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  1. Dr. #SusanMonarez said that if #vaccines became harder to access, she worried that preventable #diseases would surge back, & that children would be harmed. The #US has already seen a #measles resurgence this year, & #WhoopingCough cases are higher now than they were before the #Covid pandemic. Senator Cassidy posted an open letter on social media on Friday calling on #RFKJr to encourage #vaccination in the wake of a whooping cough outbreak in Louisiana, the state Cassidy reps.

    #PublicHealth

  2. #FYI #US #USA #disease #diseases #AMA #practitian #practitans #medicalpractice #AmericanMedicalAssociation #ToddUnger #trump #musk #medicare #hostiletakeover

    This is a catastrophy. This costs lives!

    "Lisa Egbert, MD talks about how the latest Medicare payment cut forced her to make the difficult decision to close her practice and what this means for her patients."

    youtube.com/watch?v=O1dVeF7be8g

  3. Dog poo is linked to illness, pollution and antibiotic resistance
    "Yet, our streets and parks continue to be littered with dog poo. And with the pandemic driving a surge in dog ownership, anecdotal reports suggest the dog poo problem has grown only worse in recent years".

    In Bellingen most pet owners seem to have two to three dogs which are mostly roaming unleashed depositing their load of roo (wildlife) meat at the other person's garden. Never seen anyone picking anything up.

    theconversation.com/is-leaving
    #Dogs #pets #Faeces #Pollution #Bacteria #Diseases #wildlife

  4. #mosquitoes prefer to rest in a cool spot. This seemingly minor point actually calls into question how #scientificmodels predict outbreaks of #diseases transmitted by mosquitoes.
    sohub.io/p3h9