Our FDA has been hijacked by RFKJ & co. This is outrageous. “Moderna’s vaccine uses the same mRNA technology as its Covid shot.
In a release Tuesday, Moderna said the FDA did not identify any safety or efficacy concerns with the vaccine” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
I've always thought that the whole "natural immunity is the best way to protect people" thing was a bit like saying "getting pregnant is the best form of birth control."
Anyway, cool to see it's better for the immune system to see vaccine before virus from an effectiveness standpoint too.
Deaths caused by Funding Discontinuation 187,151 Adult Deaths 389,227 Child Deaths
credible modeling from impactcounter.com shows that trump and musk have killed nearly 600,000 people with their illegal cuts to date.
nearly 400,000 of them were children.
The US refugee program changed my life. Trump’s possible overhaul would be disastrous | Bahati Kanyamanza
Live H5N1 Bird Flu Virus Found to Survive in Raw-Milk Cheese for Up to 6 Months, Study Finds
The infectious H5N1 virus remained viable throughout the cheese-making and aging process in raw-milk cheeses with pH levels above 5.0.
“It was amazing how many animals come to eat bats at that specific spot,” Mr. Atukwatse said… “It’s basically a free meal for everybody in the area.”
That is significant in part because the fruit bats…are known to be a natural reservoir for infectious diseases, including the deadly Marburg virus”
My comments with @marykekatos.bsky.social ABC News
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Picture of the Jetson’s flying car with a side car for Astro the pup
Quote this post with a picture of the airplane you'll accept as a bribe
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@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
A new #clinical study found that, compared with natural infection, three-dose vaccination against #hepatitis E virus resulted in equal effective humoral immune memory, providing insight for vaccine regimens to prevent hepatitis E. Learn more: ow.ly/2Vq250VAW5Y.
Just spoke with my CDC sources. They were in tears.
Budgets cut. RFJK has ordered them not to publicize bird flu symptoms in exposed workers. Not to test them. Not to speak.
They know people are getting sick. And they’re being forced to stay silent.
This is not just a cover-up. It's cruelty.
If ever there was a virus that demonstrated the One Health approach in action, it’s been HPAI, a zoonotic disease that spreads between animals and people. A recent APHL ID Lab Con 2025 session explored the topic and our latest blog has the highlights. buff.ly/GQ5iAnT #Onehealth #HPAI #H5N1 #IDLabCon
Confirmed cases of measles
in the US.
2020: 13
2021: 49
2022: 121
2023: 59
2024: 285
Total cases: 527 (5-years)
2025: (first 90 days)
628 confirmed cases of measles, and 3 deaths.
This an excellent article on what we/ you have lost in the mass firings in the FDA. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social
is right. You can humiliate and fire us. But we will not stay down. Because we truly believe in our mission. We fight for people. We fight for kids. For the right to survive and the hope to thrive.
Goodnight friends. Get some rest.
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When people working in public health say, "We help keep you safe," they're not exaggerating.
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Researchers did not mince words about this purge of senior NIH leadership:
“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says @mtosterholm.bsky.social.
These cuts come on Jay Bhattacharya's first day as NIH director.
Ashish Jha, MD, MPH More than 100,000 children died of measles last year. Most if not all of them were unvaccinated. Mostly in low income countries where vaccination rates remain far too low. Please don’t by that guy who claims measles is no big deal.
••••MEASLES ALERTS••••
1. Fueled primarily by the surging epidemic in western Texas, the number of confirmed measles cases in the United States has risen to 523.
Reported in less than three months, these 523 cases represent the second-highest annual total America has experienced in a…
The situation at the NIH and for all biomedical and cancer cure research in the United States is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.
One reason it is terrible is we are at a very promising point for both cancer and Alzheimer's research.
Here is a study that suggests a treatment for pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is currently a death sentence.
Trump killed all of this research— it depends on mRNA vaccines.
This is just horrible.
The FY25 CR obliterates the already small funding allocations for the development of new treatments for patients with pancreatic cancer, lung cancer and glioblastoma.... for what purpose?
These are three of the deadliest types of cancer.
Figure showing projected effect of HIV programme funding cuts in 26 countries from 2000 to 2050, on HIV-related deaths. Anticipated 24% cuts capture the range of effects given by the proportional cuts and reallocated prevention budget to treatment scenarios (scenarios 2 and 3), while PEPFAR discontinued captures the range of effects with and without mitigation (scenarios 4 and 5). The dashed black lines show a continuation of historical 8·3% year-on-year reductions in new HIV infections and 10·3% year-on-year reductions in HIV-related deaths from 2024 levels. Copyright: 2025 World Health Organization. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Proposed cuts to foreign aid could result in millions of HIV deaths and soaring rates of global HIV infections, new modelling study in The Lancet HIV estimates.
Explore the data 👉 tinyurl.com/5hud9dxm #MedSky
“The loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result.”
1.2 million children dying.
Abhorrent. Evil. Indefensible.
It’s difficult to overstate how asinine this is. mRNA vaccines have been the most revolutionary development of vaccinology in this century and are uniquely well suited to address many limitations that other vaccine technologies cannot (e.g., CD8 T cell responses in immunocompromised people).
For years, Craig Spencer has fought infectious diseases around the world. In 2014, while treating Ebola patients in Guinea, he survived Ebola himself.
“I know how lethal Donald Trump’s assault on America’s outbreak preparedness could be,” he writes. “We are sure to regret it.” theatln.tc/wJk69wgA
