This is horrifying: #Measles #Texas

The absurdity of this letter is quite well.... read the letter.

Fuck Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

While RFK Jr chases fictional threats to human health, he has defunded the CDC's Lead Response Team which assists in investigations in the ACTUAL (and unfortunately quite prevalent) neurotoxin, lead. #Pb #Lead #Neurotoxin #PublicHealth #RFK www.cbsnews.com/news/milwauk...

Another child has died due to (totally preventable) measles. #Measles #Texas

The Trump Administration has quietly moved to remove bans on "forever chemicals" that are persistent environmental pollutants.

Musk, Trump, and RFK have laid off 85% of the staff of NIOSH (including the director John Howard), threatening research into occupational hazards in mining, healthcare, firefighting, among others.

Yes, tuberculosis is still a thing — @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social new book tells us why www.cbc.ca/books/booken...

I have trained as a wildland firefighter and have been part of multiple prescribed burns. The ongoing & worsening climate catastrophe will bring unimaginable fire risks to suburban and urban communities. #wildlandfire

New IDSA 2025 Guideline Update on the Treatment of Asymptomatic Histoplasma Pulmonary Nodules (Histoplasmomas) and Mild or Moderate Acute Pulmonary Histoplasmosis in Adults, Children, and Pregnant People Led by @fungaldoc.bsky.social & Sandra Arnold www.idsociety.org/practice-gui... #IDSky #MedSky

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

The entire staff of the federal government's Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy is expected to be laid off, multiple federal health officials told CBS News Friday. #InfectiousDiseases #ID #HIV #AIDS www.msn.com/en-us/health...

NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

As the Texas measles outbreak continues, doctors there are treating some children given so much vitamin A that they have signs of liver damage. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...

As a physician who has treated #measles, this is infuriating. A 6-year-old dies, yet the parents double down on anti-vax misinformation instead of warning others. This isn’t just tragic—it’s dangerous. Science isn’t an opinion, and denial kills. #VaccinesWork www.yahoo.com/news/parents...

Ze doesn't mention it, but you can also stop using pesticides, leave the leaves, avoid mowing your lawn too short, and convert lawn to areas with native plants to help protect fireflies. Feat. @xercessociety.bsky.social ! youtu.be/czt_io0h-CA?...

And now for a heartwarming post: Mice that find another mouse unconscious will attempt to resuscitate it in a similar manner to people giving first aid. The behavior was more forceful in rescuer mice that knew the "deceased," & resulted in a quicker recovery time. 🐀

Highly recommend HCWs read this opinion piece and follow the accounts of @ericreinhart.bsky.social and @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social

Any current reductions to CDC, NIH, NOAA, FDA capabilities will make us more dependent on WHO and other global resources in the future

Today @natmedicine.bsky.social published our study showing the older individuals born prior to 1968 have more antibodies that cross-react to #H5N1 relative to younger individuals. If H5N1 causes a pandemic, children will likely be the most susceptible. 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🦠 Measles 🦠 We reported a month ago that Texas was suppressing the number of measles cases. We can’t give specifics to protect staff, but we remain confident that the actual number of measles cases is FAR higher than the official count of 294 lab confirmed cases.

Columbia University stripped of $400 million, Johns Hopkins of $800 million... This administration is dead set on destroying the scientific achievements that led to US dominance in the post-war period.

SCOOP: The Department of Veterans Affairs has quietly rescinded longstanding VHA Directive 1341, which outlined how transgender vets should be treated with dignity in VA facilities. www.advocate.com/news/transge...

This is quite amazing: Volunteer public health folks along with web developers have replicated the CDC's webpages from prior to January 20th, 2025. The site functions like the CDC website previously did. #CDC #PublicHealth

#Measles #Texas

This CBS News article is written to suggest there is near consensus opposing vaccination of poultry & instead pursuing RFK's plan "the possibility of letting it run through the flock so that we can identify the birds & preserve the birds that are immune to it." Good luck with that approach.

Additional bonus: Moving international conferences to these visa-friendly locales would also inject Developed World travel dollars into the local economies of the Global South.

USDA has eliminated two food safety advisory committees for microbiological contamination and meat inspection. Most recently, they had been reviewing regulatory approaches in response to the fatal Listeria outbreak from Boar’s Head meats and fatal Cronobacter contamination in powdered infant formula

To be utterly clear: Vitamin A is NOT helpful in preventing measles. #measles

2nd measles death for 2025: #Measles www.msn.com/en-us/health...

This damages our reputation and hurts our public health experts at the CDC, though ultimately does a disservice to both Americans and those living around the globe who will not see the benefits of cutting edge research. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/cdc-wh...

Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to Texas & 7 states due to a measles outbreak. Mexico’s Health Secretary describes 106 cases of measles in Alaska, California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Texas. www.borderreport.com/news/health/...

Totally preventable: #Measles #Texas www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Potential spread of measles to San Antonio... #Measles #Vaccinate www.ksat.com/news/local/2...

Weirdly, my gmail account was hacked and I discovered it in real time, a mere 5 minutes after the hack. If you receive an email like that in the picture DO NOT click on the link (which thankfully I did not).

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Texas measles outbreak doubled, now into 4 counties www.houstonchronicle.com/health/artic...

The Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) was founded March 30, 1951 during the Korean War to to identify potential biological warfare outbreaks of infectious disease, develop defense measures against those outbreaks, contain the spreading contagion, & create a cadre of trained epidemiologists.

One advantage of using a VPN set to other (sane) countries: The gulf of Mexico still exists.

This is absolutely horrific. With loss of USAID funding, in Kenya alone at least 40,000 health care workers will lose their jobs & Ethiopia’s health ministry has fired 5,000 HCWs who had been recruited under American funding. The outcome will be famines & outbreaks. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/w...

Shot in the Arm - a sobering documentary about infectious diseases, immunization, disinformation, and democracy. Featuring heroes (Fauci, Offit, Hotez) and villains (Wakefield, Bigtree, RFK Jr). www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...

HHS nominee RFK Jr would have a devastating effect on public health not only bc of his vaccine denialism- which already contributed to deaths during an outbreak of measles in Samoa- but also his scientific ignorance. Clinicians: Please contact your senators and ask them to vote no on RFK Jr. #RFK

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

For the second day of Black History Month, read about Dr. Charles Drew and his work with blood plasma and in blood storage. He revolutionized the blood industry with brilliance and ingenuity. He also fought against racial segregation in blood donation.

The tools the US used to contain previous bird flu outbreaks just aren't working this time, according to some agricultural experts. Some egg farmers have called for vaccinations for poultry.

Did you know? In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine. The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.

@prairiewalker.bsky.social Thanks for the prairie hashtag tip. I have added you as a follow on INaturalist as well.

To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...