July 5, 2020 | 11:56am A patient in Florida has contracted a rare, brain-eating amoeba, according to health officials. The Florida Department of Health said Friday that a case of the often-fatal amoeba called Naegleria fowleri was detected in Hillsborough County. The parasite is found naturally in freshwater and can be life-threatening when it enters…
A mother-of-four, who is the first American patient to have her genes edited with the controversial CRISPR technology to treat her sickle cell disease, says the technology is working.Victoria Gray, 34, of Forest, Mississippi, has suffered from the debilitating blood disorder her entire life. She was in so much pain at one point that she wasn't even…
A patient has disappeared from a quarantine facility in the Eastern Cape. The search is on for an elderly patient who disappeared from the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Covid-19 isolation facility.A security guard has been accused of deserting his post and has since been suspended.The elderly patient's granddaughter, who is also a patient at the…
the lung transplant program at Northwestern Medicine, which includes Northwestern Memorial Hospital, in an interview.He said the patient, a woman in her 20s who had no serious underlying medical conditions, was recovering well: “She’s awake, she’s smiling, she FaceTimed with her family.”But she has a long way to go. She is still on a ventilator…
Dr. Jay Cook of Providence Regional Medical Center Everett speaks during a press conference about the first confirmed U.S. case of a virus known as the 2019 novel coronavirus at the state Public Health Laboratories on January 21, 2020 in Shoreline, Washington. The man who was first diagnosed with coronavirus in Snohomish County should not…
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