Hospital Worker Says He Ate Body Parts; Outbreak Virus Mystery; New N95 Mask Policy

Note that some links may require registration or subscription.

In Hungary, a hospital orderly admitted to eating human body parts he got from work and elsewhere. (People)

Scientists still puzzle over where the animal reservoirs are harboring the Ebola-causing Bundibugyo virus. (New York Times)

The White House plans to seek more than $1.4 billion in new funds from Congress to address the Ebola virus outbreak, including $800 million for a quarantine center in Kenya. (Reuters via MSN)

The U.S. is assisting in the fight against Ebola by providing doses of Mapp Biopharmaceutical’s investigational antibody drug to Congo. (Reuters via NBC News)

A gold-mining town in eastern Congo is said to be where the Ebola outbreak started. (NPR)

HHS announced the conclusion of the hantavirus response associated with the M/V Hondius cruise ship.

The FDA is authorized to hire 2,200 people after cutting more than 3,000 employees last year. (Reuters via MSN)

Based on the 2024 National Health Interview Survey, the percentage of adults who took medication for their mental health was 24.9% for women and 13.4% for men.

A shortage of older chemotherapy drugs has some practices rationing drugs. (New York Times)

In a major policy reversal, the U.S. Forest Service has a new policy authorizing federal firefighters to wear N95 respirators on the fire line for the first time. (NBC News)

A federal judge temporarily blocked federal prosecutors from getting access to the medical records of transgender patients treated at New York hospitals. (AP)

New Mexico’s governor called for a criminal investigation into the Drug Enforcement Administration after an investigation found federal agents let fentanyl pills flow through the state while pursuing larger drug-trafficking cases. (AP)

Senators criticized the Trump administration’s Moms.gov website for driving families to crisis pregnancy centers traditionally run by anti-abortion advocates. (The Hill)

The long-abandoned Charity Hospital of New Orleans will be restored for scientific and medical research, Tulane University said.

Cardiologists and doctors are facing a new reality where patients arrive armed with health information from podcasts. (New York Times)

Reality show star Brandi Glanville says her facial disfigurement is due to a benign tumor in one of her facial lymph nodes, having previously attributed it to stress-induced angioedema and a parasite. (People)