Did the world fail Ebola orphans in Sierra Leone? Al Jazeera When Save the Children found David Nyorkor in November 2014, he had been locked in his bedroom for six weeks. | It was at the height of the Ebola epidemic and Yenga, a small village along Sierra Leone's eastern border with Guinea near the epicentre of the outbreak, was devastated. | David had contra...
E.coli outbreak could be linked to salad leaves, health officials warn The Independent An outbreak of the bacterial infection E. coli could be caused by salad leaves, public health officials have warned. | There have so far been 102 reported cases of the E. coli O157 virus in England, six in Wales and one in Scotland since the ...
Court backs prison for egg executives in U.S. salmonella outbreak Reuters (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a bid by two former Iowa egg industry executives to throw out their three-month prison sentences after their company Quality Egg LLC caused a nationwide salmonella outbreak in 2010. ...
Angola battling worst yellow fever outbreak in decades needs help, says Red Cross Reuters NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Angola is suffering its worst outbreak of yellow fever in 30 years with 350 deaths since last December, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Wednesday as it launch...
