# global health (blogs) — RSS Amplifier

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## [After 100 days of the deadliest Ebola outbreak, it can be stopped. Here’s how | Jean Kaseya and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/24/ebola-100-days-deadliest-outbreak-disease-communities-who)

_2026-08-24 · Jean Kaseya and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus · Global development | The Guardian_

Ebola is a disease that spreads through communities, so we need to listen to communities if we want to halt its spread Each time we travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), we go first to listen. In Bunia, we have met dozens of community representatives: survivors, women, young people, local organisations, health workers and leaders from affected areas. Their message was direct:…

## [Children make up half of suspected mpox cases in Guinea-Bissau as epidemic spreads](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/24/children-half-mpox-disease-cases-guinea-bissau-epidemic-spreads-west-africa)

_2026-08-24 · Eromo Egbejule in Cotonou · Global development | The Guardian_

West African country reports 46 suspected cases in outbreak declared in July, amid fears virus may be spreading undetected More than half of the mpox cases reported in Guinea-Bissau have been among children, local authorities have said, almost two months since the country announced an epidemic. A national outbreak was declared on 4 July, just over a week after a 27-year-old woman became the first…

## [No fridge, no fans, just blocks of ice: improvising to survive in Pakistan’s searing heat](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/24/pakistan-extreme-heat-50c-ice-blocks-nasirabad)

_2026-08-24 · Hazaran Rahim Dad and Changeez Nazir in Nasirabad, Pakistan · Global development | The Guardian_

With limited electricity and poor ventilation, many families in Nasirabad have little to shield them from temperatures of up to 50C As the first light reaches Nasirabad, a queue of men, women and children has already formed outside the town’s ice factory, with their buckets, sacks and plastic containers. Among those hoping to buy some ice to help their families endure another scorching day is…

## [Ebola outbreak: five big questions](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/21/ebola-outbreak-five-big-questions)

_2026-08-21 · Kat Lay, Global health correspondent · Global development | The Guardian_

On 23 August, it will be 100 days since the Bundibugyo strain was first reported. How did it became the DRC’s most deadly outbreak and what must be done to stop it becoming the world’s largest? Almost 100 days ago, Africa’s public health watchdog reported an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There have now been almost 5,000 cases and more than 2,000 deaths since 15 May,…

## [The Taliban have built a system for enslaving women in Afghanistan | Tala Elissa](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/21/taliban-built-system-enslaving-women-afghanistan)

_2026-08-21 · Amanda Abou Abdallah · Global development | The Guardian_

Five years on, the regime’s chokehold has left Afghan women with almost nothing, but many are still bravely fighting for their freedom The Taliban did not just ban women from schools, impose the burqa and outlaw smartphones. The Taliban built a system that enslaves nearly half the country’s population, or according to outdated statistics: 21,701,532 women and girls. In general, the Taliban’s…

## [Notes from the Field: Dengue Outbreak - Naoero, 2025](https://tools.cdc.gov/api/embed/downloader/download.asp?m=132599&c=766288)

_2026-08-20 · MMWR (Journal)_

This report describes dengue cases reported in Naoero during 2025.

## [Monkeypox Virus Surveillance - United States, 2024-2025](https://tools.cdc.gov/api/embed/downloader/download.asp?m=132599&c=766286)

_2026-08-20 · MMWR (Journal)_

This report describes cases of monkeypox virus infection reported during 2024-2025.

## [Former US health official pleads guilty to hiding COVID records](https://www.medicalnews.pk/19-Aug-2026/former-us-health-official-david-morens-pleads-guilty-hiding-covid-records)

_2026-08-19 · Reuters · Medical News Pakistan - World_

GREENBELT, Maryland: A former senior US health official who worked as an adviser to Dr.

