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Aug. 10—As the number of cases slowly increases, Stanislaus County's public health immunization clinic will hold a small number of free clinics for administering monkeypox vaccine to eligible county residents. The clinics are by appointment only and limited to people in high-risk categories because of the scarce supply of monkeypox vaccine. Only Stanislaus County residents can get ...

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LOS ANGELES — Authorities investigating the crash in the Windsor Hills neighborhood that left five people dead are trying to sort out the actions and mindset of the nurse who prosecutors say plowed her Mercedes into the intersection. Investigators are still trying to get a full account of what brought Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37, to the corner of Slauson and La Brea avenues last Thursday ...

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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — America’s top diplomat on Wednesday was hoping to showcase the potential for democracy and climate action here in one of Africa’s largest countries. But backsliding reality got in the way. Within hours of U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s arrival in the Democratic Republic of Congo — as he repeatedly urged free, fair and “on time” presidential ...

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Last week’s announcement declaring monkeypox a national public health emergency may get more vaccines to more people sooner than expected. But don’t expect widespread availability for quite awhile, area health officials say. “This is about trying to get more vaccines produced and distributed to jurisdictions that need it,” said Nathan Koffarnus, assistant bureau chief for the bureau of ...

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Miami-Dade County is opening its first two monkeypox vaccination sites at Tropical Park and in Miami Beach to counter the growing number of cases in the recently declared U.S. public health emergency, county officials said Wednesday. The vaccine sites will open on Friday, although people can register for an appointment in advance by going to miamidade.gov/monkeypox or by calling ...

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With more than 1,000 cases of monkeypox in the state, Florida health officials are postponing second doses to offer more first-time shots of the Jynneos vaccine. “The Department of Health is using all available doses as first doses only. Second doses will be rescheduled once the federal government has increased vaccine supply,” said Nina Levine, a spokesperson for the Department of Health, ...

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Brussels — Belgium reported the country's first case of monkeypox in a woman on Wednesday, according to the news agency, Belga, citing Sciensano, the Belgian public health institute. Sciensano published the case at a press conference held by Belgian Health Minister, Frank Vandenbroucke, to announce plans to boost the country's monkeypox vaccination campaign. Vandenbroucke said the country's 12 ...

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Joseph Cassara decided to head back to the emergency room when the pain made it unbearable to swallow. "I tried to eat a banana for breakfast," he said, "and it just felt like I was swallowing razor blades." Cassara, 33, was still waiting on the test results to confirm that he had monkeypox, but was suffering scorching fevers and gruesome lesions on his cheek and chin that felt as if they were ...

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A massive debris flow triggered by flash floods that followed a wildfire in Northern California is believed to have killed scores of fish along a 50-mile stretch of the Klamath River last week. Intense storms sent flood waters coursing through an area recently burned by the McKinney fire, pushing charred soil, rocks and trees into the river near Humbug Creek, said Craig Tucker, natural ...

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LOS ANGELES — In the city where the car is king, activists are pushing to claim strips of the biggest boulevards for bicyclists and walkers. Their fight has played out at Griffith Park, where streets were recently closed after a cyclist was killed. It spilled out along the steps of City Hall where advocates staged a die-in. And now, it could make its way to the ballot box in a vote that will ...