Day: April 7, 2023

  • CDC warns doctors to watch for Marburg virus amid outbreaks in two African nations

    CDC warns doctors to watch for Marburg virus amid outbreaks in two African nations

    The CDC’s warning says that although there are no cases in the United States and the current risk is low, health care providers should be on the lookout for any imported cases.

    Providers who suspect that someone is sick with Marburg virus should take a detailed travel history, the CDC said. The patient should be managed under isolation until there is a negative test, and the local health department should be contacted immediately.
    — Read on www.cnn.com/2023/04/06/health/cdc-alert-marburg/index.html

  • Classified document dump on Minecraft message boards

    Classified document dump on Minecraft message boards

    A new batch of classified documents that appear to detail American national security secrets from Ukraine to the Middle East to China surfaced on social media sites on Friday, alarming the Pentagon and adding turmoil to a situation that seemed to have caught the Biden administration off guard.

    The scale of the leak — analysts say more than 100 documents may have been obtained — along with the sensitivity of the documents themselves, could be hugely damaging, officials said.

    A senior intelligence official called the leak “a nightmare for the Five Eyes,” in a reference to the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the so-called Five Eyes nations that broadly share intelligence.