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Ex-CDC official says cyclospora numbers don't add upFormer senior CDC official Debra Houry says federal and state case counts diverge wildly, with Michigan alone reporting 2,640 cases on 13 July against a national CDC figure of just 843 that day. RF…Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products across 26 statesThe salmonella outbreak behind it has sickened 345 people and hospitalised 36 across 27 states, traced to a grower in Sinaloa, Mexico, and lands weeks after Taylor Farms was already fighting a sepa…US scientists use AI to design synthetic viruses from scratchResearchers have used AI models to generate the genetic blueprints for synthetic viruses, a capability that until recently required years of lab-based trial and error rather than computational desi…Schwartz confirmed as CDC directorThe confirmation went through despite a hearing widely seen as a stumble, a sign the Senate math mattered more than the performance. Public health officials will be watching his first policy moves …McDonald's swaps US boss after its slowest growth in a yearMcDonald's just replaced the head of its largest and most profitable market, which only happens when the board has stopped believing the strategy will recover on its own. US same-store sales growth…Michigan confirms first two deaths in cyclospora outbreakCyclospora outbreaks are typically linked to contaminated fresh produce imports, making this a supply chain traceability problem for grocers and importers as much as a public health one.Yum Brands says Taco Bell sales are recovering post-cyclosporaThe outbreak dented traffic hard enough that Yum's CEO addressed it directly on the earnings call, and a fast recovery claim only holds up if the next quarter's same-store sales confirm it.Fauci pleads the Fifth in front of the SenateAnthony Fauci invoking Fifth Amendment protection at a Senate hearing on Covid origins and policy is a significant escalation from his previous congressional appearances, where he defended the reco…A quiet Medicare subsidy cliff lands on insurers in 2027The federal subsidy program supporting Medicare drug plans is set to end after 2026, and the insurers running Part D plans, Centene, CVS's Aetna, UnitedHealth, are the ones left holding the pricing…Sewage discharges near 65 English beaches breach guidance since MayWater companies keep discharging near bathing beaches despite Environment Agency guidance, adding pressure on Ofwat's price review process to force capital spending over shareholder payouts.Taco Bell scrambles to contain a Cyclospora outbreakTaco Bell is pulling supply trucks to contain contamination, the latest fast-food chain forced into a costly recall over a parasite linked to fresh produce.Taylor Farms confirmed as the source of the diarrhea outbreakHealth officials have narrowed the outbreak to Taylor Farms produce despite days of conflicting signals, a reminder that the fragmented US food supply chain still struggles to trace contamination q…US and Congo Ebola travel curbs risk slowing the aid responseRestricting flights makes it harder to move medical staff and supplies into outbreak zones fast, which is exactly the bottleneck that turned past Ebola flare-ups into prolonged crises.Taco Bell pulls lettuce over Cyclospora outbreakHealth authorities have linked the outbreak to Taylor Farms lettuce supplied to Taco Bell locations across several states, forcing the chain to yank the ingredient before the CDC finishes its case …A midnight curfew for teen social media is a compliance headache waiting to happenForcing platforms to cut access for older teens at midnight sounds simple in a press release and is a nightmare in engineering terms: age verification at scale, time-zone handling, and enforcement …Covid inquiry: £10bn of PPE spend failed the staff it was meant to protectThe UK Covid inquiry's finding that billions in emergency procurement delivered inadequate protective equipment is the clearest evidence yet that pandemic-era waste wasn't a rounding error, it was …MAHA-backed natural food colors now linked to health problemsNatural food colors promoted by the Make America Healthy Again movement as safer alternatives to synthetic dyes are being linked to higher diabetes and cancer risks, complicating industry reformula…Singapore isolates two residents from deadly cruise hantavirus outbreakTwo Singapore residents who sailed on the MV Hondius are isolated at NCID awaiting hantavirus test results after the cruise linked to eight cases and three deaths.Hantavirus kills three on expedition cruise off AfricaWHO coordinates evacuations from Dutch-flagged m/v Hondius after suspected rodent exposure infected six passengers and crew. Cape Verde authorities delay medical clearances.NHS trials 'prescribing connection' to combat loneliness epidemicBritish doctors are quietly prescribing social activities instead of antidepressants to tackle rising loneliness rates. Early trials show community group referrals work as effectively as medication…