On Dec. 20, 2019, a 61-year-old man from Wuhan, China, presented to the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital with a fever and a strong cough. He'd previously been diagnosed with chronic liver disease but was exhibiting a new, pneumonialike illness. The cause was unknown. Over the next week, his respiratory distress worsened. He was placed on mechanical…
A question about a SANDF deployment in terrorist-hit Mozambique went unanswered in a parliamentary committee.According to a DA MP, SA's special forces and maritime reaction squadron have been deployed in Mozambique.ISIS has threatened South Africa if it were to get involved in the conflict. A question on the deployment of the South African National Defence Force's…
Cogta Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma responded to several written parliamentary questions about key lockdown matters, saying the applicable information is not available.Yet, she has responded to some of these matters in court papers or in response to oral questions in Parliament.Misleading Parliament in written answers is a breach of the executive members' ethics code. Cooperative Governance and…
3.32am EDT 03:32 Chinese officials have released genome data for the coronavirus traced to a recent cluster in Beijing, saying it has similarities to a European strain. China has been under pressure to share the data with the World Health Organisation. It comes after Beijing reported nearly 200 fresh Covid-19 infections. Tens of thousands of…
ATLANTA — The Georgia Department of Health is looking into its testing data again, now that there are new questions about data that may have been mixed. State health officials confirmed that tests for the COVID-19 antibody have been included in the total number of coronavirus tests taken across Georgia. In a statement issued Wednesday…
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have
A senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services spent this week posting three claims about food safety on X, each one preceded by a red exclamation point and the word FACT. As of Thursday, August 20, 2026, CDC counts 10,930 people sick in the federal Cyclospora outbreak, at least 454 of them hospitalized, two