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Argentina reports 1 new case of unidentified illness
Health authorities in northern Argentina have reported one new case of an unidentified illness that has sickened at least 10 people, officials say. The cause of the outbreak remains unknown.
The health ministry in Tucumán province said in a statement on Friday that an 81-year-old man with comorbidities has been linked to the outbreak. The man is hospitalized in the public sector in serious condition.
The statement did not specify where or when the man may have been infected. All of the prior cases had been found at Luz Médica, a private clinic in the city of San Miguel de Tucuman.
Dr. Luis Medina Ruiz, the region’s health minister, said at a briefing on Thursday that experts have carried out tests for more than 30 possible causes so far – including coronavirus, influenza, hantavirus, and multiple strains of Legionella – but all have come back negative.
The first known case is a 70-year-old woman who was admitted to Luz Médica in mid-August to undergo surgery for a gallbladder problem. She developed a lung infection on August 18, after which healthcare workers who had contact with her started falling ill.
A doctor and a nurse later died, and the first patient died on Thursday morning. Four other patients, including the new case, remain in serious condition. Three more are being treated on an outpatient basis. Symptoms of the illness include shortness of breath, pneumonia and fever.
“We are all on alert about this issue,” Medina Ruiz said. “We are releasing guides to public and private intensive care units for the possible appearance of a patient with these characteristics, especially to make a proper diagnosis with all the necessary protocols and PPE, as recommended with all patients with respiratory conditions.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC) are both monitoring the outbreak.
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Argentina investigates outbreak of unidentified illness
Health authorities are investigating an outbreak of an unidentified illness that has sickened at least nine people at a private clinic in northern Argentina, officials say. Three of those infected have died.
The health ministry in Tucumán province reported three new cases at Luz Médica on Thursday, raising the total to nine, with symptoms that include pneumonia and fever. Three of those infected – a doctor, a nurse, and a patient – have died.
Dr. Luis Medina Ruiz, the region’s health minister, said at a briefing on Thursday that experts have so far carried out tests for more than 30 possible causes – including coronavirus, hantavirus, and multiple strains of Legionella – but all have come back negative.
The first known case is a 70-year-old woman who was admitted to Luz Médica in mid-August to undergo surgery for a gallbladder problem. She developed a lung infection on August 18, after which healthcare workers who had contact with her started falling ill.
A doctor and a nurse later died, and the patient died on Thursday morning.
“We are all on alert about this issue,” Medina Ruiz said. “We are releasing guides to public and private intensive care units for the possible appearance of a patient with these characteristics, especially to make a proper diagnosis with all the necessary protocols and PPE, as recommended with all patients with respiratory conditions.”
Although all of the nine cases had an onset of symptoms between August 18 and August 23, it is too early to lift restrictions at the private clinic, Medina Ruiz said. One of the three new cases fell ill during the same period but wasn’t hospitalized until Thursday morning.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC) are both monitoring the outbreak.
Argentina investigates outbreak of unidentified illness
Health authorities are investigating an outbreak of an unidentified illness that has sickened at least nine people at a private clinic in northern Argentina, officials say. Three of those infected have died.
The health ministry in Tucumán province reported three new cases at Luz Médica on Thursday, raising the total to nine, with symptoms that include pneumonia and fever. Three of those infected – a doctor, a nurse, and a patient – have died.
Dr. Luis Medina Ruiz, the region’s health minister, said at a briefing on Thursday that experts have so far carried out tests for more than 30 possible causes – including coronavirus, hantavirus, and multiple strains of Legionella – but all have come back negative.
The first known case is a 70-year-old woman who was admitted to Luz Médica in mid-August to undergo surgery for a gallbladder problem. She developed a lung infection on August 18, after which healthcare workers who had contact with her started falling ill.
A doctor and a nurse later died, and the patient died on Thursday morning.
“We are all on alert about this issue,” Medina Ruiz said. “We are releasing guides to public and private intensive care units for the possible appearance of a patient with these characteristics, especially to make a proper diagnosis with all the necessary protocols and PPE, as recommended with all patients with respiratory conditions.”
