Public Health & Policy

19+ hour, 21+ min ago   (429+ words) The SINTEF-led study found ISAV RNA in both external hull biofouling and biofilms on internal wellboat surfaces during the transport of salmon from farms with confirmed ISA infections. Virus levels were highest in mucus taken from infected fish, but RNA…...

25+ min ago   (280+ words) The Illinois Department of Public Health is warning people who visited Salt + Smoke on Sept. 10 that they may have been exposed to measles. The possible exposure happened at the restaurant at 410 N. Main St. from 6 to 10 p.m. IDPH said people who may…...

3+ hour, 2+ min ago   (546+ words) A bat found in Lewis County has tested positive for rabies virus at the Washington Public Health Laboratories, according to a news release from Lewis County Public Health and Social Services. Additional information, including where the bat was found, was…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1402+ words) On 25 March 2020, the Coronavirus Act received royal assent, becoming law just days after its introduction to parliament. The act equipped the UK government and devolved administrations with some of the most extensive emergency powers in modern British history to manage…...

10+ hour, 16+ min ago   (757+ words) What was once a cattle dip built to protect livestock from disease has been transformed into an open garbage dump, becoming a grim symbol of Magena town’s worsening waste-management crisis. With no reliable garbage collection system, residents have turned to…...

1+ hour, 45+ min ago   (32+ words) KSHB 41 Kansas City Rabid bats are on the rise in Kansas City. Rabies treatment can cost thousands....

7+ hour, 11+ min ago   (421+ words) The World Health Organization warns that Congo is running short of health workers to staff treatment centers for the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history The warning came despite signs of improvement in other provinces, including Ituri, the outbreak’s epicenter. The…...

57+ min ago   (23+ words) TradingView US pledges $267 million more to fight Ebola in central Africa...

10+ hour, 41+ min ago   (322+ words) Updated September 23, 2026 | Reviewed by Davia Sills Coauthored by Melissa Shang and Kathleen Bogart Our research centered on minority stress theory, which proposes that people in stigmatized groups experience additional stress because of prejudice and discrimination, and that this stress can…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago   (385+ words) Beaver County Radio Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News According to a release from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, here are the key updates that they include and more information about measles and how to treat it: - New Positive Cases…...