West Nile virus found in Schuylkill County and other top stories.

• West Nile virus found in Schuylkill County

  

  The West Nile virus has been detected in Schuylkill County. The virus was detected in mosquitoes July 19 in Minersville, according to the state’s West Nile virus website, www.westnile.state.pa.us. Last year, the virus was found in the county Aug. 7 in Pine Grove Township and was detected in Pine Grove Borough. To date, the virus has been found in 24 counties in the state. Of those, there has been one human case of the virus found in Indiana County in July. Twenty-two of those counties have mo..

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• For Stopping A Pandemic Of Gun Violence, Let's Look To The Flu

  

  Police tape blocks off a street where a 16-year-old was shot and killed and another 18-year-old was shot and wounded on the on April 25 in Chicago. Joshua Lott/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joshua Lott/Getty Images Police tape blocks off a street where a 16-year-old was shot and killed and another 18-year-old was shot and wounded on the on Apri..

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• More locally transmitted Zika in U.S. expected: U.S. official

  

  Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are seen inside Oxitec laboratory in Campinas, Brazil Thomson Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States will likely see more cases of local Zika virus transmission going forward, a U.S. health official warned on Sunday, although it is unlikely to turn into a broader situation as seen in Brazil or Puerto Rico. The comments comes after Florida authorities on Friday reported the first sign of local transmission in the continental United Sta..

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• Summer days shouldn't be lazy for kids

  

  SATURDAY, July 30, 2016 -- Kids love the unstructured days of summer, but parents need to be sure children get moving during their summer holidays, a physical education expert says. "I always encourage students to keep active in the summer," Martin Wurmlinger, a physical education teacher at a Los Angeles middle school, said in a news release from the University of California, Los Angeles. "I stress just getting out and finding an activity that keeps them moving and raises heart rate levels," s..

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• As Trampoline Parks Jump In Popularity, So Do Injuries

  

  Trampoline parks like this one in San Francisco typically offer dodge ball and other activities on trampolines. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption toggle caption Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Trampoline parks like this one in San Francisco typically offer dodge ball and other activities on trampolines. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP ..

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• Schumer raises stink over FDA recall delays

  

  Sen. Charles Schumer said Sunday it takes too long for dangerous food to be taken off shelves, and demanded that the FDA rework its recall guidelines. New York’s senior senator was particularly peeved that a 21-state ­E. coli outbreak linked to tainted flour began in December — but the recall wasn’t issued until May. “Thousands and thousands and thousands got sick because of the delayed recall,” said Schumer, who described the FDA’s recall process as “shockingly lax.” “Earlier this summer, Ne..

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• MIT Develops Portable Device That Spits Out Drugs On-Demand

  

  Researchers at MIT have developed a portable system that can produce biologic drugs on-demand, obviating the need for expensive centralized manufacturing and potentially enabling doctors working in remote or developing parts of the world to create biopharmaceuticals that may be otherwise inaccessible. The DARPA-funded work is described this week in the journal Nature Communications. Biopharmaceuticals, or biologics, are pharmaceutical drugs produced from biological rather than chemical sources..

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• Zika virus fears in Florida stir partisan blame for congressional inaction

  

  Evidence that mosquitoes have begun to spread the Zika virus on the U.S. mainland is setting off alarm bells among Florida’s leaders and reviving partisan bickering over who is to blame for a lack of congressional action to confront the disease.Concerns over a possible Zika outbreak in Miami are adding to the political uncertainty in a key swing state where the tourism industry is the No. 1 economic driver and already is reeling from a toxic green algae bloom ravaging its coastline.“Floridians a..

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