Fast-casual burrito chain Chipotle is working with the data infrastructure giant Palantir. The company is working on a “food safety risk platform” hosted on Palantir’s flagship software platform Foundry, according to screenshots viewed by WIRED. The platform appears to analyze factors like a store’s health department scores, pest incidents, and employee illnesses to assign a
NEW YORK — Bacteria that cause potentially fatal Legionnaires’ disease were found in a Yankee Stadium cooling tower — one of 10 such towers in the Bronx that tested positive amid several reported cases of the illness including one death, New York City health officials said. The city’s Health Department said Sunday that more tests
Authorities in Zambia have warned people not to eat meat from wildlife after dozens of wild animals, including hippos, elephants, buffalo and a crocodile died following an anthrax outbreak. A disaster management agency official said over the weekend that 12 people had been infected with the disease after consuming dead wildlife in the Munyamadzi River
The largest outbreak of an intestinal infection that spread across several US states and affected more than 12,000 people has ended, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Friday. Two people have died and 570 were hospitalised in recent months in relation to the outbreak of cyclospora, a microscopic parasite that can
The measles ward at Dhaka Shishu Hospital is full, even five months after the start of a massive outbreak in Bangladesh. Ali Asif Shawon for NPR hide caption toggle caption Ali Asif Shawon for NPR In May, we posted a story about the rapid and devastating spread of measles in Bangladesh. The headline: More than
Trump has praised Overton, a former general surgery resident at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and chief policy officer at conservative think tank America First Policy Institute, as a “rockstar” future leader of the FDA. But her nomination to the top job comes at a time where Trump officials are attempting to take steps
