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Infectious Updates 4-6-2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-04-06
US measles case count tops 600. CIDRAP
Exposure warnings: a person infectious with measles stayed at the Great Wolf Lodge and Grapevine Mills Mall, in Grapevine Mills, Texas from 3-28 to 3-30 (This is in the Dallas-Fort Worth area). Denton Chronicle
An infectious adult traveled through Newark International Airport in the last week of March.
The Mendoza Family clinic on Fort Bliss military base had a measles case, according to a local report which has not been picked up by any media.
Oakland County has reported its first mumps case of 2025, this is the ninth for Michigan this year. The patient is an adult.
Two Louisiana children have died of pertussis
India reports the death of a 2 year old girl from H5N1 bird flu. The clade is unknown yet
The USDA confirms more H5N1 cases in cats and other mammals (five skunks, two house mice, an Arctic fox, a red fox, a raccoon, and a bobcat)
The WHO has called for better drugs and diagnostics for deadly fungal infections
They also ran a simulation exercise For a fictional virus outbreak.. Many nations participated, more were represented by observers. It doesn't sound like the US was there.
Nigeria received a million doses of meningitis vaccine from the Gavi-funded stockpile, to battle its current outbreak
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