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Sixth measles death in Pennsylvania outbreak
A 39-year-old unvaccinated woman dies of measles in Franklin County, bringing Pennsylvania's death toll to six as the state outbreak continues to spread.
Ars Technica · 1m
Measles Cases Surge in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania reports over 1,000 measles cases this year, the largest outbreak since the 1990s.
Dw · 1m
Florida declares emergency as dengue cases surge locally
Hillsborough County in Florida has declared a state of emergency over a growing dengue outbreak, with around 485 cases reported statewide this year and one death.
TIME · 2m
Fifth measles death in Pennsylvania outbreak
A fifth unvaccinated person has died of measles in Pennsylvania as the outbreak spreads across 39 counties, but the CDC is counting only two deaths.
Ars Technica · 1m
Second death in South Bronx Legionnaires' outbreak
A second person has died in a growing cluster of Legionnaires' disease cases in the Bronx.
ABC7 New York · 1m
Pennsylvania hospitals battle worst measles outbreak in decades
Nearly 700 cases have been reported this year, with hospitals seeing patients daily after decades without a single case.
ABC News · 2m · 1 like
The Bronx has another Legionnaires' outbreak
ABC7 hands the mic to a doctor to explain what Legionnaires' does and which symptoms should send you to a clinic.
ABC7 New York · 1m
A third measles death in Pennsylvania
An unvaccinated 40-year-old woman died of measles complications as the state's case count climbs past 670.
PhillyVoice · 2m
A third measles death, all in Pennsylvania
A 40-year-old woman on oxygen died after a measles exposure, the third such death in a state that went 35 years without one.
Ars Technica · 1m
Legionnaires' cluster grows in the South Bronx
Nine sick, one dead, and ten cooling towers including Yankee Stadium's ordered scrubbed by Monday.
ABC7 New York · 1m
The lettuce outbreak is over, the sprouts one isn't
America's worst cyclospora outbreak just ended, and a salmonella scare in broccoli sprouts is picking up where it left off.
New York Post · 1m
A bouncy castle spread MRSA to 48 kids
A neighborhood barbecue in Ireland ended with 48 children fighting a drug-resistant skin infection, and the inflatable castles were the only thing that explained it.
Ars Technica · 2m
The biggest cyclospora outbreak ever is over
A parasite in shredded iceberg lettuce sickened nearly 13,000 people across 21 states before the CDC called it done.
CNBC · 1m
A second Legionnaires' cluster hits the Bronx
Five cases and one death in the South Bronx, weeks after an Upper East Side outbreak killed 11.
ABC News · 1m