Saturday, February 15, 2020

In the news, Monday, February 3, 2020


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from BBC News (UK)

Second Mexico monarch butterfly activist found dead
A second activist campaigning for the conservation of monarch butterflies and the woods in which they hibernate has been found dead in Mexico. Raúl Hernández worked as a tour guide at a butterfly sanctuary in Michoacán state. His body, which bore signs of beatings and a head injury, was found two days after the funeral of Homero Gómez. Mr Gómez managed a monarch butterfly sanctuary in the same state and had received threats, his family said.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokahttps://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/feb/03/man-killed-in-shooting-in-mcdonalds-parking-in-nor/ne, Washington

Getting There: With City Line coming, STA plans expanded service elsewhere; plus, double-decker buses to Cheney?
A Spokane Transit Authority proposal would put double-decker buses on the busy route between Spokane and the home of Eastern Washington University in 2022.

Faith and Values: What overwhelms us is what brings us closer to God
by Steve Massey

Man killed in shooting in McDonald’s parking lot in northeast Spokane
Police responded to the McDonald’s at 3416 N. Market St. at about 1:15 a.m. after a woman called 911 saying her friend had been shot, according to a news release. The woman also said the shooter was still at the scene.

Then and Now: East Trent Bridge – about to be replaced – once set the standard for bridges in Spokane
The East Trent Bridge, called the East Olive Bridge when it was built in 1910, is scheduled for a complete replacement after 110 years of service. The Washington State Department of Transportation is currently considering new designs for the replacement and work could start in the spring of this year.

China opens coronavirus hospital; Seattle-area man released from hospital
China said Tuesday the number of infections from a new virus surpassed 20,000 as medical workers and patients arrived at a new hospital and President Xi Jinping said “we have launched a people’s war of prevention of the epidemic.”

UN health agency tackles misinformation over virus outbreak
The World Health Organization chief has traveled a dozen times to monitor the Ebola response in violence-marred eastern Congo. But when he planned to visit China’s capital last week over a new viral outbreak emerging from central Hubei province, his daughter got worried. The account exemplifies the fine line WHO officials are navigating between fear about the new coronavirus and hopes of increasing international preparedness about an outbreak that has taken more than 360 lives and infected at least 17,238 people in China since late December – and could become a pandemic. So far, growth has been exponential in China, but elsewhere cases remain under 150, scattered across nearly two dozen countries.

Study is halted as HIV vaccine fails test in South Africa
The latest attempt at an HIV vaccine has failed, as researchers announced Monday they have stopped giving the experimental shots in a major study. The study had enrolled more than 5,400 people since 2016 in South Africa, a country with one of the world’s highest HIV rates. Last month, monitors checked how the study was going and found 129 HIV infections had occurred among the vaccine recipients compared with 123 among those given a dummy shot, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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