gaza City, the largest urban center in Gaza — was a watershed moment for Israel last week. At Al-Shifa Hospital, Israeli troops discovered a shaft on Friday night and were scouring the underground area it led to, Admiral Hagari said. The Israeli military did not immediately confirm the strikes.

Persons: Shifa, Daniel Hagari, Israel, Admiral Hagari, Gazans Organizations: Al, Shifa, World Health Organization, United, Shifa Hospital, United Nations Locations: Gaza, Gaza City, Israel, United States, Al

☆ Israel Will Pause Combat for Hours Each Day, the U.S. Said
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Israel has agreed to put in place regular daily four-hour pauses in its relentless assault on Hamas in northern Gaza to allow civilians to flee, according to the White House. The agreement is the culmination of days of pressure from President Biden as the casualty toll in Gaza mounts. The combat pauses, which will include at least three hours of advance notice, expand on what Israel has been doing in recent days. Its forces have allowed people to evacuate northern Gaza for several hours at a time along a single corridor leading south. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he was worried that each civilian killed in Gaza could generate future members of Hamas.

Persons: Israel, Biden, ” Organizations: Congress, Senior, Joint Chiefs, Staff Locations: Gaza, Israel

Those diagnosed with drug-resistant TB receive medication to take for six months — a far shorter time than previously required. For decades, the standard treatment for drug-resistant TB was to take drugs daily for a year and a half, sometimes two years. Inevitably, many patients stopped taking the medicines before they were cured and ended up with more severe disease. Countries fighting TB are concerned about what may happen if that funding ends. “If our patients had to pay, we would not have one single person taking treatment,” Ms. Yahaya said.

Persons: ” Ms, Yahaya, John Green, Johnson Organizations: Global Fund, AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria, United Nations Locations: Ghana, India

☆ Sigrid Nunez’s Art of Noticing
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Wyatt Mason | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Growing up on Staten Island, Nunez was an outsider to the literary world. Her father immigrated to the United States illegally at some point — facts on his life are scant, according to Nunez — working in a hospital kitchen and Chinese restaurants. Home difficulties aside, Nunez was an avid reader and a strong student, which earned her the scholarship to Barnard. Auden and Susan Sontag (who later hired Nunez as a typist, a period memorialized in Nunez’s one memoir, “Sempre Susan”). Silvers was notorious for yelling at his staff or barely noticing them, for expecting them to stay until all hours, as he would.

Persons: Nunez, Nunez —, ”, Barnard, Virginia Woolf, Nunez’s, “, Hardwick, — Hardwick, Robert Silvers, Barbara, Jason Epstein —, Mary McCarthy, Truman Capote, Edmund Wilson, Saul Bellow, W.H, Auden, Susan Sontag, Susan ”, — Martin Scorsese, ” Nunez, Silvers, Barbara Epstein Organizations: Army, Putnam, The New York, New York City, New York Locations: Staten, United States, Lowell, New York

☆ Who Decides Penn’s Future: Donors or the University?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Stephanie Saul | More About Stephanie Saul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

“The conference became a vehicle.”It is not unusual for donors, unhappy with student activism, to pull back giving. “It’s essential that the university remains independent from donor pressure or influence on the content of work that’s done in the university,” said Ms. Lieberwitz, who is also general counsel for the American Association of University Professors. “Very broadly, I am deeply committed to academic freedom,” Ms. Magill had told The Daily Pennsylvanian, the campus newspaper. Alumni Donors Push BackOne day after the Indigenous Peoples’ Day post, Ms. Magill issued her first statement condemning the Hamas assault. Some Wharton alumni had been unhappy with the university’s direction for a long time.

Persons: —, Lauder, Jon Huntsman, Dick Wolf —, Rowan, ”, Robert Vitalis, “, George W, Bush, Penn, Risa L, Lieberwitz, Magill, Ms, Amy Wax, Penn Hillel, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Israel, Roger Waters, Susan Albuhawa, Critics, ” Mr, Wharton, Jonathan S, Jacobson, Lia Thomas, Erika James, Ross Stevens, University of Chicago’s Booth, Stevens, Booth Organizations: “, East Center, University of Texas, Austin, University of Denver, Palestinian, U.N, Cornell, American Association of University, Edge, University of Virginia, Daily, university’s College of Arts and Sciences, Penn, Pink Floyd, Indigenous Peoples, Wharton, HighSage Ventures, Management, University of Chicago’s Locations: Utah, Penn, Israel, Yom Kippur, Nazi, Berlin

delivery kits include instructions on reducing the risk of infection for pregnant women who may have to deliver their own babies in a crisis. And as their deliveries approach, many of the pregnant women “don’t know where they’re going to be in the next minute or the next day,” Mr. Allen said. The group said in a statement that women in Gaza have been losing their pregnancies from the stress and shock of the war. Itimad Abu Ward, a midwife and nurse who works as a public health officer for the W.H.O., was among those forced to flee northern Gaza. She said trying to care for pregnant women during the chaotic journey south was near impossible.

