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Residents of Nigeria's capital Abuja express concern over the Ebola outbreak and potential lockdown measures.

A laboratory worker at Russia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died of severe pneumonia of unknown cause, followed by reports of a second employee's death, and the World Health Organization has requested that Moscow provide more information.

A 28-year-old female lab technician at a plague research institute in the Russian Far East died several days after the onset of symptoms from pneumonic plague, raising concerns about laboratory safety and the spread of the virus.

India approves its first dengue vaccine, bringing hope in the fight against a severe epidemic; over the past five years India has reported more than 1 million dengue cases, and the actual figure may be far higher.

Fauci's assistant Morris has officially pleaded guilty, admitting to conspiracy to commit crimes and defraud the United States, colluding with Daszak and others to evade the Freedom of Information Act and suppress the truth about the lab origin, becoming a major breakthrough in tracing the origins of the virus.

Shortly after Fauci's aide Morris pleaded guilty, WHO Assistant Director-General Jeremy Farrar, who had represented Fauci in communications with the CCP and made every effort to cover up the origin of the virus, suddenly announced his resignation and went into hiding.

On August 18, 2026, NTD reported that a Hebei Health Commission staff member said the 522,000 new confirmed cases in July released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention only reflect medical consultation data, and that the real number of infections is higher, with hospital beds in tight supply and long queues for cremation in many places; the claim has not been officially confirmed.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is spreading at an unprecedented rate; government data shows 3,874 confirmed cases and 1,751 deaths.

On August 2, 2026, medical staff from multiple public hospitals in Fujian reported on social media platforms that local health authorities were demanding the return of temporary epidemic-prevention subsidies and allowances legally disbursed during the pandemic, sparking dissatisfaction among grassroots workers in the medical system.

China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention released monitoring data showing that the positivity rate of COVID-19 tests rose from July 20 to July 26, up 4 percentage points compared with the previous week, with the dominant strain being NB.1.8.1.

On July 30, 2026, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention released surveillance data showing that the positivity rate for COVID-19 among influenza-like cases in outpatient and emergency departments of sentinel hospitals nationwide climbed to 20.3%, with fever clinic patients increasing significantly in Guangdong, Henan and many other places.

After the EcoHealth Alliance announced its impending closure following the anti-science investigation controversy, Peter Daszak announced the establishment of a new non-profit organization, Nature Health Global, to continue operations.

Bai Yansong interviewed Liang Wannian on the program News 1+1, raising nine questions about the economic cost and necessity of the dynamic zero-COVID policy; the program only arranged for Liang Wannian alone to answer and reiterated the policy's rationality.

In 2015, Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology took part in a study that synthesized a chimeric SARS-like coronavirus to understand its ability to infect humans; the hybrid virus described in the paper carried the spike protein of a Chinese horseshoe bat coronavirus.

In 2004, a SARS virus leak occurred at a laboratory in Beijing, infecting multiple people, placing hundreds under quarantine, and causing at least one death.