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Ex-NYC COVID adviser is fired after video reveals he attended parties during pandemic 09/24/2024 08:05pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York City official who helped coordinate the city’s response to the pandemic was fired from his private-sector job after a recording showed him talking about attending a sex party and other private gatherings when the city was urging people to practice social distanc A Patient's Guide to Childhood Cancer 09/24/2024 08:00pm • Childhood cancer is a full family battle, says Lillie Brown, a 28-year-old pediatric cancer survivor from Missouri. Brown was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, at 13 years old. At 15, she was declared cancer-free after undergoing 11 months of chemotherapy and is now a mother of two New York resident dies of rare mosquito-borne virus known as eastern equine encephalitis 09/24/2024 11:29am • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A person has died in New York state from eastern equine encephalitis, prompting Gov. Kathy Hochul to declare the rare mosquito-borne illness an imminent threat to public health. The death that was reported Monday in Ulster County is apparently the second death from the disease Americans can order free COVID-19 tests beginning this month 09/23/2024 04:23am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Starting this month, Americans will be able to order free COVID-19 test kits that will be mailed to their homes. U.S. households will be able to order as many as four nasal swab tests at COVIDTests.gov when the federal program reopens. The U.S. Health and Human Services agency Biden tells Quad leaders that Beijing is testing region at turbulent moment for Chinese economy 09/21/2024 07:48pm • CLAYMONT, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden told Indo-Pacific allies on Saturday that he believes China’s increasing military assertiveness is an effort to test the region at a turbulent moment for Beijing. Biden's comments were caught by a hot mic after he and fellow leaders of the so-called Quad Doctors warn of importance of child flu vaccines amid findings from worrying CDC report 09/20/2024 11:38pm • D.C.-area doctors say they're worried many eligible children will not receive their flu vaccine this year. It's something they fear will cause a spike in cases — or worse. "Many people worry about 'Oh, it's another shot for my child.' Yes, it is. But it's usually just once a year, and it helps Scientists in South Africa say they have identified the first known outbreak of rabies in seals 09/20/2024 09:40am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Scientists in South Africa say they have identified an outbreak of rabies in seals that is believed to be the first time the virus has spread in sea mammals. At least 24 Cape fur seals that were found dead or euthanized in various locations on South Africa's west and Rwanda begins vaccinations against mpox amid a call for more doses for Africa 09/19/2024 08:53pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rwanda has started a vaccination campaign against mpox with 1,000 doses of the vaccine it obtained from Nigeria under an agreement between the two countries, the African health agency said Thursday. The vaccinations started Tuesday targeting seven districts with “high risk A new genetic analysis of animals in the Wuhan market in 2019 may help find COVID-19's origin 09/19/2024 08:25pm • LONDON (AP) — Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people, an effort they hope could allow them to trace the outbreak back to its source. Researchers analyzed genetic material gathered from the Chinese market Oklahoma State's Mike Gundy still speaking his mind after 20 years as head football coach 09/19/2024 02:06pm • STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Mike Gundy's focus shifted from a reporter’s question to a whirring noise that was interrupting his weekly media session. The veteran Oklahoma State football coach figured out that the sound was a failing compressor on a nearby refrigerator. “There’s no way y’all c Oklahoma State's Mike Gundy still speaking his mind after 20 years as head football coach 09/19/2024 01:52pm • STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Mike Gundy's focus shifted from a reporter’s question to a whirring noise that was interrupting his weekly media session. The veteran Oklahoma State football coach figured out that the sound was a failing compressor on a nearby refrigerator. “There’s no way y’all c A gold mining town in Congo has become an mpox hot spot as a new strain spreads 09/19/2024 08:21am • KAMITUGA, Congo (AP) — Slumped on the ground over a mound of dirt, Divine Wisoba pulled weeds from her daughter’s grave. The 1-month-old died from mpox in eastern Congo in August, but Wisoba, 21, was too traumatized to attend the funeral. In her first visit to the cemetery, she wept into her shi Norway reports first cases of bluetongue disease in livestock since 2009 09/19/2024 05:22am • AAS, Norway (AP) — Norway reported Thursday dozens of confirmed and suspected cases of bluetongue, an insect-borne virus that is harmless to humans but can be fatal to sheep and other livestock, for the first time in the country since 2009. The Norwegian Veterinary Institute said the virus known a Why is Congo struggling to contain mpox? 09/19/2024 02:12am • KAVUMU, Congo (AP) — Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of existing problems makes stemming the spread particularly hard. Last month, the World Health Organization declared the outbreaks in Congo and about a dozen What Is Sickle Cell Disease? 09/18/2024 08:00pm • A self-described sickle cell disease warrior, Mariah J. Scott, 33, fights through chronic pain of the disease every day, but that has not slowed her down to be a mom, advocate and student. Initially reluctant to share her diagnosis, Scott, of Highland Park, N.J., eventually embraced her role as an a