“Taylor Farms has been involved in previous food-borne illness outbreaks, including a cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to salad mix that sickened hundreds in 2013..likely source of an E.coli outbreak linked to onions served at McDonald’s in 2024” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/w...

“Taylor Farms describes itself as one of the leading global producers of salads and healthy fresh foods, with production facilities across the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Western Europe” apple.news/A-PNarieiTrS...

“The DRC has released a new roadmap to contain the outbreak..offers emergency and immediate deadlines for early detection, complete contact follow-up, rapid access to care, protection of healthcare workers, and advise for trustworthy community engagement” www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/last-e...

“Cambodia reported 19 human cases of H5N1 in 2025, 8 of which were fatal. Most recent cases in Cambodia have involved a reassortant (2.3.2.1e) between an older H5N1 clade that has circulated in Cambodia since 2014 & the newer clade 2.3.4.4b virus” www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

“maternal vaccination is strongly associated with infant vaccination in the first year of life, especially when vaccination occurred during pregnancy or shortly after delivery” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

“Most hospitalized patients were sent home within 72 hours, though the report notes that two had prolonged hospitalizations due to measles encephalitis.. Within a month after being diagnosed with measles, 24 of the patients had concurrent or subsequent infections” www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/most...

“The 2-dose anthrax vaccine Cyfendus..was administered to six of the people exposed, four within the age range (18- 65 years) approved by FDA and 2 older adults under EUA. 4 declined vaccination” www.cidrap.umn.edu/anthrax/publ...

Quoted about how kids were not major drivers of COVID spread the way they are for flu or RSV. The birthday party effect here is real, but small (10% bump in grandparent infections), and it could have been adults at those parties doing most of the transmitting www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/con...

“Heads you live, tails you die, as if there weren't an entire world of possibilities in between. There is, and that in-between is where measles does some of its most underappreciated damage” www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cidr...

“We’ve sent frequent and repeated requests to the government of Uganda, and we’re waiting on them to respond to the IHR request that we’ve sent to them” www.statnews.com/2026/07/16/w...

LNPs — lipid nanoparticles — are the delivery vehicle that makes mRNA vaccines actually work. It is important that the intellectual property rights are sorted out so that this technology is optimized endpoints.news/sanofi-sues-...

“While the enzyme variants enabled the bacteria to resist CZA, this came at a cost. As a trade-off, the enzymes made the engineered bacterial strains less effective at breaking down carbapenems, making them more vulnerable to these antibiotics” phys.org/news/2026-07...

“Every day that we go on and we have more measles cases in the United States, I’m more and more convinced that the United States has lost its elimination status.” thedispatch.com/article/meas...

Cyclospora outbreaks tend to follow the supply chain. Quoted in this piece explaining why. www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...

“According to the CDC, those sickened with the disease have ranged in age from 5 to 88 years old” www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...

“He’s an anti-vaccine activist. That’s who he is. That’s who he’s been for 20 years. To expect that as secretary of Health and Human Services he’d be anything other than that is wishful thinking,” www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/h...

“repeatedly declined ​on Wednesday to say whether she would defy Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccines” www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

“Countries with significant improvement in their zero dose numbers include Sudan, India, Brazil, Ethiopia, and Mexico, who have made commendable progress,” healthpolicy-watch.news/global-reduc...

"The pace of reduction is too slow to reach the goals by the end of the decade,” www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

“When the researchers selectively depleted the levels of various kinds of T cell in the participants..people’s immune responsiveness to the virus decreased markedly once a type known as a CD4+ T cell was removed, indicating that this group drives the response” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Uganda discharged its last remaining Ebola ​patient on Thursday, triggering a 42-day countdown after ‌which it can be declared free of the virus” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“most patients with cancer have low risk for multidrug-resistant organisms, and prompts alerting prescribers to those patients decreased extended-spectrum antibiotic use between 17% and 27%.” www.healio.com/news/hematol...

