Month: July 2021

“We are currently looking at toxicology, tissue reports, blood work,” Saginaw County medical examiner Dr. Russell Bush told The Detroit News. “There will be discussions with the CDC and Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Obviously, everyone is concerned with this case. We’re doing everything we can as far as testing and looking at potential problems related to the young man’s death.”

South Korean senior citizens receive their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a vaccination centre in Seoul, South Korea April 1, 2021. Chung Sung-Jun/Pool via REUTERS SEOUL, July 5 (Reuters) - South Korea is in talks with mRNA vaccine makers including Pfizer (PFE.N) and Moderna (MRNA.O) to produce COVID-19 shots in the country and is ready to offer the capacity to make up to 1 billion doses immediately, a senior government official said. The plan, if agreed, would help ease tight global supply of COVID-19 vaccines, particularly in Asia which lags North America and Europe in vaccine rollouts, and put South Korea a step closer to its ambition to become a major vaccine manufacturing centre. South Korea already has deals to locally produce three coron...

Beyza Dogan, 24, caught a rare blood disease while living in Germany.Newsflash A 24-year-old Turkish woman who lost both of her arms and legs after catching a life-threatening blood illness is hoping for a rare double-arm transplant to improve her life, according to reports. Dental technician Beyza Dogan contracted meningococcal meningitis while living in Cologne, Germany, four years ago, the UK’s Mirror reported. Her kidneys collapsed due to blood poisoning and she ended up having all four limbs amputated. Her mother, Mihriban Dogan, 54, donated a kidney to her two years ago, according to the report. After coming to terms with her fate, Dogan became determined to transform her life by undergoing a double-arm transplant. With the help of Dr. Levent Yilmaz, a...

The Israeli government is expected to reimpose some new restrictions to curb the COVID-19 outbreak in the country this week, including limiting some gatherings and restricting access for the unvaccinated to some venues, according to reports on Sunday. The high-level coronavirus cabinet will meet Tuesday to discuss the resurgence of the virus in the country due to the fast-spreading Delta variant. During the meeting, ministers will be presented with proposals to drive down morbidity, which has climbed considerably in recent weeks, hitting around 300 cases per day. Experts have warned that the daily caseload could soar to 1,000 cases a day in two weeks if no steps to rein in the infections are taken. With case numbers rising, Israel has thus far reimposed an indoor mask mandate, ...