## [‘We now live without this violence’: the Colombian farmers giving up coca for palm oil](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/19/colombia-farmers-coca-palm)

_2026-08-19 · Suzanne Bearne in Caño Barbú, Colombia · Global development | The Guardian_

Subsidies and a crackdown on armed groups are helping smallholders rebuild their lives, leaving behind decades of conflict and fear Surrounded by towering oil palm trees on his farm in the small village of Caño Barbú, near San Pablo in northern Colombia , Yoger Payares uses a malayo – a pole-mounted iron tool with a hook – to hack at the fronds of one, freeing a bunch of its vibrant reddish-orange…

## [A Pastoral Letter for Colombia from Bishop Ruben Saenz, Jr.](https://umcmission.org/news-statements/a-pastoral-letter-for-colombia-from-bishop-ruben-saenz-jr)

_2026-08-18 · ynjoroge@umcmission.org · Global Ministries_

Global Ministries and UMCOR affirm Bishop Saenz's call to respond to the needs of Colombians impacted by an earthquake on Aug. 10. The post A Pastoral Letter for Colombia from Bishop Ruben Saenz, Jr. appeared first on Global Ministries .

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_2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_

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## [GH Book Club #5: Planet on Fire](https://reimaginingglobalhealth.substack.com/p/gh-book-club-5-planet-on-fire)

_2026-08-18 · With & For · mike’s Substack_

Global health cannot survive climate denialism

## [Samira’s story: the Sudanese refugee who has known no peace since she was 10](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/18/sudanese-refugee-samira-war-injury)

_2026-08-18 · Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Korsi refugee camp, Central African Republic · Global development | The Guardian_

Since civil war first reached her village in 2003, Samira has been displaced seven times, enduring devastating losses and injuries along the way Every morning, she spreads small piles of rice and spices on an aluminium tray in the market of Korsi refugee camp. Some of it comes from her monthly food ration, already meagre, distributed by the UN’s World Food Programme; some she buys when she can and…

## [What Global Health Chooses to Cool](https://habibbenzian.substack.com/p/what-global-health-chooses-to-cool)

_2026-08-18 · Habib Benzian · The Global Health Paradox_

Cold chains, exposed bodies and the politics of temperature

## [Iraq’s ghost villages: Islamic State drove people away – now a new enemy is preventing their return](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/18/northern-iraq-villages-islamic-state-climate-crisis)

_2026-08-18 · Chris Huby, in Sinjar · Global development | The Guardian_

Nearly a decade after fighting ended in northern Iraq, the climate crisis has brought extreme heat and a water shortage, making life almost impossible The first thing that strikes visitors arriving in Faka, a small village in Sinjar district, northern Iraq, is the silence. No children play in the streets. No shops are open. Roofless houses stretch across the hillside, their walls pockmarked by…

## [Tracking an International Hantavirus Outbreak Through Open Data](https://globaldothealth.substack.com/p/tracking-an-international-hantavirus)

_2026-08-17 · globaldothealth · On the Dot: The Global.health Newsletter_

The Virus Behind the Outbreak

## [Coping with 54C heat: Delhi slum diaries detail living in extreme temperatures](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/17/india-disasters-heatwaves-slum-diaries-delhi-vulnerable-temperatures)

_2026-08-17 · Suchitra in Delhi · Global development | The Guardian_

With heatwaves now recognised as disasters, personal testimonies are key to a new project that looks to protect those living in the most cramped districts of India’s capital Every summer evening, Gulshan follows the same routine. She washes the floor of her one-room home several times so it cools a little for her four children to sleep on. Last summer, the family saved enough to buy a desert…

## [Five years into Taliban rule, Afghanistan plunges into a state of collapse – visualised](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/15/five-years-taliban-rule-afghanistan-collapse-visualised)

_2026-08-15 · Harriet Barber, Zuhal Azad and Tamanna Taban; graphics by Ana Lucía González Paz · Global development | The Guardian_

The stark figures show that since the hardliners seized power in 2021, women have been erased from public life, poverty is forcing hopeless families to marry off their daughters and healthcare is on the brink of failure ‘I married off my daughter so that none of us would die of hunger.” Malika hesitated before saying the words aloud. The 46-year-old lives with her husband and four youngest…

