Covid-19: IEC looking to postpone 2021 local government electionsHe said high-risk areas would be classified as hotspots and they would remain at Level 4 lockdown restrictions with intensive implementation of screening and testing. This despite President Cyril Ramaphosa saying on Sunday evening the whole country should be lowered from Level 4 to 3 with effect from 1…
Nicole Cobler @nicolecoblerJonathan Tilove @JTiloveTXPhilip Jankowski @PhilJankowski As retail stores and restaurants prepare to reopen across the state on Friday, roughly two dozen counties have seen a spike in coronavirus cases in the last week, an American-Statesman analysis of state data shows.Even as the numbers of daily new cases statewide have fallen from a peak…
Covid toes, aka pernio or chilblains Ilan Schwartz, MD, PhD A few weeks ago, the peculiar symptom of loss of smell and taste was reported as an early symptom of COVID-19 infection. This generally preceded the lung symptoms, the most prominent finding in the infection. Now more unexpected symptoms are being reported, including diarrhea, heart…
(CNN)New York and other hot spots are experiencing prolongedpeaks of the coronavirus pandemic while southern states may not get hit as hard as earlier projected, experts say. Researchers from the prominent projection model cited by the White House plan to re…
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