As Ebola kills thousands in DRC, a perfect storm is making the virus hard to stop | Devi Sridhar
New species and regional instability are factors – but decisions made in the US and Britain are also costing lives, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
"And there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places."
Global activity summary (24h)
In the last 24 hours, 13 seismic events have been recorded, including a magnitude 6.0 earthquake north of Caluula, Somalia, and another of magnitude 4.9 near Houma, Tonga. Additionally, there have been 72 disaster-related events, notably multiple forest fires in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, and Namibia, which have been active since mid-August. In the realm of conflicts, 4 events have been documented, although details have not been specified. The passages in Matthew 24 and Luke 21 invite the reader to discern.
Last 24 hours — Epidemic
No other epidemic events recorded in the last 24 hours.