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On 17 August 2024, Indonesia's Independence day, the national Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) reported a total of 14 confirmed mpox cases from January to April 2024. [53] This brought the cumulative total to 88 cases in Indonesia when combined with the previous outbreak 's 73 cases reported in 2023, as well as one case from 2022.
2023–2024 Bangsamoro measles outbreak: 2023–present Bangsamoro, Philippines Measles: 14 2023–2024 Oropouche virus disease outbreak: 2023–2024 Brazil Oropouche fever: 2 [325] [326] [327] 2024 American dengue epidemic: 2024–present: Latin America and the Caribbean: Dengue virus: 7,700 [328] 2024 Kwango province malaria outbreak: 2024 ...
The 2023-2024 norovirus season is well underway in the United States. Cases of the highly contagious stomach bug, which causes diarrhea and vomiting, are climbing steadily across the country.
2024 Lake Suviana explosion. Three people are killed, five are injured and four are missing in an explosion at a power plant on Lake Suviana, near Bologna, Italy. 2024 Mozambique boat disaster. The death toll from Sunday's ferry sinking in Mozambique increases to more than 100 people, with around 20 people still missing. Orsk Dam collapse
Testing of patient swab samples by polymerase chain reaction revealed clade II of monkeypox virus, [1] which is the less deadly of the two known monkeypox virus variants with a case fatality rate of around 1%. [67] The genomic sequence of the virus associated with this outbreak was first published on 19 May by Portuguese researchers. [68]
On 3 April, China reported 13,146 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which was the highest single-day total of new cases since the height of the pandemic in Wuhan in February 2020. [14] On 4 April, officials in Suzhou announced a new mutation of the Omicron variant was detected in Changshu.
Sanger sequencing confirmed the identification of the monkeypox virus and its relation to the 2022–2023 mpox outbreak. [25] The same group later released findings from wastewater surveillance in six Southeast Asian countries (Thailand, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Indonesia), which showed the presence of Monkeypox virus (MPXV) DNA ...
2024 Kenya floods. Widespread flooding occurs in Nairobi, Kenya, with tens of thousands of people affected. Law and crime. National Security Act, 2024. Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. US President Joe Biden signs the PAFACA Act into law.