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Uganda has declared the end of Ebola disease outbreak, less than three months after the virus was confirmed. Robust, coordinated response by the government, supported by WHO and partners, was critical in stopping the outbreak.

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Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

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Great example for a health behavior where people will be like “everybody does X, it’s never going to change” until it actually does change within a rather short time span, from a historic perspective.

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Once widespread, smoking is now uncommon in Great Britain 🧵

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The MacArthur Foundation isn’t complying in advance — it’s resisting in advance. This is the kind of courage and resolve we need to fight MAGA fascism.

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Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut

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38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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Samar Abu Elouf gana el World Press Photo del Año con el retrato de un niño mutilado por un ataque israelí en Gaza

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"…the risk associated with COVID was found to be analogous to driving impairments seen with alcohol consumption at legal limits. …Acute C19 as measured by PCR➕ was associated with an OR of 1.25 (1.23-1.26 95% CI) for subsequent car crashes, a 25% increase in crash risk associated with acute C19".

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In 2019, for the Channel 4 documentary The Massacre That Shook the Empire, I introduced the great-granddaughter of the man responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, General Dyer, to a descendant of one of the victims. The conversation, which has recently gone viral, is revealing

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Travellers arriving in Great Britain face import ban on EU meat and dairy

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CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) has made great progress, reducing teen smoking to record low levels—from 36% in 1997 to just 4% now. Many states rely on CDC for most of their tobacco control budget, including KS, WV and MI. Eliminating OSH only serves Big Tobacco and cancer cells.

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Amazing. After nearly losing her house, and being locked away in a legal battle for years because of one innocuous line in her last TED Talk, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social returns to the Lion’s Den, and calls out the Broligarchs This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

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Breaking News: Five more prominent law firms facing punitive action by President Trump reached deals to provide free legal services to causes he supports.

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The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now. Whatever problems Europe has - and it has plenty - it is looking pretty damn good by comparison these days. My Charlemagne this week www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

submitted 19 days ago • 32 comments

Game theory will determine the winner of this trade war, says @johnauthers.bsky.social 🎥

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HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. In just a few short weeks, his actions on vacccines, fluoride and other public health science have shown how wrong he is for the job. Read & share our statement: apha.org/news-and-med...

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It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

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It's darkly humorous that AI doomers worry about an advanced technology falling into the wrong hands, which allow China to wreck our economy, throw markets into turmoil, interrupt manufacturing progress, disrupt our scientific infrastructure, and create global panic and confusion.

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This is Mr. Irfanullah from Pakistan. He is walking in waist-deep snow to deliver life-saving polio vaccine to children in the mountains. He's not at home, comfortable. #PublicHealth takes work. Public health needs heroes. (Image via UNICEF Pakistan's Twitter feed.)

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this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

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We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

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Wheeee! on.ft.com/4i69pBi

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#COVID19 didn’t end. Its story just stopped being told. A new story, rooted in the way we live now, would necessitate the telling of present-day truths, by @flannerydean.bsky.social canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/04/04/c... via @canadahealthwatch.bsky.social @nicktsergas.ca

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“Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose — to help people.” Among the last words of the Palestinian paramedic who was found in a mass grave, shot in the head. If these are not war crimes, I don’t know what is. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” “The time is always right to do what is right.” “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” All statements by Dr Martin Luther King Jr, who died on this day in 1968.

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"I imagine it as a very long staircase that ends with the eradication of TB and starts hundreds of years ago, when 1 out of 7 people were dying of TB....We can take steps forward or we can take steps back....We didn’t take a step back. We fell down the staircase. And it is devastating."

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“A positive test for COVID-19 was associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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“the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied”

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Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Climate Change

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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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A huge loss at FDA. Peter Marks originated rhe Operation Warp Speed Covid vaccine idea and has overseen so many essential biotech programs such as genome editing cures www.wsj.com/politics/top...

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You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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My friend Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Doctors Without Borders, was cancelled at NYU. The vice-president in education asked to see her powerpoint, prior to her lecture. One slide showed the number of humanitarian workers who died in Gaza. NYU cancelled the event.

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🧪 The termination of COVID-19 research is a “real slap in the face of the many patients struggling with the long-term health effects of COVID infections”, says Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University https://go.nature.com/42213Ez

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Reposting again.

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A core element of public health involves working with the public to help them understand how they can protect themselves and their neighbors from disease. This memo (see the next post) equates this vital aspect of public communication with censorship.

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Valiant efforts from @paulscriven.bsky.social & others in the Lords last night, continuing to put pressure on Government to exempt dental practices & other primary care providers from the reckless NI hike. His common sense amendment passed but was voted down in the Commons again today.

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Was on @news.sky.com this morning discussing 5 years since that first lockdown. This is what I said about lockdown being a terrible choice, but that the alternative was also terrible. And it wasn't just about deaths either. 1/3

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Five years ago this weekend - we're still not pandemic-ready | @theipaper.com | 23 March 2025: inews.co.uk/news/health/... Tom Bawden talks to Prof Tom Koch, Prof @martinmckee.bsky.social, Prof Jenny Harries & Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social #LongCovid #pandemic

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Tuberculosis: WHO warns of “crippling breakdowns” in response after funding cuts

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