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Ebola reached a fourth province in DR Congo, with 1,307 confirmed cases and 377 deaths, while a separate Marburg outbreak appeared in western Uganda. The concurrent responses raised cross-border risks and exposed pressure on Congo's fragile health system, prompting measures such as restrictions on mass gatherings.
France estimated about 1,000 excess deaths during a heat wave, while New York City saw sharp increases in heat-related 911 calls and emergency-room visits as its heat wave intensified. Across both settings, heat became a measurable burden on emergency and public health systems.
Research focused on how Alzheimer's damages and kills brain cells, including a possible protein-mediated route for toxic tau to spread between neurons. The mechanism suggests a future strategy to slow progression by blocking that spread rather than treating symptoms alone.
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