An Indiana woman marked her 100th birthday with coronavirus in the rearview mirror.Leora Martin, a resident of Greenleaf Health Campus, an assisted-living facility in the state, learned recently that she shook off a positive COVID-19 diagnosis from April.The news came a week before her birthday on June 13, but didn’t come as a surprise, according…
CLOSE This is how often you should wash your cloth face mask. USA TODAYThe advice to wear face masks to help stop the spread of the coronavirus ranks among the most contested public health recommendations of all time.People who say it's their right to not mask engage in often heated debate with those who point…
Indianapolis Star Published 7:13 a.m. ET April 23, 2020 | Updated 3:31 p.m. ET April 23, 2020CLOSE Governor Eric Holcomb provides COVID-19 update on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Indianapolis StarIn what could be a correction for under-reporting earlier this week, Indiana announced 612 new coronavirus cases Thursday, bringing the state tally to 13,039. The state also…
Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star Published 6:02 p.m. ET April 20, 2020 CLOSE The older, sicker residents in Indiana nursing homes make the environments particularly susceptible to the coronavirus. But there are other reasons why the disease has been so lethal there. Indianapolis StarIndiana likely will see its coronavirus death count jump later this week when the…
Indiana Health officials launch 4 new drive-in testing clinics The Indiana State Department of Health announced four new free drive-thru COVID-19 testing sites for residents on Sunday.According to IDSH, the sites will be located in Allen, Clark, Decatur and Lake counties. The testing sites will run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday,…
The U.S. company that sold infant formula related to the most recent outbreak of infant botulism imported the product from Germany. However, Nara Organics has not named the specific manufacturer of the formula. “Nara works with a state of the art manufacturer in Germany who has over 70 years of experience making top European infant
When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving where a pathogen came from was slow, painstaking, and often impossible. Investigators matched bacteria using crude “fingerprinting” methods that could tell you two samples looked similar
State and federal public health officials are investigating a new outbreak of infant botulism poisoning. So far the outbreak has sickened three babies across three states: California, Pennsylvania and Washington, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The California Department of Public Health has reported that the infections are among infants who were fed Nara