- Florida Health has recorded 15 more locally acquired dengue cases, raising the season's total to 53. Cases have been concentrated in Miami-Dade County (47 cases) and Broward County (3 cases), with single cases reported in Palm Beach, Hardee, and Polk counties.
- Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that European groups and the Gates Foundation are putting together a finance package of 1.1 billion Euros to support the polio vaccination of 370 million children, with the goal of disease eradication. “We are about to wipe polio off the face of the Earth. The European Commission, the EIB [European Investment Bank] and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are partnering to get through the final stretch,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a press release. Half of the funds will be made available to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which will oversee the vaccination of 370 million children. The second half of the funding will be used to expand vaccine-delivery innovation for low- and middle-income countries
- John-Arne Rottingen, a Norwegian medical scientist, is the new CEO of the Wellcome Trust, one of the world’s largest private funders of medical research. Rottingen is replacing Jeremy Farrar, who now serves as the WHO’s chief scientist. Røttingen previously worked as the founding chief executive officer of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) and currently is Norway’s ambassador for global health.