## [Parallel Systems, CDC Office Closures, and New Offers to Fund Work Others Are Already Doing](https://emilysbass.substack.com/p/parallel-systems-cdc-office-closures)

_2026-08-14 · Emily Bass · To End a Plague ... Again_

A three-for-one, pre-hiatus Substack on State Department shenanigans

## [Keeping the Doors Open: A Resilience Initiative for Churches Serving Their Communities](https://umcmission.org/story/keeping-the-doors-open-a-resilience-initiative-for-churches-serving-their-communities)

_2026-08-14 · ynjoroge@umcmission.org · Global Ministries_

Introducing a new UMC Solar and Battery Pilot Program providing guidance and grants for a limited number of U.S.-based United Methodist churches. The post Keeping the Doors Open: A Resilience Initiative for Churches Serving Their Communities appeared first on Global Ministries .

## [‘What’s happened to us? Where did we get lost?’ Zimbabwe reckons with the reality of violence against women](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/14/whats-happened-to-us-where-did-we-get-lost-zimbabwe-reckons-with-the-reality-of-violence-against-women)

_2026-08-14 · Tendai Marima in Bulawayo · Global development | The Guardian_

The deaths of a Bulawayo mother and her daughters spark calls for an urgent action on gender-based violence The three white coffins were draped in white lace and topped with small sprays of flowers. The mourners who filled a Bulawayo church last week to pay their respects to Zandile Tshuma and her daughters, Natalie, 15, and Nala, five, had not engaged in the usual tradition of first viewing the…

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_2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_

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## [‘We feared we’d all be drowned’: the Indian floods that killed more than 100 and left thousands homeless](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/14/india-assam-climate-disaster-floods-brahmaputra-homeless-deaths)

_2026-08-14 · Maitreyee Boruah in Guwahati, Assam · Global development | The Guardian_

More than 2,600 villages have been flooded in Assam this year, in a climate disaster made worse by uncontrolled deforestation and mining in the region It was a normal July morning in the Indian state of Assam. After finishing her chores and eating breakfast, Gitali Phukon, a resident of the town of Gaurisagar, left her home to buy groceries. After two days of rainfall that had made the unpaved…

## [Southward Expansion of Ixodes scapularis (Blacklegged) Tick Pathogens - Western North Carolina, November 2024-August 2025](https://tools.cdc.gov/api/embed/downloader/download.asp?m=132599&c=766233)

_2026-08-13 · MMWR (Journal)_

This report describes identification of blacklegged ticks during community-based tick surveillance at a residential property in North Carolina.

## [Notes from the Field: Potential Infant HIV Exposure from Donated Breast Milk Received Through Social Media - Santa Clara County, California, May 2025-January 2026](https://tools.cdc.gov/api/embed/downloader/download.asp?m=132599&c=766234)

_2026-08-13 · MMWR (Journal)_

This report describes a possible HIV exposure from donated breast milk received through social media.

## [‘Everyone is scared’: flood-hit Porto Alegre braces for another El Niño](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/13/porto-alegre-brazil-2024-floods-el-nino-climate-crisis-injustice)

_2026-08-13 · Alass Derivas and Sara Van Horn in Porto Alegre, Brazil · Global development | The Guardian_

Two years after southern Brazil’s worst climate disaster ravaged the city, and with poor areas still recovering, many fear official neglect has left them exposed once again In the backstreets of Porto Alegre, a state capital in southern Brazil , you can still see signs of the devastating flood that swept through the city two years ago: scattered debris, waterlogged homes and destroyed businesses.…

## [Halting the march of the African armyworm: a natural cure offers hope to farmers](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/12/african-armyworm-crop-pest-discovery-fungus-science-hope-farmers)

