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KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Tylenol-Autism Link and Vaccine Policies

https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/kff- ... -policies/

Amidst a series of recent changes to federal vaccine policy, majorities of the public disapprove of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s overall job performance (59%) as well as his handling of U.S. vaccine policy (62%).

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The only way out of this is pain. These maga fuckers need to relearn the lesson of why we needed to vaccinate the population and why is important. They will only learn this with seeing their children die in their arms and being forced to have half a dozen children once again for any to survive. Alll while watching 1/5th or more of their neighbors die all around them.

Only then will a lot of these pieces of shit finally just finally maybe wake up to wonder wtf did they just do to themselves?

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Little-known Strep Bacteria Behind Growing Number of Severe Infections
October 7, 2025

Introduction:

( Eurekalert) An under-recognised strep bacterium is causing a growing number of serious infections in Australia, with First Nations Australians disproportionately affected, according to new research published today in The Lancet Microbe.

The study, led by the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute), examined invasive infections caused by Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies equisimilis (SDSE), a close cousin to Streptococcus pyogenes (group A strep or Strep A). Like group A strep, SDSE can cause skin and soft tissue infections and, in severe cases, invade the blood and organs, leading to life-threatening illness.

For the first time, researchers measured the burden of invasive SDSE infections across Australia, comparing trends in southeast Australia and the Northern Territory’s Top End. The team analysed more than a decade of clinical and genomic data from hospitals across the regions. Building on earlier research into group A strep, they compared the incidence, demographics and outcomes of invasive SDSE (iSDSE) infections with those of invasive group A strep (iGAS), uncovering important differences in how the two pathogens spread and who they affect.

The University of Melbourne’s Dr Ouli Xie, Clinician Researcher in the Davies-Tong Laboratory at the Doherty Institute and first author of the paper, said the study revealed rising rates of infection and disparities between regions.

“We found that, in urban areas in southeast Australia, iSDSE infections occurred at a similar rate to iGAS and have steadily increased between 2011 and early 2023. In remote northern regions, iSDSE was less common than iGAS, but the number of cases was still 25 per cent higher than in southeast Australia,” said Dr Xie.

Read more of the Eurekalert article here: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101151

For a presentation of study results as published in The Lancet Microbe: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ ... 4725001107

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Canada’s status as a country without endemic measles can now be revoked

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/c ... e-revoked/

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U.S. Funding Cuts Could Result in Nearly 9 Million Child Tuberculosis Cases and 1.5 Million Child Deaths
October 20, 2025

Introduction:

(Eurekalert) A new study projects that US funding cuts to global health aid will have a catastrophic effect on pediatric TB, with children in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia likely to experience a significant spike in preventable cases and deaths over the next decade—even by the most conservative estimates—unless funding is restored.

Health experts have warned for months that the abrupt and broad-scale funding cuts to global health aid from the United States in 2025 would have devastating effects on disease control and prevention worldwide.

A new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan School) and Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) provides the first comprehensive estimates of the number of children who are expected to develop and die from tuberculosis (TB) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) over the next decade if the United States continues to slash funding for global health aid.

The loss of US bilateral health aid is projected to result in an additional 2.5 million pediatric TB cases and 340,000 pediatric TB deaths in LMICs between 2025 and 2034, compared to pre-2025 funding levels, according to the study in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. Moreover, the possible withdrawal of US support to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (the Global Fund) along with reduced TB funding from other countries would likely result in an additional 8.9 million child TB cases, and more than 1.5 million child deaths during this period—more than double the expected totals if funding continued at pre-2025 levels.

Until this year, the US had been a leading contributor to bilateral health aid for TB, primarily through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which has helped prevent more than 75 million TB deaths worldwide. The Trump administration effectively dismantled the agency earlier this year, while also slashing funds from the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). These combined actions created immediate disruptions to TB and HIV prevention, testing, treatment, research, and staffing in LMICs, where TB is most prevalent—but also where control efforts had led to noticeable improvements in TB over the 20 years.

Read more here: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102648

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U.S. Funding Cuts Could Result in Nearly 9 Million Child Tuberculosis Cases and 1.5 Million Child Deaths
October 20, 2025

Introduction:

(Eurekalert) A new study projects that US funding cuts to global health aid will have a catastrophic effect on pediatric TB, with children in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia likely to experience a significant spike in preventable cases and deaths over the next decade—even by the most conservative estimates—unless funding is restored.

Health experts have warned for months that the abrupt and broad-scale funding cuts to global health aid from the United States in 2025 would have devastating effects on disease control and prevention worldwide.

A new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan School) and Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) provides the first comprehensive estimates of the number of children who are expected to develop and die from tuberculosis (TB) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) over the next decade if the United States continues to slash funding for global health aid.

The loss of US bilateral health aid is projected to result in an additional 2.5 million pediatric TB cases and 340,000 pediatric TB deaths in LMICs between 2025 and 2034, compared to pre-2025 funding levels, according to the study in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. Moreover, the possible withdrawal of US support to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (the Global Fund) along with reduced TB funding from other countries would likely result in an additional 8.9 million child TB cases, and more than 1.5 million child deaths during this period—more than double the expected totals if funding continued at pre-2025 levels.

