The Biden administration has started a formal evaluation of risks from vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a plume of toxic black smoke following the train derailment earlier this year in eastern Ohio.
Around 450 patients of the endoscopy unit at Salem Hospital in Massachusetts are reportedly at risk of HIV, Hepatitis C, and Hepatitis A after they were administered “possibly contaminated IVs over a period of two years.”
"Ideally, a single plant could produce enough mRNA to vaccinate a single person," said an associate professor at the University of California, Riverside.
The lab, previously operating under the company name Prestige BioTech, was found to contain labeled viruses and bacteria including hepatitis B and C, dengue, HIV, herpes, tuberculosis, rubella, coronavirus, and malaria during an inspection in March.
A group of 15 waste management employees who serviced vineyards owned by Democratic leaders Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Gov. Gavin Newsom in California are seeking a hefty $300 million in damages from a Napa Valley landfill.