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More unbelievable #gaslighting:

#JDVance made the argument that #Trump is “a genuine humanitarian,” & said “he just wants the killing to stop.”

Right, the guy deporting #children with #cancer who are #UScitizens, sending #asylum seekers to #CECOT & now #Libya, separating #families, canceling #funding to combat #InfectiousDisease & to make heart pumps for #babies w/ heart defects, yeah he’s a real #humanitarian. Go fuck yourself JD.

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The #CDC employees who staff the #children’s #vaccine program were *largely* untouched, 3 sources familiar w/the situation said.
🚨However, about 20 others were fired who comprised a unit that helped promote the program in #communities at high risk of #InfectiousDisease, including during the current #measles #outbreak, these sources said. These employees helped bolster the confidence in the safety & effectiveness of #vaccines, they said.

#Trump#Musk#RFKJr

How much of what's accepted as ageing, organic weakness, bad luck or even a character defect actually are the echoes of a symphony of infections and/or the immune response?

Perhaps evolution's priority with the immune system was to get the sick up and reproducing as fast as possible? A return to complete health with no bad consequences in the long term might not be as important?

gastrojournal.org/article/S001

The lab's efforts aren't duplicated anywhere, there's no $ to be made so the private sector won't step in, and this lab is key to fighting anti-microbial resistance.

“To me, this is like a blind man with a chainsaw has just gone through the system and arbitrarily cut things without any rationale.”

statnews.com/2025/04/05/cdc-se

STAT · CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administrationThe Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases. "We are blind," an expert says.

Make America great again - bring back measles, TB and pandemics. Decimate public health research, reporting and programs including #Medicaid - what a great idea s/

“TB has moved closer to home: An ongoing outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, and two surrounding counties began in January 2024 and cases are rising, with nearly 150 people diagnosed and two deaths as of early March. The outbreak has disproportionately affected low-income people…” #PublicHealth #TB #InfectiousDisease

theconversation.com/as-tubercu

The ConversationAs tuberculosis cases rise in the US and worldwide, health officials puzzle over the resurgence of a disease once in declineReports of TB date back to the time of Hippocrates, but the Kansas outbreak shows that the ancient disease is very much a modern-day scourge.

DATE: March 11, 2025 at 08:00AM
SOURCE: BioWorld MedTech

Direct article link at end of text block below.

Researchers develop low-cost, rapid, POC test for #TB

t.co/5U5AX26jko

#medtech #infectiousdisease #tuberculosis

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#medtech

Articles can be found by scrolling down the page at bioworld.com/topics/85-bioworl .

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