Hout Bay has been identified as one of five hotspots in Cape Town.Fishermen in the area explain how Covid-19 has impacted on their industry - and their lives.In Imizamo Yethu, a nearby informal settlement, people are going to bed without food.When Jose de Barros sailed out to sea on February 3, there wasn't a Covid-19…
For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic swept into southwest Georgia in early March, Albany-based Phoebe Putney Health System has no COVID-19 patients left in its main hospital, the system announced Thursday. It has 42 patients with the disease remaining in Albany at Phoebe North, a coronavirus expansion ward it built for the epidemic,…
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