Although all of the nine cases had an onset of symptoms between August 18 and August 23, it is too early to lift restrictions at the private clinic, Medina Ruiz said. One of the three new cases fell ill during the same period but wasn’t hospitalized until Thursday morning.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC) are both monitoring the outbreak.
North Korea reports ‘epidemic’ of unidentified intestinal disease after Covid wave
At least 800 families suffering from what North Korea has only called an “acute enteric epidemic” have received aid in South Hwanghae Province so far.
Enteric refers to the gastrointestinal tract and South Korean officials say it may be cholera or typhoid.
The new outbreak, first reported on Thursday, puts further strain on the isolated country as it battles chronic food shortages and a wave of Covid-19 infections.
On Sunday, state news agency KCNA detailed prevention efforts, including quarantines, “intensive screening for all residents,” and special treatment and monitoring of vulnerable people such as children and the elderly.
A national “Rapid Diagnosis and Treatment Team” is working with local health officials, and measures are being taken to ensure that farming is not disrupted in the key agricultural area, KCNA said.
Disinfection work is being carried out, including of sewage and other waste, to ensure the safety of drinking and household water, the report said.
KCNA also reported another 19,310 new fever cases on Sunday, without detailing how many of those patients had tested positive for the coronavirus.
Overall more than 4.6 million have shown fever symptoms since a Covid outbreak was first acknowledged in mid-May.
Key lawmaker warns at UFO hearing: ‘Unidentified aerial phenomena are a potential national security threat’
For many lawmakers and intelligence and military personnel working on unexplained aerial phenomena, the bigger concern with the episodes is not that alien life is visiting Earth, but rather that a foreign adversary like Russia or China might be fielding some kind of next-generation technology in American airspace that the United States doesn’t know about.
Democratic Rep. André Carson of Indiana, the chairman of the panel holding the hearing, warned in his opening remarks, “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena are a potential national security threat. And they need to be treated that way.”
He went on to say, “For too long, the stigma associated with UAPs has gotten in the way of good intelligence analysis. Pilots avoided reporting, or were laughed at when they did. DOD officials relegated the issue to the back room, or swept it under the rug entirely, fearful of a skeptical national security community.”
“Today, we know better. UAPs are unexplained, it’s true. But they are real. They need to be investigated. And any threats they pose need to be mitigated,” he said.
The hearing featured testimony from top government officials and the display of images and video of unidentified aerial phenomena. The public portion of the event lasted fewer than 90 minutes. Following the conclusion of the public hearing, the panel will hold a closed-door, classified briefing Tuesday afternoon.
During his testimony, Ronald Moultrie, undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security, argued there is a need to balance transparency with the protection of sensitive intelligence information, saying there is an “obligation to protect sensitive sources and methods.”
“Our goal is to strike that delicate balance, one that enables us to maintain the public’s trust while preserving those capabilities that are vital to the support of our service personnel,” he said.
‘It takes considerable effort to understand what we’re seeing’
Scott Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence, also appeared before the panel to answer questions from lawmakers.
During his testimony, Bray showed video and images to demonstrate what observations of UAPs may look like — and the effort it takes to try to identify what they might be.
One video featured images of flashing triangle shapes as seen through night-vision goggles. “In this video, US navy personnel recorded what appears to be triangles — some flashing — recorded several years ago off the coast of the United States,” he said.
He went on to show an image of what appeared to be another triangle-shaped object that he said came from “several years later and off a different coast.”
“This time other US navy assets also observed unmanned aerial systems nearby and were now reasonably confident that these triangles correlate to unmanned aerial systems in the area,” he said.
“I don’t mean to suggest that everything that we observe is identifiable,” he said, “but this is a great example of how it takes considerable effort to understand what we’re seeing in the examples that we are able to collect.”
