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With Midterms Looming, Trump's Pick for Surgeon General Suddenly Thinks Measles Vaccines Are a Good Idea At her nomination hearing last month, Casey Means avoided directly endorsing vaccines for measles and other preventable diseases.

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With Midterms Looming, Trump’s Pick for Surgeon General Suddenly Thinks Measles Vaccines Are a Good Idea
#Infections #Britain #CDC #WHO #RFKjr #COVID19 #VirusCrisis #USA #Pandemic #DrAnthonyFauci #Testing #Mandates #Masks #Deaths #Vaccine #Variants #Measles
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CDC Updates Vessel Sanitation Standards to Combat Legionella New regulations require cruise ships at U.S. ports to implement stricter water monitoring and pathogen control protocols. Recent outbreaks of norovirus and Legionnaires’ disease aboard cruise ships have prompted a significant shift in maritime public health oversight, with federal authorities tightening requirements for potable water system management. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its Vessel Sanitation Program standards, marking the first time all cruise ships calling at U.S. ports are required to monitor for Legionella. The revised standards move beyond addressing acute gastroenteritis toward structured environmental pathogen control and data-driven performance verification. All cruise ships calling at U.S. ports with 13 or more passengers must now conduct documented risk assessments of potable and recreational water systems. Operators are required to define monitoring frequencies, implement remediation protocols when issues are detected and maintain verifiable records of corrective actions. The regulatory shift follows several incidents over the past 12 months where vessels met the CDC’s reporting threshold of 3% or more of a ship’s complement reporting gastrointestinal symptoms. While person-to-person transmission often drives norovirus outbreaks, recent Legionnaires’ disease cases have highlighted the risks within water systems. "The revision represents a strengthening of environmental surveillance obligations," said Uwe Krüger, joint...

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CDC Updates Vessel Sanitation Standards to Combat Legionella
->Environmental Protection | More on "Cruise ship Legionella water safety" at BigEarthData.ai | #Health #CDC #Sanitation

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@rchady.bsky.social

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Expert: The new report cherry-picks studies of poor quality that support its thesis and omits work that does not. #CDC says it had found no increased risk of death after #Covid #vaccination.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/h...

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Juan Lama

@juanlama.bsky.social

1 day ago

Flu Vaccines Didn't Work That Well in the US As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well with one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade. A new strain that dominated the early winter was not well matched to the vaccine, leading to an intense early onslaught of flu. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday posted data that showed a continued decline in doctor's office and hospital visits for flu symptoms through last week. The number of states reporting high flu activity dropped to 16, many of them in a belt stretching from Colorado to Virginia. “The winter respiratory virus season is slowly coming to a close, and we’re all very grateful for that,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University vaccine expert. This season's vaccines were around 25% to 30% effective in preventing adults from getting sick enough from the flu that they had to go to a doctor’s office, clinic or hospital, according to a CDC report this week. Children who were vaccinated were about 40% less likely to get treatment at a doctor’s office or hospital. Officials generally are pleased if a flu vaccine is 40% to 60% effective. Judging from past CDC research, this season saw one of the lowest effectiveness rates in the last two decades. Flu infections surged in late December and were especially intense in some parts of the country. New York City health officials called it the most intense season in 20 years. Relatively low flu vaccination rates did not help, but experts also blamed the new flu strain that was causing most infections. The new strain belonged to a category of flu virus, called A H3N2. This new version, subclade K, seemed to spread more easily — though it did not necessarily cause more severe illness. The vaccine available for this season was built to address a different version of H3N2, and the new strain's explosion is a likely explanation for why the vaccine was less effective, Schaffner said. CDC scientists estimate there have been at least 27 million illnesses, 350,000 hospitalizations and 22,000 deaths from flu so far this season. At the same point last year, the estimates were at least 40 million illnesses, 520,000 hospitalizations, but about the same number of deaths. At least 101 children have died so far this season. For those whose vaccination status is known, about 85% were not fully vaccinated against flu. The flu vaccine may not protect everyone from getting sick, but it can prevent people from becoming severely ill and dying. That's why getting a flu shot remains worthwhile, Schaffner said. CDC data suggests adult vaccination rates are up slightly this season, to 46.5%, following an unusually bad season last year that set a record for the most child deaths this century. An estimated 48% of U.S. kids were vaccinated against flu around the end of last month. That's about the same as last year, but down from the 52% vaccinated at this point in 2024, according to CDC data. Starting in 2010, the government recommended annual flu vaccinations for Americans 6 months and older. In January, however, the Trump administration stopped broadly recommending flu shots for all children, saying instead that it’s up to parents and family doctors to decide. Meanwhile, work is already underway for next winter’s flu season. Last month, the World Health Organization announced its recommendations for which virus strains to address in the vaccines for the 2026-27 northern hemisphere flu season. The vaccines should be built to handle subclade K, the organization said. This week, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committee endorsed the WHO recommendations. CDC Report in MMWR (March 12, 2026): https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/75/wr/mm7509a2.htm

