IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- The daughter of an Iowa nursing home resident who died suddenly in a coronavirus outbreak says the state could have done more to stop the spread and protect vulnerable citizens such as her father. Roger Coe, 86, died Friday at the Crystal Heights Care Center in Oskaloosa after the virus…
Council for Medical Schemes chairperson dies of Covid-19 complicationsA distraught family member of one of the residents, who lives abroad, contacted News24 to say she is extremely worried about her father, a former advocate by trade, who lives at the Main House.She told News24 that the facility was to go into lockdown on March 27,…
Mother and daughter travel to New York together to work frontline nursing jobs A mother and daughter from Arkansas traveled to New York City to help treat patients with coronavirus on the frontlines.Uchenna Onyia-Murphy, a nurse practitioner, and Ona Onyia, her 23-year-old daughter who's a registered nurse, originally traveled to New York — considered the…
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
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