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 29th in the evening. Smile.
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Came across this in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison discussing issues involving the writing of the Constitution.
"The second feature I dislike, and greatly dislike, is the abandonment in every instance of the necessity of rotation in office, and most particularly in the case of the President. Experience concurs with reason in concluding that the first magistrate will always be re-elected if the constitution permits it. He is then an officer for life. This once observed it becomes of so much consequence to certain nations to have a friend or a foe at the head of our affairs that they will interfere with money and with arms. A Galloman or an Angloman will be supported by the nation he befriends. If once elected, and at a second or third election outvoted by one or two votes, he will pretend false votes, foul play, hold possession of the reins of government, be supported by the states voting for him, especially if they are the central ones lying in a compact body themselves and separating their opponents: and they will be aided by one nation of Europe, while the majority are aided by another. The election of a President of America some years hence will be much more interesting to certain nations of Europe than ever the election of a king of Poland was."
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