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At least 94 people have died and 150 have been hospitalized after consuming tainted moonshine alcohol in India. In recent years, the country has been facing an alcohol regulation crisis as cheap, illegal alcohol is made easily accessible to local village populations. Country-made liquor can be…

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an incurable prion disease has spread to 24 states as of 2019, particularly in the Midwest and Southwest. As of now, the current consensus is that CWD is only limited to deer, moose, and elk. However, the CDC and World Health Organization consider the possibility of…

A suicide bombing attack killed at least 23 people on a bus carrying members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard in the Sistan-Baluchestan Province. The Jihadist terrorist group, Jaish al-Adl, also known as Army of Justice, has claimed responsibility. Bahram Qassemi of the  Foreign Ministry for…

On February 12th, a New York City police detective, Brian Simonsen, was shot and killed while responding to an attempted armed robbery at a cell phone store in Queens. A fellow detective was also wounded but is in stable condition. This is the first New York police officer death while on duty since…

17 people have died following a fire at the Arpit Palace Hotel in New Delhi this Tuesday morning. Many guests leaned out of the windows to breathe while others climbed out of their windows and jumped, sustaining severe injuries. Guests were unable to escape through the emergency exits, which were…

Starting on February 20th, the Japanese government will begin hacking 200 million poorly secured IOT devices and alerting its citizens about the possible threats their devices are under. Increasingly popular IOT devices make up the “internet of things”, which include devices from webcams to…

The United States opioid crisis is leading to a more diverse group of emergency medical responders. In some areas in the Midwest, opioid overdoses have become so common that community members including children, pastors, and librarians have began supplying themselves with naloxone, ready to…

January 30, 2019 5:00 PM PST CNN: A Merciless Cold Lingers in the Midwest As the polar vortex sweeps across the Midwest bringing in subzero temperatures, officials have declared states of emergency in various regions, urging people to stay inside. Hospitals are receiving an influx of…

Denmark is planning to spend $12 million dollars on a southern border fence to prevent the spread of the African Swine Fever, a highly contagious disease deadly to swine but not to humans. While there has yet to be a major outbreak, the Danish pig industry is planning to undertake this preventative…

A two-year investigation done by Ryan Kennedy, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, found that the air quality on Carnival cruise ships contained concentrations of particulate matter high enough to potentially harm human health. Carnival has since…

There appears to be a strong association between the amount of money pharmaceutical companies spend advertising opioids to doctors and the number of prescriptions written for the drugs, subsequently leading to one reason for the rise in opioid overdose deaths. In the United States, opioid marketing…

With almost 65,000 instances of dog bites reported from 2013 to 2017, Ohio lawmakers are considering tightening their dog laws. In the state, dog attacks requiring hospital admission have become much more common, affecting children and adults alike. A new bill considers holding the dog owner…

182 people have contracted measles in the state of New York since September of 2018 according to state and city health departments. Most of these cases are concentrated in Orthodox Jewish communities and are due to travel-related contractions of the virus, particularly affecting children who had…

Amidst the flu season of 2018-2019, the CDC points towards positive outcomes resulting from a rise of vaccination rates for both children and adults in the last quarter of 2018. Fortunately, this year’s flu vaccine targets both the dominant strain, H1N1, and the more severe but less prevalent…