Nisha
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Nisha
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Epidemiologist; 🏈🪴🧶 Views are my own.
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✅Get informed
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#EndCervicalCancer
December 2, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.

"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Mosquito-borne dengue, known for intense flu-like symptoms, crushing fatigue and body aches, reached record global levels in 2024 and researchers have attributed its spread to climate change. #RSNA25
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Brazil approves world’s first single-dose dengue vaccine
Brazilian authorities on Wednesday approved the world’s first single-dose dengue vaccine, which they hailed as a “historic” achievement as cases of the mosquito-borne disease soar globally due to risi...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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"Health experts warn that decreased vaccine rates have correlated to increased outbreaks in the last several years of vaccine-preventable diseases including measles and pertussis." #RSNA25
abcnews.go.com/Health/new-c...
What to know about the new CDC deputy director who has been critical of COVID vaccines
A top Louisiana health official has been appointed principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
abcnews.go.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Marburg, from the same family as Ebola, often presents with severe headaches and leads to hemorrhaging.
Previous outbreaks in Africa have resulted in fatality rates as high as 80% or more, typically within eight to nine days of the onset of symptoms. #RSNA25
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Ethiopia says death toll from Marburg virus outbreak rises to 6
The death toll from a Marburg virus outbreak in Ethiopia has risen to six, state-run news agency reported on Wednesday.
www.reuters.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.

Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.

kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."

Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.

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November 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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“What parents need to hear right now is vaccines for measles, polio, hepatitis B and other childhood diseases are safe and effective and will not cause autism. Any statement to the contrary is wrong, irresponsible, and actively makes Americans sicker.”
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What To Know About the CDC’s Baseless New Guidance on Autism - KFF Health News
A reshaped CDC website suggesting that vaccines cause autism has appalled the medical community.
kffhealthnews.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Vaccines themselves are such a metaphor for how the anti-vax demographic views society. If the rest of us didn’t do our part, most of them would be doing a very different risk assessment before declining immunization. They depend on the rest of us getting vaccinated so we stay above herd immunity.
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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This has always been the case. Back in the 2000s, Dr. Bob Sears suggested in his book on vaccines that parents who don’t vaccinate have their kids “hide in the herd.”
Vaccines themselves are such a metaphor for how the anti-vax demographic views society. If the rest of us didn’t do our part, most of them would be doing a very different risk assessment before declining immunization. They depend on the rest of us getting vaccinated so we stay above herd immunity.
November 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:

“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”

“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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KYUK is a scrappy public radio station in Alaska. When Congress went after NPR, public radio stations like this one took the hit.

It broadcasts to indigenous people living in the tundra, and without public funding, it's facing massive layoffs.
In rural America, public radio saves lives
In remote Alaska, public radio station KYUK is crucial during natural disasters. Without federal funding, how will it survive?
www.motherjones.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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How do we know that autism is not linked to vaccines?

Short answer: Massive studies have not found a link between autism and vaccines.

Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️

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December 11, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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RFK Jr & his loyal henchmen (the Great Barrington Declaration dudes Jay Bhattacharya & Martin Kulldorff; Martin Makary; Dr Oz; Vinay Prasad) have been successfully dismantling the US vaccination system & achieved the return of deadly vaccine preventable diseases. This is the world they worked for...
SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM