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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.
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.
On 1 January 2024, the Deputy Education Minister Wong Kah Woh encouraged teachers and students to wear face masks, and staff members to do self-tests if they have COVID-19 symptoms. [5] On 12 January, Health Minister Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad stated that the Health Ministry would not be setting up field hospitals following a decrease in COVID-19 ...
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.
In February 2024, the World Health Organization said more than half of the world was at risk of a measles outbreak due to Covid-19 pandemic-related disruptions in that month. All the world regions have reported such outbreaks with the exception of the Americas, though these could still be expected to become hotspots in the future. Death rates ...
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]
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.
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 ...