Apoorva Mandavilli

1 week ago | texarkanagazette.com | Apoorva Mandavilli

The campaign to curb bird flu on the nation's farms has been slowed by the chaotic transition to a new administration that is determined to cut costs, reduce the federal workforce and limit communications, according to interviews with more than a dozen scientists and federal officials. On poultry farms, more than 168 million birds have been killed in an effort to curtail outbreaks.

1 week ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Apoorva Mandavilli

TrendingMore than 600 species of venomous snakes roam the earth, biting as many as 2.7 million people, killing about 120,000 people and maiming 400,000 others every year. But scientists believe one man's daredevilry could change this story. Tim Friede, 57, a slim man who lives in Wisconsin, has over the past 18 years injected himself with over 650 carefully calibrated, escalating doses of venom to build his immunity to 16 deadly snake species.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Apoorva Mandavilli |Roni Rabin

Of the proposed cuts, she said, “How do you reconcile that with trying to make America healthy again?”The federal health department last month cut 2,400 jobs from the CDC, whose National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion runs on the largest budget within the agency. A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Programs on lead poisoning, smoking cessation and reproductive health were jettisoned in a reorganization last month.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Apoorva Mandavilli

The video is just under 2½ minutes long. A slim man with close-cropped hair walks into a room, pulls a long black mamba — whose venom can kill within an hour — from a crate and allows it to bite his left arm. Immediately after, he lets a taipan from Papua New Guinea bite his right arm. “Thanks for watching,” he calmly tells the camera, his left arm bleeding, and then exits.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Apoorva Mandavilli

Scientists identified antibodies that neutralized the poison in whole or in part from the bites of cobras, mambas and other deadly species. The video is just under two and a half minutes long. A slim man with close-cropped hair walks into a room, pulls a long black mamba - whose venom can kill within an hour - from a crate and allows it to bite his left arm. Immediately after, he lets a taipan from Papua New Guinea bite his right arm.