Posts Tagged ‘public health & medicine’
ISIS-inspired pharmacy student charged with plotting mass killing of Jews using poisons
Mohammed Shalabi, 22, a pharmacy student from the Beit Hanina neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem, planned to carry out terrorist attacks against security forces and Jewish civilians using explosive devices and deadly poisons, with the aim of causing mass casualties, according to an indictment filed against him Thursday in the Jerusalem District Court. According to the…
Read MoreSuspect charged after allegedly making threats toward Marion General Hospital, Columbia police say
A suspect is in custody after allegedly threatening Marion General Hospital Monday. According to police, a call came in from the hospital reporting threats to patients and staff. Officers determined the suspect was a former patient identified as 54-year-old David Michael Deron. The sheriff’s office said deputies and the Columbia Police officers were looking for…
Read MoreBoston Scientific hit by cyberattack, global operations affected
Boston Scientific said on Wednesday that a cybersecurity incident had disrupted global operations, including some information systems used to process and ship customer orders.The medical device maker said it detected the incident on August 25 and had activated incident-response procedures, working with third-party cybersecurity specialists to investigate and contain the threat. Shares of the company…
Read MoreFBI Working With Pasadena [CA] Police on Huntington Hospital Bomb Threat Hoax
The FBI is working with Pasadena police to identify whoever called in a Friday morning bomb threat hoax at Huntington Hospital. The caller, who claimed to be a member of an online group known as 764, threatened Huntington Hospital with explosives and an armed attack, triggering a large police response that located no bombs and…
Read MorePolice shoot machete-wielding man outside Los Alamitos hospital, prompting lockdown
A man wielding a machete was shot by police outside a hospital in Los Alamitos on Wednesday. The incident triggered a brief lockdown at the medical center. Video posted on the Citizen App shows police using less-lethal rounds. Eventually, they opened fire when the suspect reportedly ran toward officers. Officials say the suspect is out…
Read MoreAustralian doctor who joined ISIS found alive in Iraq
An Adelaide-trained doctor who left Australia to join the Islamic State terrorist group has been reportedly found alive in a Baghdad prison almost a decade after he was believed to have been killed. Dubbed “Dr Jihad”, Tareq Kamleh was a Perth-born pediatrician who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State and work in its health…
Read MoreWilmington Hospital suspect arrested in Philadelphia after 1 killed in Delaware shooting
A suspect is in custody following a double shooting on Tuesday afternoon that left one person dead inside Wilmington Hospital in Delaware. Wilmington police say a 23-year-old man was taken into custody in Philadelphia Tuesday night. Charges and extradition to Delaware are pending. Various law enforcement agencies swarmed an area in the city’s Olney section…
Read MoreKenya police fire tear gas at protest over US Ebola center
Kenyan police fired tear gas early Tuesday to break up a protest against a planned Ebola quarantine center for US citizens in the central town of Nanyuki. Small groups of demonstrators gathered near the site of the proposed 50-bed facility at Laikipia Air Base. Some of them wore protective medical uniforms, waved Kenyan flags and…
Read MoreNJ nurse arrested for 2 arsons, threatening coworkers on Thursday, officials say
A New Jersey nurse was arrested after setting fire to his apartment and to his car outside of where he worked on Thursday, according to the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office. Officers with the Gloucester Township Police Department were called to the Cherrywood Apartment on the 1200 block of Little Gloucester Road around 11:52 a.m. on…
Read MoreUganda closes its border with Congo, where suspected cases of a rare Ebola type are surging
Uganda on Wednesday ordered the closure of its border with Congo, where suspected cases of a rare type of Ebola are surging, and as cases have been confirmed at home after Ugandan health workers were exposed to the disease from Congolese patients. The measure, which goes against the guidance by the World Health Organization, underscores…
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