Tag Archives: Shelter

A tuberculosis outbreak has gripped a large emergency shelter in Portland, Maine, prompting urgent health measures and mounting concern among medical staff and city officials alike. The outbreak, centered at the 166 Riverside Shelter – a 179-bed facility exclusively for non-citizens seeking asylum in the U.S. – has already seen 21 individuals test positive via PPD (Purified Protein Derivative) testing, …

Bertha was somehow found as a stray and taken to a local shelter, but how she’d survived as a stray remains a total mystery — because she weighed around 30 pounds. “I couldn’t even believe that she was a cat,” Jemma Omidian, Bertha’s mom, said in a video for The Dodo. “She couldn’t step into the litter box. She was …