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Americans expect to lose trust in public health under new leadership
Washington Post Leadership changes at federal health agencies are eroding trust in public health recommendations, with more Americans expecting to lose confidence than gain it, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the de Beaumont Foundation. The findings come as public health guidance is under intense […]
Apr 30, 2025
How public health has been upended in Trump’s first 100 days
Washington Post More than 20,000 jobs were eliminated, billions of dollars in scientific research has been threatened or paused, and a budget draft proposes a major restructuring of Health and Human Services. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump have reshaped the nation’s public health infrastructure in the administration’s first 100 days. More than 20,000 […]
Apr 30, 2025
Are we ready for the next one?
Johns Hopkins What COVID, five years later, can teach us in an age of pandemics. From afar, the images look like clusters of tiny, multicolored dots strewn across paper. “But the dots tell a story,” immunologist Gigi Gronvall says about the two prints she framed and hung behind her desk at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. […]
Apr 23, 2025
Countries Agree on Treaty Aimed at Preventing Global Health Crises
NYT The World Health Organization finally reached a compromise on a pandemic treaty after three years of talks. The United States withdrew from negotiations after President Trump took office. After three years of contentious negotiations, the member nations of the World Health Organization have agreed on a draft of a “pandemic treaty” designed to help […]
Apr 23, 2025
Pandemics, pathogens and being prepared: why the work to identify emerging threats never stops
The Guardian As the UK Pandemic Sciences Network conference kicks off in Glasgow, virus expert Prof Emma Thomson says new technologies are boosting science’s ability to fight novel strains of infectious diseases Supported by About this content Kat Lay, Global health correspondentWed 23 Apr 2025 03.50 EDTShare Prof Emma Thomson is someone who knows a […]
Apr 23, 2025
Eight-year-old girl diagnosed with H5N1 avian flu accompanied by encephalitis
Down to Earth Second such case in Vietnam since 2004; the virus has impacted the central nervous system as against the known respiratory tract. Vietnam has reported its first case of bird flu in 2025 infecting an eight-year-old girl exhibiting encephalitis symptoms. In December 2024, the country reported an H5 infection in an 18-year-old man […]
Apr 23, 2025
RFK Jr.’s cuts to CDC eliminate labs tracking STIs, hepatitis outbreaks
Washington Post The only lab in the U.S. capable of testing for and tracking antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, or “super gonorrhea,” was effectively shut down by layoffs. Lab scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been analyzing blood samples for weeks to determine how dozens ofpatients across six states had become infected with viral hepatitis, a […]
Apr 23, 2025
Measles Surge in Southwest Is Now the Largest Single Outbreak Since 2000
NYT Growing case numbers suggest that the national total will surpass that seen during the last large outbreak in 2019. The spread of measles in the Southwest now constitutes the largest single outbreak since the United States declared the disease eliminated in 2000, federal scientists told state officials in a meeting on Monday. The New […]
Apr 23, 2025
US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
Reuters The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters. The suspension is another disruption to the nation’s food safety programs after the termination and […]
Apr 23, 2025