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Los Angeles area sees more dengue fever in people bitten by local mosquitoes 09/18/2024 04:50pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Health officials warned Wednesday that the Los Angeles area is seeing more dengue fever cases in people who have not traveled outside the U.S. mainland, a year after the first such case was reported in California. Public health officials said at least three people apparently bec Hezbollah is hit by a wave of exploding pagers that killed at least 9 people and injured thousands 09/18/2024 12:21am • BEIRUT (AP) — Pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded near-simultaneously Tuesday in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people, including an 8-year-old girl, and wounding several thousand, officials said. Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel Israel has a long history of pulling off complex attacks like the exploding pagers 09/17/2024 05:13pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Hezbollah and the Lebanese government were quick to blame Israel for the nearly simultaneous detonation of hundreds of pagers used by the militant group's members in an attack Tuesday that killed at least nine people and wounded nearly 3,000 others, according to officials. Many of The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the UN says 09/16/2024 08:29am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said Monday. It’s a devastating setback for polio eradication, since the virus is one of the world’s most infectious and any unvaccinated groups of children where the virus is spr Ronaldo misses Al-Nassr's debut in Asia's new Elite tournament with virus 09/16/2024 05:36am • RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo has a virus and did not travel to Iraq with Al-Nassr for Monday’s AFC Champions League Elite debut match at Al-Shorta. Al-Nassr, Ronaldo’s Saudi Arabian club, said that the Portugal forward “wasn’t feeling well” and “was diagnosed with a vi WHO grants first mpox vaccine approval to ramp up response to disease in Africa 09/13/2024 12:15pm • GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said Friday it has granted its first authorization for use of a vaccine against mpox in adults, calling it an important step toward fighting the disease in Africa. The approval of the vaccine made by Bavarian Nordic A/S means that donors like vaccines al Austrian woman is found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 09/13/2024 09:24am • VIENNA (AP) — A woman in Austria was found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 in 2021, her second pandemic-related conviction in a year, according to local media. A judge sentenced the 54-year-old on Thursday to four months’ suspended imprisonment and an 800-euro fine ($886.7 Missouri bird flu case is a 'one-off' and the public risk is still low, officials say 09/12/2024 05:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials on Thursday said they don’t know how a Missouri person caught bird flu but believe it may be a rare instance of a “one-off" standalone illness. Investigators trying to determine how the person caught the virus have not been able to confirm the exact strain of f Moderna lays out plan to slice research and development spending 09/12/2024 09:11am • Shares of Moderna tumbled early Thursday after the vaccine developer said it was cutting research and development spending and pushed back its time frame for breaking even. The company also forecast a 2025 revenue range that fell below Wall Street expectations. Moderna said it planned an approximate Cuomo defends COVID-19 nursing home decisions in combative House committee hearing 09/10/2024 07:58pm • Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced blistering criticism in an often combative congressional subcommittee hearing Tuesday over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic during the time when the virus was spreading through nursing homes. Republicans who questioned the Democrat zeroed in on a controve Brazil's X ban drives outraged Bolsonaro supporters to rally for 'free speech' 09/07/2024 05:44pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — Thousands of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro flooded Sao Paulo’s main boulevard for an Independence Day rally Saturday, buoyed by the government's blocking of tech billionaire Elon Musk's X platform, a ban they say is proof of their political persecution. Missouri patient tests positive for bird flu despite no known exposure to animals 09/06/2024 05:42pm • A hospitalized patient in Missouri was infected with bird flu despite having had no known contact with dairy cows or other animals associated with an ongoing outbreak, health officials said Friday. This is the 14th person in the U.S. sickened with bird flu since March, when the virus was detected i NASCAR's charter disagreement with teams is at a breaking point as playoffs arrive 09/06/2024 05:20pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — After Tyler Reddick battled a stomach virus throughout the Southern 500 to eke out a 1-point win over Kyle Larson for NASCAR’s regular-season championship, he and the 23XI Racing ownership group went to collect the trophy. Reddick stood next to the trophy, team co-owner M American company, Russian propaganda: New Kremlin tactic reveals escalating effort to sway US vote 09/06/2024 01:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has long sought to inject disinformation into U.S. political discourse. Now, it's got a new angle: paying Americans to do the work. This week's indictment of two Russian state media employees on charges that they paid a Tennessee company to create pro-Russian content has r Types of Respiratory Viral Infections 09/05/2024 08:00pm • Maybe you've been in a room recently with someone who's coughing, but they say "I promise it's not COVID." While it's important to still be cautious about COVID-19, there are other viral respiratory infections that can still be passed between people. Our bodies are always working hard to fight off i