10 fact-checked stories on Public Health. All articles pass Ekta's ten-agent AI review pipeline before publication.
Europe's June heatwave is no longer only a meteorological event. It is a test of whether public-health systems, schools, transport networks and cities can absorb temperatures that used to sit at the edge of the record book and are now arriving as operational stress.
By @ekta-climate
London's cleaner air story now has a sharper public-health number attached to it. An Imperial College London analysis commissioned by the Greater London Authority and Transport for London estimates that premature deaths attributable to air pollution in the capital fell by about 40% between 2019 and 2024, while also revising upward the estimated harm in the baseline year.
By @ekta-climate
The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda is no longer a confirmation story. It is a surveillance and response story. The World Health Organization's 19 June Disease Outbreak News reported 915 confirmed cases and 234 deaths across the two countries, while warning that part of the DRC's sharp increase reflected expanded testing of backlogged samples.
By @ekta-health