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1) Some med content for you! I was interested by the the US National Poison Center Data reported in today's @CDCgov MMWR on Kratom exposure poison centre calls. (at https://tinyurl.com/4m63saz8)
TL;DR: "Natural" doesn't mean "Risk-Free."
🧵 #PublicHealth #MMWR -
1) Some med content for you! I was interested by the the US National Poison Center Data reported in today's @CDCgov MMWR on Kratom exposure poison centre calls. (at https://tinyurl.com/4m63saz8)
TL;DR: "Natural" doesn't mean "Risk-Free."
🧵 #PublicHealth #MMWR -
1) Some med content for you! I was interested by the the US National Poison Center Data reported in today's @CDCgov MMWR on Kratom exposure poison centre calls. (at https://tinyurl.com/4m63saz8)
TL;DR: "Natural" doesn't mean "Risk-Free."
🧵 #PublicHealth #MMWR -
1) Some med content for you! I was interested by the the US National Poison Center Data reported in today's @CDCgov MMWR on Kratom exposure poison centre calls. (at https://tinyurl.com/4m63saz8)
TL;DR: "Natural" doesn't mean "Risk-Free."
🧵 #PublicHealth #MMWR -
1) Some med content for you! I was interested by the the US National Poison Center Data reported in today's @CDCgov MMWR on Kratom exposure poison centre calls. (at https://tinyurl.com/4m63saz8)
TL;DR: "Natural" doesn't mean "Risk-Free."
🧵 #PublicHealth #MMWR -
What could possibly go wrong if you buy #botox on the internet & inject it at home yourself? PLENTY, it turns out. Three people from NY, WI & TX were hospitalized for 3-6 days. One required mechanical ventilation. Don't try this at home!
Reported in #CDC's #MMWR.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7438a1.htm -
What could possibly go wrong if you buy #botox on the internet & inject it at home yourself? PLENTY, it turns out. Three people from NY, WI & TX were hospitalized for 3-6 days. One required mechanical ventilation. Don't try this at home!
Reported in #CDC's #MMWR.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7438a1.htm -
What could possibly go wrong if you buy #botox on the internet & inject it at home yourself? PLENTY, it turns out. Three people from NY, WI & TX were hospitalized for 3-6 days. One required mechanical ventilation. Don't try this at home!
Reported in #CDC's #MMWR.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7438a1.htm -
What could possibly go wrong if you buy #botox on the internet & inject it at home yourself? PLENTY, it turns out. Three people from NY, WI & TX were hospitalized for 3-6 days. One required mechanical ventilation. Don't try this at home!
Reported in #CDC's #MMWR.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7438a1.htm -
What could possibly go wrong if you buy #botox on the internet & inject it at home yourself? PLENTY, it turns out. Three people from NY, WI & TX were hospitalized for 3-6 days. One required mechanical ventilation. Don't try this at home!
Reported in #CDC's #MMWR.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7438a1.htm -
The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy are to begin publishing a new journal, "Public Health Alerts," with a view to conveying the information that used to be disseminated in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The MMWR has been published since 1952 and is the place where details of new outbreaks and diseases are announced, but practitioners' trust in it has been shaken as a result of various actions by the Trump administration. Here's more from Stat News.
#Medicine #Science #Doctors #DiseaseControl #PublicHealth #MMWR #TrumpAdministration #CDC
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The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy are to begin publishing a new journal, "Public Health Alerts," with a view to conveying the information that used to be disseminated in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The MMWR has been published since 1952 and is the place where details of new outbreaks and diseases are announced, but practitioners' trust in it has been shaken as a result of various actions by the Trump administration. Here's more from Stat News.
#Medicine #Science #Doctors #DiseaseControl #PublicHealth #MMWR #TrumpAdministration #CDC
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The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy are to begin publishing a new journal, "Public Health Alerts," with a view to conveying the information that used to be disseminated in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The MMWR has been published since 1952 and is the place where details of new outbreaks and diseases are announced, but practitioners' trust in it has been shaken as a result of various actions by the Trump administration. Here's more from Stat News.
#Medicine #Science #Doctors #DiseaseControl #PublicHealth #MMWR #TrumpAdministration #CDC
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The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy are to begin publishing a new journal, "Public Health Alerts," with a view to conveying the information that used to be disseminated in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The MMWR has been published since 1952 and is the place where details of new outbreaks and diseases are announced, but practitioners' trust in it has been shaken as a result of various actions by the Trump administration. Here's more from Stat News.
