Author: Claudinne Miller
Lettuce introduce you to the live frog found in this grocery store salad bag
AP When Australian farmer Rhys Smoker announced he’d found a live frog in a bag of lettuce, his housemates didn’t believe him. Smoker had been preparing a steak and salad dinner on Saturday for the three people who share his house in Esperance in Western Australia state when he spotted the frog among the leaves […]
May 20, 2026
The hantavirus outbreak is prompting Covid flashbacks — including the conspiracies
STAT Ironically, the public health establishment and the conspiracists seem to agree on the big picture. The deadly outbreak of a rare strain of hantavirus on a cruise has generated echoes of the pandemic era, including a reprise of a familiar drumbeat of questionable theories from social media personalities prominent for their Covid-19 skepticism. At the moment, […]
May 20, 2026
Why a deadly, massive measles outbreak in Bangladesh has some U.S. health experts concerned
CBS News A measles outbreak in Bangladesh that has killed almost 400 people is spreading fast, and health experts say it could carry risks even for the U.S., where cases of the disease are already at levels not seen in decades as vaccination rates continue to fall. Most of those killed by the measles outbreak in Bangladesh […]
May 20, 2026
Inside the largest U.S. measles outbreak in decades: Records reveal spread in vaccine-hesitant community
Healthbeat Case #1 in what would become the largest U.S. measles outbreak in decades was a parent in South Carolina’s Upstate Region near Spartanburg. The next seven people to fall ill were all children. Three of them were being cared for at home – limiting their ability to spread the highly contagious measles virus to […]
May 20, 2026
Ontario resident being tested for Ebola after travel to East Africa, says Health Ministry
CBC East Africa is currently dealing with a deadly and fast-growing Ebola outbreak. An Ontario resident who recently travelled to East Africa is being tested for Ebola, according to the province’s Health Ministry. In an email to CBC News Wednesday, a spokesperson for Ontario’s Ministry of Health said that the patient is being assessed in […]
May 20, 2026
Iraq: First case of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever reported in Nineveh
Outbreak News Today The Nineveh provincial health directorate reported the first case of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) this year. The patient is a 27-year-old laborer from Qayyarah district south of Mosul, was admitted to hospital on May 15 with suspected infection before laboratory results received showing it was confirmed this week. In addition to this […]
May 20, 2026
Norway reports Europe’s first case of bird flu in a polar bear
The Local The H5N5 variant of the virus was detected in samples taken from a male bear about one year old and a walrus found dead in mid-May on the icy archipelago, around 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute said. “The results are part of a trend in which […]
May 20, 2026
Visualizing the Ebola outbreak in maps and charts
CNN The World Health Organization this week declared an outbreak of Ebola in Central Africa to be a public health emergency. Health officials are racing to trace contacts as the count of suspected cases rises. CNN is tracking the locations of confirmed cases in the outbreak, as well as historical cases and deaths. This page will be […]
May 20, 2026
Hantavirus-stricken cruise ship docks in the Netherlands for disinfection
PBS News The cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has docked at the Dutch port of Rotterdam for disinfection, wrapping up a troubled journey that put international health authorities on alert. The MV Hondius was still carrying 25 crew members and two medical personnel as it reached Europe’s largest port on Monday morning, […]
May 20, 2026
Inside the race to develop a hantavirus PCR test
Scientific American Researchers at the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory worked round the clock to develop a test for the Andes virus at the center of the deadly cruise ship outbreak. The ongoing hantavirus outbreak carries disturbing echoes of the early days of COVID: people falling ill on a cruise ship from a relatively unknown pathogen, […]
May 20, 2026