West Nile Takes Severe Toll On Modesto Professor’s Life
Kimberly Kennard has been battling the virus for the past nine months.
Modesto Bee:
Modesto Junior College Professor Is Another Victim Of The West Nile Virus
For the past nine months, Modesto Junior College professor Kimberly Kennard has been in and out of hospitals, battling a disease that has devastated her health. Students at MJC have missed a professor who inspires them to pursue careers in social work and addiction counseling, and who firmly believes in students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The illness, diagnosed as West Nile virus, has been endemic in the region since 2004, and continues to ambush lives, this time an educator who has headed the human services program at MJC. (Carlson, 10/1)
In other news from across the state —
Bay Area News Group:
Contra Costa Social Services Workers Start Three-Day Strike
Striking members of the Service Employees International Union Local No. 1021, which includes social workers and services-eligibility workers, started picketing Friday and say they will continue to march in front of Contra Costa County health facilities through Tuesday. (Richards, 9/30)
San Francisco Business Times:
Prothena Corp. Dale Schenk Dies After Battle With Pancreatic Cancer
Prothena Corp. President and CEO Dale Schenk died Friday morning after a long fight with pancreatic cancer. He was 59. Schenk, who spoke to the San Francisco Business Times in August about how his diagnosis had changed his perspective as a scientist and drug industry executive, for the past four years had been CEO of Ireland-domiciled Prothena (NASDAQ: PRTA). The company has research headquarters in South San Francisco, where Schenk was based. (Leuty, 9/30)