If you happened to eat at a certain Illinois steakhouse recently, you should know that there are 70 people who have fallen ill including many serious enough to be hospitalized after eating there.
If bird flu isn't already on your radar in Missouri, perhaps it should be now. There are now reports that a sudden outbreak of 8 possible bird flu cases have occurred in Missouri.
Multiple sources are confirming two different facts. First, there's a human bird flu case in Missouri. Second, the infected person has not had contact with animals and is not a farm worker.
Illinois and Missouri have an unusual connection to an emergency recall that's just been issued for cinnamon powder. The cinnamon was made and distributed by a company in Illinois, but it was authorities in Missouri that found lead in it.
You fortunately do not see this very often, but the West Nile virus has struck Missouri hard leaving one St. Louis area teen paralyzed and on a ventilator.
West Nile Virus can be uneventful for some, but for others it can be deadly. That's the case in Illinois as someone has just passed away shortly after being diagnosed with the virus.