Articles filed under Health Crises
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Diabetes & COVID-19: Scientists explore potential connectionMar 16, 2022 7:00 am - CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) - When their 11-year-old son started losing weight and drinking lots of water, Tabitha and Bryan Balcitis chalked it up to a growth spurt and advi...
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WHO: Evaluation of Russia's COVID shot has been postponedMar 16, 2022 7:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - The World Health Organization said Wednesday its evaluation of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has been postponed for the time being, due to the 'œu...
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UK easing COVID-19 testing, monitoring despite case uptickMar 16, 2022 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - After dropping nearly all coronavirus restrictions last month, Britain is now ending some of its most widespread COVID-19 testing and monitoring programs,...
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WHO Chief: World's worst health crisis is in EthiopiaMar 16, 2022 7:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - As much of the world's attention is focused on the bloodshed in Ukraine, the head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday there's 'ťnowhere on eart...
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Chicken, turkey farmers struggle to keep birds safe from fluMar 15, 2022 7:00 am - DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Nearly 7 million chickens and turkeys in 13 states have been killed this year due to avian influenza, prompting officials and farmers to acknowle...
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District 303 to lift additional COVID-19 measures after spring breakMar 15, 2022 1:00 am - St. Charles Unit School District 303 is looking at lifting additional COVID-19 mitigation measures next month after spring break. "We are certainly looking forward to re...
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'We have found it in everything': Fentanyl linked to more overdose deaths in the suburbsMar 14, 2022 5:00 am - DuPage County Coroner Richard Jorgensen began noticing an ominous shift in the opioid crisis in 2015. Heroin mixed with fentanyl - a far more lethal synthetic opioid - k...
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Constable: Mask mandates are magically disappearing, but many still need masks to remainMar 12, 2022 12:00 am - The pandemic responsible for killing nearly a million Americans hasn't magically disappeared, but it has waned to the point where the mask mandates some condemned in the...
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COVID-19 update: 1,825 new cases, 23 additional deaths, 676 hospitalizationsMar 11, 2022 12:00 am - New cases of COVID-19 reached 1,825 Friday with 23 more people dying from the respiratory disease, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported. Patients in hospita...
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How will COVID end? Experts look to past epidemics for cluesMar 10, 2022 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world has seen a dramatic improvement in infections, hospitalizations and death rates in recent weeks, ...