At one Cherry Hill nursing home, a quarter of the residents have contracted the coronavirus and 11 people have died. Nine miles away in Burlington County, another facility is battling the virus that has infected at least 54 people. Eight have died. And one company that operates long-term-care facilities across the country has reported 263…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Hundreds of people gathered Sunday in Southern California to protest the state's stay-at-home orders to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the latest in a growing number of demonstrations nationwide.The protesters assembled in San Clemente, near the city's pier, before marching a half-mile…
Startling state figures released Saturday show 34 nursing homes in seven Bay Area counties have confirmed cases of coronavirus. Gateway Care and Rehabilitation Center in Hayward has 102 such cases, with 33 staff members and 69 patients infected, significantly higher than the 68 total of coronavirus cases reported by Alameda County on Thursday, which included…
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