Disability and homeless advocates say the city’s sizable homeless disabled population faces challenges when trying to find shelter space.
Measles, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs, officials say.
On April 13, 1999, right-to-die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Michigan, to 10 to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a patient with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. (Kevorkian ultimately served eight years before being paroled.)
U.S. measles cases topped 700 as of Friday, with New Mexico, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas all reporting active measles outbreaks.
The city of Gary installed its first Narcan vending machine at the Adam Benjamin Jr. Metro Center.
Though Naperville-area schools across the board have high measles vaccination rates, local experts still urge the importance of immunization as outbreaks of the highly contagious respiratory disease crop up in other states.
Lake County Treasurer John Petalas said his case of the measles resulted in an ear infection that caused neurological damage in his left ear, leaving him completely deaf in one ear at 5 years old.
In defiance of President Donald Trump’s predictions, U.S. egg prices increased again last month to reach a new record-high of $6.23 despite a drop in wholesale prices and no egg farms having bird flu outbreaks.
The new Measles Outbreak Simulator Dashboard uses school vaccination data to project and estimate the size of a measles outbreak in individual Illinois schools.
A day care facility in a Texas county that’s part of the measles outbreak has multiple cases, including children too young to be fully vaccinated, public health officials say.