Six more deaths linked to COVID-19 were announced Wednesday, as health officials said two more outbreaks of the coronavirus were identified at long-term care facilities.>> Download the FREE WMUR appHealth Commissioner Lori Shibinette said an outbreak of COVID-19 at Hackett Hill Center has led to 22 residents and two staff members testing positive for the…
Six more deaths linked to COVID-19 were announced Wednesday, as health officials said two more outbreaks of the coronavirus were identified at long-term care facilities.>> Download the FREE WMUR appHealth Commissioner Lori Shibinette said an outbreak of COVID-19 at Hackett Hill Center has led to 22 residents and two staff members testing positive for the…
The United States has suffered at least 66,000 more deaths than expected this year, a toll that includes the devastation directly caused by the coronavirus pandemic and a sharp rise in fatalities not attributed to the virus, the government reported late Wednesday.The new report from the National Center for Health Statistics shows 33,756 covid-19 deaths…
The Department of Health has reported 10 more Covid-19-related deaths in the country, which brings the toll to 103.Three were reported in Gauteng, four in the Western Cape, two in KwaZulu-Natal and one in the Eastern Cape.In Gauteng, the three who died were aged 89, 82 and 80.the 89-year-old female had experienced shortness of breath,…
reported an estimated 39 to 56 million cases of flu in the U.S. during the 2019-2020 flu season. During the same period, flu accounted for 24,000 to 62,000 deaths in the country. Compared with previous years, the number of deaths during the 2019-2020 flu season is similar (see Figure 1 below). The 2017-2018 season was…
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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