Last Updated: August 9, 2024
Key Takeaways
- Tropical Cyclone Debby continues to impact the Commonwealth and has caused at least six deaths nationally. Another system, with a 40-60% chance of developing into a tropical cyclone over the next seven days, is heading towards the Caribbean.
- The WHO will convene an emergency committee meeting to consider whether the clade Ib mpox outbreak in Africa is a ‘PHEIC’. The outbreak has spread from DR Congo to neighboring Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda.
- HPAI A(H5N1) was found in ten new dairy herds in Colorado and Texas. The herds in Colorado were detected by a new bulk-milk testing system.
- Antibody tests may have found two new human cases of HPAI A(H5N1) in Texas. Not including those cases, the official human case count for 2024 is now 13.
- The World Health Organization updated its priority pathogen list, adding mpox, influenza A, and dengue among other pathogens.
- COVID-19 rates continue to grow. COVID-19 wastewater levels and ED diagnosis rates now rival those of late January.
- Oregon is experiencing a multi-county measles outbreak. The number of measles cases detected in 2024 is already more than three times the number detected in 2023.
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