The first video Bray displayed featured only a very short clip of what appeared to be a blue sky with some white markings visible in the distance. He said that showed “an observation in real time” and suggested that it demonstrated how there is frequently a limited amount of data to work off of.
Bray echoed the concern that government officials must balance public disclosure with the need to safeguard certain information.
“Given the nature of our business, national defense, we’ve had to sometimes be less forthcoming with information in open forums than many would hope,” he said. “If UAPs do indeed represent a potential threat to our security, then the capabilities, systems, processes and sources we use to observe, record, study and analyze these phenomena need to be classified at appropriate levels.”
“We do not want potential adversaries to know exactly what we’re able to see or understand or how we come to the conclusions we make,” he said.
‘The intelligence community has a serious duty to our taxpayers’
There was bipartisan consensus that UFOs should be treated with seriousness and not simply dismissed as something in the realm of science fiction.
The panel’s top ranking Republican, Rep. Rick Crawford of Arkansas, said in his opening remarks, “aside from all the hype and speculation, there are important underlying issues posed by UAPs.”
“The intelligence community has a serious duty to our taxpayers to prevent potential adversaries such as China and Russia from surprising us with unforeseen new technologies,” he said. “This committee has an obligation to understand what you are doing to determine whether any UAPs are new technologies or not — and if they are, where are they coming from?”
The hearing was convened by the House Intelligence Committee’s Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation subcommittee.
It follows the release last year by the US intelligence community of a long-awaited report on mysterious flying objects that have been seen moving through restricted military airspace over the last several decades.
The report examined 144 reports of what the government terms “unidentified aerial phenomenon” — only one of which investigators were able to explain by the end of the study. Investigators found no evidence that the sightings represented either extraterrestrial life or a major technological advancement by a foreign adversary like Russia or China, but acknowledge that is a possible explanation.
In his testimony before the panel, Moultrie explained that UAP can refer to “airborne objects that when encountered cannot be immediately identified.”
In November 2021, the Department of Defense announced the creation of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group.
The department said in a release at the time that the purpose of the new program would be to sync up efforts across the US government to “detect, identify and attribute objects of interest” in restricted airspace “to assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security.”
Lawmakers requested an update on the program during the hearing. “Today we will bring that organization out of the shadows,” Carson said.
This story and headline have been updated with additional developments Tuesday.
CNN’s Alex Rogers and Jeremy Herb contributed.
Video shows Mike Tyson hitting passenger on plane; two unidentified subjects apprehended, then released, per police
Mike Tyson was involved in a physical altercation on an airplane Wednesday night, with an edited video obtained by TMZ Sports showing the Hall of Famer striking a passenger seated behind him.
A spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department told ESPN on Thursday that at approximately 10:06 p.m. local time “officers were dispatched to a physical altercation onboard an airplane” at San Francisco International Airport. The department declined to identify those involved, saying it doesn’t release the names of detained individuals.
Police did say two subjects were apprehended before later being released. One person was treated at the scene for non-life-threatening injuries.
“That subject provided minimal details of the incident and refused to cooperate further with the police investigation,” the officer said.
In the video obtained by TMZ Sports, a man seated behind Tyson who repeatedly had been trying to speak with him is later seen with blood on his forehead, although it wasn’t clear what happened immediately beforehand. According to TMZ, they were on board a JetBlue plane that was headed to Florida.
“Unfortunately, Mr. Tyson had an incident on a flight with an aggressive passenger who began harassing him and threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat,” a spokesperson for Tyson told ESPN on Thursday.
The police department said it’s “aware of video that possibly captured the incident, which surfaced following the initial investigation. That video has been forwarded to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.”
Tyson, the former heavyweight champion, has been involved in multiple physical altercations in public. Among them: a 1989 incident in Los Angeles where Tyson was accused of striking a parking attendant with an open hand (charges were dropped). In 1998, Tyson pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor assault following a car accident in Maryland. After a three-and-a-half-month jail stint, he was placed on probation.
