Mozambique Reports First Mpox Clade 1b Case; Now 24 Nations In Africa With Currently Active Outbreaks: CIDRAP

In the last two days, eleven additional cases were seen -- near the border with Tanzania -- a known 2025 outbreak hotspot.

The first cluster in Mozambique included two men and one woman. Here's the latest, from the superlative CIDRAP -- but again, the Trumpian isolationism and penny-pinching on USAID is certainly going to kill high tens of thousands, globally -- mostly children (who also face severe malnutrition):

. . .Mozambique last week confirmed its first mpox cases of the year, bringing the number of African nations reporting outbreaks to 24. Meanwhile, one of the top officials from the Africa Centres for Disease Prevention and Control (Africa CDC) today described a mixed picture of outbreaks on the continent, with encouraging declines in high-burden countries, but cases trending upward in five nations.

Yap Boum, PhD, MPH, deputy incident manager for Africa CDC's mpox response, said Mozambique's three cases involve two men and one woman, none of whom had traveled recently, suggesting that transmission in the country has been ongoing. The cases were detected in an area near the border with Tanzania. He said the country is taking a patient-isolation approach, which includes food and psychiatric care, to curb the spread and that so far sequencing results are not available. . . .

Now you know -- largely off-grid on holiday until the 29^th in the evening. Smile.

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So RFK, Jr.'s New Official Govt. Vaccine Advisor -- Was An "Expert Witness" -- At The RFK-Affiliated Law Firm, When It Sued Merck, For "Injuries" From Vaccines?!

What. . . the actual. . . hell?!

This whole clown show. . . is now endlessly tedious. Damn. Here's Reuters with the latest:

. . .One of the new vaccine advisers picked by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has earned thousands of dollars as an expert witness in litigation against Merck’s Gardasil vaccine, court records show.

Martin Kulldorff, a biostatistician and epidemiologist who publicly criticized COVID-era lockdowns, is one of eight new members named by Kennedy on Wednesday to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a highly influential panel that recommends which shots should be administered to the American public.. . .

Elect a clown -- expect a circus. But in this case. . . the circus will almost certainly cause excess deaths -- mostly of children -- from diseases we long ago conquered. . . with science. Not convinced? Do consider the latest Texas measles insanity, here. Out.

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