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Measles Breaks Out Across Bangladesh
Dhaka, Bangladesh
ESTIMATED68% CONFIDENCE192 days agoThe source[1] dates the start only to "mid-March 2026", so the pin takes the middle of that month and leaves the end open: the outbreak is ongoing.A measles outbreak that began in mid-March 2026 has killed 909 people with suspected symptoms and confirmed nearly 20,000 cases, by the Directorate General of Health Services' count as of 10 September. It is still running.0.63WHO Ends the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE3.4 years agoThe WHO's[1] own statement on the fifteenth emergency committee meeting is dated 5 May 2023 and announces the end of the emergency.Three years and three months after declaring it, the WHO ended COVID-19's status as a public health emergency of international concern. The Director-General was careful to say the virus was not gone - only that it no longer needed emergency governance.0.63Government Funding Runs Out Again on December 11
SCHEDULED86% CONFIDENCEin 79 daysH.R. 6500 funds federal agencies through 11 December 2026, so the continuing resolution expires at the end of that day.[1]The stopgap signed in September expires on 11 December 2026, the deadline for Congress to enact the twelve fiscal 2027 appropriations bills or pass another continuing resolution before agencies shut down.0.60WHO Declares the West Africa Ebola Outbreak an Emergency
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CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE4.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The two VVER-440 V-230 reactors in Slovakia were decommissioned and disassembled on site".Slovakia finished fully dismantling the Soviet-era V1 reactors at Bohunice in July 2022, one of the few nuclear plants taken apart down to the reactor vessels.$1.3B0.60The Black Death Reaches Europe at Messina
Messina, Sicily, Italy
ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCE679.0 years agoThe sources agree on the month, not the day: the plague ships are recorded as reaching Messina in October 1347, so the pin covers that month rather than claiming a date.[1]Genoese galleys carrying plague from the Black Sea put in at Messina in Sicily, and the disease went ashore with them. Over the next seven years it killed perhaps a third of Europe - up to 50 million people - and took two centuries to be made good.0.60Klamath River Dams Fully Removed
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Francis Crick Avenue, Trumpington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, England, CB2 0QH, United KingdomMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE51.1 years agoNature's[1] own page for the article gives citation_online_date 1975/08/01 and shows "01 August 1975" as the publication date, with the paper received 14 May 1975 and accepted 26 June 1975; it is Nature volume 256, issue 5517, pages 495-497.Georges Köhler and César Milstein report in Nature that fusing an antibody-producing cell with a myeloma cell yields a line that secretes a single antibody indefinitely. Monoclonal antibodies become the basis of the modern biologics industry.0.57The CDC Reports the First AIDS Cases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, United StatesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
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