A cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of hantavirus received medical intervention this week while pausing offshore at Cape Verde, a country of islands off the Atlantic coast of Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO), which is helping to coordinate a response to the infectious disease on and off the ship, called the ship MV Hondius, held a briefing Thursday, May 7. Officials described the nature of the virus and actions being taken to provide care and safety for those onboard the vessel, as well as efforts to contain and track possible spread beyond those already diagnosed. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, explained that, although hantaviruses usually spread from rodents to humans, the strain in this…
It was not immediately clear if Makary would be fired or if he would leave the administration voluntarily, but it comes after the commissioner faced criticism over his handling of the agency.
Virginia Democrats tried to rig the state’s congressional map 10-1 in their party’s favor. Instead, they just handed Republicans a big redistricting win that Republican-controlled Indiana refused to deliver. The Virginia Supreme Court struck down Democrats’ proposed redistricting map as unconstitutional on Friday, and as The Federalist’s Assignment Editor Elle Purnell pointed out, “Virginia Democrats […]
Cold War reports of mysterious rotating saucers; recent sightings of metallic elliptical objects floating in mid-air. Those and other reports of unidentifiable anomalous phenomena or UAPs — the military's term for UFOs — are described in documents released Friday.
