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Abrupt cessation of US aid funding has plunged programs to fight #malaria, #TB, & #HIV into a crisis, #WHO said Monday. Director-General Tedros said while the US has the right to decide how to spend its money, if it is to withdraw it should do so in a planned way. www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/w...
WHO issues starkest warning yet on fallout from U.S. withdrawal of aid for global health
Breaking: The WHO issued its starkest warning yet on the consequences of the abrupt cessation of U.S. global health funding, saying it is threatening to reverse years of progress worldwide.
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March 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Abrupt cessation of US aid funding has plunged programs to fight #malaria, #TB, & #HIV into a crisis, #WHO said Monday. Director-General Tedros said while the US has the right to decide how to spend its money, if it is to withdraw it should do so in a planned way. www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/w...
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Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.
March 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.
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February 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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From this paper, one of the clearest visualizations of the profound impact of supporting HIV treatment and prevention on mortality trends.
February 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
From this paper, one of the clearest visualizations of the profound impact of supporting HIV treatment and prevention on mortality trends.
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elon musk, the world's richest man, unilaterally deciding that lifesaving relief for children on the verge of starvation is "wasteful" while he personally reaps hundreds of millions from the us government, makes me feel things i cannot write on the internet.
Awful: Delivery of life saving treatment to nearly 400,000 severely malnourished kids abroad is in doubt amid USAID firings, the product's manufacturers tell me.
The treatment is a paste made of peanuts, milk and sugar for kids on edge of starvation.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1919...
The treatment is a paste made of peanuts, milk and sugar for kids on edge of starvation.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1919...
Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Ugly Turn, Putting Starving Kids at Risk
Two U.S. nonprofits that manufacture a treatment sent by USAID to help severely malnourished children abroad say the process is in chaos. This isn’t what Marco Rubio said would happen.
newrepublic.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
elon musk, the world's richest man, unilaterally deciding that lifesaving relief for children on the verge of starvation is "wasteful" while he personally reaps hundreds of millions from the us government, makes me feel things i cannot write on the internet.
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Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
February 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
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Very unwelcome news! H5N1 genotype D1.1 6 identified in 6 Nevada dairy herds. This is NOT the strain that's been circulating on farms so far. It's the strain that sent a 13yo girl in Canada to ICU, and that killed a man in Louisiana. Very bad time for a public health comms blackout.
Dairy herds in Nevada test positive for newer bird flu strain that’s been linked to severe human infections | CNN
Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus that’s been associated with severe infections in humans, according to the Nevada Department of Agriculture.
www.cnn.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Very unwelcome news! H5N1 genotype D1.1 6 identified in 6 Nevada dairy herds. This is NOT the strain that's been circulating on farms so far. It's the strain that sent a 13yo girl in Canada to ICU, and that killed a man in Louisiana. Very bad time for a public health comms blackout.
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An analysis by the Africa CDC describes a resurgence of mpox in Africa, resulting in a significant increase in case numbers in 12 countries, with the greatest disease burden in the DRC. Read the full analysis: nej.md/413jXfj
#MedSky #IDSky
#MedSky #IDSky
Evolving Epidemiology of Mpox in Africa in 2024 | NEJM
For decades after the identification of mpox in humans in the Democratic Republic
of Congo (DRC) in 1970, the disease was largely confined to the rural areas of Central
and West Africa and thus did...
nej.md
January 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
An analysis by the Africa CDC describes a resurgence of mpox in Africa, resulting in a significant increase in case numbers in 12 countries, with the greatest disease burden in the DRC. Read the full analysis: nej.md/413jXfj
#MedSky #IDSky
#MedSky #IDSky
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pubmed just went down
I use this site constantly and it's the first time the entire site has been down in my experience 😞
I use this site constantly and it's the first time the entire site has been down in my experience 😞
January 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
pubmed just went down
I use this site constantly and it's the first time the entire site has been down in my experience 😞
I use this site constantly and it's the first time the entire site has been down in my experience 😞
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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No study section...no grant reviews
No grant reviews...no grants awarded
No grants awarded...no research
No research...no functional NIH
No grant reviews...no grants awarded
No grants awarded...no research
No research...no functional NIH
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
No study section...no grant reviews
No grant reviews...no grants awarded
No grants awarded...no research
No research...no functional NIH
No grant reviews...no grants awarded
No grants awarded...no research
No research...no functional NIH
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These are the Nixon brothers, growing up in Yorba Linda, CA in the 1920s.
One of them grew up and became US President.
Two of them died from bovine tuberculosis from drinking *raw milk* from the family cow.
One of them grew up and became US President.
Two of them died from bovine tuberculosis from drinking *raw milk* from the family cow.
November 15, 2024 at 1:56 AM
These are the Nixon brothers, growing up in Yorba Linda, CA in the 1920s.
One of them grew up and became US President.
Two of them died from bovine tuberculosis from drinking *raw milk* from the family cow.
One of them grew up and became US President.
Two of them died from bovine tuberculosis from drinking *raw milk* from the family cow.