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It's been two and a half months since the Ebola outbreak in the DRC was declared and it is now the biggest the country has ever experienced and the second largest the world has ever seen. Dozens of cases continue to be reported each day across three separate provinces. 🧪 insp.cd/sitrep-n077-...

Ebola may have been spreading for months in the DRC before anyone recognized it. A new reconstruction suggests the outbreak was already widespread in the gold-mining town of Mongbwalu by January. It wasn’t officially declared until 15 May. Why did no-one raise the alarm? My story for @science.org 🧪

EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detectedA remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report sayswww.science.org

102 new Ebola cases and 45 deaths reported by DRC over past 24 hours. For context: Many Ebola outbreaks in the past have remained small. These numbers mean the DRC has reported more cases overnight than were reported IN TOTAL during each of about two dozen smaller Ebola outbreaks. 🧪

Ebola outbreak in the DRC: 2973 confirmed cases (+68) incl. 1309 deaths (+40) The outbreak has now touched 48 health zones across 5 provinces insp.cd/sitrep-n070-...

About halfway through listening to „Careless People“ and honestly what it reminds me of more than anything is Veep.

Another massive jump in Ebola cases in DRC (reflecting new cases as well as "data harmonization"). Now 2,905 cases including 1,269 deaths. I find it harder every day to square the size and speed of spread of this outbreak with the lack of attention it is getting. insp.cd/sitrep-n069-...

“Seven days after the girl’s medical team infused trillions of viruses carrying the recipe for the base editor into her spinal fluid, she died of a severe immune reaction linked to the therapy…” This, in @science.org, is an important and tragic story. (It’s also an incredibly well reported one.) 🧪

Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made publicParents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation revealswww.science.org

The recorded death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the DRC is about to cross 1,000 cases. In reality there have likely been a lot more deaths already. Many new cases appear to have no link to known cases, suggesting much of the spread is still happening in the dark.

Naturkeimemuseum? 🤓🧪

Yesterday marked two months since the DRC declared the ongoing Ebola outbreak, @drtedros.who.int says in presser. "It's now the third largest Ebola outbreak on record, and in the past months, it has expanded faster than any previous outbreak."

The Ebola outbreak in the DRC keeps growing at a shocking pace. We're already close to 2000 confirmed cases. Right now: 1926 confirmed cases (incl. 53 new cases in the last 24 hours) 702 of these have died insp.cd/sitrep-n058-...

“It’s a really important step,” says Vasee Moorthy, who leads R&D blueprint work at WHO’s Office of the Chief Scientist. “It’s hope for the community.” I wrote about the first ever clinical trial to test drugs against Bundibugyo, that started today. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

First-ever treatment trial for Ebola Bundibugyo kicks off in the CongoScientists will test an antiviral drug and an antibody cocktail designed to tame the burgeoning outbreakwww.science.org

Some more information here on @who.int declaring the end of the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius. One thing worth noting: While most hospitalized patients have recovered, two are still in hospital: one in South Africa and one in France. www.who.int/emergencies/...

Today the last person at risk from the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius completed their quarantine, tested negative, and returned home, @drtedros.who.int said in @who.int presser. "We are therefore very pleased to say that WHO considers the outbreak of hantavirus over.""

Some (much needed) good news: @who.int just announced that the PARTNERS trial in the DRC has launched. They are enrolling patients now to test treatments against Bundibugyo, the virus causing the terrible Ebola outbreak there. 🧪 I wrote about the history and plans a few weeks ago in @science.org:

Can fast, nimble clinical trials deliver a drug for the new Ebola outbreak?Past outbreaks spawned clever strategies for testing antivirals and antibodies, but researchers will still face major challenges on the groundwww.science.org

“It’s just a microscopic water droplet surrounded by a fatty membrane and stuffed with chemicals and snippets of DNA encoding a mere 36 genes. But it’s also arguably the closest researchers have come to building a living cell from scratch.”🧪 My story in @science.org on a fascinating preprint:

Lab-created ‘SpudCell’ marks ‘stunning’ step toward building life from scratchA synthetic cell can now grow and divide—but it’s still far from alivewww.science.org

Amongst all the terrible decisions and trends in the US, the weakening of campaign finance regulations always stands out to me as particularly powerful and pernicious in undermining democracy while also being against broad public opinion. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

Supreme Court Lifts Spending Limits on Political Parties and Candidateswww.nytimes.com

Just finished listening to @doctorow.pluralistic.net’s Enshittification (on my library app). It’s an insightful polemic, it’s fun to listen to him read it and even though I’ve followed some of these debates as a journalist I still learned a lot, incl the terms ‘chickenization’ and ‘reverse centaur’.

It’s always such a thrill when a package arrives with author copies of a new edition of my book on the science of “Blue”. Today the Chinese edition arrived and it’s stunning! 💙💙💙🧪 #booksky

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