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Fires broke out in southern Appalachia this week as a storm from California took casualties in Mississippi and NebraskaExtreme weather conditions continue to threaten parts of the southern plains and midwest on Thursday, after six people were killed ea…
Health experts wary as US health secretary fails to endorse effective vaccines and instead calls them a ‘personal choice’Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, has caused alarm among pediatricians, vaccine experts and lawmakers with an opinion p…
Powerful thunderstorms likely to sweep through Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and AlabamaSevere thunderstorms are forecast to batter the southern and central United States on Tuesday, with a threat of tornadoes, damaging winds, blizzards, flash flood…
Details emerge about Natal conference in Austin later this month, set to feature figures linked to far-right politicsA natalist conference featuring speakers including self-described eugenicists and promoters of race science, apparently including the m…
As state grapples with worst measles outbreak in decades, Patrick homes in on resolution to ‘better market Texas beef’While Texas grapples with its worst measles outbreak in decades, its Republican lieutenant governor has moved for the state’s restaura…
Health secretary earlier said outbreak was ‘not unusual’ but with first US measles death in decade steps up responseTwo days after initially downplaying the outbreak as “not unusual,” the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Friday said he reco…
Adult infected with highly contagious virus that claimed life of unvaccinated child earlier this weekThe first confirmed case of measles has been reported in Kentucky, health authorities have announced, opening a new front in the US spread of the disea…
The Trump administration is hampering efforts to fight the measles outbreak that took the life of a an unvaccinated school-aged child this week in Texas, according to an MSNBC medical consultant Dr. Davita Patel.
The child’s death was the first li…
First US death reported in a decade as outbreak spreads in region where 14% of children are exempt from vaccinationThe unfolding crisis over the spread of measles in the US among communities where skepticism towards vaccines is running high has taken a…
Epicenter of latest outbreak had one of state’s highest immunization exemption rates for 2023-24 school yearThe measles outbreak in Texas has grown to at least 90 cases, reaching historic levels, according to officials.Since late January, 90 cases of m…