Chocolate manufacturer Ferrero has issued an apology after batches of its Kinder Eggs were recalled this weekend, just weeks before Easter. An investigation led by the UK Health Security Agency and other national public health organizations has found a link between Kinder Surprise eggs and a recent outbreak of salmonella …
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A truck carrying some 100 monkeys was involved in a crash with a dump trailer in Montour County, Pennsylvania on Friday afternoon. The animals were being transported to a laboratory, local media reported, citing police. While it is unclear whether any animals were injured, some of them were confirmed to …
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Novak Djokovic’s Australian Open legal appeal has copped fresh cynicism from some, while reports suggest that his December infection came after an exemption cut-off. Saturday’s disclosure by Djokovic’s legal team, which indicated that a December 16 diagnosis of Covid-19 was central to his medical exemption application to compete at the …
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In an official signed letter this week to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by the House of Representatives members, the group lashed out at President Joe Biden administration’s “lack of transparency” about whether or not migrants are being tested for Covid-19 – and, by extension, whether positive Covid-19 cases data are …
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Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) reported the first confirmed case of the rare viral illness in a statement on Friday. The infected individual arrived in the US from Lagos, Nigeria, on July 8 via Atlanta, and traveled from Atlanta to Dallas Love Field airport on July 9. The …
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The patient is a 41-year-old man from Zhenjiang, a city in the eastern coastal Jiangsu province, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) announced on Tuesday. The man was originally hospitalized on April 28 after having fever and other symptoms. “No human cases of H10N3 have been reported in the world, and …
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It is also the third consecutive day the country has witnessed more than 3,000 new cases, although the death rate has remained relatively stable, with a further 10 fatalities within 28 days of a positive Covid test logged in the past 24 hours. Amid the uptick in cases, England’s so-called …
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University College London (UCL) researchers analysed MRI scans of 149 healthcare workers; 74 of whom had recovered from previous mild Covid-19 infections and a control group of 75 with no prior infection whose age, sex and ethnicity matched those of the first group. Amid increasing concerns about blood clots following …
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“Naturally acquired immunity as a result of past infections provide 83 percent protection against reinfection, compared to people who have not had the disease before,” Public Health England (PHE) said in a press release published on Thursday. The study suggests that most people are protected from reinfection for at least …
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Gove told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge that the government had hoped that a system of regional lockdown “could succeed” in curbing the surge in Covid-19 but, “unfortunately, over the course of the last two weeks the virus has been spreading faster than predicted.” The planned second lockdown across England would …
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