Marburg Bat Virus With 88% Fatality Rate Has Spread to Another Country
Tanzania's president said a sample tested positive for the Marburg virus, which has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent if ...
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Biden commutes federal death sentence of 7 connected to Virginia
Another of Monday’s commutations to life in prison involved a case tried in Abingdon, where a jury in 2007 sentenced Carlos Caro to death following a three-week trial. Caro was convicted of ...
How deadly is bird flu in humans? What we know as US confirms first death
The U.S. has reported its first death due to bird flu, aka H5N1. How deadly is H5N1? Experts discuss bird flu fatality rate ...
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Q&A: Cause of DRC outbreak identified as combination of malaria, flu and malnutrition
In early December, health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC, announced that an unknown illness had ...
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Why are more people dying in Missouri prisons? Advocates for inmates demand accountability
Deaths in Missouri prisons have increased in number despite a drop in the number of people incarcerated. The Missouri ...
‘We can’t forget the girls behind her’: Indigenous family fights for justice after daughter’s death
Sixteen-year-old Selena Not Afraid vanished on the way home from a New Year’s party in 2020. Now a man has been charged in ...
Harvard study suggests tactic for U.S. jails to reduce inmate deaths
County jails may be able to improve access to medical care and lower death rates behind bars through healthcare accreditation ...
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Two death row inmates reject Biden's commutation of their life sentences
The case law on this issue is quite murky." But inmates face a daunting challenge in having their death sentences restored, said Dan Kobil, a professor of constitutional law at Capital University ...
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Legarda urges strict implementation of new PhilHealth case rates
MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Loren Legarda urges a strict and transparent implementation of recent increases in the benefit package provided by the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth ...
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Major breakthrough in Aussie cold case as police swoop over alleged murder of Meaghan Louise Rose almost 30 years after her death
Her death was initially deemed non-suspicious and no inquest was held. But the case was reopened in 2009 amid revelations that Lees had taken out a life insurance policy in Ms Rose's name before ...