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In this frame from video, a person walks off an Emirates plane at JFK International Airport to a waiting bus on September 5, 2018, in New York, as emergency response crews gather outside the plane amid reports of ill passengers aboard a flight from Dubai. (WABC 7 via AP)
September 5, 2018, 8:20 pm
Dubai jet quarantined in New York after reports of sick passengers
CDC says 100 of the 520 people being evaluated after complaining of illness, including cough and fever
By AP
The assembly line at Empire Kosher Poultry’s plant in central Pennsylvania is the largest kosher one of its kind in America, with 240,000 chickens and 27,000 turkeys passing through every week. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)
August 30, 2018, 3:50 am
1 dead, 17 sick from salmonella in Empire Kosher chicken
CDC says outbreak of the food-borne infection has shown up in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia; death occurred in New York
By JTA
A baby seen sleeping in a cradle, illustrative photo (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
August 17, 2018, 10:40 pm
Circumcising babies increases risk of cot death, contested new study suggests
Israel-born genetics scholar asserts trauma of procedure tied to prevalence of SIDS, though his claims are rejected as ‘nonsense’ by one pediatrician
By JTA
Illustrative: The Capitol in Washington is seen early Thursday, July 13, 2017, (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
January 20, 2018, 2:07 am
What actually closes in a US government shutdown?
About 850,000 federal workers, out of a total 3.5 million, could be told to stay home without pay until Congress reaches an agreement
By AFP
Sarin gas in 105 mm artillery shells being stored at a US site (illustrative photo: Courtesy)
April 8, 2017, 12:32 am
Sarin: Lethal nerve gas that kills in minutes
Discovered in Nazi Germany, chemical agent was used by Saddam Hussein’s regime to gas thousands of Kurds in 1988
By AFP
Zak Stern, owner of Zak the Baker in Wynwood, Miami, on September 19, 2016 (AP/Lynne Sladky)
September 21, 2016, 10:31 am
Miami kosher cafe celebrates control of Zika
Local baker offers free lunch to pregnant women after state declares area free of virus 45 days after last case
By JTA
A researcher looks at Aedes aegypti mosquitoes kept in a container at a lab of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the Sao Paulo University, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on January 8, 2016. (AFP/NELSON ALMEIDA)
August 4, 2016, 6:15 am
Health Ministry issues Florida travel warning over Zika
Pregnant women and those who want to become pregnant urged to avoid Miami-Dade and Broward counties, where first US cases were recently found
By AFP and TOI staff
May 27, 2015, 5:00 am
Whooping cough warning issued in Brooklyn’s Orthodox communities
21 confirmed cases of pertussis reported, among them 10 whose parents weren’t vaccinated against the disease
By JTA
Illustrative photo of Jews performing a religious circumcision. (Serge Attal/Flash90)
December 3, 2014, 2:44 am
CDC comes out in support of circumcision
US health officials conclude benefits outweigh risks in practice and say insurance companies should cover procedure
By AP and JTA
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Alabama Academy of Honor ceremony at the Alabama state Capitol, in Montgomery, Alabama, on Monday, October 27, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Brynn Anderson)
October 31, 2014, 10:59 am
Apple CEO publicly acknowledges he’s gay
Tim Cook becomes first Fortune 1,000 CEO to come out
By MAE ANDERSON
Cars pass Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital where Craig Spencer, a Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to the city after treating Ebola patients in West Africa, was rushed to Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
October 24, 2014, 10:39 am
After 1st Ebola case in NYC, 3 others quarantined
‘No reason to be alarmed,’ mayor assures after doctor returns from West Africa carrying virus
By Jonathan Lemire and Colleen Long
Ron Klain, who was tasked by US President Barack Obama on October 17, 2014, with running the government's response to the Ebola crisis. (photo credit: AP/Revolution)
October 20, 2014, 9:43 pm
Ebola ‘czar’ knows Washington, but not medicine
Ron Klain seen as a problem solver who can get the job done, despite his lack of medical experience
By AP and JTA
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Thomas Frieden (left), testifies during a hearing on Ebola, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, October 16, 2014. (photo credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)
October 17, 2014, 11:37 am
Former ‘whiz kid’ now Ebola’s public face, and possible scapegoat
CDC head Tom Frieden, known for spearheading NY ban on trans fats, accused of overconfidence after nurses contract deadly disease
By Anne Flaherty
A woman speaks next to an Ebola awareness poster in the Ivorian Popular Front headquarters in Abidjan after they were vandalized on September 1, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Sia Kambou)
October 11, 2014, 5:15 pm
US airports launch stepped-up Ebola screening
Checks on arrivals from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea start at NYC’s Kennedy, to expand over next week to Newark, Dulles, O’Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson
By Karen Matthews
A woman speaks next to an Ebola awareness poster in the Ivorian Popular Front headquarters in Abidjan after they were vandalized on September 1, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Sia Kambou)
October 10, 2014, 5:27 am
Ebola: How it spreads
Facts about the virus ravaging West Africa, and how to avoid contracting it
By AP
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