Disease outbreaks

Shanghai officials say they will allow some businesses to reopen Monday, even while it remains unclear whether residents will be able to leave their homesBy HUIZHONG WU Associated Press15 May 2022, 05:49• 2 min readShare to FacebookShare to…

North Korea says it has confirmed 15 more deaths and hundreds of thousands of additional patients with fever amid the country’s first COVID-19 outbreakBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press14 May 2022, 23:16• 3 min readShare to FacebookShare to…

Health experts in South Africa say the country is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variantsBy ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press14 May 2022, 09:36• 3 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this…

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has tested positive for COVID-19 but said she still plans to travel to the U.S. later this month for a trade trip and to give the commencement speech at Harvard UniversityBy NICK PERRY Associated…

North Korea says 21 people died and 174,440 people were newly found with fever symptoms on Friday alone as the country scrambles to slow the spread of COVID-19 across its unvaccinated populationByThe Associated Press13 May 2022, 23:54• 1…

The Louisiana Supreme Court has thrown out charges against a pastor who disobeyed coronavirus pandemic restrictions on gatheringsBy JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press13 May 2022, 20:36• 2 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this…

Put your son in Sherman Peebles' barber chair and along with a buzz you could count on Peebles, a sheriff’s deputy who cut hair as a sideline, to issue a fatherly warning about staying out of trouble.Now, seven months after the dapper…

On the deadliest day of a horrific week in April 2020, COVID took the lives of 816 people in New York City alone. Lost in the blizzard of pandemic data that’s been swirling ever since is the fact that 43-year-old Fernando Morales was one of…

Novavax is confident its Covid-19 vaccine will receive the endorsement of the Food and Drug Administration's advisory committee early this summer, executives said this week.The FDA committee is scheduled to meet on June 7 to review…

An official says Shanghai will try again to reopen in a few days after it has eliminated COVID-19 transmission among the population at largeByThe Associated Press13 May 2022, 06:12• 3 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this…