DSHS has confirmed 723 human cases of West Nile illness in Texas this year, including 30 deaths. West Nile is a mosquito-borne virus. There are two forms of the illness, West Nile neuroinvasive disease (WNND) and West Nile fever (WN fever). The symptoms of severe infection from West Nile neuroinvasive disease include headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness and paralysis. West Nile fever is the milder form of the illness. Symptoms include fever, headache, body aches, and occasionally a skin rash on the trunk of the body and swollen lymph glands. Read article
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A 28-year-old woman from Connecticut was fatally injured when she fell approximately 200 feet in a para-sailing accident off Pompano Beach, Florida Wednesday. Read Article
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Sun Studio attracts tourists from around the world who want to see where rock and roll was born. Most of them return home with pleasant memories. But not one couple from Columbia, Missouri. “One of them was saying give me your purse, give me your purse, give me your purse,” recalled a 31 year-old victim […]
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A German tourist died at a Billings hospital Monday after suffering a head injury when he was thrown from a horse near Tower Junction in Yellowstone National Park. Two other park visitors were seriously injured Monday in unrelated accidents. Carl Dullmaier, 56, of Gernsheim, Germany, was helicoptered to Billings after the fall. He was on […]
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NYDAILYNEWS.com reported, A Spanish tourist was bashed in the head with a hammer by a well-dressed Brooklyn man inside Manhattan’s City Hall Park Monday afternoon, police sources said. Hugo Alejandre, 31, who is from Barcelona, was sitting on a bench in the downtown park near Murray Street and Broadway when he was targeted him in […]
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Emergency responders are wrapping up their on-site evaluations at the Denver Rescue Mission after a total of about 40 people had to be transported to hospitals for food poisoning. The 40 people were taken to various hospitals from the Denver Rescue Mission after a turkey dinner made them sick. Read article
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A New York man agreed Tuesday to pay a $6,500 fine to settle a long-running dispute with the U.S. Treasury Department over a trip he made to Cuba as an unauthorized tourist 14 years ago. Read Article
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Galveston police have identified a tourist who was killed last weekend when a suspected drunken driver slammed into the back of a horse-drawn carriage. Four other people were injured. Bobby McKelvey, 57, of Sugar Land, died in the 11 p.m. crash Saturday, said Lt. Michael Gray of the Galveston Police Department. McKelvey’s wife, Renee McKelvey, […]
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ATLANTA, July 23 (UPI) — U.S. health officials said Monday a multistate outbreak of human salmonella infections has been linked to live poultry. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said a total of 37 people were infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Hadar in 11 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, […]
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A US hospital worker accused of injecting himself with stolen drugs and contaminating syringes that infected at least 30 patients with hepatitis C has been charged with federal drug crimes. David Kwiatkowski, a former technician at Exeter Hospital, was arrested today at a Massachusetts hospital where he was receiving treatment. US Attorney John Kacavas called […]
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