By Mike Moffitt, SFGATE Published 4:15 pm PDT, Monday, May 11, 2020 This test tube contains a blood sample from a patient who tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus at Amphia Hospital in Breda, Netherlands. As of March 20, the hospital was carrying out between 400 and 500 tests a day for suspected cases of the…
As much of the country looks forward to the possibility of rubbing shoulders again in summer, scientists are carefully watching for signs that the coronavirus transmission could slow in warm weather.The consensus seems to be that the virus will be seasonal and endemic, meaning that, like the common cold, it will thrive in winter but…
May 1, 2020 | 2:30pm | Updated May 1, 2020 | 3:23pm Federal germ warfare researchers have designed a “game-changer” coronavirus test that quickly identifies carriers of the deadly bug — before they become infectious, according to a new report. The test, which emerged from a project set up by the US military’s Defense Advanced…
SAN FRANCISCO — Doctors and volunteers fanned out early Saturday morning to pop-up testing centers in the city’s heavily Latino Mission District for an unprecedented effort to test all 5,700 residents in one census tract in hopes the data collected will help explain why Latinos and African Americans have been dying at disproportionate rates from…
Italy’s first coronavirus patient traveled from Wuhan, China, to Italy in late January and was admitted to the hospital with coronavirus symptoms days later. A recently published report shows that she had detectable traces of the virus in her eyes days after it had cleared from her nose.The report demonstrates that the novel coronavirus can…
Published: April 17, 2026, 7:30 pm On April 10 the Washington State Department of Health advised the FDA of a recall of certain shellfish because of norovirus-like illnesses associated with consumption of raw oysters. The recall includes all species of shellstock from Gomez Shellfish LLC (WA-1724-SS), harvested on March 22 through April 9, from a
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The E. coli matches that from patient samples from an outbreak in 2025 Published: April 17, 2026, 12:05 am Federal inspectors have found E. coli contamination in raw cheddar cheese produced by Raw Farm LLC of Fresno, CA. The dairy is linked to an ongoing E. coli outbreak that has sickened nine people across three