By Kathleen Ronayne and Brian Melley | Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The first California county to backpedal on its reopening plan wasn’t one of the urban areas that agitated to reopen or a coastal area where beaches draw crowds but a remote outpost that didn’t have a single known coronavirus case until last week.…
Florida health officials on Wednesday confirmed the second case of West Nile Virus (WNV) in Miami-Dade County.Officials said a resident was confirmed to have contracted the virus from a local transmission, making it the second case for the county in 2020, according to the Miami Herald.The county health department declared a mosquito-borne illness alert on May…
The Premier League Logo with a Protective Face Mask (Getty Images) Four more people at three English Premier League clubs have produced positive findings for the coronavirus following the latest round of tests, it was announced Wednesday.The Premier League added that Monday and Tuesday saw 1,008 players and club staff tested for Covid-19.Players or club…
Sport's big ticket events, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, European football championships, Wimbledon and the Open Championship tournament have either been postponed or cancelled because of the coronavirus.However, the return of Bundesliga football in Germany and Saturday's announcement that Spain's La Liga can resume from 8 June shows there are some shoots of recovery as sports…
The coronavirus primarily spreads from person to person and not easily from a contaminated surface. That is the takeaway from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which this month updated its “How COVID-19 Spreads” website.The revised guidance now states, in headline-size type, “The virus spreads easily between people.” It also notes that the coronavirus,…
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