The quarantine centre for Covid-19 in Pietermaritzburg. Main concerns are around restricted access to "the pleasures of life", minister confirms.Meanwhile, 13 deaths now recorded at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.Cold storage for more than 700 Covid-19 corpses will be in place by early July. Many people are refusing to be quarantined and isolated in the…
Two people in Georgia drank liquid cleaning products over the weekend in misguided attempts to ward off COVID-19, according to the Georgia Poison Center. Both men had histories of psychiatric problems and are expected to recover. The poison center’s director, Gaylord Lopez, said he did not know if the men guzzled the chemicals because they…
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Image copyright Getty Images Pubs and bars may be closed across the UK, but supermarket alcohol sales are on the rise, off-licences have been classified as essential businesses and recycling bins have been seen overflowing with wine and beer bottles. New research from Alcohol Change UK suggests that one in five people (21%) say they…
For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals. I built a career holding companies accountable when the food
More people are sick in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in Europe mainly affecting children and young adults. A total of 83 confirmed cases had symptom onset between December 2025 and mid-May 2026. Another 24 cases identified in 2026 have not yet been sequenced and may be part of the outbreak. At least 20 people have
For over thirty years, I have been beating the same drum, and the last few days were no exception (some argue a bit too loudly and self-serving). I have been posting about public health officials — and the FDA — sending out outbreak documents with the names of companies, growers, processors, and retailers blacked out