The child is thought to have contracted an infection caused by the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri after swimming in the Elkhorn River in Douglas County, Neb.
A jury previously found that the pharmacy chains bore some responsibility for flooding Ohio’s Lake and Trumbull counties with prescription painkillers.
New York health authorities announced that two people have been infected with West Nile virus in the state — one case in Brooklyn and another in Queens — as “a record number” of infected mosquitoes have been detected.