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FOTD – August 27, 2024 – Pampus Grass – Cee’s Photo Challenges

Source: FOTD – August 27, 2024 – Pampus Grass – Cee’s Photo Challenges

More than 200 Bush, McCain, Romney alums endorse Harris, hit Trump

More than 200 Republicans who previously worked for either former President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., or Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in an open letter Monday obtained exclusively by USA TODAY.

The letter from alums of the three Republican presidential nominees prior to former President Donald Trump comes on the heels of a Democratic National Convention last week in Chicago that showcased Republican detractors of the GOP nominee. At least five former aides to former President George H.W. Bush also signed the letter, which has 238 signatures in all.

Source: More than 200 Bush, McCain, Romney alums endorse Harris, hit Trump

WHO launches plan to contain mpox | CIDRAP

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the launch of a preparedness strategy and response plan to contain a mpox outbreak rapidly spreading in African countries, with two related cases recently reported in Sweden and Thailand.

The plan, which covers the next 6 months, also includes a more fleshed-out price tag of $135 million, for which the WHO will soon launch a funding appeal.

In a speech today at a meeting of the WHO regional committee for Africa, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said the plan hinges on comprehensive surveillance and response, minimizing zoonotic transmission, empowering communities to take an active role, and advancing research on and equitable access to vaccines and other countermeasures.

A complex, dynamic picture

The plan also supplements recently published temporary recommendations from the WHO’s emergency committee and standing recommendations for the earlier spread of the clade 2 mpox virus.

Cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the main hot spot, have topped 18,000 this year, Tedros said, noting that cases are already above the record level in 2023.

So far, 220 cases of the new clade 1b virus, first seen in the DRC, have been reported in four of the DRC’s neighbors that had never reported cases before. He said other clades have been reported in other DRC regions, as well as other African nations.

“It’s a complex and dynamic picture, and responding to each of these outbreaks, and bringing them under control, will require a complex, comprehensive, and coordinated international response,” he said.

First vaccine priority: interrupt transmission chains

Tedros said the WHO on August 23 received information from one vaccine manufacturer to allow consideration for emergency use listing (EUL), which he said could be issued in the next 3 weeks.

“In the meantime, I have given the green light to Gavi and UNICEF to proceed with procurement of vaccines, pending the EUL decision,” he added.

Source: WHO launches plan to contain mpox | CIDRAP

व्यथा बादलों की / Agony of Clouds – Kaushal Kishore

 

मच जाता है हाहाकार धरती पर, 

जब कोई बादल फट जाता कहीं है..

कोई उनके दिल का लेकिन हाल नहीं पूछता, 

आखिर दिल हल्का करने का हक उन्हें भी है…

🌨️ 🌨️ 🌨️ 🌨️ 🌨️ 🌨️

Chaos rains upon the Earth, 

when clouds burst and cry… 

No one pauses to inquire 

why the clouds have to sigh… 

But even they deserve a chance 

to set their hearts free…

To lighten up their heavy loads, 

as all hearts wish to be…

.

–Kaushal Kishore 

image: pinterest 

Source: व्यथा बादलों की / Agony of Clouds – Kaushal Kishore