Flu outbreak sickens 159 Air Force recruits in Texas (opens in new tab)
An influenza outbreak has sickened at least 159 recruits at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. CBS News quoted an Air Force spokesperson saying the 37th Training Wing, working with the 59th Medical Wing, was managing a localized influenza outbreak among Basic Military Training trainees over the last three weeks. The outbreak occurred weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued an April memo rescinding the military’s decades-long flu vaccination mandate and making the shot op...
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