Environment 20 August 2020 By Liz Kalaugher Loggerhead sea turtles have been used to track water temperatures around hurricanesMichael Patrick O'Neill / Alamy Sea turtles tagged with location and temperature sensors have been used to gather data on water temperatures near hurricanes, which could help us better forecast how strong such storms will be. Hurricanes…
A health worker holds a throat swab to test Covid-19. A courier truck has been hijacked by armed robbers in Port Elizabeth and an unknown number of Covid-19 specimens are now missing. The incident comes less than a month after samples were found dumped near the N2 outside East London.National Health Laboratory Services has warned the…
By Donna Lu Bugging a room just got a little more literal with these tiny cameras that attach to beetles and capture what they seeMark Stone/University of Washington A tiny camera that hitches a ride on the backs of beetles can wirelessly livestream footage from a bug’s eye view. Shyam Gollakota and his colleagues at…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Facing an unexpected surge in ambulance arrivals at the USNS Comfort hospital ship docked in New York City -- some running dangerously low on oxygen -- Marines on security detail ran hundreds of yards down the pier carrying fresh tanks, the Navy said…
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have
A senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services spent this week posting three claims about food safety on X, each one preceded by a red exclamation point and the word FACT. As of Thursday, August 20, 2026, CDC counts 10,930 people sick in the federal Cyclospora outbreak, at least 454 of them hospitalized, two