#Medicine #Science #Doctors #DiseaseControl #PublicHealth #MMWR #TrumpAdministration #CDC
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The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy are to begin publishing a new journal, "Public Health Alerts," with a view to conveying the information that used to be disseminated in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The MMWR has been published since 1952 and is the place where details of new outbreaks and diseases are announced, but practitioners' trust in it has been shaken as a result of various actions by the Trump administration. Here's more from Stat News.
#Medicine #Science #Doctors #DiseaseControl #PublicHealth #MMWR #TrumpAdministration #CDC
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"The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic."
MMWR has been an important public health publication for decades.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/trump-administration-cdc-layoffs.html
[Edit: this was a cock-up. 🤦
"workers who produce Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report may have mistakenly received reduction-in-force notices because of coding errors in their job classifications." https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-morbidity-and-mortality-weekly-report-staff-fired/]#CentersForDiseaseControlAndPrevention #MMWR #MorbidityAndMortalityWeeklyReport #USpolitics #JournalPublishing #ScholComm #MedicalJournals
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"The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic."
MMWR has been an important public health publication for decades.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/trump-administration-cdc-layoffs.html
[Edit: this was a cock-up. 🤦
"workers who produce Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report may have mistakenly received reduction-in-force notices because of coding errors in their job classifications." https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-morbidity-and-mortality-weekly-report-staff-fired/]#CentersForDiseaseControlAndPrevention #MMWR #MorbidityAndMortalityWeeklyReport #USpolitics #JournalPublishing #ScholComm #MedicalJournals
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"The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic."
MMWR has been an important public health publication for decades.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/trump-administration-cdc-layoffs.html
[Edit: this was a cock-up. 🤦
"workers who produce Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report may have mistakenly received reduction-in-force notices because of coding errors in their job classifications." https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-morbidity-and-mortality-weekly-report-staff-fired/]#CentersForDiseaseControlAndPrevention #MMWR #MorbidityAndMortalityWeeklyReport #USpolitics #JournalPublishing #ScholComm #MedicalJournals
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"The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic."
MMWR has been an important public health publication for decades.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/trump-administration-cdc-layoffs.html
[Edit: this was a cock-up. 🤦
"workers who produce Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report may have mistakenly received reduction-in-force notices because of coding errors in their job classifications." https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-morbidity-and-mortality-weekly-report-staff-fired/]#CentersForDiseaseControlAndPrevention #MMWR #MorbidityAndMortalityWeeklyReport #USpolitics #JournalPublishing #ScholComm #MedicalJournals
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"The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic."
MMWR has been an important public health publication for decades.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/trump-administration-cdc-layoffs.html
[Edit: this was a cock-up. 🤦
"workers who produce Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report may have mistakenly received reduction-in-force notices because of coding errors in their job classifications." https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-morbidity-and-mortality-weekly-report-staff-fired/]#CentersForDiseaseControlAndPrevention #MMWR #MorbidityAndMortalityWeeklyReport #USpolitics #JournalPublishing #ScholComm #MedicalJournals
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A story I wish I'd written: What the heck's up with #MMWR? So little being published there these days. https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/116670
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A story I wish I'd written: What the heck's up with #MMWR? So little being published there these days. https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/116670
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A story I wish I'd written: What the heck's up with #MMWR? So little being published there these days. https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/116670
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A story I wish I'd written: What the heck's up with #MMWR? So little being published there these days. https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/116670
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A story I wish I'd written: What the heck's up with #MMWR? So little being published there these days. https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/116670
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Disturbing... ☹️
We are going to be SO hammered by the next #Pandemic!!
"Concerns over avian flu preparedness are further compounded by recent political shifts in the United States. Since January 21, the US Department of Health and Human Services has frozen most external communications, including health documents and guidance, until new officials are appointed to review and approve them.
As a result, for the first time in over 60 years, the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report— a public health publication — was not published on January 23 and 30. Publication resumed on February 6, but according to The Washington Post, there was no mention of the avian flu outbreak or information about the three studies on H5N1 that were scheduled to be published in January."
"First Human H5N1 Death in the United States"
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/first-human-h5n1-death-united-states-just-beginning-2025a100053i
#BirdFlu #H5N1 #D11 #CDC #MMWR #PublicHealth #Censorship #Trump #US -
Disturbing... ☹️
We are going to be SO hammered by the next #Pandemic!!
