This Pennsylvania squirrel probably doesn’t have the plague. Caleb Martin / Unsplash On Monday, public health officials in Morrison, Colorado announced that a squirrel had tested positive for the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death. In a world attuned to the danger of animal reservoirs for human disease …
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Possible scandal looming over Florida COVID statistics FOX Orlando’s Robert Guaderrama reports that Florida hospitals are making massive mistakes with coronavirus case reports; reaction from Dr. Charles Lockwood, dean of the University of South Florida School of Medicine. Florida authorities are searching for a man with no facial covering seen …
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A 15-year-old boy died of bubonic plague in western Mongolia after eating an infected groundhog, the country’s health ministry said. Two other teens who also ate groundhog were being treated with antibiotics, a ministry spokesman, Narangerel Dorj said. The government imposed a quarantine in an area of the Gobi-Altai province, …
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Customers buy back-to-school supplies at a Target Corp. store in Colma, California. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | fake pictures Parents may not yet know if their children will be sitting in a classroom or at the dining room table when classes resume later this year. But after many schools …
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Moderna’s shares rose as much as 18% on Wednesday after the company announced that an early test of the coronavirus vaccine produced antibodies in all participants. A dose range induced immune responses in all 45 patients in the phase 1 trial and was “generally safe and well tolerated,” Moderna said …
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