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No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA says
No child deaths have been definitively linked to Covid vaccines, according to a report from the Food and Drug Administration that was quietly made public last week.
Hantavirus cases linked to cruise ship rise to 12 after crew member tests positive
A 12th hantavirus case has been confirmed after a crew member aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship, which arrived in the Netherlands last week for disinfection, tested positive, the World Health Organization said Friday.
American who was on the hantavirus cruise ship says isolation center is like ‘prison’
A man from New York State who was on board the Hondius cruise ship — which became the center of an outbreak of hantavirus that killed three people earlier this month — reveals the Nebraska health facility where he’s being quarantined feels like “prison.”The 30-year-old man, who asked not to be named due to the harassment of other passengers, told NBC News by phone that he wants to be able to quarantine at home.
People lost up to 85 pounds on Lilly’s experimental weight loss drug, company says
Eli Lilly’s highly anticipated new weight loss drug, retatrutide, helped people lose up to 30% of their body weight, about 85 pounds, in a late-stage clinical trial, the drugmaker said in a news release Thursday