[U: Buffs Win | 48-21!] Flying Through Colorado -- On Way Home, Now -- But Wanted To Mention The New Clade Ib Mpox Case In Kerala, India... As Well As Biden Pledge.

While we were off grid, President Joe Biden pledged additional monetary and in-kind aid -- to alleviate the ongoing African mpox outbreaks. Mr. Biden said the United States would send over $500 million to Africa, to help prevent and respond to mpox and will donate another one million doses of the approved Mpox vaccine.

In addition, there is now a confirmed more dangerous strain case of Mpox inside India, one that seems travel related. Here is a that story -- from mid last week, from the BBC:

. . .India has reported its first case with the new mpox strain that has triggered a public health emergency alert by the World Health Organization (WHO), Reuters reports.

Called clade 1b, the new variant is highly-transmissible and has been linked to the mpox outbreak in Africa. According to media reports, the strain has been detected in a 38-year-old man from the southern state of Kerala who returned from Dubai recently.

Mpox, previously known as monkey pox, is a contagious virus that can cause painful skin lesions. . . .

Health Ministry spokesperson Manisha Verma confirmed to Reuters that the mpox case reported in Kerala's Malappuram district belonged to clade 1.

The patient is being treated in a hospital and the people he came in contact with are being traced and monitored, authorities said. The district's health officer said that about 29 friends and family members of the patient along with 37 passengers on board his flight were being monitored but none of them had exhibited any symptoms so far, the news agency reported. . . .

Now you know -- and if the stadium in Orlando is squeegeed off. . . go Buffs, go -- at 2:30 pm Eastern, on Fox Sports! [Not since 1910-12 and Jim Thorpe has there been a player as dominant on both sides of the ball, on every play, as Travis Hunter. He plays 120 plus plays from scrimmage each outing -- and thus sprints about seven miles per game, while absorbing around 20 crushing hits, and delivering another 15 of his own. His stat-line today? A receiving TD, along with 89 yards on 9 catches, no receptions against his defensive coverage, a drive killing interception, and four solo tackles. And he did it all wearing a tee shirt under his pads that reads. . . "Bland". IYK,YK. Heh.]

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