"Concerns over avian flu preparedness are further compounded by recent political shifts in the United States. Since January 21, the US Department of Health and Human Services has frozen most external communications, including health documents and guidance, until new officials are appointed to review and approve them.
As a result, for the first time in over 60 years, the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report— a public health publication — was not published on January 23 and 30. Publication resumed on February 6, but according to The Washington Post, there was no mention of the avian flu outbreak or information about the three studies on H5N1 that were scheduled to be published in January."
"First Human H5N1 Death in the United States"
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/first-human-h5n1-death-united-states-just-beginning-2025a100053i
#BirdFlu #H5N1 #D11 #CDC #MMWR #PublicHealth #Censorship #Trump #US -
Disturbing... ☹️
We are going to be SO hammered by the next #Pandemic!!
"Concerns over avian flu preparedness are further compounded by recent political shifts in the United States. Since January 21, the US Department of Health and Human Services has frozen most external communications, including health documents and guidance, until new officials are appointed to review and approve them.
As a result, for the first time in over 60 years, the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report— a public health publication — was not published on January 23 and 30. Publication resumed on February 6, but according to The Washington Post, there was no mention of the avian flu outbreak or information about the three studies on H5N1 that were scheduled to be published in January."
"First Human H5N1 Death in the United States"
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/first-human-h5n1-death-united-states-just-beginning-2025a100053i
#BirdFlu #H5N1 #D11 #CDC #MMWR #PublicHealth #Censorship #Trump #US -
Disturbing... ☹️
We are going to be SO hammered by the next #Pandemic!!
"Concerns over avian flu preparedness are further compounded by recent political shifts in the United States. Since January 21, the US Department of Health and Human Services has frozen most external communications, including health documents and guidance, until new officials are appointed to review and approve them.
As a result, for the first time in over 60 years, the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report— a public health publication — was not published on January 23 and 30. Publication resumed on February 6, but according to The Washington Post, there was no mention of the avian flu outbreak or information about the three studies on H5N1 that were scheduled to be published in January."
"First Human H5N1 Death in the United States"
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/first-human-h5n1-death-united-states-just-beginning-2025a100053i
#BirdFlu #H5N1 #D11 #CDC #MMWR #PublicHealth #Censorship #Trump #US -
Disturbing... ☹️
We are going to be SO hammered by the next #Pandemic!!
"Concerns over avian flu preparedness are further compounded by recent political shifts in the United States. Since January 21, the US Department of Health and Human Services has frozen most external communications, including health documents and guidance, until new officials are appointed to review and approve them.
As a result, for the first time in over 60 years, the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report— a public health publication — was not published on January 23 and 30. Publication resumed on February 6, but according to The Washington Post, there was no mention of the avian flu outbreak or information about the three studies on H5N1 that were scheduled to be published in January."
"First Human H5N1 Death in the United States"
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/first-human-h5n1-death-united-states-just-beginning-2025a100053i
#BirdFlu #H5N1 #D11 #CDC #MMWR #PublicHealth #Censorship #Trump #US -
In normal times, I'd have written about this #MMWR report about some of the kids who've died from #flu this year having had a severe neurological condition called influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis. Glad to see @cidrap.bsky.social did write! https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-general/cdc-13-kids-who-died-flu-year-had-brain-damage
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In normal times, I'd have written about this #MMWR report about some of the kids who've died from #flu this year having had a severe neurological condition called influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis. Glad to see @cidrap.bsky.social did write! https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-general/cdc-13-kids-who-died-flu-year-had-brain-damage
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In normal times, I'd have written about this #MMWR report about some of the kids who've died from #flu this year having had a severe neurological condition called influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis. Glad to see @cidrap.bsky.social did write! https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-general/cdc-13-kids-who-died-flu-year-had-brain-damage
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In normal times, I'd have written about this #MMWR report about some of the kids who've died from #flu this year having had a severe neurological condition called influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis. Glad to see @cidrap.bsky.social did write! https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-general/cdc-13-kids-who-died-flu-year-had-brain-damage
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In normal times, I'd have written about this #MMWR report about some of the kids who've died from #flu this year having had a severe neurological condition called influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis. Glad to see @cidrap.bsky.social did write! https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-general/cdc-13-kids-who-died-flu-year-had-brain-damage
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After delay, #CDC releases data signaling #BirdFlu spread undetected in #cows and #people
February 13, 20251:00 PM ET
By Will Stone
"The first study on the #H5N1 bird flu outbreak from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make it to publication under the #Trump administration came out Thursday.
