
A federal judge signed an order on Friday that denied a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by citizens of Mexico and several Central American nations claiming entitlement to birth certificates for their children born in the United States. They sued the Vital Statistics Unit of the Texas Department of State Health Services saying the agency denied them the certificates because they did not possess the required identification.
by Lana Shadwick17 Oct 2015, 8:49 AM PST0

The first human case of Chikungunya (pronounced chik-un-gun-ya) has been confirmed in Collin County, Texas, located just northeast of Dallas. The infected individual recently traveled to another country and returned to the states with the virus. The risk of spread to Americans is from the virus being imported by travelers. Collin County is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas, statistical area.
by Lana Shadwick13 Aug 2015, 8:11 AM PST0

Mexican grown cilantro, contaminated by human fecal matter, caused over 200 cases of a parasitic illness in Texas. This disturbing news comes in a statement from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a statement on Monday.
by Merrill Hope28 Jul 2015, 3:10 AM PST0

Conditions are so terrible for Mexican farm workers, they actually defecate on the very crops they’re harvesting.
by Katie McHugh27 Jul 2015, 6:52 PM PST0

Initially, officials called it an isolated incident of tuberculosis (TB) in East Texas. One case of the contagious bacterial lung infection originated at a local community college. It since has multiplied into four new cases, the direct result of contact with “patient zero” and now, 60 more people are being screened as a precaution.
by Merrill Hope1 Jun 2015, 5:15 AM PST0

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, has threaten an orange flood repeat at the Texas Capitol if Planned Parenthood’s cancer screening program is defunded.
by Lana Shadwick21 May 2015, 12:08 PM PST0