Tag: medicines

Funeral home owner in the US pleads guilty to body parts for cash scheme

The director of a Colorado funeral home stole the bodies and body parts of the deceased and resold them. Sunset Mesa Funeral Home operator Megan Hess has confessed to stealing hundreds of bodies and body parts and reselling them to individuals and companies that purchased them for scientific, medical and educational purposes, according to a plea agreement filed on Tuesday. 

Top health official comments on how monkeypox spreads

‘Initial cases in Europe last month were found almost entirely in gay and bisexual men, and this trend has continued.’ The monkeypox virus can spread through the air, but only if close, sustained face-to-face contact like passionate kissing is maintained, the director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told reporters on Friday.