Deadly salmonella outbreak linked to papayas CNN (CNN)Forty-seven people in 12 states have become infected with salmonella believed to be linked to yellow Maradol papayas, federal health officials said Friday. | Twelve people have been hospitalized, and one death has been reported, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | ...
Archive: Quarantined Ebola worker sues Christie North Jersey This article was originally published October 23, 2015. | A nurse held for three days in quarantine at a Newark hospital last year after aiding Ebola patients in West Africa has filed suit against Governor Christie and members of his administration,...
Archive: Ebola isolation in legal gray area North Jersey This article was originally published October 31, 2015. | In one corner stands a nurse volunteer who treated Ebola victims in West Africa, then found herself quarantined for three days in New Jersey, a forced isolation that became a cause célèbre fo...
Campaign Underway to Stem Polio Outbreak in Syria's Deir Ezzor Voa News A United Nations-led polio immunization campaign to stem an outbreak of this crippling disease is under way in Syria's Deir Ezzor Governorate. The campaign, headed by the World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund, started on July 2...
NJ issues new rules after lawsuit by Ebola-quarantined nurse CBS News Attorneys said the decision was the result of a lawsuit filed by Kaci Hickox​, a nurse who had been working in Sierra Leone during the deadly Ebola outbreak​ in 2014 ... ...