“MSF raised alarm at the geographic spread of the outbreak, while communities outside urban areas continue to face inadequate support with limited access to medical care and an overstretched surveillance system.” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“The crude case-fatality rate has increased to 37% from 32% a week earlier, reflecting persistent delays in diagnosis, isolation and access to care, with 92% of confirmed deaths occurring before patients reached treatment facilities” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“more than half of the world's unvaccinated children live in conflict-hit countries such as Syria, Yemen, Sudan and Palestine, despite accounting for only about one-third of global births.” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“The pooled outbreak attack rate in the ECEC and residential care settings (n=8) was 59.2%” www.pulmonologyadvisor.com/news/rsv-sec...

“The drop was driven primarily by declines in C. difficile infections, central catheter-associated bloodstream infections, and catheter-associated urinary tract infections” www.medpagetoday.com/criticalcare...

Home testing for infectious disease is a major value and should be expanded. There are products better suited for this than others, but the general concept is one that should be pursued www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

“Schwartz said she was unaware that CDC programs that worked to..promote vaccinations had been curtailed” www.post-gazette.com/news/health/...

“It’s also worth noting a person can be infected more than once.” triblive.com/news/health-...

“The authorities have been able to trace 67% of the contacts of those exposed to confirmed cases” triblive.com/news/world/m...

“The parasites' cell walls are ‘highly resistant to adverse environmental pressures and traditional disinfectants’” apple.news/AmuZycUSsQG2...

“The number of zero-dose children, which is those missing on all vaccines, decreased from about 14.2 million in 2024 to 13.5 million in 2025” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

“Although those receiving the MMRV vaccine were in the minority, they were more likely to be Hispanic; American Indian or Alaska Native, Black, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or multiracial..VFC..safety-net clinics; and receiving catch-up vaccinations” www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...

“State and local health departments rely on federal funds to monitor, detect and respond to food-borne illnesses. In 2026, those agencies received only about 40 percent of what they requested for those efforts” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/w...

“We’re probably missing an awful lot of cases..But we will never know because we don’t have the surveillance system in place to really look for it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/w...

“Last year, BARDA canceled 22 mRNA vaccine projects worth some $500 million. Kaufman said he supports the decision” www.cidrap.umn.edu/biosecurity-...

“I do not believe that the president or the secretary would ever do what you just mentioned.” — but they have brazenly interfered in the recent past to promote irrational ideology while disrupting the function of the CDC www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

“most of the deaths reported in the last week are occurring within the community, meaning transmission is likely to increase among family members and friends who may have contacted Ebola patients while they were actively dying and contagious.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/ebola-...

“The department provided a list of cleaned towers and towers that are awaiting treatment to eliminate bacteria” www.cidrap.umn.edu/legionella/n...

“In MS, memory B cells are housing the EBV and present viral antigens to the CD4+ T cells, which launches the immune response and myelin degradation process” www.statnews.com/2026/07/15/e...

“I’m a Gen-X-er. My social media skills aren’t as good as everyone is today” — that’s Kaufman’s excuse about why he spread disinformation about and evaded the value of vaccines? www.statnews.com/2026/07/15/b...

"I will never betray the science" and "I won't remove RFK Jr.'s false autism-vaccine language from the CDC website" aren't compatible positions. That’s the structural problem with this nomination. I’m quoted in @nytimes.com: nytimes.com/2026/07/15/health/cdc-erica-schwartz.html

Don't need to avoid all raw produce. Cyclospora contamination happens at the farm—irrigation water contaminated w/ human feces in regions w/ poor sanitation. Right now the concern is lettuce & salad greens. Quoted in this piece: womenshealthmag.com/health/a71931272/cyclosporiasis-outbreak-update/

These are the best ways to Keep Up with Changes ! @ameshaa.bsky.social Science youtube.com/shorts/hIQs9...

Cyclospora Update (recorded 7/14/26)

“The EPA also maintains List L, a registry of antimicrobial products proven to kill the Ebola virus, and has activated its Emerging Viral Pathogen policy” www.americanchemistry.com/chemistry-in...

In this TV interview I discuss multiple aspects of the Cyclospora outbreak, including symptoms

“how she would respond to efforts by the secretary and others in the administration to undercut public health measures, and whether there would be lines in the sand that she would refuse to cross?" — this is the key issue www.axios.com/2026/07/15/t...

“Senators are expected to ask Schwartz how she would restore confidence inside the agency, rebuild relationships with state and local health departments, and chart a path forward” — I would ask how to avoid sanctioning RFK’s anti-human ideology www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...