Health

Coronavirus renews safety concerns about slaughtering wild animals

By Sam McNeil, Candice Choi, Associated Press

Experts say wild animals can carry unknown viruses and that human contact with them needs to more carefully managed as the world's population grows.

South Sudan ignores reports on oil pollution and birth defects

By Sam Mednick, Associated Press

The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals, according to four environmental reports obtained by The Associated Press.

Amid coronavirus fears, a second wave of flu hits U.S. kids

By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press

Health officials Friday said 92 flu-related deaths have already been reported in children.

Freezing temperatures in Syria's Idlib province compounds crisis

By Sarah El Deeb, Zeina Karam, Associated Press

Sub-zero temperatures and increased snowfall are further exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in Syria, where more than a quarter of a million people have been displaced in the past four days, the United Nations said.

Appeals court deals blow to Trump's Medicaid work requirements

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Jill Bleed, Associated Press

The case involves Arkansas, but the ruling is expected to affect other states pursuing work requirements. The administration says it is reviewing its options.

Why the number of novel coronavirus cases just jumped

By Laura Santhanam

The number of confirmed cases in China rose by thousands after public health officials changed the way they diagnose people with novel coronavirus in one province. In the U.S., 15 people are being treated for the disease.

In China, political fallout from novel coronavirus outbreak continues

As novel coronavirus continues to plague China, the country’s president, Xi Jinping, fired two high-level Communist Party officials in the region at the outbreak's center. The move comes as both death toll and number of cases are surging, partly as…

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How vaccine hesitancy is contributing to deadly measles resurgence

By Hari Sreenivasan, Courtney Norris

As health care officials around the world struggle to respond to novel coronavirus, another deadly -- and far more contagious -- disease is on the rise, fueled in large part by insufficient immunization. In some countries, military conflict diminishes access…

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U.S. announces 15th virus case, an evacuee in Texas

By Associated Press

The patient, who had been flown to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio last week, is now in isolation at a hospital and was reported in stable condition.

Japan reports 1st death from novel coronavirus, 44 more cases on ship

By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press

Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said the first fatality is a woman in her 80s who had been hospitalized since Feb. 1 when she was diagnosed with pneumonia.