Bangladesh reports first Nipah virus fatality of 2024
Bangladesh on Monday reported its first death from the brain-damaging Nipah virus this year, when a man died after drinking raw date juice. The virus is transmitted to humans through contact with the body fluids of infected bats, pigs, and other people, and first appeared in Malaysia in 1999 during an outbreak that affected farmers […]
Poultry plant slapped with $213K fine after 16-year-old died in deboning machine, the second fatality at plant in 2 years
Last summer, OSHA fined a U.S. poultry company more than $200,000 after a teenager too young to work at a Mississippi factory died while cleaning dangerous equipment. In July, 16-year-old Duvan Thomas Perez was cleaning out a deboning machine at the Marjak poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, about 120 miles north of the Gulf Coast. […]