SPRINGFIELD — The Clark County Combined Health District identified 20 cases of COVID-19 linked to the Dole Fresh Vegetables packaging plant. Of the 20 cases, 12 are Dole employees (10 confirmed and two probable); eight are contacts of employees (five confirmed and three probable); and three cases involve people who do not live in Clark County, according…
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This virus is deadly, long-lived and highly contagious, but it doesn’t affect people or other animals.An eastern cottontail rabbit in Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas.Credit...Education Images/Universal Images Group, via Getty ImagesMay 18, 2020, 5:11 p.m. ETThere’s another deadly virus outbreak in the U.S., but this one is killing thousands of wild rabbits. It…
3D render illustration of COVID-19 (Getty Images) "The act of singing itself might have contributed to SARS-CoV-2 transmission," the CDC says Matthew Rozsa May 13, 2020 8:57PM (UTC) On Tuesday the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) cited a two-and-a-half hour choir practice in Washington state as an example of a "superspreader event" and argued that it…
article Stacked packages of dried ramen creamy chicken noodles (Getty Images) CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. - An outbreak of the novel coronavirus at a Maruchan ramen noodle factory in Virginia has sickened several workers, according to local reports. At least seven workers at the facility in Chesterfield County have tested positive for COVID-19 and are now…
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…