Health warning issued after squirrel tests positive for the bubonic plague in Colorado county just outside of DenverA squirrel in Colorado has tested positive for the bubonic plague It's the first case of plague in Jefferson County 18 miles southwest of Denver Another case was previously found in Broomfield county northwest of the city Plague is an infectious…
Officials request recent travelers to self-quarantine to prevent the spread of COVID-19 amid case spikesTravelers wear mask as they wait at the American Airlines ticket counter in Terminal 3 at O'Hare International Airport Tuesday, June 16, 2020, in Chicago. Beginning June 16 at American Airlines and June 18 at United Airlines, all passengers and crew…
As the city of San Francisco approaches its 5,000th confirmed case of COVID-19, likely sometime this week, Mayor London Breed and Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax issued some grim predictions for the second half of the year, if infections don't slow down.San Francisco is potentially looking at "a situation that reflects the challenges New York…
By Laurel Mallory | July 13, 2020 at 12:17 PM EDT - Updated July 13 at 2:33 PM COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Prisma Health will help explain multi-system inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C, to the public on Monday after South Carolina reported its first two cases. The disease affects children who have either contracted COVID-19 or…
(Reuters) - A Texas man who waited until his brain tumor was softball-sized; a baby who suffered an ear infection for six days; a heart patient who died: The resurgence of COVID-19 is creating another health crisis as hospitals fill and patients are fearful or unable to get non-emergency care. A protective screen is seen…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…