So, as so many others -- including this outlet have said -- the 12 or so months since Trump cut USAID funding off. . . has led, and will continue to lead, to entirely avoidable adverse public health consequences, even here at home -- right in Manhattan:
. . .New York City health officials have confirmed the city’s first case of a more severe strain of the mpox virus than the one that drove a global outbreak in 2022.
The case is travel-related, and the city's Department of Health said there is no known local transmission at this time.
Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, spreads through close or intimate contact, including hugging or cuddling. It's not classified as a sexually transmitted infection, but in the United States the disease has primarily spread among the LGBTQ+ community through sex between men and other forms of close contact. . . .
Onward -- and although it was sunny and 70, yesterday -- I've got about three inches of new white stuff to shovel this morning, at 8,500 feet. A real live Currier & Ives affair. Grin. . . .
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