We spent decades teaching people that cancer is mostly bad luck, bad genes, or bad habits. Then you find out 2.3 million cases in a single year were attributable to infections.

A common dolphin at Victor Harbor, South Australia, tested positive for H5 bird flu

Hawaiʻi reports its first H5N1 D1.1 wastewater detection

Negative results

Colorado: flu test positivity reached 6.23%

Yakima County: a second person has bird flu after exposure at a dairy with infected cattle. Hospitalized with severe illness

Two young doctors. Dead from Ebola within two days in eastern DRC. Dr. Safari Samuel died Oct. 29. Dr. Marie-France Shogogo died Oct. 28. One had graduated two years ago. The other, three.

An Ebola treatment centre partly burned before it could even open. Two rooms for suspected cases destroyed in Bafwasende, DRC. Doctors have fled after violence against health workers. The response is being attacked while the outbreak continues.

Hong Kong reports 28 severe pediatric flu cases Including two deaths. Four children remain critical.

Saudi Arabia announces a suspension of travel to and from Kenya over Ebola concerns.

Two suspected Ebola cases identified in northeastern Nigeria. Both isolated. Contact tracing underway.

Another locally acquired dengue case in Manatee County, Florida. The second now confirmed. Local transmission.

Two more commercial poultry premises hit by avian influenza in Alberta. Ponoka and Wetaskiwin counties. Both under quarantine.

2 Polio cases detected in DRC

After November 3, 2026, at 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time, all people boarding an international flight to the United States must attest that they have not been present in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the 21 days before boarding a flight to the United States. An attestation is a statement that confirms that the information provided is true.

DES was prescribed to pregnant women in the US from 1940 to 1971 to prevent miscarriage. Studies in the 1950s had already shown it was ineffective for that purpose. In 1971, a link to clear cell adenocarcinoma led the FDA to advise against pregnancy use. NCI reports about 40 times the risk of this rare vaginal/cervical cancer in exposed daughters. 1 in 1,000 developed it.

ARIZONA 1st case of New World Screwworm detected The confirmed case was found in a dog in Cochise County. A wound on the canine's back, heavily infested with maggots consistent with NWS characteristics.

Raspberry flavor. Poison inside. In 1937, a Tennessee company sold Elixir Sulfanilamide, a liquid sulfa drug intended for children. Its solvent was a highly toxic chemical related to antifreeze. The product had never been safety-tested. More than 100 people died, many of them children. The disaster helped push a stalled bill through Congress. On June 25, 1938, FDR signed the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Vaccine backsliding sends the bill to hospitals. A model projects 4,500 extra GI hospitalizations per US birth cohort by age 2 If 30% of infants shift from fully rotavirus-vaccinated to unvaccinated.

FAA has shut down airspace over the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site “US Government Nuclear Incident.”