Parts of Tshwane will be in the dark from 5pm on Tuesday to avoid network overloading, Eskom has said in a statement. Gauteng has been hit by load reduction - a form of localised rolling blackouts - regularly since June due to illegal connections, meter bypasses and vandalism, according to the power utility. Tuesday's load…
Shonisani Lethole.(Shonisani Lethole, Facebook) Shonisani Lethole, 35, died at Tembisa Hospital after being admitted with breathing difficulties. He was tested for Covid-19, but died without receiving his results.His family is appalled by the alleged mistreatment at the hospital and have questioned why the results took so long."Why did my son not eat for 48 hours?…
June 21, 2020Updated 6:22 p.m. ETNEW DELHI — Neelam Kumari Gautam woke up at 5 a.m. with shooting labor pains. Her husband put her gently in the back of a rickshaw and motored with her to a hospital. Then another. Then another. Her pain was so intense she could barely breathe, but none would take…
CLOSE How does coronavirus enter the body, and why does it become fatal for some compared to just a cough or fever for others? USA TODAYAbby Adair Reinhard pressed her iPhone tighter to her ear, straining to hear the soft rhythm of her father's breath.In. Out. In. Out.Five miles away, in a hospital bed in…
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