_2026-08-12 · Kaamil Ahmed · Global development | The Guardian_

South African scientist’s breakthrough research shows soil fungus could be used in fight against devastating crop pest Hearing about fields full of dead caterpillars enveloped in a mysterious white substance intrigued the South African scientist Letodi Luki Mathulwe. Something was killing off the African armyworm – one of the most devastating pests for farmers in east and southern Africa. The…

## [Drowned the day her visa came through: the tragedy of a Moroccan footballer trying to reach Ceuta](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/12/drowned-the-day-her-visa-came-through-the-tragedy-of-a-moroccan-footballer-trying-to-reach-ceuta)

_2026-08-12 · Soraya Aybar Laafou in Tétouan, Morocco · Global development | The Guardian_

Struggling on her meagre pay, Faten Ben Omar El Azizi dreamed of reaching Europe. Then she joined thousands trying to reach a better life in Spain Football was the life Faten Ben Omar El Azizi had wanted. She had long played in Morocco’s regional league for Moghreb Atlético Tetuán, whose striking kit replicates the colours of the famous Spanish club Atlético Madrid. And in the cruellest of…

## [Trump executive order targets childhood vaccine cuts despite warnings from experts](https://www.medicalnews.pk/11-Aug-2026/trump-executive-order-childhood-vaccine-cuts-experts)

_2026-08-11 · Reuters · Medical News Pakistan - World_

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting major changes to the country's childhood vaccination recommendations, including a narrower list of routinely recommended vaccines and greater spacing between childhood shots, despite warnings from paediatricians and public-health experts.

## [Let’s Take a Walk](https://habibbenzian.substack.com/p/lets-take-a-walk)

_2026-08-11 · Habib Benzian · The Global Health Paradox_

On streets, systems, and the quiet normalisation of inequality

## [‘The payment is small and the paths are steep’: the women saving India’s remotest people from polio](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/11/health-disease-polio-vaccination-india-immunisation-women-remote-children-kashmir)

_2026-08-11 · Kamran Yousuf in Pulwama, Kashmir · Global development | The Guardian_

Shameema and Tanzeela trek for miles in summer heat to vaccinate children in Kashmir’s highlands as part of a vast national programme Before sunrise, Shameema slips on her worn rubber sandals and checks the insulated box – the ice packs inside must maintain the crucial cold chain at between 2C and 8C (35.6-46.4F). She hoists the container on one shoulder and steps out into the dark. Tanzeela…

## [Why Is Implementation Science So Damn Slow?](https://reimaginingglobalhealth.substack.com/p/why-is-implementation-science-so)

_2026-08-11 · With & For · mike’s Substack_

HIV programs need evidence now. Academic incentives are optimized for publishing papers long after they are relevant

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_2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_

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## [‘We are still here’: a day in the life of 12 Afghan women](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2026/aug/11/day-in-the-life-of-12-afghanistan-women-taliban)

_2026-08-11 · Guardian Staff · Global development | The Guardian_

In the five years since the Taliban’s return to power, the walls have been closing in on the women and girls of Afghanistan. As the regime has tightened its grip, it has banned girls from education after the age of 12, ejected many women from the workplace and created legal frameworks for child marriage and husbands beating their wives. Taliban rule has ushered in a new era of women being whipped…

## [‘Reaching 50 is a success story’: how one trans woman survived HIV and stigma in Latin America](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/10/hiv-aids-trans-activists-fear-rolling-back-progress)

_2026-08-10 · John Musenze in Rio de Janeiro · Global development | The Guardian_

Erika Castellanos has beaten the life expectancy of 35 for a transgender woman in the region, but warns aid cuts and a rollback in human rights risk reversing efforts to end Aids Erika Castellanos has outlived what she describes as one of the cruellest statistics in Latin America. The life expectancy of a transgender woman in the region is estimated to be 35 years. “I am 50 years old. A lot of…

## [Cockroach protests: parents of Indian students who took their own lives reveal pressure of leaked exam papers and resits](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/09/cockroach-protests-parents-of-indian-students-who-took-their-own-lives-reveal-pressure-of-leaked-exam-papers-and-resits)

