November 27, 2022

Worried About Ebola, Uganda Extends Outbreak Epicenter’s Quarantine

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicenter of the country’s Ebola outbreak by 21 days, adding that his government’s response to the disease was succeeding. Movement into and out of the Mubende and Kassanda districts in central Uganda will be restricted up to Dec. 17, the presidency said late Saturday. It was originally imposed for 21 days on Oct. 15, then extended for the same period Nov. 5. The extension is “to further sustain the gains in control of Ebola that we have made, and to protect the rest of the

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Bird Flu in Nebraska Prompts Slaughter of Additional 1.8M Chickens

Just like on other farms where bird flu has been found this year, all the chickens on the Nebraska farm will be killed to limit the spread of the disease. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says more than 52.3 million birds in 46 states — mostly chickens and turkeys on commercial farms — have been slaughtered as part of this year’s outbreak. Nebraska is second only to Iowa’s 15.5 million birds killed with 6.8 million birds now affected at 13 farms. In most past bird flu outbreaks the virus largely died off during the summer, but this year’s version found

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Angered by lockdowns, protests spread in China amid calls for Xi’s ouster

Angered by China’s strict anti-virus lockdowns, protesters took to the streets in more than a dozen cities on Sunday, calling for President Xi Jinping’s ouster in the biggest challenge to Communist Party rule in decades, according to media reports and video footage from social media posts of people on the ground. Riot police used pepper spray to disperse protesters in Shanghai who called for an end to one-party rule, but hours later people gathered again at the same spot, the Associated Press reported. Protesters gathered for a second day on Urumqi Road in Shanghai, as the authorities deployed large numbers

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Vietnamese police dismantle fraud group that stole data and hacked bank accounts

Police in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Binh have cracked a fraud ring that took control of users’ mobile phones to steal the equivalent of U.S. $1.6 million. The group accessed information on customers who took out bank loans. They used it to gain access to the users’ smart phone SIM cards, recover internet banking passwords and hijack accounts. An estimated 40 accounts were hacked and VND40 billion stolen. The Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention (PA05), operating under the Quang Binh Police Department, launched an investigation  after a victim complained on Nov. 18, according to state-controlled

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