Jennifer Rigby

DEATH BY THE DOSE - toxic cough syrup made in India has killed scores of children. Here's how this happened - and why no-one has been held to account w/@krishnadas56 ⁩ reuters.com/investigates/s…

@cocizeqiri Apologies - not this time but thanks for the offer

@jriggers Dear Jennifer! we are covering aid cuts in the programme- the peg being ebola. I wondered if you might be able to speak to us tomorrow morning please on BBC world service radio. thanks

🚨 The @AfricaCDC statement on the new #Ebola outbreak in #DRC is deeply concerning. 🔬 This is a non-Zaire ebolavirus outbreak 🧪 13 of 20 samples tested positive ⚠️ 246 suspected cases reported 🕊️ 65 deaths, including 4 laboratory workers This highlights the urgent need for enhanced surveillance, rapid diagnostics, infection prevention and control, and protection of frontline healthcare and laboratory personnel.

A flowchart from an epidemiologist on when to worry about hantavirus nytimes.com/2026/05/07/opi…

Reuters reports the Trump adminstration wants to condition any future funding to @gavi on the organization agreeing to phase out use of vaccines containing the preservative thimerosal. I wrote late last year about how unnecessary & impractical that would be. statnews.com/2025/11/19/rfk…

The Trump administration has told global vaccine group Gavi to phase out shots containing the preservative thimerosal as a condition of providing the group with funding, a U.S. official and a Gavi spokesperson told Reuters. reuters.com/business/healt…

nytimes.com/2025/10/20/wel… interesting

Interesting

Astonishing that this is happening again reuters.com/business/healt…

As a result of President Trump’s suspension of foreign aid, hundreds of USAID shipments of antimalarial and HIV medical supplies arrived late at regional warehouses in dozens of countries. Many did not arrive at all. The consequences were deadly. wapo.st/3KspxBZ

Nine-month old baby Mohamat had malaria - before, he might have been diagnosed earlier by a community health worker, or treated with the right medicine. But instead, he died reuters.com/business/healt…

On Gaza malnutrition ward, a child's limb is as wide as mother's thumb reuters.com/business/healt…

U.S.-funded contraceptives valued at nearly $10 million will be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the UN and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations. @jriggers, @JonathanLanday and I report for @Reuters reuters.com/legal/litigati…

The floor is lava - how modern urban cities heat up and stay hot when the temperature rises reuters.com/graphics/CLIMA…

Gavi & Global Fund talk about merging functions to face global health cash crisis reuters.com/business/healt…

Nigeria to receive leprosy drugs after a year-long delay reut.rs/3DpMMJD reut.rs/3DpMMJD

Medical oxygen that could help hundreds of thousands of adults and children worldwide with often life-threatening breathing problems is stalled at several points in the supply chain after the USAID freeze - reuters.com/world/us/usaid…

Trump team considers pushing for WHO reforms, including an American in charge, to stay in the agency reuters.com/world/trump-te…