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The index patient's wife is the second confirmed case, and 3 close contacts are isolated for treatment and testing.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a lawyer with no medical or public health training, is a longtime vaccine critic.
Five new outbreaks are in Missouri, a state that has lost about 4.3 million poultry over the past 30 days.
Like other recent cases, the patient had traveled to Uganda, one of Africa's clade 1b mpox hot spots.
But rates of types 31/33/45, 47, and 45 were lower in vaccinated women, which the authors said suggests that the vaccines offer some cross-protection against these types.
Oseltamivir recipients had an 18% lower risk of 30-day mortality.
Also, the virus is confirmed in more US poultry flocks, and European officials share virus details from the UK's recent case.
Several CDC pages have been taken down amid a move by the Trump administration to remove all language related to gender identity and LGBTQ issues.
The highest rates of influenza A/B (21%), influenza A (17%), and influenza B (20%) were observed in Asia and Europe.
In a related development, Ugandan scientists who sequenced the virus say they don't see a link to the country's 2022 outbreak.
San Diego health officials warn of possible TB exposure at a high school during the 2023-24 academic year.
Twenty-three European nations have seen a rise in carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections since 2019.
One of the two adult bucks was harvested by a hunter, and the other was identified on a deer-breeding farm.
Among confirmed cases in the DRC, children 15 years and younger account for 49% of cases.
Investigators with the endTB trial say the 9-month, all-oral drug regimens will make it easier for patients with rifampicin-resistant TB to complete the full treatment.
But HHS and other organizations have taken actions to alleviate the shortages, which began with the 2008-2009 recession.
Sixteen more flu deaths were reported in children, with virus activity at high or very high flu levels across much of the nation.
In related developments, West Virginia officials suspend poultry exhibitions and Massachusetts warns of sick and dead birds across several cities.
The Fremont County deer was found west of Percival, near the Missouri River, while the Pottawattamie County deer was taken northwest of Avoca.
Ten people have now died in Tanzania's Marburg outbreak.
