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Health Officials Say Dangerous Cat-Spread Fungus Reaching the U.S. Is Only a Matter of Time
A family in England was doing everything right by their sick cat. He’d flown over with them from Brazil three years earlier — nine years old, long-haired, completely part of the family. When sores opened up on his head and paws and wouldn’t close, they cleaned them. They held him steady at the vet. They…
The Last Person In America Living Inside An Iron Lung Is Gone
A five-year-old girl woke up on a sunny morning in Oklahoma in 1953 and could barely move her neck. Four days later, Martha Ann Lillard could not breathe. She would spend the next 73 years living with the consequences of polio, much of that time inside a steel machine that forced her lungs to work.…
Two Dead After Rare Parasite Outbreak Linked to Recalled Lettuce Sickens More Than 11,000
What began as a growing foodborne illness outbreak has now taken a deadly turn. Michigan health officials have confirmed that two people have died after contracting cyclospora, a parasite linked to contaminated food that has already sickened more than 11,000 people across the state. The deaths mark the first fatalities connected to an outbreak that…
The Medical Breakthrough That Quietly Saved Millions of Lives
Vaccines rarely dominate the news unless a major health crisis puts them back into the spotlight. Their greatest achievements are often invisible because successful vaccination programs prevent outbreaks before they begin, allowing millions of people to live healthy lives without ever experiencing diseases that once devastated entire communities. That quiet success has made vaccines seem…
Lettuce Recall Expands as Cyclospora Outbreak Sickens Nearly 2,000 People Across Nine States
What began as a routine food safety investigation has rapidly turned into one of the largest Cyclospora outbreaks the United States has seen in recent years. Federal health officials are now urging consumers to check their refrigerators after a massive recall of iceberg lettuce linked to hundreds of restaurants and retail stores across the country.…
CDC Confirms More Than 11,500 Cyclosporiasis Cases Across 41 States as Outbreak Grows
More than 11,500 cases of a parasitic illness have now been reported across 41 U.S. states, making it one of the largest cyclosporiasis outbreaks seen in recent years. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed 4,173 cases through laboratory testing, officials say they are also tracking at least 7,400 additional reports…
Scientists Discover Unexpected Change Happening Inside Human Blood as CO₂ Levels Rise
For decades, carbon dioxide has been viewed primarily as the gas driving climate change, fueling stronger hurricanes, record-breaking heatwaves, devastating wildfires, and rising sea levels. But scientists are now warning that its impact may extend beyond the environment itself. According to a newly published study, the steady increase in atmospheric CO₂ could already be leaving…
Scotland Makes History as the First Country to Offer Free Period Products to Everyone
For millions of people, buying period products is simply another monthly expense. But for many others, it can mean making an impossible choice between purchasing basic hygiene products or putting food on the table. Scotland has now become the first country in the world to make period products legally free for everyone who needs them.…
Mystery Parasite Outbreak Spreads Across the US as the CDC Hunts for a Source
Something is making Americans sick this summer, and health officials cannot yet say what. A microscopic parasite too small to see with the naked eye has left more than a hundred people battling a punishing intestinal illness across much of the country, from New York down to Texas and out to Alaska. Federal investigators have…
What Looked Like Brain Cancer Turned Out to Be Tapeworm Larvae in a Man’s Brain
A 60-year-old man walked into a hospital in Spain with a headache that would not go away and a vague sense, noticed by those around him, that something about his behavior had changed. The scans that followed painted a grim picture, his brain scattered with multiple abnormal spots that bore all the hallmarks of cancer…