Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic Congo - Update: As of 7 October 2012, of the 49 reported cases of Ebola, 24 have been fatal.
Some 13,000 people in 23 U.S. states may have received steroid injections linked to a rare fungal meningitis outbreak that has killed eight people. So far, 105 cases of the rare form of meningitis have been confirmed in nine states. The drug was used as a painkiller for back pain.
A brain-eating amoeba has killed at least 10 people in Islamabad, Pakistan's most populous city since May. Naegleria fowleri has a fatality rate of more than 98 percent. It is transmitted when contaminated water enters the body through the nose and cannot be passed person-to-person. The disease first surfaced in Karachi in 2006. This year's outbreak has been the first since then.
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