BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) Four more people have been diagnosed with the strain of Hepatitis C recently found in 10 people associated with a lab at a New Hampshire hospital.The state’s Department of Health and Human Services announced the additional results on Saturday. Read article
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PUTNAM COUNTY — The latest numbers are in and, so far, 18 cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever have been reported in the Upper Cumberland Region — more than 100 cases statewide this year alone.”There’s a fair amount of (the disease) here; it’s not common but it’s certainly not uncommon,” Dr. Mark Pierce, an infectious […]
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A cluster of E. coli cases was being investigated Wednesday in the metro Atlanta area as health officials in several Southern states looked at similar cases, including at least one death. The Georgia Department of Public Health on Wednesday confirmed the region has five confirmed cases of a strain of E. coli infection known as […]
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Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are hoping surveillance videos will jar the memories of witnesses that can lead them to the suspect who robbed a family from Germany while they slept in their motel room in Lauderdale By The Sea. It happened May 24, when the tourist couple and their two boys, ages 5 and 6, […]
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The strike at the Fredericton airport has now entered its second 100 days. A while back we stopped being so public about it because we didn’t see where it was helping reach a settlement. But balanced against this is our responsibility to keep you informed. And to be honest, we’re a bit miffed about the […]
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A Utah woman and a Queens cabdriver were killed and the woman’s grandson was seriously injured early yesterday in a three-car smashup on the Long Island Expressway. Suzanne Nicholson, 60, and her grandson Gabe Larsen, 11, were headed from Kennedy Airport to a Manhattan hotel at about 12:30 a.m. when their cabby, Mohamed Hussain, rear-ended […]
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A 78-year-old Torrance County, New Mexico man is the first human case of plague in New Mexico or the United States in 2012. Health officials report the yet unnamed man is currently hospitalized in stable condition. Read article
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Health officials in Orange County are working hard to stop a single incident of typhus from becoming an outbreak. But what is typhus and how do you spot it? A child in Santa Ana was hospitalized with the condition last month, and although the child has since recovered, the county’s animal control specialists are trying […]
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Capilano Suspension Bridge staff extended their condolences to the family of an Ontario tourist, 30, who fell 200 feet to his death on Saturday (June 2), after climbing over the railing of the park’s suspended Cliffwalk feature, but slipped and fell onto the canyon floor below at 1750 […]
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A 74-year-old Arizona woman was injured Thursday morning when a bear ripped a hole in the tent where she, her husband and their dog had been sleeping. According to Arizona Game and Fish officials, the attack occurred around 4:30 a.m. at the Ponderosa Campground in Tonto National Forest, about 10 miles east of Payson. Read […]
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