‘Happiest day of my life’: North Carolina man wins $1 million after buying scratch-off at convenience store
Jerry Wilson, of Clayton, bought a $10 scratch-off and won a $1 million top prize, according to an NC Education Lottery news release. “I have always dreamed of this,” he said. “This is the happiest day of my life.” Wilson bought his winning $10 Jumbo Bucks ticket Monday morning from the Han-Dee Hugo’s on South New Hope Road in Raleigh.
When Wilson arrived at lottery headquarters Monday, he had a decision to make. He could choose to receive his prize as an annuity of $50,000 over 20 years or a lump sum of $600,000. He chose the lump sum of $600,000. After required tax withholdings, he took home $430,503. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime type of thing,” Wilson said.
CDC releases data signaling bird flu spread undetected in cows and people
The first study on the H5N1 bird flu outbreak from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make it to publication under the Trump administration came out Thursday. The journal released data suggesting some spillovers from dairy cattle into humans have gone undetected, including in states where dairy herds have not tested positive. This comes after a freeze in external communications that interrupted the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, or MMWR, a mainstay of public health communication.
Publication on other topics resumed last week. The findings underscore the difficulty of detecting and controlling human infections based on whether a person seeks out medical care, says Gregory Gray, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. “If the circulating H5 viruses become more transmissible between humans, we are not going to be able to control transmission as the viruses will spread rapidly and often subclinically,” says Gray.
Russian authorities see rising economic risks, internal reports show
Lower oil prices, budget constraints and a rise in bad corporate debt are among the top economic risks facing Russia, documents prepared for an internal government discussion show, with a possible jump in U.S. and OPEC oil output of notable concern. President Vladimir Putin and top officials have in public regularly extolled the Russian economy’s resilience in the face of international sanctions while characterising inflation, stubbornly high at 10%, as its biggest challenge.
