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New York TimesGreg Jaffe, Maggie Haberman

Flu outbreak hits Lackland Air Force Base: nearly 160 troops sick weeks after Hegseth ended mandatory annual flu shots

A flu outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas has sickened nearly 160 troops, according to multiple reports. The outbreak follows Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s April decision to rescind the Pentagon’s annual flu-shot requirement, which he criticized as “absurd” and “overreaching.”

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