Elzabie, Breggie and Danie Brand. An elderly couple and their adult daughter have gone missing after they were seemingly attacked on their smallholding in Hartswater in the Northern Cape on Sunday.Netwerk24 reported that guests arrived at the couple's home on Monday afternoon, only to find it deserted, ransacked and bloodstained.Danie Brand, 83, and his wife,…
Fourteen members of the same family in Texas tested positive for the coronavirus following a small gathering in June, the family says. One of them has died and another is on life support.Tony Green, who lives in Dallas, said that after months of social distancing, he and his partner hosted a party for their parents…
An East London family found out a week after the funeral of a family member that they had buried a stranger.The bungle was caused by Frere Hospital mortuary workers.This is a second Eastern Cape hospital in the news for such a mistake in less than a month."I received a phone call from the Frere Hospital…
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Eastern Cape teacher Lulamile Ngqezana. A family says it is shocked after it received the body of someone who died from Covid-19, rather than their relative. The Ngqezana family in PE said they grew suspicious when the parlour brought the body in a coffin wrapped in plastic. The family said the undertaker ripped the plastic open to…
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