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WHO and Africa CDC launch a response plan to the mpox outbreak
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization launched on Friday a continent-wide response plan to the outbreak of mpox, three weeks after WHO declared outbreaks in 12 African countries a global emergency. The estimated...
Africa has almost 4,000 new mpox cases in a week, but the wait for vaccines continues
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Africa is seeing a rapid increase in mpox cases with nearly 4,000 reported in the past week, the continent's public health body said Tuesday as it repeated a plea for long-awaited vaccines whose arrival this week in the most affected country, Congo, has been delayed. ...
Schumer says he will work to block any effort in the Senate to significantly cut the CDC's budget
NEW YORK (AP) — The Senate’s top Democrat said Sunday he will work to block a plan that would significantly cut the proposed budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warning that such a spending reduction could endanger the public. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer...
Biden has COVID-19 and didn't wear a mask. The CDC's guidelines say he doesn't have to
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden did not wear a face mask in public a couple of times after the White House announced he had tested positive for COVID-19. The White House said the Democratic incumbent was experiencing “mild” symptoms while the president's physician said Biden...
Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86
NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86. Buxtun died May 18 of Alzheimer's disease in Rocklin,...
Here are the numbers: COVID-19 is ticking up in some places, but levels remain low
Here's a look at the state of COVID-19 in the U.S. as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention establishes its latest advice on vaccinations. Deaths About 300 COVID-19-associated deaths were occurring weekly in May, according to the most recent provisional CDC...
Wisconsin AG argues letting disabled people vote electronically at home would create confusion
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's Democratic attorney general pushed back Monday against a request to let people with disabilities vote electronically from home this fall. Attorney General Josh Kaul's attorneys told Dane County Circuit Judge Everett Mitchell during a hearing that...
