Six family members were sickened with a rare parasitic disease caused by roundworm larvae after they ate kebabs made of bear meat. A report published this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed new details of the outbreak, which occurred in July 2022 at a nine-person family reunion in South Dakota. One […]
LITTLE ROCK – A slow-moving front boundary draped across a large swath of the country will lead to days of showers and thunderstorms, but unlike Tuesday’s deadly severe weather outbreak, future complexes of thunderstorms will not have the same atmospheric conditions to deal with. Wednesday’s risk stretches for over 1,000 miles from Texas into the […]
The Kansas City metro and surrounding counties are under a tornado watch as thunderstorms began firing up in an outbreak of severe weather affecting the Midwest. The National Weather Service issued the tornado watch shortly before 3 p.m. for parts of the Kansas City forecast area, including seven counties in Kansas and 36 counties in […]
Powerful storms are brewing, which could bring an outbreak of severe thunderstorms and the potential for strong tornadoes to parts of the Midwest, including the Kansas City area, on Tuesday. The areas most likely to be impacted by the storms are Iowa, northern Missouri, northwestern Illinois, southwestern Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota, according to the National […]
The Lexington-Fayette Health Department on Monday declared a whooping cough outbreak in Lexington. The number of cases in Lexington has increased in three weeks from six to nine with the new cases involving an additional student at Lafayette High School, a young student at St. Peter and Paul Catholic School and a patient in their […]
The recent tornadoes in or near western Pennsylvania are now the most on record by the National Weather Service Pittsburgh in May. According to NWS Pittsburgh, there have been 14 confirmed tornadoes this month in its county warning area. That surpasses the 11 tornadoes from the 1985 outbreak for the most on record in May. […]
More than 250 passengers on a P&O cruise ship have fallen ill with suspected norovirus. A source said guests had been “throwing up in public spaces” around the ship. A P&O spokesperson said there had been numerous reports of guests with “gastrointestinal symptoms.” Hundreds of holidaymakers on board a P&O cruise ship have been taken […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning Americans about a deadlier form of mpox that’s spreading rapidly through the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), saying it “poses a global threat.” Monkeypox cases in the U.S. have declined since their peak in August 2022, but health officials are urging caution. So far, no […]
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch, Michigan’s largest egg producer, says it will lay off hundreds of employees in Ionia County as it deals with an outbreak of bird flu. In a notice filed with the state on Wednesday, Herbruck’s said it plans to lay off an estimated 400 employees at five of […]
HOWELL – A pharmaceutical executive who was charged in 2018 with 11 counts of second-degree murder following a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak has been sentenced to prison again. Barry Cadden, 57, the former owner of the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 10-15 years in prison. He had pleaded no contest […]
In early March, Dr. Barb Petersen, a large-animal vet in Texas, began getting calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle. Workers there were seeing a lot of cows with mastitis, an infection of the udder. Their milk was thickened and discolored, and it couldn’t be explained by any of the usual […]
‘Just devastating;’ Football stadium, historic park damaged in tornado outbreak A football stadium and historic park were damaged after a tornado outbreak in the Miami Valley. > Tornadoes confirmed in Mercer, Auglaize, Darke counties following Tuesday night’s storms, NWS says;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>>> Tornadoes confirmed in Mercer, Auglaize, Darke counties following Tuesday night’s storms, NWS says […]