Overall across all age groups the vaccine resulted in a vaccine effectiveness (VE) of 24% to 36% against influenza-associated outpatient visits, and 31% against hospitalization. #influenza #vaccines #CDC

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Six Things You Need to Know About Measles Measles has resurfaced in several communities across the United States, including Utah, raising concern among many families. Discover the key points everyone should understand to protect themselves an...

2 days ago

Six Things You Need to Know About Measles
#Infections #Britain #CDC #WHO #RFKjr #COVID19 #VirusCrisis #USA #Pandemic #DrAnthonyFauci #Testing #Mandates #Masks #Deaths #Vaccine #Variants #Measles
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@beefedai.bsky.social

2 days ago

Designing Hybrid Real-time and Batch Ingestion Architectures

Designing Hybrid Real-time and Batch Ingestion Architectures

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#RealtimeIngestion #BatchEtl #HybridArchitecture #CDC #LatencyVsCost

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Climate, Ecology, War & More - Dr Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai

Tickborne Diseases in Workers - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC (.gov) Ticks can be infected with bacteria, viruses, or parasites. Bites from infected ticks can pass tickborne pathogens to humans. CDC has information related to ticks and tickborne disease, including: Diseases transmitted by ticks Symptoms of tickborne diseases What to do if a tick bites you The geographic distribution of ticks Worksites with woods, bushes, high grass, or leaf litter are likely to have ticks. Ticks may be active all year in some regions with warmer weather. In the United States, they are most active in the spring, summer, and fall. Prevention Recommendations for employers Provide training for workers that includes information about: How tickborne diseases spread. Risks of exposure and infection. How workers can protect themselves from ticks. Reporting workplace illnesses and injuries. Tell workers to wear light-colored long-sleeved shirts, pants, socks, and hat when possible. If uniforms are provided, have long-sleeved shirts and pants as options. Provide workers with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-registered insect repellents containing one of the following: DEET Picaridin IR3535 Oil of Lemon Eucalyptus (OLE) Para-menthane-diol (PMD) 2-undecanone Provide workers with repellents (such as Permethrin) to provide greater protection. Permethrin kills ticks on contact. It can be used on clothing but not skin. When possible, have...

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Tickborne Diseases in Workers - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC (.gov)
->Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | More on "Tick disease prevention workplace safety" at BigEarthData.ai | #Disease #Health #CDC

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Flu vaccines didn't work that well in the US, officials find As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well. It had one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade.

2 days ago

Flu vaccines didn’t work that well in the US, officials find
#Infections #Britain #CDC #WHO #RFKjr #COVID19 #VirusCrisis #USA #Pandemic #DrAnthonyFauci #Testing #Mandates #Masks #Deaths #Vaccine #Variants #Measles
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Seth Kalichman

@deniamism.bsky.social

2 days ago

NIH director shares what keeps him up at night The director of the National Institutes of Health and interim director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, said he's concerned about the growing disconnect between scientist...

This is ironic. He’s what keeps me up at night.
#cdc #nih #denialism #pseudoscience #conspiracytheories #medicine
#publichealth
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Ian Kremer

@wolverinebear.bsky.social

3 days ago

Utah measles outbreak speeds up but there are few changes to daily life Health officials in the outbreak's epicenter are relying on social media and talk radio to reach residents. Many aren't listening.

Utah measles outbreak speeds up but there are few changes to daily life www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

#measels #publichealth #vaccines #CDC #FDA #HHS

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CDC reports 11 more pediatric flu deaths as several key flu indicators fall slightly For the second week in a row, 11 US children died of influenza, and while flu activity remains elevated across the country, several key flu indicators are slowly declining, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports today in its FluView recap of the week ending March 7. Test positivity for flu was 15.3%, down slightly from 15.8%, and 3.7% of health care visits were for respiratory illness, down from 3.9% the previous week. In total, 9,130 people were hospitalized for flu, compared with 10,763 the week before. Flu deaths as a percentage of all deaths declined to 0.5% from 0.7% the previous week. The cumulative flu hospitalization rate in FluSurv-NET is the third highest since the 2010-11 season. Children have the second-highest cumulative hospitalization rate for that age-group since 2010-11. The percentage of outpatient visits due to respiratory illness was 3.7%, down from 3.9% the previous week. Influenza A viruses continue to dominate but are declining as influenza B activity varies by region. Of the 1,667 influenza A viruses that underwent additional genetic testing since September 2025, 92.5% were A(H3N2) subclade K. So far this season, 101 children have died of flu, roughly 85% of whom were unvaccinated...

