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May 10 0000 UTC Brief
In public health
The hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius has now reached eight cases and three deaths, and public health experts are openly asking whether the U.S. response was too slow. The criticism is focused on limited federal messaging as the outbreak unfolded, and on whether the CDC alerted doctors and the public quickly enough.
Investigators say Dutch ornithologist Leo Schilperoord, 70, is the likely first patient in the cluster. Exposure is being traced to a municipal landfill near Ushuaia in southern Argentina, while conspiracy theories have predictably rushed in to fill the space where facts already were. Bill Gates is not one of those facts.
In U.S. news
Eleven people were taken to hospital after a possible boat explosion at Haulover Sandbar in North Miami Beach, Florida. Fire rescue crews, the Coast Guard and other agencies responded, but officials have not confirmed what caused the blast and the victims’ conditions were not immediately known.
In Maryland, the state’s Office of People’s Counsel says PJM Interconnection’s proposed $22 billion transmission upgrade for data centers could leave Maryland customers paying nearly $2 billion for grid work that mostly benefits other states. The complaint says bills could rise by about $1.6 billion over the next decade, which is a tidy reminder that “regional planning” often means somebody else gets the region and you get the invoice.
Betty Broderick, convicted in the 1989 killings of her ex-husband and his wife, has died at 78 in California after being moved to a medical center earlier this month.
In Russia and Ukraine
Vladimir Putin used Moscow’s smaller Victory Day parade to project confidence in the war in Ukraine, speaking under tight security on Red Square as Russia marked the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The message was the usual mix of military pageantry and strategic certainty.
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