Tag: case

L.A. County reports first West Nile virus death this year

A San Fernando Valley resident is the first person in L.A. County to die this year from West Nile virus, a mosquito-transmitted...

Virus that can cause paralysis in children is on the rise in California: A few safeguards

A respiratory virus that in rare cases can cause polio-like paralysis in children is on the rise in California and across the...

Bird flu infections spread among workers at Colorado poultry farm

Five poultry workers at a farm in northeast Colorado have been infected by the H5N1 virus, according to Colorado’s department of public...

Doctors said cutting countertops destroyed his lungs. He had to fight for workers' comp

By the time that Dennys Rene Rivas Williams had fallen so ill that he needed new lungs, physicians at Olive View-UCLA Medical...