Federal officials still cannot say for sure where the blackberries, associated with a Hepatitis A outbreak leading to 20 lab confirm cases, came from. More than half of the 20 cases have required hospitalization according to the CDC.
Veterinary Public Health Residency Rounds will feature group-generated discussion about the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak.
Global fears of the 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) have led to worldwide shortages of surgical masks and N95 respirators. Several Amazon suppliers are upselling face masks in response to increased demand.
As news and updates of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) rapidly evolve, so do misinformation, fear, and confusion. Dr. Rose Marie Leslie, a family medicine physician at the University of Minnesota, uses social media to combat false health information spread through popular social media platforms.
While the cost to human health and lives is the most pressing concern of outbreaks, the economic costs of outbreaks of disease can be astronomical too. The SARS epidemic of 2002-2003, which infected 8,000 people and caused approximately 800 deaths, caused an estimated $50 billion in damage to the global economy. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 cost the global economy approximately $53 billion.
Illness from a new coronavirus started appearing among people who were exposed to wildlife in Wuhan, China in January. Like SARS and MERS, the virus seems to be able to cause a range of illness from only mild flu symptoms to serious pneumonia, systemic disease, and death.
Iowa submitted a proposed hemp production program to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for approval on December 11, 2019, paving the way for legal hemp production in the state.
A bat found in a Benton County parking lot tested positive for rabies, according to the Minnesota Board of Animal Health. A man and his son found the bat between two parked cars in an apartment parking lot on Dec. 23 and brought it to a local wildlife rehabilitation center.