"The journal released data suggesting some #spillovers from dairy cattle into humans have gone #undetected, including in states where dairy herds have not tested positive.
"This comes after a #freeze in external communications that interrupted the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, or #MMWR, a mainstay of public health communication. Publication on other topics resumed last week.
"In the new study, researchers analyzed blood samples collected from 150 veterinarians who worked with cattle around the country and found that three of them had #antibodies to the H5N1 virus, indicating recent infections. None recalled having any influenza-like symptoms or conjunctivitis. They also did not care for any cattle with known or suspected infections, although one did work with infected poultry.
"The findings underscore the difficulty of detecting and controlling human infections based on whether a person seeks out medical care, says Gregory Gray, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
"'If the circulating #H5 viruses become more transmissible between humans, we are not going to be able to control transmission as the viruses will spread rapidly and often #subclinically,' says Gray.
"Previous CDC research that surveyed dairy workers found 7% had evidence of past infections, although only half reported symptoms. Work from Gray and his colleagues in Texas also indicates some cases in the dairy industry workforce are going undetected.
"'It means our surveillance is inadequate,' says Lauren Sauer, a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health. 'Any detection of #asymptomatic or mild cases in this study just tells me we're missing cases.'"
Read more:
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5296672/cdc-bird-flu-study-mmwr-veterinarians?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#HPAINews #Pandemic #HPAI #AvianInfluenza #USHealth #CDCCensorship #USPol #AuthoritarianRule #Censorship #USFail -
After delay, #CDC releases data signaling #BirdFlu spread undetected in #cows and #people
February 13, 20251:00 PM ET
By Will Stone
"The first study on the #H5N1 bird flu outbreak from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make it to publication under the #Trump administration came out Thursday.
"The journal released data suggesting some #spillovers from dairy cattle into humans have gone #undetected, including in states where dairy herds have not tested positive.
"This comes after a #freeze in external communications that interrupted the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, or #MMWR, a mainstay of public health communication. Publication on other topics resumed last week.
"In the new study, researchers analyzed blood samples collected from 150 veterinarians who worked with cattle around the country and found that three of them had #antibodies to the H5N1 virus, indicating recent infections. None recalled having any influenza-like symptoms or conjunctivitis. They also did not care for any cattle with known or suspected infections, although one did work with infected poultry.
"The findings underscore the difficulty of detecting and controlling human infections based on whether a person seeks out medical care, says Gregory Gray, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
"'If the circulating #H5 viruses become more transmissible between humans, we are not going to be able to control transmission as the viruses will spread rapidly and often #subclinically,' says Gray.
"Previous CDC research that surveyed dairy workers found 7% had evidence of past infections, although only half reported symptoms. Work from Gray and his colleagues in Texas also indicates some cases in the dairy industry workforce are going undetected.
"'It means our surveillance is inadequate,' says Lauren Sauer, a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health. 'Any detection of #asymptomatic or mild cases in this study just tells me we're missing cases.'"
Read more:
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5296672/cdc-bird-flu-study-mmwr-veterinarians?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#HPAINews #Pandemic #HPAI #AvianInfluenza #USHealth #CDCCensorship #USPol #AuthoritarianRule #Censorship #USFail -
After delay, #CDC releases data signaling #BirdFlu spread undetected in #cows and #people
February 13, 20251:00 PM ET
By Will Stone
"The first study on the #H5N1 bird flu outbreak from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make it to publication under the #Trump administration came out Thursday.
"The journal released data suggesting some #spillovers from dairy cattle into humans have gone #undetected, including in states where dairy herds have not tested positive.
"This comes after a #freeze in external communications that interrupted the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, or #MMWR, a mainstay of public health communication. Publication on other topics resumed last week.
"In the new study, researchers analyzed blood samples collected from 150 veterinarians who worked with cattle around the country and found that three of them had #antibodies to the H5N1 virus, indicating recent infections. None recalled having any influenza-like symptoms or conjunctivitis. They also did not care for any cattle with known or suspected infections, although one did work with infected poultry.
"The findings underscore the difficulty of detecting and controlling human infections based on whether a person seeks out medical care, says Gregory Gray, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
"'If the circulating #H5 viruses become more transmissible between humans, we are not going to be able to control transmission as the viruses will spread rapidly and often #subclinically,' says Gray.
