Four agricultural workers in Washington state may have been infected with avian influenza, according to the state health department. “Workers handling infected poultry at a commercial egg farm in Franklin County have tested presumptive positive for avian influenza,” the Washington State Department of Health said in a press release Sunday. Franklin County is located in the eastern half of the Evergreen State and is known for its agriculture. …

Nearly every Democrat in the House and Senate is asking a federal appeals court to confirm that hospitals participating in Medicare must provide emergency abortion care to patients when needed. In a brief filed Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 259 Democratic congressmen argue that the federal Emergency Medical Labor Act (EMTALA) requires hospitals to provide stabilization abortions. I wrote that I was making it clear.