Author: Claudinne Miller
America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease
The Atlantic Treating clean indoor air as a public good would have protected Americans against more than COVID-19. In the early evening of March 7, 2020, I was on my cellphone in an airport terminal, telling a friend that I was afraid to write an article that risked ruining my journalistic reputation. I had been […]
Mar 11, 2025
Fighting the Flu
The Atlantic Behind the factory smoke and the roar of machinery for national defense there is another, greater defense for humanity being worked out these days in laboratories where influenza is being studied. Patient, persistent, brilliant experiments are being made in California, Puerto Rico, England, Malta, Minnesota, Suez, Pennsylvania, South Africa, Budapest, and New York […]
Mar 11, 2025
Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally
New York Times The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease. Dalvin Modore walked as if there were broken glass beneath his feet, stepping gingerly, his frail shoulders hunched against the anticipation of pain. His trousers […]
Mar 11, 2025
His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade
The Atlantic Peter greeted me in the mostly empty gravel parking lot of a Mennonite church on the outskirts of Seminole, a small city in West Texas surrounded by cotton and peanut fields. The brick building was tucked in a cobbled-together neighborhood of scrapyards, metal barns, and modest homes with long dirt driveways. No sign out […]
Mar 11, 2025
Co-Circulating Viruses Causing Concern in Mpox Outbreak
IDSE.Net The mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spilled over into Uganda, which borders the DRC, according to reports at CROI 2025, which is ongoing in San Francisco (abstract 191). Surveillance has found co-circulating viruses, particularly varicella-zoster virus, with one person coming down with coinfections. That person died, according to Nicholas Bbosa, PhD, an assistant professor […]
Mar 11, 2025
Two domestic cats infected with H5N1 virus in Michigan
Detroit News Experts are urging cat owners to refrain from feeding their pets raw meat or unpasteurized milk after the bird flu virus was detected in two indoor domestic cats in Michigan. The Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory said cats appear to be highly susceptible to the HPAI A(H5N1) strain of avian influenza and “increased vigilance […]
Mar 11, 2025
Second measles death reported in ongoing outbreak
NBC An unvaccinated adult in New Mexico tested positive for the measles virus after their death, the state Health Department said. The New Mexico Department of Health said Thursday that the state had its first measles death. A person in New Mexico tested positive for the measles virus after death, the state Health Department said. The official […]
Mar 11, 2025
Texas measles cases grow to 223, mostly among children and teens
ABC News The measles outbreak in western Texas is continuing to grow with 25 cases confirmed over the last five days, bringing the total to 223 cases, according to new data published Tuesday. Almost all of the cases are in unvaccinated individuals or in individuals whose vaccination status is unknown, with 80 unvaccinated and 138 […]
Mar 11, 2025
NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake
Washington Post The order covers more than 40 awards to researchers around the country seeking to understand why vaccine acceptance has declined. The National Institutes of Health will cancel or cut back dozens of grants for research on why some people are reluctant to be vaccinated and how to increase acceptance of vaccines, according to an internal […]
Mar 11, 2025
Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories
NYT In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak. In a sweeping interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, outlined a strategy for containing the measles outbreak in West Texas that strayed far from mainstream science, relying […]
Mar 11, 2025