"Previous CDC research that surveyed dairy workers found 7% had evidence of past infections, although only half reported symptoms. Work from Gray and his colleagues in Texas also indicates some cases in the dairy industry workforce are going undetected.
"'It means our surveillance is inadequate,' says Lauren Sauer, a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health. 'Any detection of #asymptomatic or mild cases in this study just tells me we're missing cases.'"
Read more:
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5296672/cdc-bird-flu-study-mmwr-veterinarians?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#HPAINews #Pandemic #HPAI #AvianInfluenza #USHealth #CDCCensorship #USPol #AuthoritarianRule #Censorship #USFail -
After delay, #CDC releases data signaling #BirdFlu spread undetected in #cows and #people
February 13, 20251:00 PM ET
By Will Stone
"The first study on the #H5N1 bird flu outbreak from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make it to publication under the #Trump administration came out Thursday.
"The journal released data suggesting some #spillovers from dairy cattle into humans have gone #undetected, including in states where dairy herds have not tested positive.
"This comes after a #freeze in external communications that interrupted the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, or #MMWR, a mainstay of public health communication. Publication on other topics resumed last week.
"In the new study, researchers analyzed blood samples collected from 150 veterinarians who worked with cattle around the country and found that three of them had #antibodies to the H5N1 virus, indicating recent infections. None recalled having any influenza-like symptoms or conjunctivitis. They also did not care for any cattle with known or suspected infections, although one did work with infected poultry.
"The findings underscore the difficulty of detecting and controlling human infections based on whether a person seeks out medical care, says Gregory Gray, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
"'If the circulating #H5 viruses become more transmissible between humans, we are not going to be able to control transmission as the viruses will spread rapidly and often #subclinically,' says Gray.
"Previous CDC research that surveyed dairy workers found 7% had evidence of past infections, although only half reported symptoms. Work from Gray and his colleagues in Texas also indicates some cases in the dairy industry workforce are going undetected.
"'It means our surveillance is inadequate,' says Lauren Sauer, a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health. 'Any detection of #asymptomatic or mild cases in this study just tells me we're missing cases.'"
Read more:
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5296672/cdc-bird-flu-study-mmwr-veterinarians?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#HPAINews #Pandemic #HPAI #AvianInfluenza #USHealth #CDCCensorship #USPol #AuthoritarianRule #Censorship #USFail -
After delay, #CDC releases data signaling #BirdFlu spread undetected in #cows and #people
February 13, 20251:00 PM ET
By Will Stone
"The first study on the #H5N1 bird flu outbreak from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make it to publication under the #Trump administration came out Thursday.
"The journal released data suggesting some #spillovers from dairy cattle into humans have gone #undetected, including in states where dairy herds have not tested positive.
"This comes after a #freeze in external communications that interrupted the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, or #MMWR, a mainstay of public health communication. Publication on other topics resumed last week.
"In the new study, researchers analyzed blood samples collected from 150 veterinarians who worked with cattle around the country and found that three of them had #antibodies to the H5N1 virus, indicating recent infections. None recalled having any influenza-like symptoms or conjunctivitis. They also did not care for any cattle with known or suspected infections, although one did work with infected poultry.
"The findings underscore the difficulty of detecting and controlling human infections based on whether a person seeks out medical care, says Gregory Gray, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
"'If the circulating #H5 viruses become more transmissible between humans, we are not going to be able to control transmission as the viruses will spread rapidly and often #subclinically,' says Gray.
"Previous CDC research that surveyed dairy workers found 7% had evidence of past infections, although only half reported symptoms. Work from Gray and his colleagues in Texas also indicates some cases in the dairy industry workforce are going undetected.
"'It means our surveillance is inadequate,' says Lauren Sauer, a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health. 'Any detection of #asymptomatic or mild cases in this study just tells me we're missing cases.'"
Read more:
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5296672/cdc-bird-flu-study-mmwr-veterinarians?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#HPAINews #Pandemic #HPAI #AvianInfluenza #USHealth #CDCCensorship #USPol #AuthoritarianRule #Censorship #USFail -
An essay titled “The Consequences of Silencing the ‘Voice of the #CDC,’ ” published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, said the omission of information about #H5N1 avian influenza “raises concerns about the CDC’s ability to disseminate scientific data & analysis of #PublicHealth information in a timely manner.”
The authors, 3 fmr #MMWR editors in chief & a fmr CDC official, warned that the pause in publication of the MMWR “might portend changes” based on #political objectives.
