Tag: outbreak
BEIJING (AP) — China today expanded its sweeping efforts to contain a deadly virus, extending the Lunar New Year holiday to keep the public at home and avoid spreading infection as the death toll rose…
WUHAN, China (AP) Face masks sold out and temperature checks at airports and train stations became the new norm as China strove today to control the outbreak of a new virus that has reached…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A new television series focusing on how the U.S. Army dealt with the first outbreak of one of the most contagious and deadliest viruses on its soil features several University of…
Northern California health workers are scrambling to control a growing measles outbreak centered on a region that is still reeling from the most destructive wildfire in state history. In November, the Camp fire decimated the…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) The World Health Organization says that an epidemic of measles in Madagascar has caused more than 900 deaths. According to WHO figures, there have been more than 68,000 cases of the disease…
NEW YORK (AP) Its early, but the current flu season is shaping up to be gentler than last winters unusually brutal one, U.S. health officials said. In most parts of the country, most illnesses…
