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Please read—this is becoming serious!

submitted 3 days ago • 264 comments

For months, we'd been thinking about what the next story was to tell about meat & antibiotic resistance. Then @kennytorrella.bsky.social had a brilliant 10,000-foot idea: Explain the very deep, yet poorly understood, ties between big pharma & the factory farm industry www.vox.com/future-perfe...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Pharma has a financial interest in animal agriculture but not crops or other foods. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

„Whether the H5N1 (bird flu) virus circulating in the USA will actually evolve into a human-adapted virus with pandemic potential is unknown, but discounting this possibility and restricting the agency of health institutions both within and outside of the USA is reckless“ @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

And CDC reports a total of 164 measles cases in the U.S. as of Feb. 27, 2925. A total of 285 measles cases were reported from 33 US jurisdictions in all of 2024. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/texa...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Let's hope the US follows the WHO advice, especially since we have silenced our own scientists on this subject. www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

President Macron: We all know the situation. The aggressor is Russia. Ukraine are a nation under attack. I think we were all right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago, and to continue to do so.

submitted 3 days ago • 93 comments

Great to see the CDC providing an update on the #birdflu outbreak. Key points 1/ The CDC has sequenced the H5N1 viruses from recent human cases in Wyoming and Nevada. The data are now publicly available on GISAID: Wyoming: EPI_ISL_19749443 Nevada: EPI_ISL_19726293 www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spo...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Kennedy continues to lie with devastating health consequences to people.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

It's ok to follow the science, even if later than others have done.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

He’s lying.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Not great: “They are greatly diminishing CDC and the country's ability to respond to emerging infectious threats." Let’s all hope that bird flu doesn’t get any worse 🤞🏽 www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 5 days ago • 233 comments

An unvaccinated child is dead from measles. With that many cases in Texas that was unfortunately destined. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Getting rid of this campaign will decrease vaccination rates. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Antimicrobial stewardship programs have made progress in meeting, but many have lack both funding and diversity in the workforce. www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The D1.1 H5N1 genotype in cattle likely occurred a month before detected in Nevada dairy. www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Nine TX counties with measles cases, 18 hospitalized. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/texa...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

2 recent hospitalized people had poultry exposure. www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I was critical of the CDC's response to the bird flu under the Biden administration. But even then, despite problems, the CDC regularly briefed the public on the situation. No briefings since Jan 20. Press releases have halted, too.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

DEI isn't the problem; it was the response to the problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uAI...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY

submitted 8 days ago • 275 comments

But I am sure Senator Casdidy will ensure vaccines continue to be recommended.😜 www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Workers ill first www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Could be up to 5,200 people gone. EIS not cut—- yet. www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Another example of bad management by Trump. Using outdated methods. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/o...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Predicted by everyone with a gram of health literacy.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Documents obtained by The Washington Post detail step-by-step plans the U.S. DOGE Service developed to purge federal agencies of diversity, equity, and inclusion workers and offices.

submitted 16 days ago • 79 comments

Opinion from Ben Palen: With Trump and Musk driving U.S. policy, Kansas farmers have been played for suckers #ksleg

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Here's what the entire federal workforce actually looks like. It's mostly doctors, nurses and healthcare workers in VA hospitals, the military, and then everything else.

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

Sue Republican’s day…🧐

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently Musk's U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization website has already been hacked and classified material leaked. Good thing only the best are dismantling government.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

So just a gentle reminder -we’re increasingly concerned about H5N1 reassortment that could ⬆️ transmissibility (and/or severe disease) in humans given the uncontrolled outbreak + severe flu season. Cutting CDC staff - especially EIS - is a solid strategy to limit our capacity to identify & stop this.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently it is a D1.1 genotype and unrelated to the recent Nevada detection. Soon to be listed/confirmed on the USDA website?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This self described stable genius sure seems to be ignorant on almost everything.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

CDC has resorted to non-science to appease one person. A dystopia/cacotopia I had never imagined from public health professionals.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

U.S. conditionally approves vaccine to protect poultry from avian flu. "Detect and kill" hasn't worked in the past 3 years and H5N1 is now endemic in US poultry. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

USDA firing the newest hires across the board means they are purging experts relevant to new and emerging threats; e.g., people who combat the Citrus Greening disease that's collapsing Florida's citrus industry. Just the dumbest strategy imaginable. Unless the goal is to collapse the US.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

The EIS officers I've worked with over the years are incredibly talented and hard working.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

There are no schools or daycares that require COVID vaccine, but this may just be the first salvo on all vaccines.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The number of states requiring Covid vaccination for school attendance: 0

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 17 days ago • 550 comments

This is gutting the EIS and devastating to public health. These disease detectives offer unparalleled service to states and other countries. www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Ashamed to report that it is a veterinarian/physician who made this stupid decision. New Orleans HD is on the side of public health. www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

But RFK Jr PROMISED Senate Republicans he would leave vaccines alone. The promise was broken less than 24 hours after taking over at HHS.

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments