On A Positive Note: Long Island Community Donate Hats to Boy With Alopecia
A Long Island community is being praised for rallying around a boy with alopecia. The disease impact hair follicles all over the body and causes them to fallout. The residents of Massapequa Park decided to help five-year-old Anthony D'Alessandro gain his confidence back by donating hundreds of hats and caps.
The outbreak that began in early 2022 has been much less severe this year as fewer cases of the virus are being found among the wild birds that spread it, but there have still been more than 8 million birds killed this year to help control the spread of the disease.
Police say three young men of Palestinian descent who were attending a Thanksgiving holiday gathering were shot and injured near the University of Vermont campus.