Virus-linked hunger tied to 10,000 child deaths each month
HOUNDE, Burkina Faso (AP) — The lean season is coming for Burkina Faso’s children. And this time, the long wait for the harvest is bringing a…
Continue ReadingHOUNDE, Burkina Faso (AP) — The lean season is coming for Burkina Faso’s children. And this time, the long wait for the harvest is bringing a…
Continue ReadingLAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Doña Ana County woman who lived past 100 was among five additional New Mexicans who have died from coronavirus, state…
Continue ReadingHOUNDE, Burkina Faso (AP) – The United Nations says coronavirus-linked hunger is leading to the deaths of 10,000 children a month in the first…
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Continue ReadingJust weeks before schools must open across Florida, the numbers of new cases and hospitalizations due to Covid-19 have surged. On July 16, the state…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 at Noon sat down with audiologist Dr. Haley Owen to discuss how to better communicate with those suffering from…
Continue ReadingThe first Phase 3 clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine in the United States began Monday. The investigational vaccine was developed by the…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health on Monday morning announced six new deaths and 87 new cases across the county. The…
Continue ReadingNinety-one thousand. Ninety-one thousand lives snatched by an unrelenting pandemic since the first state in the US reopened on April 24. Ninety-one…
Continue ReadingSchool had been challenging for Kimmi Berlin’s 7-year-old son. Already at his age, he felt pressure to conform: to play more physically with…
Continue ReadingIt turns out that flu and pneumonia shots may be good for more than what their names suggest. Not only does getting a shot reduce your chances of…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — After ABC-7 learned the several local hospitals are transferring Covid-19 patients to local nursing homes with special Covid-19…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico health officials say the state has 226 new confirmed cases of Covid-19, bringing the state’s total to 19,042.…
Continue ReadingAs more Covid-19 records get broken, debates on whether to send kids back to school or to shut down the economy again are coming to a head. More than…
Continue ReadingCIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The state of Chihuahua Secretary of Health became the latest victim of the coronavirus, the Mexican government announced…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — El Paso’s coronavirus cases topped 13,000 on Sunday as the number of deaths grew by three more following the county’s deadliest…
Continue ReadingToday it would be unthinkable to nickname a summer getaway for children with disabilities “Crip Camp.” Yet that was the nickname given to…
Continue ReadingMESILLA, New Mexico — Because not everyone in the Borderland lives in the city or has access to transportation, the New Mexico Department of Health…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — New data out Saturday from the Texas Department of State Health Services painted the bleakest picture to date of El Paso’s hospital…
Continue ReadingDALLAS, Texas — A Texas couple is feeling extra blessed after beating the coronavirus, cancer and finishing chemo. Robert and Janice Beecham…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico state health officials on Saturday announced 324 new Covid-19 cases, with 64 of those coming in Doña Ana County.…
Continue ReadingA medical journal is retracting an article that called some social media posts “potentially unprofessional” after outraged health…
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Continue ReadingFlorida on Saturday became the US state with the second-highest official coronavirus case count, passing New York, once the country’s epicenter…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — A teenage girl, El Paso’s youngest victim of the coronavirus, was among three new deaths reported Saturday morning by health…
Continue ReadingThe number of people sickened by a parasite linked to bagged salad mixes has gone up to 641 cases in 11 states, federal health officials said. Of…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — As space at El Paso hospitals gets tighter, ABC-7 has learned patients infected with coronavirus are being sent to two local…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas– Concerned ABC-7 viewers have called in complaints about far east El Paso parks being full of people on recent evenings. On the…
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