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CDC’s “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report”: Notes from the Field: Diarrhea and Acute Respiratory Infection, Oral Cholera Vaccination Coverage, and Care-Seeking Behaviors of Rohingya Refugees — Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, October-November 2017 Aimee Summers, epidemiologist at the Division of Global Health at the CDC’s Center for Global Health, and colleagues discuss…

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: White House rescission proposal, House resolution highlight disconnect between federal priorities, global realities Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” discusses “a growing disconnect between shifting federal spending goals and ongoing global realities.” Barton notes a White House proposal to rescind $252 million in emergency…

Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health: Humanitarian Health Digest The Center for Humanitarian Health announces the publication of the inaugural issue of the Humanitarian Health Digest, a quarterly bibliography of published peer-reviewed journal articles on humanitarian health, compiled by the Center for Humanitarian Health and The Lancet. Articles will be…

CDC’s “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report”: Progress Toward Polio Eradication — Worldwide, January 2016-March 2018 Farrah Khan of the Global Immunization Division at the CDC’s Center for Global Health and colleagues discuss global progress toward polio eradication, including routine vaccination coverage, supplementary immunization activities, surveillance, and reported cases (5/11).

HuffPost: Sudden Departure Of White House Global Health Security Head Has Experts Worried “Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, the head of global health security on the White House’s National Security Council, left the Trump administration on Tuesday. The news was announced one day after an Ebola outbreak was declared in the…

The Atlantic: Ebola Returns Just as Trump Asks to Rescind Ebola Funds “…The DRC’s main challenge [in addressing the latest Ebola outbreak] is its lack of resources. … ‘It’ll be the same story in West Africa,” [Emile Okitolonda, who leads the Kinshasa School of Public Health,] lamented, now that the…

Associated Press: Risk of Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak spreading ‘very low’ “The risk of Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak spreading is ‘very low’ because of the remote area, a Congolese disease expert said Wednesday as medical teams arrived on the scene. … ‘The risks of propagation are very low because it…

CNN: The countries where 1 in 5 children are never breastfed “…A new UNICEF report released Wednesday that ranks countries by breastfeeding rates shows that in high-income countries, more than one in five babies is never breastfed, whereas in low- and middle-income countries, one in 25 babies is never breastfed.…

Associated Press: Study finds little bang for the buck in Zika blood testing “Screening blood donations for the Zika virus netted only a few infections at a cost of more than $5 million for each positive test result, according to new research. … The study, published Wednesday by the New…