Persons: Israel, Dominic Allen, “, ” Mr, Allen, Itimad Abu Ward, Khan Younis, Abu Ward, Khan, ” Organizations: United Nations, United Nations Population Fund, Planning, Protection Association, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Nasser Hospital, Times, Training Center, Medicines Locations: Gaza, Egypt, Israel, Jabaliya

A nurse fills a syringe with malaria vaccine before administering it to an infant at the Lumumba Sub-County hospital in Kisumu, Kenya, July 1, 2022. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File photo Acquire Licensing RightsGENEVA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended on Monday the use of a second malaria vaccine to curb the life-threatening disease spread to humans by some mosquitoes. recommended the broad use of the world's first malaria vaccine called RTS,S," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing in Geneva. "Today, it gives me great pleasure to announce that WHO is recommending a second vaccine called R21/Matrix-M to prevent malaria in children at risk of the disease." "GSK has always recognised the need for a second malaria vaccine, but it is increasingly evident that RTS,S, the first ever malaria vaccine and the first ever vaccine against a human parasite, set a strong benchmark," GSK said in a statement.

Persons: Baz Ratner, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Tedros, Poonawalla, Takeda, Hanna Nohynek, Gabrielle Tétrault, Farber, Leroy Leo, Gareth Jones, Mark Potter Organizations: Lumumba, REUTERS, Rights, World Health Organization, WHO, Britain's University of Oxford, UNICEF, Serum Institute of India, Reuters, GSK plc, United Nations, GSK, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Thomson Locations: Kisumu, Kenya, Geneva, Ghana, Malawi, Bengaluru

☆ Global Regulation of Essential Medicines Is a Dangerous Mess - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Vidya Krishnan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

has not released more recent numbers, and there is limited data on exactly how much of this comes from India. The global drug supply system is a vast and complex network. As of 2021, India manufactured 62 percent of the raw materials for drugs, known as active pharmaceutical ingredients. in 2001 set up a groundbreaking program to monitor safety and quality, called the Prequalification of Medicines Program or P.Q.P., which set global standards for H.I.V. The program is one of those unsung policies that keep the global health structure ticking.

Persons: —, Cipla Organizations: World Health Organization, Medicines Program Locations: India, China, United States, Europe, Sri Lanka, Gambia, Africa —, Saharan Africa, Indian

☆ What Do Fashion and a United Nations Hunger Program Have in Common?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Ruth La Ferla | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In video from the visit, Ms. Berry looked on as tidy rows of children filed into their village school, where they would be provided their single balanced meal of the day. The prospect of a hearty lunch encouraged their parents to send them to school, Ms. Berry said in the footage, even those parents who may have been reluctant. She was acting as an emissary for Watch Hunger Stop, an initiative organized by the designer Michael Kors in partnership with the United Nations World Food Program, to provide meals to schools in developing regions around the world. She and Ms. Berry have since appeared in online campaign imagery, on television, and in promotional videos for the program, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this month. Donations are solicited in stores and through a link on the Michael Kors website.

Persons: Halle Berry, Jinotega, Berry, Michael Kors, Kate Hudson, ” Mr, Kors Organizations: United Nations, Food, “ Locations: Nicaragua, Cambodia

☆ Opinion | We Have Unfinished Business With These Three Killer Diseases
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Richard Conniff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

As with so many infectious diseases, lack of determination is the real stumbling block. The United States and other donor nations could argue that we already do more than our share, contributing billions annually to the fight against TB and other infectious diseases. The realities of modern travel mean that none of us is protected from a TB resurgence until we have protected people everywhere. That ought to serve as a reminder that an estimated 247 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide in 2021, and 619,000 people died. They have eliminated wild poliovirus from major cities and Taliban-dominated regions where it was still circulating just a few years ago.

Persons: specter Organizations: Centers for Disease Control, World Health Organization, Malawi — Locations: United States, Great, Texas, Florida, Saharan Africa, South Asia, El Salvador, China, Africa — Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, Afghanistan

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