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A medical researcher may have erroneously lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money because she was swept up in Trump administration efforts to ban studies of vaccine hesitancy and uptake.
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Mashup Score: 0RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread - 5 day(s) ago
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
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“The way we raise birds now, there’s not a lot of genetic variability..They’re all the same bird, basically.” https://t.co/rxSRwgzR0e
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Mashup Score: 4
How much were school-closure policies to blame?
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“in maths the numbers are clear: students in blue states have fared worse than their red-state counterparts.” https://t.co/MwJwIDXZGf
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COVID-19 accelerated trends in online shopping, delivery and in-store pickup.
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“Nearly 20% of shoppers of all ages engaged in online grocery shopping at least once in the past month” https://t.co/N4cMmqokht
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Mashup Score: 10Vaccination rates are declining and measles cases are climbing. More preventable diseases could re-emerge next | CNN - 6 day(s) ago
The measles outbreak is surging in West Texas, especially in under-vaccinated communities, but it’s not just coverage with the measles vaccine that is lagging behind. The use of other key vaccines in the childhood immunization schedule has decreased too.
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“We are extremely concerned that all of these vaccine preventable illnesses may potentially be making a comeback … But that is, sadly, what may be a reality for us If we continue on a path of questioning legitimate science,” https://t.co/vwtiVmZ5xY
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An NIH-sponsored clinical trial of a candidate vaccine to prevent Lassa fever has begun enrolling participants.
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“LASSARAB is a deactivated rabies virus (RABV)-based vaccine encoding the glycoprotein precursor (GPC) of Lassa fever virus.” https://t.co/wa7tCpmLAN
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Infectious disease expert likens vaccines to umbrellas: ‘They keep you from getting soaked’
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“if we believe the misinformation and the flat-out lies about vaccines, I think we’re in for a really bad storm. It wouldn’t take much for us to have big-time national measles cases.” https://t.co/RxEuViKRyi
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Mashup Score: 4
Professor Rebecca Katz draws connections between how Americans reacted to the Spanish Flu and the COVID-19 pandemic five years later.
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“The bigger the outbreak, the bigger the peak of panic, and then the bigger the fall into neglect.” https://t.co/w7V8Xwd902
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The U.S. has reported the first outbreak of the deadly H7N9 bird flu on a poultry farm since 2017, as the country continues to grapple with another strain that has infected humans and caused egg prices to hit record highs.
Source: www.cbc.caCategories: General Medicine News, Infectious DiseaseTweet-
“The latest outbreak of H7N9 was detected on a farm of 47,654 commercial broiler breeder chickens in Noxubee, Miss.” https://t.co/VWe3QAuq5o
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MONDAY, March 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Pregnant women can get the COVID-19 vaccine without any fear of causing birth defects in their unborn child, a new st
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“The study’s findings are consistent with a growing body of literature supporting the safety of COVID-19 vaccines and their use in pregnancy, including in early periods of gestation,” https://t.co/JmI53hzOEH
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“I was really interested in looking at this vaccine [shingles] from the perspective of how effective is it for preventing ocular involvement. That’s one of the more devastating things that can happen,” https://t.co/dE17nx8jWB