PMPs Staying Safe While Working in Extreme Heat Posted on July 16, 2024 Pest management professionals throughout the West Coast are used to working in heat, but conditions throughout much of the region the last two weeks have been extreme even by their standards. Some areas have experienced multiple days of triple-digit weather that has turned deadly. “In our service area we have had temperatures between 103 and … Read More from PMPs Staying Safe While Working in Extreme Heat
3 dead in Arizona from illness spread by rodents, officials say Posted on July 16, 2024 (July 16, 2024) Coconino County has reported its first case of the hantavirus since 2016. The county said Friday that three human cases of the virus carried through rodents have been reported over the last 15 months and two have turned fatal. On a statewide level, Arizona’s reported seven cases and three fatalities of the hantavirus over the last six … Read More from 3 dead in Arizona from illness spread by rodents, officials say
Modern antibiotics can deal with the plague, but recent cases raise other concerns Posted on July 16, 2024 The bubonic plague – the most destructive pandemic ever that killed millions in the Middle Ages – is still with us. While it is unlikely that it will return with the vengeance of the Spanish influenza or Covid, it does pop up from time to time. This once massive killer offers insights into how to … Read More from Modern antibiotics can deal with the plague, but recent cases raise other concerns