Talk about a splash landing. A water park pool in Kentucky became the unfortunate breeding ground for a powerful infection that produces painful symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea, fever and painful cramps. Silver Lake Water Park and Adventure Center in Erlanger, a suburb of Cincinnati, was host to chlorine-resistant Cryptosporidiosis, abbreviated to crypto. Silver Lake…
The US surgeon general issued a public health advisory on Wednesday about the impact of modern stressors on parents’ mental health, calling on government, businesses and community organizations to increase resources to provide them with more support . The advisory issued by Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who has previously used the format to address the…
A New Hampshire resident who tested positive for the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus has died, state health officials said. The Hampstead resident’s infection was the state’s first in a decade, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday. The resident, whom the department identified only as an adult, was hospitalized for…