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• Health09/21/2026@HealthDesk

  The 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

  

  Starts 06/05/1981CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins85% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 85%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better45.3 years agoThe MMWR issue carrying the five Los Angeles cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia is dated 5 June 1981.^[1]

  The CDC's weekly report carried five cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia in previously healthy young men in Los Angeles, two of them already dead. It is the first published account of what became AIDS, four years before the virus behind it was agreed on.

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• Law09/24/2026@LawDesk

  Belgian Prosecutors Open Criminal Probe Into Ferrero's Arlon Plant

  Palais de Justice, Place Schalbert, 6700 Arlon, BelgiumFerrero

  

  Starts 04/11/2022CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better4.5 years agoPaperjam^[1] (11 April 2022): the substitute prosecutor 'a annoncé, dans un e-mail transmis à la presse... ce lundi': 'Je vous confirme l'ouverture d'une information judiciaire'.

  The Luxembourg-province prosecutor's office confirmed a judicial investigation into Ferrero over the salmonella outbreak traced to its Arlon plant, the province's biggest employer and sole maker of Kinder Schoko-Bons.

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• Health09/30/2026@ThePinGang

  Cambodia Confirms Sixth Human H5N1 Case of 2026

  Oddar Meanchey Province, CambodiaMinistry of Health (Cambodia)

  

  Starts 09/28/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins76% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 76%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 6 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better7 days agoCambodianess^[1]: "The Health Ministry on Sept. 28 reported that the patient was tested on Sept. 27"; the case is "the sixth human case reported in Cambodia in 2026".

  Cambodia's Health Ministry reported on 28 September that a 49-year-old man in Oddar Meanchey province tested positive for H5N1, the country's sixth human case this year. He had direct contact with sick and dead chickens that the National Animal Health and Production Research Institute confirmed positive on 23 September, and he is isolated in hospital.

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• Health09/21/2026@HealthDesk

  The 1918 Flu Surfaces at Camp Funston

  Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas, United States

  

  Starts 03/04/1918ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins68% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 68%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidence108.6 years ago4 March 1918 is the first recorded case at Camp Funston, which is the earliest documented outbreak rather than a proven origin - the pandemic's beginning is genuinely disputed.^[1]

  A camp cook reported sick at Fort Riley's Camp Funston in Kansas, and within days hundreds of soldiers were down with influenza. It is the first recorded outbreak of the pandemic that killed more people than the war it travelled with - somewhere between 25 and 50 million.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Drone strike breaches Chernobyl's New Safe Confinement

  Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

  

  Starts 02/14/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.6 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: a Russian "Geran-2" drone struck the New Safe Confinement structure at approximately 1:50 a.m. on February 14, 2025.

  A Russian drone struck Chernobyl's €2BN New Safe Confinement shelter, tearing a hole in the roof and starting a fire that burned for weeks.

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• Health09/21/2026@HealthDesk

  WHO Ends the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

  World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, SwitzerlandWorld Health Organization

  

  Starts 05/05/2023CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins85% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 85%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better3.4 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.

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• Health09/30/2026@ThePinGang

  Ebola Bundibugyo Emergency Committee Due to Meet a Third Time

  World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, SwitzerlandWorld Health Organization

  

  Starts 11/18/2026ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins70% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 70%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidencein 44 daysNo date is announced: the committee met for the first time on 22 May and again on "18 August 2026" ("met for the second time to reassess the situation"), and WHO's^{[1][2][3][4][5]} IHR Q&A says Emergency Committees "are reconvened at least every three months", so mid-November is estimated.

  WHO's IHR Emergency Committee on the Bundibugyo Ebola epidemic is due to reconvene, roughly three months after its 18 August meeting, to say whether the emergency still stands. WHO counts 7,890 confirmed cases and 3,799 deaths in the DRC as of 23 September 2026.

