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201 Americans, including a month-old baby and teenagers, who were evacuated out of Wuhan, China, are being held in isolation at the March Air Reserve Base in California and being monitored by federal, state and county health officials after fleeing from the coronavirus outbreak. They arrived there after the U.S. State Department chartered a private plane to evacuate diplomats stationed at … Read More

Russia has ordered the closure of its huge land border with China as Moscow scrambles to prevent the deadly coronavirus infection from spreading into its country. Moscow had already blocked Chinese tour groups from entering the country. In Russia, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said the decision to “close the border in the Far East and other measures taken by the … Read More

The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated the fast-spreading coronavirus from China as a global health emergency — a rare designation that helps the international agency mobilize financial and political support to contain the outbreak. The announcement comes just hours after the U.S. confirmed its first human-to-human transmission of the virus. As the new zoonotic virus from Wuhan, China has already … Read More

The new virus from Wuhan, China has spread to 23 countries with 9,821 confirmed cases and 213 deaths at this moment. As the new virus has skyrocketed pass the total case count of that for SARS which was 8,096 people worldwide. But what is concerning is that it took eight months for SARS to spread to more than 8,000 people … Read More

A monster earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 struck the Caribbean Islands near Jamaica and to the south of Cuba. In Jamaica the severe earthquake violently shook buildings and cars as it opened up the earth with gaping holes in the ground and in the streets. And the earthquake was so severe that even over 500 hundred miles away, it … Read More

The CDC has placed its highest travel warning on China raising its travel precautions for China to its highest of three levels, “warning,” which advises travelers to “avoid nonessential travel” to the country. As the new contagious and deadly zoonotic virus from Wuhan, China, that may have jumped to humans from Chinese snakes continues to quickly spread world-wide. The death … Read More

The CDC had previously announced enhanced screening of passengers from Wuhan, China, at five airports. But now the Centers for Disease Control has expanded its monitoring for symptoms of the Wuhan virus up to 20 US airports, the agency said. Additionally, the US State Department issued a Level 4 advisory for Wuhan, meaning that no Americans should travel to Wuhan … Read More

The new contagious and deadly virus from Wuhan, China, continues to quickly spread world-wide. The disease has now killed at least 81 people in China and sickened thousands more worldwide. As the CDC says that it is currently monitoring 110 people across 26 states for the coronavirus, including the five patients who contracted the deadly infection in China and brought … Read More

Millions of locusts are descending on Africa in the worst outbreak in close to a century for some countries. Hundreds of millions of the Biblical bugs swarmed into East Africa from Somalia and Ethiopia in the worst outbreak of desert locusts in Kenya they have seen in close to a century. And Somalia and Ethiopia have not had an infestation … Read More

A strong earthquake rocked eastern Turkey where the death toll has climbed to 22 and with more than 1,000 people injured, according to officials. The Interior Minister speaking at a televised news conference near the epicenter of the quake described how people had been rescued from collapsed buildings, and rescue workers were continuing to search for people buried under the … Read More