August 16, 2021

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents say they have now seized more than 121 shipments containing more than 3,000 counterfeit COVID-19 vaccine cards this year alone. In a release, the agency said agents have intercepted the shipments at the port of Memphis, Tennessee, all of them from China and bound for different U.S. cities. The manifest usually indicates the contents are paper or greeting cards. Inside were packs of 20, 51 or 100 of the counterfeit cards. The officers say the cards have blanks for the recipient’s name and birthdate, the vaccine maker, lot number, and date and place the

Krystal Tolley wasn’t sure if the tiny Chapman’s pygmy chameleon — considered an extremely rare and critically endangered species of reptile — was already extinct when she and two colleagues went searching for it in East Africa in 2016. No one had reported a sighting of the chameleon since the 1990s when it was first discovered. Moreover, the rainforests they inhabited had lost a significant amount of coverage over the decades. The remarkably tiny lizard reaches a maximum length of only 6.2 centimeters and is one of several species in the genus Rhampholeon, commonly known as pygmy chameleons, native to

SYDNEY – Poland is selling one million doses of the Pfizer vaccine to boost Australia’s comparatively low COVID-19 inoculation rates. Australia has bought extra doses of the Pfizer vaccine from the Polish government for an undisclosed amount. The first shipment arrived in Sydney Sunday. Reports have said Poland has been trying to sell-on at least four million spare doses from its national stockpile. The deal is part of Canberra’s international hunt for extra doses to boost its vaccination rollout. With only about a quarter of its population fully inoculated, Australia has lagged behind many other countries. Half of the doses from Poland will go to 20-to-39-year-olds in the