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Enlarge / Competitors take part in “Tough Mudder” at the Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino, California, United States on April 2, 2023. reader comments 107 with Hundreds of people who participated in a recent Tough Mudder event—a very muddy obstacle course race—held in Sonoma, California, have fallen ill with pustular rashes, lesions, fever, flu-like ..
Enlarge / Ukrainian medics of the battalion “Da Vinci Wolves” and “Ulf” paramedical unit transfer a wounded Ukrainian soldier to a stabilization point on the Bakhmut front as the Russia-Ukraine war continues on April 6, 2023. reader comments 61 with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is fueling a dangerous rise in bacterial drug resistance—an alarming reality ..
Enlarge / One of the medical clinics suspended by Mexican health authorities, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, on May 19, 2023. reader comments 25 with Cases have nearly doubled in a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to tainted cosmetic surgeries in Matamoros, Mexico, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week. To date, ..
Enlarge / Surgical implements are seen on a tray during a surgery. reader comments 54 with More than 70 staff members of a San Diego-area hospital are calling for a halt of all surgeries at the facility due to unidentified black, brown, and gray specks on surgical trays, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The objecting ..
Getty Images reader comments 14 with A platform that provides plugin software for the wildly popular Minecraft game is advising users to immediately stop downloading or updating mods after discovering malware has been injected into dozens of offerings it makes available online. The mod-developer accounts were hosted by CurseForge, a platform that hosts accounts and ..
Enlarge / This micrograph shows the presence of the fungal agent Blastomyces dermatitidis, 1978. reader comments 35 with Share this story Toxic fungal spores wafting around a Wisconsin neighborhood—possibly spread by recent construction in the area—sparked an outbreak of rare infections that left one person dead, state health officials reported Friday in the Morbidity and ..
reader comments 82 with Share this story Two more people have died and more details of horrifying eye infections are emerging in a nationwide outbreak linked to recalled eye drops from EzriCare and Delsam. The death toll now stands at three, according to an outbreak update this week from the Centers for Disease Control and ..
Enlarge / Transmission electron micrograph of poliovirus type 1. reader comments 67 with 0 posters participating Share this story An eradicated form of wild polio surfaced in routine wastewater monitoring in the Netherlands last year, offering a cautionary tale on the importance of monitoring for the tenacious virus, researchers report this week in the journal ..
Enlarge / A passenger wearing protective clothing amid the COVID-19 pandemic waits to board a domestic flight at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on January 3. reader comments 137 with 0 posters participating Share this story Although China has largely abandoned COVID-19 case reporting, evidence of its massive wave of infection readily shows up in airports ..