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Mexican migrant killed in California capsize left daughter
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Yecenia Lazcano Soriano left behind a 4-year-old daughter in her residence city of Tehuacan, Mexico, when she set out nearly in secret to achieve the US.
The final message she despatched to kin was a coronary heart emoji. Days later, on the California coast, two small boats carrying her and different migrants capsized in tough surf off a seaside in San Diego.
The 22-year-old’s physique was one in every of eight recovered shortly after the accident final Sunday at Black’s Seaside, one of many deadliest maritime smuggling occasions close to U.S. shores.
A single mom, Lazcano Soriano’s story was nearly a microcosm of the desperation that drives many migrants to the US. Almost 129,000 migrants had been stopped attempting to cross the U.S. border in February.
At age 15, Lazcano Soriano went to dwell with the daddy of her youngster, however he was kidnapped and disappeared, like over 112,000 different Mexicans who’ve vanished since drug cartel violence picked up in 2006.
Lazcano Soriano dreamed of opening her personal retailer in Tehuacan, a poor agricultural city mendacity between the cities of Puebla and Oaxaca in south-central Mexico. Most there make a tenuous residing rising flowers or corn. The one mom bought fruit and greens at an area market.
However with jobs scarce, she determined to observe her aunt, Wendy Valencia, who left Tehuacan to to migrate to Dallas six years in the past.
Lazcano Soriano left Tehuacan weeks in the past, telling solely two of her kin. The final message she despatched was a coronary heart emoji to Valencia. After that, there was silence, till the chilling information got here: Authorities had recognized her by ID paperwork discovered on her physique.
“She wasn’t afraid of labor,” Valencia mentioned in a phone interview. “She was a warrior, a lady who was accustomed to wrestle.”
She left her daughter within the care of her 72-year-old grandmother and two different aunts, however had hoped to be reunited with the lady.
“Her purpose was to provide her daughter a greater future, an ample residence,” Valencia mentioned. Life was by no means that sort to Lazcano Soriano; her companion’s disappearance was by no means solved.
A complete of 23 individuals had been thought to aboard the 2 boats that capsized off San Diego. Most of the different passengers are believed to have made it to land and escaped.
Mexican authorities mentioned preliminary identification based mostly on data discovered with individuals’s our bodies point out seven of the eight useless had been Mexicans.
Simply 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Tehuacan, within the city of Tlacotepec de Benito Juarez, the tragedy touched the household of Alma Figueroa Gorgoria.
Figueroa Gorgoria would have turned 18 subsequent week. She had set out for the US together with her aunt, Ana Jacqueline Figueroa, 23. Each of their our bodies had been recognized in San Diego.
Simply seven miles (12 kilometers) within the different course, the close by farming neighborhood of Santiago Miahuatlan was the hometown of Guillermo Suárez González, who additionally risked touring within the boats to achieve the US. A employee at an area export meeting plant, the 23-year-old dreamed of a greater life; he left behind 4 kids. Eloy Hernández Baltazar, 58, additionally lived in Santiago Miahuatlan, and was additionally among the many useless.
The Puebla state migrant support workplace mentioned the paperwork has been submitted to return Suárez González to his residence city for burial.
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California woman dies from Fresno County's first human case of rabies in more than 30 years
A California woman died of rabies after allegedly being bitten by a bat in her classroom, according to Fresno County health officials.
The woman, later identified as Leah Seneng, 60, marks the first human case of rabies in Fresno County since 1992.
“In general, rabies is a disease that affects the brain, and it is very rare. But when it develops, it can cause very serious consequences,” said Dr. Trnidad Solis, Fresno County Health Department’s deputy health officer. “It’s transmitted through saliva; it is not airborne.”
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Seneng, who was an art teacher at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos, was bitten by the bat when she was attempting to rescue it in her classroom, local outlet ABC30 reported.
She first came into contact with the bat in October, but did not display symptoms until approximately a month later, according to Fresno County health officials. She was admitted to the hospital and died four days later.
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“The most frequent route of transmission is through the bite of an animal that has rabies. With rabies, unfortunately, there is no cure. So, when symptoms develop, there is no treatment, and often when it develops, it is often fatal. So we want the public to know that prevention is key to preventing rabies infection,” Solis said.
Fresno County officials do not believe there is a threat to public health at this time, but are working with the Merced County Health Department to identify any other possible exposures and administer vaccines.
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Seneng’s coworkers have set up a GoFundMe account to assist her family during this time.
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Another batch of raw milk from a trendy California brand just tested positive for bird flu
- Two batches of raw milk from a trendy California brand have tested positive for bird flu this week.
- Bird flu has been spreading rapidly among cattle in the US.
- Experts say drinking raw milk is dangerous, and can cause food poisoning.
Another batch of raw milk just tested positive for bird flu in California.
Last Sunday, Fresno-based Raw Farm voluntarily recalled a first batch of cream top whole raw milk with a “best by” date of November 27. By Wednesday, the California Department of Public Health announced that a second batch of Raw Farm cream top, with a “best by” date of December 7 had also tested positive for bird flu, based on retail sampling.
“We’re not making a big deal about it, because it’s not a big deal,” Kaleigh Stanziani, Raw Farm’s vice president of marketing, said in a short video posted on YouTube after the farm’s first voluntary recall was announced earlier this week.
She said there had only been an indication that there might be a “trace element of something possible,” emphasizing that there had been no reported illnesses of Raw Farms cows or positive tests from the cattle.
Raw Farm owner Mark McAfee later told the LA Times that the California Department of Food and Agriculture had requested that his company “hold delivery of further products” until Friday, after conducting thorough testing of two Raw Farms and one creamery on Wednesday. (McAfee could not immediately be reached for comment by Business Insider during the Thanksgiving holiday.)
Raw milk may be helping bird flu spread — but not in the way you might think
Scientists suspect that cross-contamination of raw milk between animals may be one reason the H5N1 virus is spreading rapidly among cows in the US — and could even contribute to the human spread of the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cautions that dairy workers might be able to contract bird flu by infected raw milk splashed into their eyes.
There is no definitive evidence yet that humans can get bird flu from drinking contaminated raw milk. Instead, health authorities generally recommend avoiding raw milk because of other serious health risks, including food poisoning with bacteria like Salmonella, E.coli, or Listeria.
There are no known health benefits of drinking raw milk. Instead, all evidence suggests that pasteurized milk is just as nutritious, and is safer to consume.
Still, raw milk has become a trendy product among some influencers. Gwenyth Paltrow says she has it in her coffee in the morning.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, says he wants the US Food and Drug Administration to stop its “war” against raw milk.
Over the summer, “Carnivore MD” Paul Saladino released a raw milk smoothie in partnership with the elite Los Angeles health foods store Erewhon featuring unpasteurized (raw) kefir from Raw Farms, and powdered beef organs.
California has some of the loosest rules around raw milk in the country; it’s generally fine for California retailers like health foods stores and grocers to sell it, raw milk products just can’t be transported across state lines, per FDA rules.
Michael Payne, a researcher at the Western Institute of Food Safety and Security, told The Guardian that people consuming Dr. Paul’s $19 smoothie were “playing Russian roulette with their health,” and ignoring pasteurization, “the single most important food safety firewall in history.”
California dairy farms have been seeing an uptick in bird flu cases since August. The state has reported 29 confirmed human cases of bird flu, and all but one of those was sourced back to cows.
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first confirmed case of bird flu in a California child from Alameda County. The child had no known contact with infected farm animals, but may have been exposed to wild birds, the California health department said in a statement.
The child had mild symptoms and is recovering well after receiving antiviral drugs.
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