Reuters Health News Summary

Following is a summary of current health news ​briefs.

Roy Cooper's North Carolina ​playbook is working. Can ‌other Democrats copy ​it?

North Carolina hasn’t elected a Democrat to the US Senate in nearly 20 years, but former ‌Governor Roy Cooper has built a double-digit lead over Republican Michael Whatley by relentlessly focusing on affordability and a blunt promise to “make stuff cost less.” At campaign ‌stops, Cooper, 69, points to his six-year fight to expand Medicaid through ‌a Republican-controlled legislature as evidence he can work across party lines, while attacking Trump-backed healthcare cuts that he says are hitting North Carolinians hard.

Kenya confirms eighth Ebola case as regional ⁠outbreak spreads

Kenya has ​confirmed one ⁠more Ebola case, bringing the total number of infections in the country to eight, Director-General for ⁠Health Patrick Amoth said on Sunday. "Today, 38 people were tested, and one tested positive ​for Ebola," Amoth said in an interview on Kenya's Citizen TV.

Bangladesh is ⁠battling measles. It's a 'real warning' to other nations

Bangladesh is battling to contain the world’s worst ⁠measles outbreak, ​a crisis exacerbated by weak data, inadequate outreach and vaccination gaps that experts say offers a warning to other nations about the deadly ⁠risk of falling immunisation rates. Bangladesh, whose routine vaccination programme faltered in 2025, reported ⁠202,000 suspected measles ⁠cases – 22,000 of them laboratory-confirmed – since the start of the outbreak in mid-March to October 9, the World Health ‌Organization said. That’s ‌more suspected cases than any other ​country this year.