Medical Journal: Masks an Important Tool to Fight COVID-19
Wearing a face mask during the COVID-19 pandemic could be a more important part of the arsenal against the virus than previously ...
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Dakotas Lead US in Virus Growth as Both Reject Mask Rules
Coronavirus infections in the Dakotas are growing faster than anywhere else in the nation, fueling impassioned debates over masks ...
DRC, Congo Face Risk of Ebola Spreading Across Border
The World Health Organization is raising the prospect that the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s ...
Cameroon Says Patients at Risk as COVID Scares Away Blood Donors
Cameroon says it urgently needs more than 2,000 pints of blood to save the lives of about 300 people, including hemodialysis ...
Daily US Virus Deaths Decline, But Trend May Reverse in Fall
The number of daily U.S. deaths from the coronavirus is declining again after peaking in early August, but scientists warn that a ...
COVID ‘Increasing Rapidly’ Among American Youth
Cases of COVID-19 are “increasingly rapidly among young adults in the U.S.,” according to a research letter from ...
Terrorism, Pandemic Trigger Two Kinds of Stress
This September 11 is different. Every year, Americans have remembered the largest terrorist attack on American soil by coming ...
NASA Sets Out to Buy Moon Resources Mined by Private Companies
NASA on Thursday launched an effort to pay companies to mine resources on the moon, announcing it would buy from them rocks, dirt ...
Report: World’s Wildlife Population Has Plummeted Because of Human Activity
A report released Thursday by the nonprofit conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said the world’s wildlife ...
Climate Change May Shift Risks of Mosquito-borne Diseases
More dengue, less malaria. That may be the future in parts of Africa on a warming planet, depending on where you live. FILE ...
UN Chief Says $35 Billion Needed for WHO Coronavirus Program
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Thursday called for $35 billion in additional funding for the World Health ...
Mexican Airport Site Emerges as Major Graveyard of Ice Age Mammoths
Amid busy construction crews racing to build an airport in Mexico, scientists are unearthing more and more mammoth skeletons in ...
Big Drop Reported in Vaping by US Teenagers
Vaping by U.S. teenagers fell dramatically this year, especially among middle schoolers, according to a federal report released ...
Pharmaceutical Giant AstraZeneca Halts COVID-19 Vaccine Trial
British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant Astra-Zeneca has paused large-scale global trials of its COVID-19 vaccine because a ...
Australian Teenagers Take on Mining Giant Over Expansion Plans
For the first time in Australia, teenagers have launched a class-action lawsuit on behalf of young people around ...
How Superspreaders – People and Places – Drive COVID-19 Pandemic
A wedding reception in Maine led to nearlyMotorcycles are parked in the audience during The Reverend Horton Heat’s ...
Hundreds of Migrants Call for Freedom at Camp on Gran Canaria
A group of migrants being held at a dockside camp on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria chanted “freedom” on Tuesday ...
WHO to Review International Health Regulations During Pandemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday opened the initial meeting of an international review panel established to evaluate ...
Despite Strict Lockdown, Spain Sees Sharp COVID-19 Spike
Deirdre Carney suspected she might have COVID-19 when her temperature began to fluctuate above the normal 37 degrees Celsius. ...
US Drug Execs Promise COVID Vaccine Safety Before Seeking Government Approval
Nine chief executives of competing drug companies working to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus jointly said Tuesday they ...
Summer of COVID-19 Ends With Health Officials Worried
The Lost Summer of 2020 drew to a close Monday with many big Labor Day gatherings canceled across the U.S. and health authorities ...
Spain Leads Western Europe with 500k Coronavirus Infections
Spain has become the first nation in Western Europe to exceed a half-million COVID-19 total infections, as the total ...
Fearing Virus, Parents in Spain Rise Against Back to School
Ángela López hardly fits the profile of a rule-breaker. But the mother of a 7-year-old girl with respiratory ...
Trees, Birds, Ponds: Mexico City’s Ancient Lake Reclaims Scrapped Airport
Bright green stalks of weeds are sprouting from the ground where planes were supposed to take off at a new Mexico City airport as ...