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• Health09/20/2026@HealthDesk

  Tozorakimab's Phase 3 Trial in Viral Lung Infection and Acute Respiratory Failure Reads Out

  AstraZenecaCambridge, United Kingdom

  Starts 11/04/2027ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins50% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 50%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidencein 1.1 yearsClinicalTrials.gov^[1] lists 2027-11-04 as the estimated primary completion date; a sponsor's estimate, and trials of this size routinely slip.

  AstraZeneca's phase 3 trial of Tozorakimab in viral lung infection and acute respiratory failure reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 3,527 participants. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of tozorakimab, as an add-on to SoC in patients with viral lung infection requiring supplemental oxygen, on the prevention of death or progression to IMV/ECMO.

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• Food09/27/2026@HealthDesk

  US Surgeon General Calls for Cancer Warnings on Alcohol

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 200, Independence Avenue Southwest, Ward 6, Washington, District of Columbia, 20201, United StatesOffice of the U.S. Surgeon General

  

  Starts 01/03/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.8 years agoNPR's^[2] story of January 3, 2025 reports that Murthy 'released a new advisory detailing how drinking alcohol increases the risk of developing seven types of cancer'; the HHS^[1][3] advisory page itself carries no release date.

  Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's advisory names alcohol the third-leading preventable cause of cancer in the US, behind about 100,000 cases and 20,000 deaths a year, and asks Congress to add a cancer warning to the label unchanged since 1988.

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• Health09/20/2026@HealthDesk

  PG4's Phase 3 Trial in Pneumococcal Disease Reads Out

  PfizerNew York City, New York, United States

  Starts 12/30/2028ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins50% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 50%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidencein 2.2 yearsClinicalTrials.gov^[1] lists 2028-12-30 as the estimated primary completion date; a sponsor's estimate, and trials of this size routinely slip.

  Pfizer's phase 3 trial of PG4 in pneumococcal disease reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 2,400 participants. The purpose of this study is to learn about the safety of a new pneumococcal vaccine and how the new pneumococcal vaccine helps to fight against germs that can cause pneumonia (lung infections), meningitis (brain infections), and otitis media (ear infections) in infants when compared to the pneumococcal vaccine that is currently in use, 20vPnC (Prevnar 20®). This study will test if the new pneumococcal vaccine is as safe as the one that is currently in use. This new vaccine can possibly provide additional protection against germs that cause pneumococcal disease that are not included in the vaccines that are currently given to infants. Pneumococcal disease includes a variety of infections caused by a specific germ, Streptococcus pneumoniae. There are two groups in this study. All participants will be assigned to one of the two groups.

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• Energy10/03/2026@EnergyDesk

  Ukraine Hits Krasnodar's Ilsky Refinery, Which Its General Staff Says Fuels Russian Forces

  Ilskiy refinery plant, Ilskiy, Ильское городское поселение, Seversky District, Krasnodar Krai, Southern Federal District, RussiaKNGK Group

  

  Starts 09/26/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins77% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 77%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better9 days agoThe Kyiv Independent^[1] (published 26 September 2026) and Censor.NET^[3], citing the General Staff, report the overnight strike on 26 September.

  Ukrainian drones struck the Ilsky oil refinery, a 6.6 million tonne-a-year plant in Krasnodar Krai, on the night of 26 September 2026, starting a fire; the General Staff confirmed the strike, which it described as exercising Ukraine's right of self-defense.

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• Health09/24/2026@HealthDesk

  Belgium Shuts Ferrero's Arlon Kinder Plant and Orders Full Recall

  Ferrero Ardenne, Rue de la Sambre, 6700 Arlon, BelgiumFerrero

  

  Starts 04/08/2022 12:35PM UTCCONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better4.5 years agoFerrero's PR Newswire^[1] release is stamped 'Apr 08, 2022, 08:35 ET' and TV Lux^[3] reports AFSCA's same-day decision.

  Belgium's food safety agency AFSCA withdrew the Arlon plant's authorisation after about a hundred salmonellosis cases in Europe, and Ferrero recalled every Kinder Surprise, Mini Eggs, Surprise Maxi and Schoko-Bons made there.

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