Until this year, the US had been a leading contributor to bilateral health aid for TB, primarily through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which has helped prevent more than 75 million TB deaths worldwide. The Trump administration effectively dismantled the agency earlier this year, while also slashing funds from the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). These combined actions created immediate disruptions to TB and HIV prevention, testing, treatment, research, and staffing in LMICs, where TB is most prevalent—but also where control efforts had led to noticeable improvements in TB over the 20 years.

Read more here: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102648

An unspeakable tragedy. The Trump regime is pure unmitigated evil.

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Louisiana Took Months To Sound Alarm Amid Whooping Cough Outbreak
by Rosemary Westwood
November 11, 2025

Introduction:

(Undark) WHEN THERE’S AN outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease, state health officials typically take certain steps to alert residents and issue public updates about the growing threat. That’s standard practice, public health and infectious disease experts told KFF Health News and NPR. The goal is to keep as many other vulnerable people as possible from getting sick and to remind the public about the benefits of vaccinations.

But in Louisiana this year, public health officials appeared to have not followed that playbook during the state’s worst whooping cough outbreak in 35 years.

Whooping cough, also called pertussis, is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease that’s particularly dangerous for the youngest infants. It can cause vomiting and trouble breathing, and serious infections can lead to pneumonia, seizures, and, rarely, death.

Madison Flake, a pediatric resident in Baton Rouge, cared for a baby who was hospitalized during this year’s outbreak. Less than 2 months old, he was sent to the intensive care unit.

“He would have these bouts of very dramatic coughing spells,” Flake said. “He would stop breathing for several seconds to almost a minute.”

Read more here: https://undark.org/2025/11/11/louisian ... ugh-slow

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A Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Landed in the Rocky Mountains Where It Historically Couldn’t Survive
By Erin Douglas
November 10, 2025

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(Inside Climate News) GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to kill. And it’s obsessed with human blood.

The Aedes aegypti is a species of mosquito that people like Tim Moore, district manager of a mosquito control district on the Western Slope of Colorado, really don’t want to see.

“Boy, they are locked into humans,” Moore said. “That’s their blood meal.”

This mosquito species is native to tropical and subtropical climates, but as climate change pushes up temperatures and warps precipitation patterns, the Aedes aegypti—which can spread Zika, dengue, chikungunya and other potentially deadly viruses—is on the move.

It’s popping up all over the Mountain West, where conditions have historically been far too harsh for it to survive. In the last decade, towns in New Mexico and Utah have begun catching Aedes aegypti in their traps year after year, and just this summer, one was found for the first time in Idaho.

Now, an old residential neighborhood in Grand Junction, Colorado, has emerged as one of the latest frontiers for this troublesome mosquito.

Read more here: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/101 ... osquito/

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Ethiopia Confirms First Outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease
November 14, 2025

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(World Health Organization) Addis Ababa—Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health has confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in the South Ethiopia Region, the first of its kind in the country, following laboratory testing of samples from a cluster of suspected cases of viral haemorrhagic fever.

Genetic analysis by the Ethiopia Public Health Institute revealed that the virus is of the same strain as the one that has been reported in previous outbreaks in other countries in East Africa. A total of nine cases have been reported in the outbreak that has affected Jinka town in the South Ethiopia Region.

The national authorities are scaling up response including community-wide screening, isolation of cases, treatment, contact tracing and public awareness campaigns to curb the spread of the Marburg virus, which is in the same family of viruses that cause Ebola virus disease.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners are supporting the government as it intensifies response to halt the spread of the virus and end the outbreak. A team of responders with expertise in viral haemorrhagic fever outbreak response has been deployed along with medical supplies and equipment.

Marburg virus disease is a severe and often fatal illness caused by the Marburg virus. The disease is transmitted to humans from fruit bats and spreads among people through direct contact with bodily fluids of infected individuals or contaminated materials.

Read more here: https://www.afro.who.int/countries/eth ... -disease

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Canada Loses Its Official ‘Measles-free’ Status – and the U.S. Will Follow Soon, As Vaccination Rates Fall
By Kathryn H. Jacobsen
November 10, 2025

Introduction:

(The Conversation) In the wake of a measles outbreak in Canada that has infected thousands of people over the past year, an international health agency revoked the country’s measles-free status on Nov. 10, 2025.

The Pan American Health Organization, which serves as the World Health Organization’s regional office for the Americas, made this announcement after the agency’s measles elimination commission met in Mexico City to review the latest public health data.

As a global health epidemiologist who studies the spread of infectious diseases, this change in status does not surprise me. Measles is highly contagious, and a drop in childhood vaccination rates in Canada and in other countries has left many children unprotected from the disease.

The resurgence of measles in Canada after decades with very low numbers of cases is not an isolated problem. The U.S. has also had large outbreaks of measles this year, and it will likely soon lose its measles-free designation as well.

Conclusion:

Without a significant improvement in vaccination coverage and public trust in community health measures, many countries are likely to face more, and bigger, outbreaks of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases in the coming years.

Read more here: https://theconversation.com/canada-los ... ll-269090

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