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RELATED: If You See This Flower in Your Yard, Call Local Officials Immediately. Recently, experts have been warning people to watch out for trees that may look alive, but are actually decaying or dying on the inside. These aptly named “zombie” trees could become dangerous to both you and your property, as their weakened state may cause them to fall unexpectedly. “They’re trees that are dead and just don’t know it yet,” Matt Petty, an arborist who works with the Davey Tree Expert Company, told the Houston Chronicle....

READ THIS NEXT: If You See This Scary Bug in Your Home, Don’t Kill It, Experts Warn. Ecosystems work because of the delicate balance of the organisms that live in them. But when a non-native species enters the equation, it can have disastrous consequences for plants and wildlife in the areas they invade. Recently, authorities warned that invasive hammerhead worms are spreading across southern states in the U.S., including Georgia and Louisiana....

The cicada swarm in question is known as Brood X, or the Great Eastern Brood of periodical cicadas. Where annual cicadas, which are more commonly seen, are a shade of green, periodical cicadas are distinguished by their black bodies and bright red eyes. The insects, which are 2.5" in length with a 3" wingspan, last appeared en masse in 2004. Since then, they have been living underground, feeding on sap from tree roots for 17 years....

RELATED: Never Go in a Lake If You See This One Thing, Local Officials Warn. All hot tubs are likely to emit some steam, especially when they’re significantly warmer than the air outside. However, if the hot tub you’re about to get into is surrounded by a significant amount of steam, you may want to reconsider getting in. “Steam water is the origin of bacterial diseases like diarrhea and Legionnaires’,” says Brandon O’Malley, owner of The Sauna Company....

RELATED: If You Notice This on Your Skin, It Could Be an Early Sign of Diabetes. According to medical experts, having a red line or streak on your skin that grows in length is a serious symptom that may indicate sepsis. “Sepsis is the most serious form of any infection,” Frank Esper, MD, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Cleveland Clinic, told Health in 2019. “Sepsis is when you have an infection so bad it is disseminating across the body—kidneys shutting down, liver shutting down, heart’s in trouble,” he warned....

READ THIS NEXT: If You Shop at Walmart, Get Ready for This “Fantastic” New Change. Buying books at big-name retailers is sometimes controversial, with many calling for readers to support independent bookstores, which help support new authors and local businesses. But if you do sometimes grab your next read from Walmart, you’ll be happy to learn about the retailer’s latest initiative. It’s become popular and trendy to join different book clubs, which provide a sense of camaraderie for readers on social media or in conversation with other bookworms....

READ THIS NEXT: If You Shop at Walmart, Get Ready for This “Fantastic” New Change. Like many store memberships, Walmart+ has its advantages. For $12.95 per month or $98 annually, you get free shipping without a purchase minimum, free delivery from your local store, special member prices on fuel, and the ability to scan items in your cart and check out with your phone.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb Walmart is continually adding amenities to expand its membership base, and as of July 6, the retailer announced that it would let members bundle their membership with InHome Delivery Service....

READ THIS NEXT: Never Take These Common Medications With Your Morning Coffee, Pharmacists Say. While it was once termed a “wonder drug”, doctors today are no longer recommending aspirin at the rate they did in decades past. After many years of advising that adults over the age of 50 take a daily low-dose aspirin to prevent first-time strokes and heart attacks, the medical community recently changed its tune. It’s now recommended that people over the age of 60 do not take the drug daily as a preventative measure—at least not without a recommendation from their healthcare provider....

RELATED: If You Use This Medication, Talk to Your Doctor Immediately, FDA Says. On July 22, the FDA announced the recall of “all lots and all presentations” of Miss Slim dietary supplements, manufactured by HIS. The supplements were sold on the Miss Slim website in packages of 10 and 30 and can be identified by UPC numbers 742137605030 and 609728434472, respectively. For the latest recall news delivered straight to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter!...

Trader Joe’s is one of the most recent companies to announce that they will be compensating employees that get vaccinated, The Wall Street Journal reports. Employees will be given two hours of pay per dose and are also promised that their schedules will be adjusted to give them enough time to get vaccinated. It makes sense for this grocer to want employees vaccinated: In November, Trader Joe’s reported that around 1,250 of its employees had tested positive for COVID and 83 percent of stores had at least one to four cases by the end of Oct....

