large new study from South Korea offers an answer: Children younger than 10 transmit to others much less often than adults do, but the risk is not zero. And those between the ages of 10 and 19 can spread the virus at least as well as adults do.The findings suggest that as schools reopen, communities…
31% of children tested for COVID-19 in Florida have been positive, state data shows Hide Transcript Show Transcript So on the school's, I'd say a couple things. One is, and Jean alluded to this. We spent months saying that there were certain things that were essential that included fast food restaurants. It included Wal Mart.…
By Catherine De Lange Understanding how people are helping others can ease children’s anxietyJames Veysey/Shutterstock SINCE lockdown began in the UK, Cathy Creswell at the University of Oxford and her colleagues have been surveying thousands of families to find out how they are affected by the covid-19 pandemic. The Co-SPACE Study has now published its…
The father of slain four-month-pregnant KZN mom Zakiyyah Ahmedjan Ismail wants Police Minister Bheki Cele and President Cyril Ramaphosa to ensure justice is done.He said the three masked men who attacked her and her family on their Weenen farm killed her in front of her children.He described his daughter as warm, innocent and loving, saying…
A general view of children and adults at Delft South Primary School standing in line to collect literacy books, sandwiches, oranges and apples. (Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach) The Department of Basic Education says it has no jurisdiction over early childhood development centre and has amended gazetted regulations. According to the Department of Social Development, ECDCs…
For 20 years I have been saying some version of the same thing about leafy greens and cattle. Water runs downhill. Cows poop. Lettuce grows at the bottom of the hill. Now FDA’s own scientists have put real numbers on it, and they deserve credit for doing it. A new paper in the Journal of Food
Published: November 08, 2026, 8:00 am Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week Infant formula maker ByHeart has “discontinued” manufacturing its products after getting caught up in an outbreak of infant botulism. ByHeart’s founders started a new company, MeridianMade, earlier this year and announced in late October that it would purchase Dublin-based
Published: November 07, 2026, 9:48 pm The County of San Luis Obispo Department of Public Health is wrapping up its investigation into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to Brookshire Farms in San Luis Obispo. Fifteen people are included in the outbreak – five who were laboratory confirmed. The county previously reported that