Outbreak Updates

We spent decades teaching people that cancer is mostly bad luck, bad genes, or bad habits. Then you find out 2.3 million cases in a single year were attributable to infections.

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H5N1: ANOTHER STATE JOINS THE DAIRY OUTBREAK. Oregon just confirmed its FIRST infected dairy herd. Morrow County. Positive milk detected. Nearby Washington: 43 infected herds, 3 human cases, 1 death. The Oregon genome is still pending. The question now: Is this connected to Washington’s B3.13 outbreak, or a separate introduction?

Two more children infected with H9N2 bird flu disclosed in China A 9-year-old girl in Guangxi and a 7-year-old boy in Liaoning.

Syria — Polio detected in two children with paralysis |

Highly pathogenic bird flu confirmed in a backyard flock in Saint-Sauveur-d’Emmalleville, France

H5N1: New sequencing detail from Washington’s fatal dairy-linked case. ECDC identifies M1-115I in the patient’s virus, Both sequenced human cases carry PB2-631L

Polio detected in Syria

Outbreak of mpox virus detected in Anchorage, Alaska

The U.S. hit 5,182 confirmed measles cases by Nov 5. That’s more than twice the 2,289 reported in all of 2025.

Florida reports 39 locally acquired dengue cases in one week

Bangladesh reports a nationwide measles outbreak

Four confirmed human screwworm cases in Sinaloa, Mexico

H5N1: WASHINGTON’S DAIRY OUTBREAK IS STILL EXPANDING. State agriculture officials now list 43 infected dairy herds, up from 40. Two additional herds in Yakima County. One in Benton County. All confirmed November 5.

In 1972, more than 3,000 people in the U.S. choked to death. The sixth most common cause of accidental death. Cincinnati surgeon Henry Heimlich went searching for a better response. In June 1974 he published an informal essay: "Pop Goes the Café Coronary." Heimlich wanted the public to know the method. A week after a syndicated column described it in June 1974, a retired restaurant owner used it to save a choking woman. A JAMA editorial that August named it the Heimlich maneuver.

New York Two measles cases confirmed in one Cayuga County household

An infant died of measles in southwestern Wisconsin. The coroner listed measles as the immediate cause of death. It’s the first such death reported in Wisconsin since 1990.

CDC Its national situation page was updated November 5 and reports 74 confirmed human A(H5) infections nationally since February 2024. No additional Yakima infection was identified.

Bird-flu exposure signals in Egyptian livestock A new study found H5N1 antibodies in cattle and H9N2 antibodies in cattle, sheep and goats.