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CDC reports 11 more pediatric flu deaths as several key flu indicators fall slightly
->CIDRAP | More on "Pediatric flu deaths rising indicators" at BigEarthData.ai | #CDC

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☁️amri☁️

@amristudioart.bsky.social

3 days ago

About Human Metapneumovirus Information about Human Metapneumovirus

Human metapnuemovirus has been spreading around in Southern California. I’m saying this because the Transformers Convention is happening right now in Los Angeles. It’s a common virus that causes cold like symptoms. Stay safe. #tfconla #tfcon #hmpv #cdc

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Climate, Ecology, War & More - Dr Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai

After firings, funding cuts, and a shooting, can a demoralized CDC workforce recover? On the coffee table at her home in Atlanta, Sarah Boim has a pile of documents from her old job at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Georgia. They are printouts of her own employment records. Boim lost her job in the first big wave of CDC firings — when about 1,000 people were suddenly let go last February. "This is the termination letter. I also printed off my performance review from 2024," she said. "I knew I wouldn't have access to it, and everything was so chaotic that I needed proof of what was happening." Boim worked in the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, handling communications about radon, P-FAS contamination, lead poisoning and other health threats. Reading her termination letter once again, she still can't believe what it says. "The agency finds you are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge, and skills do not fit the agency's current needs, and your performance has not been adequate to justify further employment at the agency." "And that floored me," Boim said, "Because my performance was rated outstanding, and I even got a raise. It was just deeply insulting. So, I...

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After firings, funding cuts, and a shooting, can a demoralized CDC workforce recover?
->NPR | More on "CDC workforce cuts and demoralization" at BigEarthData.ai | #CDC

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1. #Measles update:
The total confirmed cases so far this year has risen to 1362 as of 3/12. Key context: The 2026 total to date is 60% of the 2025 total for the entire year.
#CDC reports that among cases with known vax status, 92% weren't vaxed.
There've been 14 new outbreaks this year.

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3. It feels like it's been a long flu season, but this is what #flu was like pre-Covid; the pandemic really knocked flu seasons out of whack for a few years.
#CDC estimates there've been 27M flu illnesses, 350K hospitalizations & 22K deaths so far this season.

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@larsmb.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy

3 days ago

1. A #flu update.
11 more kids have died from flu this season, bringing the total so far to 101. That number is horrible & it will get worse. Peds flu deaths reports are often delayed. #CDC says these deaths occurred between 12/27/25 & 3/7/26.
85% of the kids who were eligible were not vaxed.

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Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷

3 days ago

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Allies where you might not have expected them, part n+1:

#MensHealth is re-publishing the #CDC web pages on gender, diversity, equity, and inclusion that were removed due to fascism.

https://www.menshealth.com/search/?q=deleted%20cdc

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@wolverinebear.bsky.social

4 days ago

On the clock: The White House has until 3/25 to nominate a new #CDC director. The Federal Vacancies Reform Act states a job like CDC director can only be filled on an acting basis for 210 days from the creation of the vacancy, though the clock stops if a nominee is named. sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R44...

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Ian Kremer

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FDA move on flavored vapes rattles public health experts New FDA guidance suggests mint, coffee, and spice vape flavors could be authorized, raising debate over toxic additives and youth vaping risks.

FDA move on flavored vapes rattles public health experts www.statnews.com/2026/03/13/f... via @statnews.com

#FDA #CDC #HHS #publichealth #science

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Teen girl's harrowing journey with measles highlights how serious the virus can be Makayla Skjerva, a North Dakota 14-year-old, contracted measles in February.

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Teen girl's harrowing journey with measles highlights how serious the virus can be
#Infections #Britain #CDC #WHO #RFKjr #COVID19 #VirusCrisis #USA #Pandemic #DrAnthonyFauci #Testing #Mandates #Masks #Deaths #Vaccine #Variants #Measles
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