he s standing by life live. also growing concern the u.s. about the potential spread of another deadly virus. the cdc is now discussing whether to offer vaccinations for people at high risk of what s called monkey pox. a rare case has just been confirmed in this country. and as the buffalo shooting suspect appears in court, there s a new report just outside tout that some 15 peopl signed into an online chat room where he invited people to watch the racist attack where it happened. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m westolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with president biden hitting vladimir putin with a one-two punch. the united states now poise d t send billions of additional dollars in new aid to ukraine as the president is promoting new efforts to expand nato right now. our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is joining us live from seoul, south korea. the president is heading to asia, whe
month. so hopefully all is fine there. the cdc is discussing whether to offer smallpox vaccine to those at high risk. so health care workers taking care of a patient who has smallpox. the vaccine, it s related to monkeypox. it s not a small thing to get a smallpox vaccine. people can have adverse reactions. you can get other people sick if you get vaccinated. the fact that they are thinking about offering this means that there is some concern for those folks. what exactly are the symptoms of monomonkeypox? the symptoms start out as the symptoms of many other things. it starts out with a headache and swollen limp nodes and fever. but then after those symptoms, you get lesions all over the body. then it s very clear that it s monkey pox. the transmission is through prolonged face to face contact and direct or indirect contact with bodily fluids or with skin
in the west or the southwest. what are the symptoms? i mean that s right, that s right. what do you look for if you re worried about having the plague? john, you ll see these symptoms and you and others will get nervous because they look so much like the symptoms of other things. let s look at them and talk about why we shouldn t be to too panicked. the symptoms of the plague are fever, chills, nausea, weakness, swollen limp nodes, but often big, like that size of a chicken egg swollen. and, you know, you might look at that and think, well, gosh, i ve had all of those things. maybe not as big as a chicken egg. so the cdc officially says contact your doctor if you have these symptoms. of course not everyone will contact their doctor when they just have a fever. experts have said look if it feels unusual for you, if it feels this is different, you should get checked out. if you ve been handling rodents you should get checked out. you mentioned the southwest, if you live in new
some undergoing more adpresive surgery which in this study removed an average of 17 limp nodes while others had simpler surgery which removed only cancer-effected limb of nodes. significantly more women who had the extensive procedure suffered adverse effects such as shoulder pain, weakness or painful swelling of the arm known as lymphedema. if we can detect this disease with these lymph nodes, we can spare a lot of patient the morbidity of more complicated surgery. that is a key finding because we ve been using axillary lymph node surgery complete axillary lymph node surgery for many decades and we know it causes a lot of problems for the individual patient. reporter: the study also found after five years there was virtually no difference in the survival rate of the two groups. we re really making huge strides in pinpointing and tailoring therapy in breast cancer.