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An essay titled “The Consequences of Silencing the ‘Voice of the #CDC,’ ” published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, said the omission of information about #H5N1 avian influenza “raises concerns about the CDC’s ability to disseminate scientific data & analysis of #PublicHealth information in a timely manner.”
The authors, 3 fmr #MMWR editors in chief & a fmr CDC official, warned that the pause in publication of the MMWR “might portend changes” based on #political objectives.
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An essay titled “The Consequences of Silencing the ‘Voice of the #CDC,’ ” published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, said the omission of information about #H5N1 avian influenza “raises concerns about the CDC’s ability to disseminate scientific data & analysis of #PublicHealth information in a timely manner.”
The authors, 3 fmr #MMWR editors in chief & a fmr CDC official, warned that the pause in publication of the MMWR “might portend changes” based on #political objectives.
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An essay titled “The Consequences of Silencing the ‘Voice of the #CDC,’ ” published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, said the omission of information about #H5N1 avian influenza “raises concerns about the CDC’s ability to disseminate scientific data & analysis of #PublicHealth information in a timely manner.”
The authors, 3 fmr #MMWR editors in chief & a fmr CDC official, warned that the pause in publication of the MMWR “might portend changes” based on #political objectives.
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An essay titled “The Consequences of Silencing the ‘Voice of the #CDC,’ ” published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, said the omission of information about #H5N1 avian influenza “raises concerns about the CDC’s ability to disseminate scientific data & analysis of #PublicHealth information in a timely manner.”
The authors, 3 fmr #MMWR editors in chief & a fmr CDC official, warned that the pause in publication of the MMWR “might portend changes” based on #political objectives.
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The #CDC report is the latest evidence that the outbreak in #dairy herds is spreading undetected in #cows, & the spillover into people at highest risk of exposure is going unnoticed.
…A slimmed-down #MMWR resumed publication last week but included NONE of the #BirdFlu reports. #PublicHealth experts have criticized the unprecedented break in publication & the holdup of bird flu information.
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The #CDC report is the latest evidence that the outbreak in #dairy herds is spreading undetected in #cows, & the spillover into people at highest risk of exposure is going unnoticed.
…A slimmed-down #MMWR resumed publication last week but included NONE of the #BirdFlu reports. #PublicHealth experts have criticized the unprecedented break in publication & the holdup of bird flu information.
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The #CDC report is the latest evidence that the outbreak in #dairy herds is spreading undetected in #cows, & the spillover into people at highest risk of exposure is going unnoticed.
…A slimmed-down #MMWR resumed publication last week but included NONE of the #BirdFlu reports. #PublicHealth experts have criticized the unprecedented break in publication & the holdup of bird flu information.
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The #CDC report is the latest evidence that the outbreak in #dairy herds is spreading undetected in #cows, & the spillover into people at highest risk of exposure is going unnoticed.
…A slimmed-down #MMWR resumed publication last week but included NONE of the #BirdFlu reports. #PublicHealth experts have criticized the unprecedented break in publication & the holdup of bird flu information.
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The #CDC report is the latest evidence that the outbreak in #dairy herds is spreading undetected in #cows, & the spillover into people at highest risk of exposure is going unnoticed.
…A slimmed-down #MMWR resumed publication last week but included NONE of the #BirdFlu reports. #PublicHealth experts have criticized the unprecedented break in publication & the holdup of bird flu information.
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A scientific report from the #CDC published Thurs shows some #veterinarians who provide care for #cattle were unknowingly infected w/ #H5N1 avian influenza virus last yr. …The report is 1 of 3 about bird flu that were scheduled to be published 3 wks ago in the CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (#MMWR). But the publication was abruptly suspended when the #Trump admin instructed federal #health agencies to pause all external communications on Jan 21.
#PublicHealth
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A scientific report from the #CDC published Thurs shows some #veterinarians who provide care for #cattle were unknowingly infected w/ #H5N1 avian influenza virus last yr. …The report is 1 of 3 about bird flu that were scheduled to be published 3 wks ago in the CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (#MMWR). But the publication was abruptly suspended when the #Trump admin instructed federal #health agencies to pause all external communications on Jan 21.
#PublicHealth
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A scientific report from the #CDC published Thurs shows some #veterinarians who provide care for #cattle were unknowingly infected w/ #H5N1 avian influenza virus last yr. …The report is 1 of 3 about bird flu that were scheduled to be published 3 wks ago in the CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (#MMWR). But the publication was abruptly suspended when the #Trump admin instructed federal #health agencies to pause all external communications on Jan 21.
