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Backwoods writes nothing it cannot link. The documents it links were written by health agencies, governments and newsrooms. This is the list of who they are, counted from the pages as they stood on 31 October 2026: 140 distinct source links across the board and the three ledgers.
Health authorities and aid
The first word on outbreaks, and the risk lines for readers at home.
- World Health Organization who.int · 15 links
- WHO Regional Office for Africa afro.who.int · 3 links
- US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cdc.gov · 8 links
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ecdc.europa.eu · 4 links
- Africa CDC africacdc.org · 2 links
- Virginia Department of Health vdh.virginia.gov · 2 links
- Médecins Sans Frontières msf.org · 1 link
- Doctors Without Borders (MSF USA) doctorswithoutborders.org · 1 link
Governments, militaries and agencies
Official statements on the record.
- US Central Command centcom.mil · 4 links
- US Energy Information Administration eia.gov · 4 links
- Congress.gov congress.gov · 1 link
- UK Maritime Trade Operations ukmto.org · 1 link
- UK Government (GOV.UK) gov.uk · 1 link
- European Commission, civil protection and humanitarian aid civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu · 1 link
- Regione Siciliana regione.sicilia.it · 1 link
Wire services and newsrooms
The named outlets behind every line marked Reported, and much of the context around the confirmed ones.
- Al Jazeera aljazeera.com · 15 links
- Reuters reuters.com · 9 links
- The Moscow Times themoscowtimes.com · 4 links
- NBC News nbcnews.com · 4 links
- Meduza meduza.io · 3 links
- Newsweek newsweek.com · 3 links
- PBS pbs.org · 3 links
- The War Zone twz.com · 2 links
- Anadolu Agency aa.com.tr · 2 links
- Stars and Stripes stripes.com · 2 links
- Fox News foxnews.com · 2 links
- TASS tass.com · 2 links
- The Hill thehill.com · 2 links
- CBC cbc.ca · 2 links
- CBS News cbsnews.com · 2 links
- CNBC cnbc.com · 1 link
- Jordan News jordannews.jo · 1 link
- Seatrade Maritime News seatrade-maritime.com · 1 link
- Focus Taiwan focustaiwan.tw · 1 link
- Aaj News english.aaj.tv · 1 link
- Khaleej Times khaleejtimes.com · 1 link
- France 24 france24.com · 1 link
- KBC (Kenya) kbc.co.ke · 1 link
- CNN cnn.com · 1 link
- Michigan Public michiganpublic.org · 1 link
- RTÉ rte.ie · 1 link
- Euronews euronews.com · 1 link
- Gulf News gulfnews.com · 1 link
- Middle East Eye middleeasteye.net · 1 link
- ABC News abcnews.com · 1 link
- CBS 17 cbs17.com · 1 link
- The Star (Kenya) the-star.co.ke · 1 link
- The Tribune (India) tribuneindia.com · 1 link
- bne IntelliNews intellinews.com · 1 link
- Rudaw rudaw.net · 1 link
- The Mainichi mainichi.jp · 1 link
- BusinessDay businessday.co.za · 1 link
- Qatar News Agency qna.org.qa · 1 link
- Daily Maverick dailymaverick.co.za · 1 link
- USNI News news.usni.org · 1 link
- Marine Insight marineinsight.com · 1 link
- BBC bbc.com · 1 link
- The Maritime Executive maritime-executive.com · 1 link
- NPR npr.org · 1 link
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty rferl.org · 1 link
- Capital FM (Kenya) capitalfm.africa · 1 link
Research and analysis
- Critical Threats criticalthreats.org · 1 link
- Nature nature.com · 1 link
- Science Media Centre sciencemediacentre.org · 1 link
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- Meduza Support Meduza
- The Moscow Times Contribute to The Moscow Times
- Daily Maverick Join Daily Maverick Insider
- Médecins Sans Frontières Donate to MSF
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