Over 140 passengers and crew members aboard a Royal Caribbean International ship have been sickened by an unidentified illness, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program said Wednesday. The ship, the Navigator of the Seas, was on a weeklong, round-trip cruise that departed from Los Angeles on July 4. The ship made three stops in Mexico, according …
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Ancient illness that kills 110,000 a year rapidly becoming resistant to antibiotics as it mutates
An ancient killer has become all the more dangerous with time, mutating often to better sidestep medications. The bacterium that causes typhoid fever, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S Typhi), has evolved to resist common antibiotics. In 2022, a group of researchers from around the world identified more than 4,000 strains obtained from blood samples from over 70 countries as extensively …
Read More »My boss is constantly worried about a new illness. Apparently it’s my job to diagnose him.
Good Job is Slate’s advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? Send it to Laura Helmuth and Doree Shafrir here. It’s anonymous! Dear Good Job, My boss is an epic hypochondriac. He is forever obsessing over his latest ache or pain. Now that we’ve all returned to working at the office post-COVID, he wears an N95 mask all day …
Read More »Jeff Lynne’s ELO Cancel Final Concert Due to Illness
Jeff Lynne’s ELO—the reformed version of Lynne’s ’70s and ’80s prog-pop outfit Electric Light Orchestra—have cancelled what was slated to be their final show ever. The performance had been scheduled for tonight, July 13, to close out BST Hyde Park’s 2025 summer concert series. A statement shared with Pitchfork explains that “Jeff has been battling a systemic infection and is …
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