Veterinarians in Cyprus are lauding a government decision to allow its stock of human COVID-19 medication to be used against a feline virus that has killed thousands of cats on the Mediterranean island ByMENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press FILE – A cat crosses a pedestrian road at the main linear park, […]
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Deadly drug-resistant yeast gained ground, more drug resistance amid COVID
Enlarge / The director of Germany’s National Reference Centre for Invasive Fungal Infections holds a petri dish containing the yeast Candida auris in a laboratory at Wuerzburg University. A deadly, drug-resistant fungus emerging in the US gained ground faster and picked up yet more drug resistance amid the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Deadly kidnapping puts focus on Americans using Mexico for health care
Two Americans have been found dead and two alive after they were abducted while traveling to Mexico in an incident that is raising questions about whether people in the U.S. are at risk when they cross the border to access health care. The four U.S. citizens vanished Friday in an attack carried out by […]
The coronavirus pandemic continues to be predictably deadly
On Tuesday, the country recorded more than 135,000 new infections, according to data compiled by The Washington Post, reaching a seven-day average of nearly 121,000 new cases. In other words, since Election Day, about 850,000 new coronavirus cases have been detected, or 1 in 390 Americans. The number of deaths […]
Kansas nursing home faces severe federal penalties after deadly coronavirus outbreak
But behind the walls of the facility, nursing home officials had failed to take the most basic measures to prevent the spread of the highly contagious virus after learning two residents were infected, according to a blistering report released Tuesday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which resulted […]