Since March, a little more than 277,000 confirmed coronavirus cases have been reported in school-aged children (5 to 17 years old). And when the CDC collected data from May to September, they found that the number of children ages 12 to 17 infected with the coronavirus on an average weekly basis was twice that of children ages 5 to 11, according to the report released on Sept. 28. This data “suggests that young persons might be playing an increasingly important role in community transmission,” the CDC researchers wrote their study....

Kimberly Blumenthal, MD, quality and safety officer for allergy at Massachusetts General Hospital, told NBC that she advises people ask, “Do they have an anaphylaxis kit?” before getting vaccinated. Anaphylaxis is a dangerous reaction that can occur in just minutes, constricting the airways and sending the body into shock. Without a proper anaphylaxis kit, professionals at the site won’t be able to help you if you have a severe reaction to the vaccine....

The disease caused by the coronavirus typically follows this path, according to the study that was published in the Frontier Public Health journal on Aug. 13. First a patient develops a fever, then upper respiratory symptoms, and finally, symptoms of the upper then lower gastrointestinal tract. The least likely path, according to this study, would be first diarrhea, then nausea and/or vomiting, followed by cough, and finally fever. But the order appears to be commonly the same, no matter where it starts....

1 Immigration Status Led to Second of Two Arrests The man is reportedly in his late 30s and entered the UK from the Balkan region about 20 years ago, the Sun reported. He allegedly lied about his country of origin to obtain the right to stay in the UK. At the time, hundreds of young Albanian men obtained asylum in Britain by falsely claiming to be from Kosovo. “Allowing an alleged illegal migrant to infiltrate the ranks of your border agency is pretty embarrassing,” a source told the Sun....

READ THIS NEXT: Hailey Bieber Says This Was the First Sign of a Blood Clot in Her Brain. At the age of 22 in 1991, Lopez launched her dance career as a Fly Girl on the hit comedy series In Living Color. In 1997, she broke through to the world of acting, landing the title role in Selena and quickly becoming the highest paid Hispanic female actor in Hollywood. Yet Lopez’s meteoric rise to fame came at a cost, as she shared in a recent newsletter to fans....

While the kids were adorable, people couldn’t help but notice that all three had impressive chiseled abs. And, while many people had nice things to say, the trolls were out in full force. Initially, the singer was accused of photoshopping the images, but later was hit with accusations of “overtraining” them – and she has something to say about that. 1 Some Celebs Were in Awe Many people who saw the photos were simply in awe....

The new photos of Finn and Hazel are rare, but this isn’t the only time Roberts and Moder’s kids have been spotted on their social media. Plus, earlier this year, Hazel stepped into the public eye by making her red carpet debut at the Cannes Film Festival. Read on to see the birthday posts for the now-17-year-old twins and to learn more about the Roberts-Moder family. RELATED: The Worst Julia Roberts Movie of All Time, According to Critics....

While Lila has been doing print work for a few years now, it wasn’t until fall 2020 that she did her first runway show. In October, Lila walked the runway for Miu Miu’s Spring/Summer 2021 collection in Milan. Read on to discover what Lila had to say about working with her mom for Fendi and where her career is heading next. And for more celebrity kids making waves in the modeling world, check out Milla Jovovich’s Lookalike Daughter Models for “Vogue....

RELATED: This Is the No. 1 Sign There’s a Snake in Your House, Experts Say. They may be vital to keeping your flowers blooming and your grass green, but garden hoses may also be attracting snakes into your yard. According to the experts at ThisOldHouse.com, piled hoses can provide the perfect type of shelter that snakes seek out to avoid predators and stay warm. Instead of coiling them onto the ground, consider installing a wall mount or a reel that can keep your watering equipment off the ground and stop it from becoming home to a slithering stranger....

Gaga was in Pennsylvania to support former Vice President Joe Biden, and she made sure to tell attendees about her personal connection to the state. “Did you all know I used to live here, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania?” she asked the drive-in audience. “Well, I was engaged to a man from Lancaster, Pennsylvania,” she said, referring to Kinney. When the crowd “aww”-ed in sympathy, she continued: “I know, I know, it didn’t work out....