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fromNebraska Examiner
3 days agoPublic health
3 states and New York City join global disease response network * Nebraska Examiner
State and local public health departments in California, Illinois, New York, and New York City independently joined WHO's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network after the U.S. federal government withdrew from the WHO.
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6 days agoPublic health
3 states and New York City join global disease response network * Michigan Advance
State and local public health departments in California, Illinois, New York, and New York City independently joined WHO's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network after the U.S. federal government withdrew from the WHO.
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fromNebraska Examiner
3 days ago3 states and New York City join global disease response network * Nebraska Examiner
State and local public health departments in California, Illinois, New York, and New York City independently joined WHO's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network after the U.S. federal government withdrew from the WHO.
Public health
fromNebraska Examiner
3 days ago3 states and New York City join global disease response network * Nebraska Examiner
State and local public health departments in California, Illinois, New York, and New York City independently joined WHO's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network after the U.S. federal government withdrew from the WHO.
Public health
fromNebraska Examiner
3 days ago3 states and New York City join global disease response network * Nebraska Examiner
State and local public health departments in California, Illinois, New York, and New York City independently joined WHO's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network after the U.S. federal government withdrew from the WHO.
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fromMichigan Advance
6 days ago3 states and New York City join global disease response network * Michigan Advance
State and local public health departments in California, Illinois, New York, and New York City independently joined WHO's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network after the U.S. federal government withdrew from the WHO.
fromwww.bbc.com
5 days agoHarrow records highest rate of TB in London
The National TB Surveillance System said 44 in every 100,000 residents had active TB in Harrow, and cases "still seem to be rising", the council said. Laurence Gibson, Harrow's director of public health, said the current cohort of residents with TB were "likely to have been infected before they travelled to the UK", adding that it was an issue across north-west London.
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fromThe Atlantic
6 days agoFlorida Is Trying to Ignore Measles Until It Can't
Florida currently ranks third in case counts. Since the start of the year, at least 132 confirmed or probable cases of measles have been reported across the state, where vaccination rates have consistently fallen below the threshold required to prevent outbreaks. The measles situation in Florida is, in other words, an urgent problem for the state that the state should be urgently addressing.
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fromThe Nation
2 weeks agoThe Red State-Blue State Healthcare Divide Is Dangerous for Everyone
In light of the systemic dismantling of America's public health agencies, these moves essentially create a shadow infrastructure to maintain some of what is being lost. While this is a promising development, it does nothing to stop a troubling trend that has been emerging for some time: The country is quickly becoming fragmented along partisan lines when it comes to public health.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoMeet Dr Happi. With $100m and a steely determination could he save the world from the next pandemic?
Scientists Christian Happi and Pardis Sabeti built Sentinel, a genomics-based early warning network that identifies outbreaks and empowers African scientists amid shrinking global health funding.
fromHarvard Gazette
3 months agoStopping the next pandemic - Harvard Gazette
A team of researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard began to suspect nearly two decades ago that so-called "emerging diseases" such as Ebola and Lassa virus were not quite what they seemed. Rather than being newly evolved contagions, mounting evidence suggested they were ancient pathogens that had circulated among humans for thousands of years. What really was emerging was accurate diagnosis: Medicine only recently had acquired the ability to detect these diseases and track the toll of outbreaks.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 months agoWHO warns $1.7bn funding shortfall threatens polio eradication efforts
The significant funding reductions mean that certain activities will simply not happen, said Jamal Ahmed, the WHO's director of polio eradication, at a news conference on Tuesday. list of 3 itemsend of list Officials said that the shortfall is largely driven by reduced foreign aid, particularly from the United States, which has stepped back from the WHO since President Donald Trump returned to office.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
5 months agoCDC Firings Are Intentional Attack on the American People,' Ex-Employees Say
Widespread, chaotic layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week have impaired the agency and removed its leadership, former agency scientists warned on Tuesday. The latest lossessome 600 layoffs made by the Trump administration over the weekendremoved experts in measles, child health, vital statistics and overseas Ebola outbreaks, as well as many others, from the federal health agency.
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fromFast Company
6 months agoHow cuts to NASA could hurt everyday Americans
Daniel P. Johnson, a geographer at Indiana University at Indianapolis, works with a team of researchers who spend a lot of time catching blowflies, dissecting their iridescent blue-green abdomens, and analyzing the contents of their guts. Johnson and his colleagues are tracking the spread of Lyme disease on a warming planet. But they need a lot of additional data. They get it from NASA.
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