U.S. and world health officials are calling on Russia to share more information after Russian media reports said a scientist at an infectious disease research facility in Siberia died after possibly contracting plague during a lab accident. The reports have caused concern, even as the World Health Organization says “the public health risk to the general…
Two workers at Germany’s Frankfurt airport who caught malaria from a mosquito thought to have arrived on a plane have died, the city’s health authority said this week. Airport officials had earlier said one employee had perished, with six workers infected. The Robert Koch Institute said an imported Anopheles mosquito carried over by an aircraft…
A so-called flesh-eating bacterium that thrives in warm seawater has killed at least seven people this year along the Gulf Coast, officials said. Two people in Florida and five in Louisiana have died from vibrio vulnificus, which lurks in warm coastal waters and can enter the body through open wounds or from eating raw shellfish….
This story originally aired on Oct. 18, 2025. The investigation of Joe Shymanski‘s murder began as a missing persons case. It was Sept. 4, 2023, at 7:47 p.m. when sheriff’s deputies in Calvert County, Maryland, were called to the home of the well-known photographer. His ex-wife, Heather Snyder, met them in the driveway. She would…
A flesh-eating bacteria found in warm coastal waters is responsible for at least five deaths so far this year in Louisiana, state health officials reported Thursday. There have been at least nine total cases of Vibrio vulnificus in the state in 2026, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. All nine patients were hospitalized. The…
C.C. Opanowski was just 18 years old when she was brutally attacked by someone she once loved — her ex-boyfriend Shawn Doyle. C.C. tried to put the traumatic incident behind her until she learned years later that Doyle murdered a mother of two young boys. For the first time, C.C. is speaking out publicly to”…
Washington — Former FBI Director James Comey urged a federal judge on Monday to throw out an indictment alleging he threatened President Trump’s life, arguing that it targets speech protected by the First Amendment and that the phrase at the center of the charges, “86 47,” does not connote violence. Lawyers for Comey wrote in…
This story originally aired on Feb. 15, 2025. It was updated on July 25, 2026. It was Sept. 18, 2003 when Justine Vanderschoot’s remains were discovered in a remote location more than two weeks after she disappeared. But it’s in the garden outside her bedroom window where her parents Don and Lynnette still come to…
