#epidemic — Public Fediverse posts
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#Taiwan, Ministry of Health urges #Schools to prepare for start of lessons as #COVID19 #epidemic still active (August 18 '26, extract): PQ.16.1.1 Variant Predominates, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/08/taiwan-ministry-of-health-urges-schools.html
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Angels of Death
The United States is currently experiencing a historic resurgence of measles, reaching a 35-year high in 2026. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that measles cases have surpassed the record-breaking numbers of 2025, fueled by a multi-year decline in childhood vaccination rates and growing vaccine skepticism. Because measles is one of the most contagious infectious diseases on Earth, it acts as a “canary in the coal mine” for public health, rapidly finding and spreading through pockets of under-vaccinated communities.
What are our leaders doing about it? Donald Trump is spreading vaccine skepticism. He overruled his qualified medical advisers in issuing an executive order urging Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. to cut the number of childhood immunizations. His plan includes 11 immunizations, down from a recommended 17. Vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), tetanus, pertussis and polio would still be universal. But those for hepatitis A and B, dengue, flu, Covid and rotavirus would be advised only for “high-risk” children, or else would to be left to “shared clinical decision-making” between doctors and parents.
It also orders the government to recommend that the combination MMR vaccination, which protects against measles, mumps, and rubella, “should be administered in three separate singe-disease shots.”
Simply put, it means three trips to the doctor and three jabs of a needle for children. That means extra pain and cost. And that’s if the three separate vaccines are made available. Right now, only the combination shot is produced. It could take years to produce the three separate vaccines. The combination shot has been used in the United States for more than 50 years.
The effect will be to discourage parents from administering the vaccines to their children. That will lead to an increase in disease and death.
Trump calls his order the “Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations.” It largely follows a much-disputed HHS report in January that advised fewer vaccines on the childhood schedule. Trump’s order isn’t based on rigorous science, or really any science at all. It is based only on his uninformed position, supported by the anti-vaxer with no medical training who he put in charge of the nation’s health, RFK, Jr. His statement announcing the new order was loaded with misleading claims and out and out lies.
The day after Trump’s announcement the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics blasted the new policy. “As measles cases reach a 35-year high in the U.S. and with cold and flu season quickly approaching, today’s executive order on vaccines is not only disheartening but dangerous,” Dr. Andrew Racine said in a release.
The President’s executive order doesn’t compel states or schools to follow his pared regimen, but he threatens legal action against those that don’t adopt it. He directs Attorney General Todd Blanche to challenge state laws that conflict with “parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law.”
Under Trump’s order, the Justice Department could sue states for infringing on parental authority if they require vaccines for school attendance that differ from his recommendations. State police powers to protect public health can sometimes be in tension with parental rights, and some states overstepped during the pandemic, though none mandated Covid shots for school-age children. Multiple studies have shown that the United States suffered twice the number of deaths and incurred twice the cost of comparable countries as a result of Covid. Trump consistently opposed medical advice on combatting that pandemic.
Trump’s order could inflame what has become a culture war over immunizations. That war was enflamed by the broad Covid vaccine mandates during the Biden administration. The mandates were vigorously opposed by conservatives and vaccine skeptics. But Trump is making the same mistake in trying to coerce states into following his line on vaccines. Kennedy and his plaintiff lawyer friends benefit from spreading vaccine skepticism. But Trump’s jab at children’s vaccines could alienate voters, especially parents of young children, as measles spreads.
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#CDC #Death #Epidemic #Health #Healthcare #HHS #Illness #Measles #Medicine #news #politics #RFKJr #science #Trump #Vaccination #vaccines -
Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now killing someone every 30 minutes.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-ebola-victim-minutes-dr-congo.html
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#Ebola is #winning: #Epidemic now killing one person every 30 minutes (UN News Centre, August 15 '26), https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/08/ebola-is-winning-epidemic-now-killing.html
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The epidemics waiting in the wings: Trump's vaccine order and what comes next
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#Taiwan, #COVID19 #epidemic continues to escalate, citizens urged to get vaccinated (CDC, August 12 '26): PQ.16.1.1 Variant still dominant, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/08/taiwan-covid19-epidemic-continues-to.html
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Rhyl grooming gang guilty of exploiting teenage girls for sex https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7md77yzndo
#Epidemic #HumanTrafficking #Execution #SickFooks #TwistedFooks
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U.S. Measles Cases Eclipse 2025’s Record Case Count
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#democraticsocialism #reagan #crack #cocaine #epidemic #drugepidemic #warondrugs #poverty #starvation #capitalism #latestagecapitalism
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#Taiwan, As the #COVID19 #epidemic escalates, public is urged to get vaccinated as soon as possible (CDC, July 28 '26): 117% rise in cases compared last week, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/07/taiwan-as-covid19-epidemic-escalates.html
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Midwest Poultry Services is recalling nearly 1.6 million cartons of eggs over concerns that they could be contaminated with salmonella, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
#Trumpism #PublicHealth #CDC #epidemic #pathology #diseases #microbiology #food #biology #regulations
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When I was living in Sri Lanka during Covid, I remember people didn't want to eat fish, because Indians often put dead bodies into rivers, which end up in the Bay of Bengal near Sri Lanka and into the bellies of fish.
#srilanka #india #covid #covid19 #infection #health #publichealth #sanitation #fish #food #epidemic
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
EPIDEMIC, n. A disease having a sociable turn and few prejudices.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Epidemic,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1883-04-28)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/84987…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #contagion #disease #epidemic #illness #plague #sickness
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#Taiwan, As #COVID19 #epidemic wave continues to escalate, public is urged to get vaccinated (CDC, July 14 '26), https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/07/taiwan-as-covid19-epidemic-wave.html
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#Taiwan, As the #COVID19 #epidemic continues to rise, CDC calls the public to get vaccinated as soon as possible (June 30 '26), https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/06/taiwan-as-covid19-epidemic-continues-to.html
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"Churches in Democratic Republic of Congo find themselves on the frontline of the community response to a deadly Ebola outbreak.
In Ituri province, churches are staying open and are helping in the fight against the virus by raising awareness. But there are several challenges."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqwLeubWOk
#PublicHealth #InfectiousDisease #InfectiousDiseases #Epidemic #Ebola #Africa #DRC
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#Ebola #outbreak caused by #Bundibugyo virus: challenges and priorities for #epidemic preparedness and response, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/06/ebola-outbreak-caused-by-bundibugyo.html
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#Archaeology
#AncientDNA provides evidence of earliest known #plague outbreakhttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/17/ancient-dna-evidence-earliest-known-plague-outbreak
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my features published in @CurrentBiology this year, issue 11: #hantavirus, #ebola and other infectious diseases remind us that we have to be vigilant to prevent #pandemics
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/06/preventing-pandemics.html
#science #publicHealth #disease #infection #epidemic #outbreak