Delaware and Georgia are having Large avian flu outbreaks in commercial flocks. Also many detections in wild waterbirds around the country.
This write-up Details the genetic tricks that make H5N1 so versatile. [Read:scary]
Boston has reported Its first pediatric flu deaths since 2013.
Which flu vaccine to get? If you are older, the high-dose vaccine protects better
Measles just keeps going, And going, and going…
The Vaccine Integrity Project from U of MN Will conduct its own review of the HPV vaccine, free of brainwormed grifters.
Maternal vaccination Cuts hospitalization and ER visits dramatically for infants.
Likewise, a mother's vaccine-induced antibodies to pertussis Appear in babies
Medicine fighting brainworms:
- A group of public health societies, led by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) will seek to prevent the upcoming February Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting from taking place. The AAP and groups including the American Public Health Association and the Infectious Diseases Society of America have also asked to vacate recent changes to the pediatric immunization schedule. “We are confident that we will demonstrate for the court that this administration has acted arbitrarily and capriciously in revisions to the childhood immunization schedule and, furthermore, that the current ACIP will continue this destructive pattern if allowed to continue meeting,” said Richard Hughes IV, an attorney for the plaintiffs, in an AAP press release. A hearing on the plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction is scheduled for February 13.
And despite malevolent interference,
- Despite President Donald Trump saying all assistance to GAVI, the vaccine alliance would be cut six month ago, the US Senate and House of Representatives have included funding for the organization in their foreign assistance appropriations bill. The bill still needs a vote in both chambers before being presented to the president for approval before it can be signed into law. The United States has provided 13% of GAVI’s annual funding since its inception in 2001. In June 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said GAVI would not get any more US dollars until it worked to “re-earn the public trust” and “start taking vaccine safety seriously.”
- One year after gutting USAID, the Trump administration is launching an $11 billion effort called the America First Global Health Strategy to replace the “NGO industrial complex” and create a new framework for funding public health efforts in foreign nations. The $11 billion will be spent over the next five years through direct agreements with foreign governments, health care organizations, and drug manufacturers. So far, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has signed 15 agreements with African countries, and the State Department estimates to have 50 more agreements in the coming months.
Looks like Africa might not want To be the next Tuskegee! US officials think the unethical study is still on, but Guinea-Bissau says nope.
CEPI announces funding for a Rift Valley Fever vaccine. While this disease mostly affects livestock, it can be quite serious in those humans it infects.
A lower-dose yellow fever vaccine was trialled for infants, But creates a poorer antibody response, so advice is to give the full dose.
States and Health organizations are Having none of the CDC's new advice. Bobby can go pound sand.
Pfizer's RSV vaccine Is judged safe to use in pregnancy.
A new gonorrhea antibiotic Is in the works.
A multi-drug-resistant Shigella strain is loose in Los Angeles
Prenatal antibiotic exposure is Linked to a higher risk of group B streptococcus in newborns
High dose rifampin Is not superior for tuberculous meningitis, may even worsen outcomes.
The GAO says the FDA needs To focus more on foodborne illness prevention. Gee, that wouldn't have anything to do with THE MASSIVE FUNDING CUTS AND LAYOFFS, now would it??
And sure enough, A multistate Salmonella outbreak has been tied to a green food supplement, now being recalled.
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