The defense secretary described the vaccine requirement, which he lifted in April, as an “absurd, overreaching” mandate.
A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.
The outbreak at the base in San Antonio raced through an Air Force Basic Military Training wing, where new recruits sleep on bunk beds in open bays and share meals at large communal tables.
A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, the Air Force said in a news release. It was not immediately clear whether the death of the trainee, Keon McDaniel, was related to the flu outbreak.
“Spanish flu” — the reason it’s “Spanish” is that Spain was neutral in WWI and wasn’t censoring its press like the combatants.
The flu was everywhere.
Yeah. The “Spanish” flu is actually a product of Kansas.
the virus itself, how it came to be is still a mystery. they suspected it was a recombination event between different strains of h1n1.
How surreal would it be if the farm run by a Kennedy?
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And yet it originated in kansas!