_2026-08-09 · Cheena Kapoor · Global development | The Guardian_

The number of student suicides in the country has risen steeply in the past 10 years and many families blame education system mismanagement as a contributing factor When the Indian government announced the resignation of its education minister in late July after weeks of protest, there were widespread celebrations. Students from across the country had joined the mass demonstrations led by the…

## [Thanks for One Whole Year of To End a Plague: Again](https://emilysbass.substack.com/p/thanks-for-one-whole-year-of-to-end)

_2026-08-08 · Emily Bass · To End a Plague ... Again_

And a NEW PLAYLIST to get us started on the next one!

## [US State Dept Causes Closure of CDC Zimbabwe](https://emilysbass.substack.com/p/us-state-dept-causes-closure-of-cdc)

_2026-08-07 · Emily Bass · To End a Plague ... Again_

And we're all a little less safe because of it.

## [‘Her face was beaten in’: how Taliban rule ushered in a new era of women being killed](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/07/afghanistan-women-taliban-violence-battered-beaten)

_2026-08-07 · Khadija Haidary, Zahra Nader, Hura Omar\* & Atousa Azar\* for Zan Times · Global development | The Guardian_

An investigation into 231 femicide cases highlights the dire situation in Afghanistan, where men are empowered to murder and face no punishment while their crimes are covered up by the state In a voice message recorded weeks before she died, Liza Shams, 33, asks a relative to pray for her. “There’s no end to my days of misfortune,” she says. “Pray that God shames Hasib \[her husband, Hasibullah…

## [Church Installs Rainwater Tanks in Isolated Congolese Village](https://umcmission.org/um-news/church-installs-rainwater-tanks-in-isolated-congolese-village)

_2026-08-06 · ynjoroge@umcmission.org · Global Ministries_

KIBUMBA, North Kivu, DRC – A rainwater collection project installed by the Eastern Congo Disaster Management Office, in coordination with Global Ministries’ Global Health team, supplies water to an area that has no other water source. The activities were part of an integrated relief program for Eastern Congo funded by UMCOR last year, designed to combine \[…\] The post Church Installs Rainwater…

## [Trends in Emergency Department Visits Involving Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome Identified Using a New Diagnosis Code - United States, January 2023-May 2026](https://tools.cdc.gov/api/embed/downloader/download.asp?m=132599&c=766169)

_2026-08-06 · MMWR (Journal)_

This report describes emergency department visits involving cannabis hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) after implementing a CHS diagnosis code.

## [Poisoning Deaths in a Workshop for Ceremonial Papermaking - China, May 2025](https://tools.cdc.gov/api/embed/downloader/download.asp?m=132599&c=766168)

_2026-08-06 · MMWR (Journal)_

This report describes four poisoning deaths at an unlicensed ceremonial papermaking workshop in China.

## [Ebola virus behind massive outbreak in DRC could be mutating, officials say](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/06/ebola-virus-drc-mutating)

_2026-08-06 · Kat Lay Global health correspondent · Global development | The Guardian_

Cases have passed 4,000 and health watchdog plans to go door to door to find patients in major response escalation The virus causing a massive outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could be mutating, health officials fear, as confirmed cases pass 4,000. Africa’s public health watchdog said the time for incremental action was over as they announced plans to scale up every aspect…

## [Sports Open the Door: Lessons from FIFA, the WNBA, and Africa&#8217;s Futuremakers](https://www.one.org/us/stories/sports-open-the-door/)

_2026-08-06 · skylarhales · ONE.org US_

The world’s biggest conversations don’t always begin in boardrooms or the halls of Congress. Sometimes they begin on a basketball court, in a locker room, on a soccer field, or through the voice of an athlete whose story reaches millions of people. That is why it is not surprising to me as a former college athlete that 94% of C-suite women played sports \[…\] The post Sports Open the Door: Lessons…