#PublicHealth
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/13/cdc-bird-flu-spread/ -
A scientific report from the #CDC published Thurs shows some #veterinarians who provide care for #cattle were unknowingly infected w/ #H5N1 avian influenza virus last yr. …The report is 1 of 3 about bird flu that were scheduled to be published 3 wks ago in the CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (#MMWR). But the publication was abruptly suspended when the #Trump admin instructed federal #health agencies to pause all external communications on Jan 21.
#PublicHealth
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/13/cdc-bird-flu-spread/ -
A scientific report from the #CDC published Thurs shows some #veterinarians who provide care for #cattle were unknowingly infected w/ #H5N1 avian influenza virus last yr. …The report is 1 of 3 about bird flu that were scheduled to be published 3 wks ago in the CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (#MMWR). But the publication was abruptly suspended when the #Trump admin instructed federal #health agencies to pause all external communications on Jan 21.
#PublicHealth
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#FYI #USA #MicrobeTV #TWiV #ThisWeekInVirology #infectiousdiseases #MMWR #covid19 #tuberculosis #DanielGriffin
Weekly Clinical Update on infectious diseases 08. Feb 2025
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#FYI #USA #MicrobeTV #TWiV #ThisWeekInVirology #infectiousdiseases #MMWR #covid19 #tuberculosis #DanielGriffin
Weekly Clinical Update on infectious diseases 08. Feb 2025
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#FYI #USA #MicrobeTV #TWiV #ThisWeekInVirology #infectiousdiseases #MMWR #covid19 #tuberculosis #DanielGriffin
Weekly Clinical Update on infectious diseases 08. Feb 2025
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As the Trump admin deletes online data, scientists and digital librarians rush to save it
The race is on to save public information about health and science before Trump makes it disappear
"Deleting gobs of public data/resources as well is the digital equivalent of book burning."
By Carlyn Zwarenstein
Published February 4, 2025 11:46AM (EST)
Updated February 5, 2025 8:34PM (EST)"Orders from the Trump administration affecting science and health in the United States — and from there, the world — are coming thick and fast, affecting a myriad of institutional and personal decisions that depend on accurate information provided by the U.S. government. This ranges from websites disappearing to the prohibition of dictionary words from federal scientist research papers. Now researchers and data nerds are rushing to preserve this vital information before it’s lost.
"Meanwhile, many public communications have been paused as well. For the first time in sixty years, the federal health agency, the Centers for Disease Control (#CDC), has stopped its own publications, including the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (#MMWR). This comes on top of a communications gag order preventing its scientists from sharing any new findings — from new insights in cancer treatment to potential new pandemics like #Ebola — with the public.
"Additionally, it orders that a list of specific terms be removed from any CDC research manuscript being submitted to, already being considered, or already in press by any scientific or medical journal, with publication paused or retracted until the terms are scrubbed from the work. The terms in question are: Gender, #transgender, #PregnantPerson, pregnant people, #LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, #nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female.
"A quick search by Salon of PubMed, the National Institutes of Health-run database of academic biomedical and health publications as well as related disciplines like life sciences and chemical sciences, shows that it currently contains 145,340 pages’ worth of results (1,453,391individual publications) featuring the term '#gender,' and 5,613 publications with the term '#transexual,' with papers dating back to 1903.
"Since most medical science papers report demographic details, excluding papers that report this information or use this language would mean un-publishing exciting new findings on cancer treatment, or, say, vital information about #H5N1 transmission among American #farmworkers or the ongoing #tuberculosis outbreak in the #KansasCity area. The exact implications of President Trump’s orders are not entirely clear, so it’s hard to say exactly what may not be published as a result, but pre-emptive self-censorship is also likely. On Monday, some of the pages had already been restored, according to the New York Times, underscoring the unpredictable status of some federal information.
"In the meantime, a general communications gag order bans any CDC scientist from submitting any new scientific findings to the public. As federally-funded health websites and webpages disappear in real time from the Internet, the race is on to preserve vital datasets and formerly public information.
"Charles Gaba, a health care policy data analyst and web developer, created links on his website to every mirrored copy of the CDC’s public facing web pages as they appear on the #InternetArchive, a nearly 30-year-old non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the internet from #censorship and #DataDecay.
