Questions Complicate Efforts To Contain New Virus From China
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reports one day suggest the respiratory outbreak in China might be slowing, the next brings word of thousands more cases. Even the experts have whiplash in trying...
Feds To Track How Private Medicare Info Gets To Marketers
WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog plans to launch a nationwide probe into how telemarketers may be getting hold of seniors’ personal Medicare information, a red flag for pote...
China’s Virus Crackdown Leaves Millions Working At Home
BEIJING (AP) — In the middle of a phone call with a customer, an important visitor knocks on Michael Xiong's door: his 3-year-old son.
Xiong, a salesman in Chibi, a city near th...
Japan Refuses Israel’s Request To Allow Quarantined Israelis Off Ship
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s foreign minister asked his Japanese counterpart to allow Israeli passengers on a cruise liner docked in Tokyo Bay in quarantine due to the deadly coronav...
China Reports 254 New Deaths And A Spike In Virus Cases Of 15,152
BEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday reported 254 new deaths and a spike in virus cases of 15,152, after the hardest-hit province of Hubei applied a new classification system that broa...
Doctor: “Way Too Early” To Talk About Ending China Outbreak
BEIJING (AP) — Dr. Mike Ryan, the head of emergencies for the World Health Organization, says “it's way too early to try to predict the beginning of the end” of the virus outbreak ...
Japan Confirms 39 New Virus Cases, 174 Total On Cruise Ship
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s health ministry said Wednesday that 39 new cases of a virus have been confirmed on a cruise ship quarantined at a Japanese port.
The update brings the total...
Israel’s Sheba Medical Center Develops Telemedicine To Limit Coronavirus Spread
JERUSALEM (JNS) — As fears of the growing coronavirus endemic increase worldwide, Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, has developed a groundbreaking way to treat potential...
Epilepsy Treatment Side Effect: New Insights About The Brain
SEATTLE (AP) — Though Genette Hofmann is still using her brain, last month she donated a bit of it — to science.
Hofmann needed the surgery — her Seattle surgeon was looking dee...
China’s Daily Death Toll From Virus Tops 100 For First Time
BEIJING (AP) — China's daily death toll from new virus has topped 100 for first time, with more than 1,000 total deaths recorded, the health ministry announced Tuesday, as the spre...
First Confirmed Case Of Coronavirus In San Diego
SAN DIEGO (VINnews) — San Diego received its first confirmed case of coronavirus Monday, an official familiar with the situation confirmed to 10News.
According to the report, an...
UK Calls Virus “Serious” Health Threat; Will Detain People
LONDON (AP) — Britain has declared the new coronavirus that emerged from China a "serious and imminent threat to public health'' and announced new measures Monday to combat the spr...
Where Did They Go? Millions Left City Before Quarantine
SHANGHAI (AP) — For weeks after the first reports of a mysterious new virus in Wuhan, millions of people poured out of the central Chinese city, cramming onto buses, trains and pla...
No Handshakes at Meet and Greet? Tech Show Adapts to Virus
LONDON (AP) — A major European technology trade fair has a low-tech idea for reducing virus risks: go hands-free.
Organizers of this month's Mobile World Congress show are advis...
In Quarantined Chinese City, Israeli Dad Documents How His Family Is Dealing With The Coronavirus Scare
WUHAN, CHINA (JTA) - Like many parents when their small children are a bit under the weather, Ofer Dekel measures his boy’s temperature frequently.
But in Dekel’s case, his conc...
China Reports Virus Death Toll Rises To 811, Surpassing SARS
BEIJING (AP) — Mainland China has reported the virus death toll has risen to 811, surpassing SARS fatalities in the 2002-2003 outbreak.
China's National Health Commission on Sun...
New Virus Cases In UK, Germany, Italy Put Europe Total At 31
LONDON (AP) — Britain, Germany and Italy announced more cases of the new virus from China on Thursday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Europe to 31.
In Germany, ...
Coronavirus Spread Sparks Anti-Semitic Views and Conspiracy Theories, ADL Says
WASHINGTON (JTA) - The spread of and fear generated by the coronavirus has led extremists to promote conspiracy theories and share their anti-Semitic views, the Anti-Defamation Lea...
FDA Crackdown on Vaping Flavors Has Blind Spot: Disposables
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government on Thursday began enforcing restrictions on flavored electronic cigarettes aimed at curbing underage vaping. But some teenagers may be one ste...
Experts Scramble, but New Virus Vaccine May Not Come in Time
WASHINGTON (AP) — The flu-like virus that exploded from China has researchers worldwide once again scrambling to find a vaccine against a surprise health threat, with no guarantee ...