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Matt Cardy/Getty Images The number of cases in a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has risen to 75, according to new federal data released Friday. Cases have been reported in 13 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most of the cases have been in Colorado, which has 26 reported cases, […]
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The number of confirmed bird flu cases has risen in the U.S. to 31, federal health officials said on Thursday. Washington health officials reported four presumptive positive bird flu cases over the weekend. Since then, two of the four cases have been confirmed, according to Dr. Nirav Shah, principal deputy […]
Mpox virus particles. Via CDC/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (NEW YORK) — Mpox cases are on the rise in the U.S., increasing to almost double what they were at the same time last year, according to new CDC data. There is a national year-to-date estimate of 511 cases as of mid-March, […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — When four young women disappeared in 1997, fear ravaged their tight-knit Texas and Oklahoma communities along the corridor of Interstate 45. Despite the proximity and similarity of the cases, it would take more than 20 years — and the forensic hypnosis of a surviving victim — to capture and convict […]
Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two cases of a rare mosquito-borne disease have been reported in Alabama, including one death, according to officials. The cases of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) occurred in Spanish Fort, Alabama, — nine miles east of Mobile — the city said in a Facebook update. The Alabama Department of Public […]
Rajat Mohanty/500px/Getty Images (MIAMI) — Florida health officials are issuing a warning about dengue as the virus continues to increase in South Florida. Four cases of locally acquired dengue were reported in Miami-Dade County and for the first time in Broward County, during the week ending Aug. 5, according to a report from Florida Health. In […]
ABC News/WHO While cases of mpox continue to decline across the United States and Europe, infections are steadily rising in China. For the week ending July 21, 117 cases were confirmed in China, according to data from the World Health Organization. Between the week ending May 5 and the week ending July 21, 315 cases […]
FS Productions/Getty Images (FLORIDA) — Cases of leprosy are rising in Florida, according to a new analysis published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) journal. Although the disease is still rare in the U.S. — with just 159 cases reported in 2020 — a study released Monday from the EID […]
FS Productions/Getty Images (FLORIDA) — Cases of leprosy are rising in Florida, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although the disease is still rare in the U.S. — with just 159 cases reported in 2020 — a new CDC analysis released Monday finds that Central Florida accounts for a bulk of those […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — As fears of a “tripledemic” die down, health officials say they are seeing an uptick of a particular strain of the flu: influenza B. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of tests that are positive for influenza B has increased from 0.12% the week […]