"'These pages and related files are both funded by taxpayers and specifically intended to be for the general public, after all,' Gaba told Salon. In quickly indexing every public-facing page on the CDC site in the nick of time, he anticipated what has happened over the past few days, although perhaps not the specifics of Trump’s Jan. 29 memo to all federal departments and agencies, outlining an executive order called '#DefendingWomen', that seems to have triggered the hasty scrubbing of federally-funded sites.
"Still, Gaba notes that both the former president’s campaign statements, and language in the policy playbook #Project2025, had promised to purge the federal government of 'anyone or anything' that they see as related to diversity, equity and inclusion, and of purging federal agencies of references and resources to the same."
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/04/as-the-admin-deletes-online-data-scientists-and-digital-librarians-rush-to-save-it/
#USPol #Fascism #Erasure #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransHistoryIsHumanHistory #BookBurning #TrumpIsTryingToKillUsAllOff #CharacteristicsOfFascism -
As the Trump admin deletes online data, scientists and digital librarians rush to save it
The race is on to save public information about health and science before Trump makes it disappear
"Deleting gobs of public data/resources as well is the digital equivalent of book burning."
By Carlyn Zwarenstein
Published February 4, 2025 11:46AM (EST)
Updated February 5, 2025 8:34PM (EST)"Orders from the Trump administration affecting science and health in the United States — and from there, the world — are coming thick and fast, affecting a myriad of institutional and personal decisions that depend on accurate information provided by the U.S. government. This ranges from websites disappearing to the prohibition of dictionary words from federal scientist research papers. Now researchers and data nerds are rushing to preserve this vital information before it’s lost.
"Meanwhile, many public communications have been paused as well. For the first time in sixty years, the federal health agency, the Centers for Disease Control (#CDC), has stopped its own publications, including the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (#MMWR). This comes on top of a communications gag order preventing its scientists from sharing any new findings — from new insights in cancer treatment to potential new pandemics like #Ebola — with the public.
"Additionally, it orders that a list of specific terms be removed from any CDC research manuscript being submitted to, already being considered, or already in press by any scientific or medical journal, with publication paused or retracted until the terms are scrubbed from the work. The terms in question are: Gender, #transgender, #PregnantPerson, pregnant people, #LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, #nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female.
"A quick search by Salon of PubMed, the National Institutes of Health-run database of academic biomedical and health publications as well as related disciplines like life sciences and chemical sciences, shows that it currently contains 145,340 pages’ worth of results (1,453,391individual publications) featuring the term '#gender,' and 5,613 publications with the term '#transexual,' with papers dating back to 1903.
"Since most medical science papers report demographic details, excluding papers that report this information or use this language would mean un-publishing exciting new findings on cancer treatment, or, say, vital information about #H5N1 transmission among American #farmworkers or the ongoing #tuberculosis outbreak in the #KansasCity area. The exact implications of President Trump’s orders are not entirely clear, so it’s hard to say exactly what may not be published as a result, but pre-emptive self-censorship is also likely. On Monday, some of the pages had already been restored, according to the New York Times, underscoring the unpredictable status of some federal information.
"In the meantime, a general communications gag order bans any CDC scientist from submitting any new scientific findings to the public. As federally-funded health websites and webpages disappear in real time from the Internet, the race is on to preserve vital datasets and formerly public information.
"Charles Gaba, a health care policy data analyst and web developer, created links on his website to every mirrored copy of the CDC’s public facing web pages as they appear on the #InternetArchive, a nearly 30-year-old non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the internet from #censorship and #DataDecay.
"'These pages and related files are both funded by taxpayers and specifically intended to be for the general public, after all,' Gaba told Salon. In quickly indexing every public-facing page on the CDC site in the nick of time, he anticipated what has happened over the past few days, although perhaps not the specifics of Trump’s Jan. 29 memo to all federal departments and agencies, outlining an executive order called '#DefendingWomen', that seems to have triggered the hasty scrubbing of federally-funded sites.
"Still, Gaba notes that both the former president’s campaign statements, and language in the policy playbook #Project2025, had promised to purge the federal government of 'anyone or anything' that they see as related to diversity, equity and inclusion, and of purging federal agencies of references and resources to the same."
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/04/as-the-admin-deletes-online-data-scientists-and-digital-librarians-rush-to-save-it/
#USPol #Fascism #Erasure #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransHistoryIsHumanHistory #BookBurning #TrumpIsTryingToKillUsAllOff #CharacteristicsOfFascism