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Israel and Hamas said they had agreed to a long-awaited ceasefire and hostage deal, the first phase of U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end a war...
The CDC confirms bird flu in two Washington poultry workers and ruled out infections in Missouri healthcare staff.
On Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that two out of four presumptive positive bird flu cases among poultry farm workers in Washington state have tested positive.
Of the 31 confirmed U.S. human cases of bird flu, all but the Missouri case have involved farm workers exposed to infected poultry or dairy cows. Officials continue to emphasize that the general public's risk from bird flu remains low.
The CDC anticipates additional confirmed cases in Washington as more presumptive positives undergo confirmatory testing, Principal Deputy Director Nirav Shah noted in a press call. Serological testing of healthcare workers who interacted with the infected Missouri individual also confirmed they were not infected.
Although the investigation in Missouri ruled out person-to-person transmission, testing on a household contact of the affected individual indicated a potential infection. The CDC suspects that both individuals may have been exposed to an unidentified sick animal.
To support bird flu response efforts, CDC teams have been deployed to California, Michigan, Colorado, and Washington, according to Shah.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
More than 200 health facilities in war-hit eastern Congo have run out of medicines due to widespread looting and supply chain disruptions during fighting this year, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday.
Indian authorities have launched a manslaughter investigation after at least 14 children died from a toxic cough syrup in Madhya Pradesh, raising fresh concerns over the country’s pharmaceutical safety.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to impose 100% tariffs on branded and patented pharmaceuticals manufactured abroad poses a serious threat to Germany’s pharmaceutical sector, according to the Berlin-based industry group Verband Forschender Arzneimittelhersteller (vfa).
A flock of Canadian ostriches set to be culled, after two dead birds tested positive for avian flu, has been granted a last-minute stay of execution from Canada's highest court - for now.
The Trump administration's plan to dramatically raise fees for H-1B visas is drawing concern from U.S. healthcare groups who say the move could worsen staffing shortages as more than half of healthcare workers consider changing jobs within the next year.
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