September 28, 2023
Eight people including four children were killed by electrocution in two separate events after days of heavy rain caused floods in impoverished informal settlements near the South African city of Cape Town, emergency services said on Tuesday. Four people died in the Driftsands settlement on the eastern outskirts, the Cape Town Disaster Risk Management service
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In 2019, a river cruise boat collided with a smaller tourist boat in Hungary’s Danube River and caused 27 deaths, mostly South Korean tourists. Yuriy Chaplinsky, the Ukrainian captain of the river cruise boat Viking Sigyn, was found responsible for the collision and was sentenced to five and a half years behind bars. While some
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by Calculated Risk on 9/22/2023 07:17:00 PM Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Due to changes at the CDC, weekly cases are no longer updated. For deaths, I’m currently using 3 weeks ago for “now”, since the most recent two weeks will be revised significantly. Recently hospitalizations have tripled
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by Calculated Risk on 9/15/2023 07:58:00 PM Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Due to changes at the CDC, weekly cases are no longer updated. After the first few weeks, the pandemic low for weekly deaths had been the week of July 7, 2021, at 1,690 deaths (until recently).
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Experts say the U.S. is currently in a “fourth wave” of opioid overdose deaths, this one marked by a sharp increase in fentanyl — a synthetic opioid — being mixed with stimulant drugs. A study published in the journal Addiction on Thursday by UCLA found that the share of overdoses involving a combination of fentanyl
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An investigation into the dramatic rise in deaths at Churchill Downs around the Kentucky Derby was released on Tuesday with a very familiar answer — we don’t know what happened. The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) released its 197-page report on Churchill Downs, filled with graphs, charts and all the trappings of a thorough
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by Calculated Risk on 9/08/2023 08:19:00 PM Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Due to changes at the CDC, weekly cases are no longer updated. After the first few weeks, the pandemic low for weekly deaths had been the week of July 7, 2021, at 1,690 deaths (until recently).
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UK Health Security Agency (UKSHA) said on Friday that 34 COVID-19 cases linked to the highly mutated variant BA.2.86 had been identified in England. The Omicron offshoot carries more than 35 mutations in key portions of the virus compared with XBB.1.5, the dominant variant through most of 2023, a number roughly on par with the Omicron
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Obesity has been a known risk factor for a wide range of diseases for a very long time. Now, a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association has highlighted its link to heart-related deaths. Across a 20-year span, the number of obesity-related heart disease deaths tripled in the U.S., researchers found.
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