Tyson retired from boxing in 2005 but did take part in an exhibition bout with Roy Jones Jr. in 2020.
The 55-year-old Tyson now focuses on his cannabis line along with his podcast, “Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson.”
North Korea has launched an ‘unidentified projectile,’ South Korea says
Tuesday’s projectile was launched from Jangang province, near the North Korean border with China and landed in the ocean between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, its flight covering a distance of more than 700 kilometers (435 miles) and reaching a height of 60 kilometers (37 miles), the statement said.
Assessment of the test by South Korean and United States intelligence was ongoing, but initial analysis showed Tuesday’s test, in which the projectile reached a speed of Mach 10 was of a more advanced weapon than the test North Korea conducted last Thursday, the South Korean Joint Chiefs said.
A hypersonic missile actually refers to the payload that a rocket carries aloft. In this case, that payload could be what is called a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV).
An HGV can theoretically fly as fast as 20 times the speed of sound and can be very maneuverable in flight, making it almost impossible to shoot down, according to experts.
But a South Korean government statement Tuesday said, “Our military has the ability to detect and intercept this projectile, and we are continuously strengthening our response system.”
Sout Korea “expressed a strong regret over the North’s launch, which took place at a time when political stability is very important.”
A statement from US Forces Korea said the test posed no threat to US or South Korean territory or military personnel, but “the missile launch highlights the destabilizing impact of (North Korea’s) illicit weapons program.”
North Korea has not released any information about Tuesday’s launch. Last week, North Korean state media gave details 24 hours after the test.
Tuesday’s test covered about the same distance at last week’s, 700 kilometers (435 miles), and the missile fell into the sea outside of Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), according to Japan’s Defense Ministry.
Pyongyang is barred from testing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons under international law.
North Korea fires unidentified projectile into waters off Korean Peninsula, South Korea says
According to the Japanese government, the projectile may have been a “ballistic missile,” it said in a tweet.
The Japan Coast Guard said the possible ballistic missile had already fallen into the sea by 8:23 a.m. local time. It called on all vessels transiting to look out for updates.
Japan’s government also said it is confirming the safety of aircraft and ships.
The submarine missile test came after weeks of seesawing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, which saw growing cooperation between Pyongyang and Seoul at the same time as rising military brinksmanship. Last year, the country also sped up its weapons testing program, including the launch in late September of what it claimed was a new hypersonic missile.
Pyongyang is barred from testing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons under international law.
Wednesday’s launch comes a few days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gave a year-end speech in which he admitted there is a “food problem” in the country. The address brought an important five-day meeting of his Korean Worker’s Party to a close.
Kim also praised military advances made during his tenth year in power but made no specific mention of South Korea nor the US, other than a short reference to policy directions for inter-Korean relations and external affairs.
Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, said by launching a projectile, “North Korea is signaling that neither the Omicron variant nor domestic food shortages will stop its aggressive missile development.”
“This test demonstrates the Kim regime’s disregard for domestic suffering. Instead of welcoming humanitarian assistance, Pyongyang is violating UN Security Council resolutions in ways that merit further economic sanctions,” he said.
This is a developing story. More to come.
South Korea: Unidentified person crosses heavily militarized border into North Korea
The person was spotted at the eastern front of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) at around 9:20 p.m. local time on Saturday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. The person was detected by the military with the use of a thermal observation device.
The JCS said troops were dispatched but they were unable to find the person, who crossed the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea at around 10:40 p.m.
A military official said security cameras had earlier captured the person climbing a barbed wire fence at around 6:40 p.m. Saturday, but the guard on CCTV duty had missed it.
The official said they were currently working to identify the person and that it is unknown whether the person was still alive.
“We sent a notice to North Korea to protect our people yesterday and there has been no response from North Korea,” South Korea’s Defense Ministry spokesman Boo Seung-chan said Monday.
There were “no unusual movements of the North Korean military” in relation to Sunday’s incident, he added.
North Korean state media did not report on any crossings over the DMZ overnight.