## [‘They were told bikes were for men’: how Latin America’s city of cycling is breaking gender barriers](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/06/bikes-city-of-cycling-gender-barriers-colombias-capital-bogota-emissions)

_2026-08-06 · Christina Noriega in Bogotá · Global development | The Guardian_

With less than a third of cycling journeys taken by women, Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, is installing bike lanes, teaching cycling and making sure ‘stereotypes are left behind’ Eliana González has a busy morning ahead of her, dropping off her son at school and picking up groceries. Her trusted vehicle to get around in Bogotá is a colourful cargo bike, adapted to carry her two children and…

## [‘I want the world to know my sister’s name’: friends and families of 17 aid workers killed in 2006 Muttur massacre demand justice](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/06/i-want-the-world-to-know-my-sisters-name-friends-and-families-of-17-aid-workers-killed-in-2006-muttur-massacre-demand-justice)

_2026-08-06 · Kat Lay, Global health correspondent, and KA Shaji · Global development | The Guardian_

Twenty years on, no one has been held accountable for the brutal killings of young Tamils working for a French NGO in Sri Lanka By the time their colleagues were able to reach them, their bodies had been lying in the dirt for around two days and were starting to decompose in the heat. On 6 August 2006, 17 Sri Lankan workers for the international NGO Action Against Hunger were found dead in the…

## [Peruvian cardinal hails $150m lead poisoning settlement for 1,300 people as a ‘historic milestone’](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/05/peruvian-cardinal-historic-milestone-150m-lead-poisoning-settlement-1300-children)

_2026-08-05 · Dan Collyns in Lima · Global development | The Guardian_

Cardinal Pedro Barreto received death threats and harassment during his almost 20-year campaign against a US mining company’s operations in the Andes A Peruvian cardinal who received a barrage of death threats when he challenged the firm behind a toxic smelter has called a $150m (£111m) out-of-court settlement to more than 1,000 people who were allegedly poisoned by the plant as children “a…

## [GH Book Club #5: Financing & Post-Aid Era](https://reimaginingglobalhealth.substack.com/p/gh-book-club-5-financing-and-post)

_2026-08-05 · With & For · mike’s Substack_

(and congratulations Ben Plumley!)

## [Measuring Counterfactual Impact in Effective Giving](https://rpresearchdigest.substack.com/p/measuring-counterfactual-impact-in)

_2026-08-04 · Rethink Priorities · RP Research Digest_

Join us for the next RP Strategic talk and Q&A session!

## [We travel. But do we unpack?](https://habibbenzian.substack.com/p/we-travel-but-do-we-unpack)

_2026-08-04 · Habib Benzian · The Global Health Paradox_

Dépaysement, mobility, and the practice of global health

## [A small and slightly surreal milestone.](https://reimaginingglobalhealth.substack.com/p/a-small-and-slightly-surreal-milestone)

_2026-08-04 · With & For · mike’s Substack_

And a note on Elsevier’s ridiculous pricing

## [‘Danger no longer only comes from the hitmen, but from the state’: the Honduran farmers labelled terrorists for protecting their land](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/03/danger-no-longer-only-comes-from-the-hitmen-but-from-the-state-the-honduran-farmers-labelled-terrorists-for-protecting-their-land)

_2026-08-03 · Cassandra van Douveren in Rigores, Honduras. Photographs by Fritz Pinnow · Global development | The Guardian_

After another massacre of smallholders – who are subjected to violence from palm oil firms and drug traffickers – the country’s new Trump-backed government has criminalised community leaders Sitting on the back of the motorcycle, 15-year-old Orlean\* heard gunshots. A moment later, the bike crashed. His uncle and two cousins fell to the ground dead. Orlean fled into the dense green forest of the…

## [Three mistakes that matter more than the State Department's messed-up Africa map.](https://emilysbass.substack.com/p/three-mistakes-that-matter-more-than)

_2026-08-01 · Emily Bass · To End a Plague ... Again_

And the 2026 To End a Plague: Again Award for Handsomest Man in the World.

