Public Health News | Measles outbreak, RFK Etc

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gd, the dumbf*cks on the DOGE/Mango Duce train:

USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them

The USDA fired officials working on the bird flu and are trying to locate them

You can't make this sh*t up. If we're lucky, we'll die from the bird flu before the nookyular meltdown.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.
The agency said it is now trying to quickly reverse the firings.
 
ColdBlueSteel said:
Check out Feigl-Ding’s Wikipedia page for a few hours and if you can figure out what he does, help me understand.
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Feigl-Ding's work focuses on epidemiology, health economics, and nutrition ... professional experience in nutritional epidemiology and epidemiology of chronic disease. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, his research work and expertise primarily focused on the health effects of diet and exercise.
Doesn't have expertise in infectious diseases (COVID-19, etc), but Feigl-Ding went viral on Twitter after expressing his worries about the 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak virus' basic reproduction number
 
Bobfripp said:
Feigl-Ding's work focuses on epidemiology, health economics, and nutrition ... professional experience in nutritional epidemiology and epidemiology of chronic disease. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, his research work and expertise primarily focused on the health effects of diet and exercise.
Doesn't have expertise in infectious diseases (COVID-19, etc), but Feigl-Ding went viral on Twitter after expressing his worries about the 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak virus' basic reproduction number
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Help me distill that down into something less expansive and more practical
 
ColdBlueSteel said:
Check out Feigl-Ding’s Wikipedia page for a few hours and if you can figure out what he does, help me understand.
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I find Feigl-Ding to sometimes come off as sensationalist and click-baiting like a lot of modern day social media self-promoters, but I don't really see the logic behind just destroying stockpiled COVID tests.
 
Mennonite community might make it German measles? I guess rubeola or rubella it's coming for the unvaxed "rubes"!
 

RFK Jr., Onetime Environmentalist, Kills NIH Climate Change Programs​

He pulled HHS support from projects that aim to protect Americans’ health.​


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RFK Jr., onetime environmentalist, kills NIH climate change programs

He pulled HHS support from projects that aim to protect Americans' health.
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"... These NIH programs do not focus on the causes of climate change. Instead, they concentrate on research and training to protect people from the health consequences of extreme weather events.

... Callahan, the Kennedy aide who wielded the axe, served as chief of staff to the deputy HHS secretary during the first Trump administration. Prior to that he was a Republican operative, who worked several jobs in the GOP world, including director of political and field operations at the Republican Party of Wisconsin and direct marketing manager at the National Republican Congressional Committee. For the past four years, he has been a principal at the Hargan Group, a healthcare industry consulting firm.

As climate change progresses, research has increasingly pointed to the many health threats it poses. According to a 2022 study, more than half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by the crisis, including dengue and malaria.

... In the past weeks, Elon Musk’s crusade to dismantle large chunks of the federal government has targeted climate-change-related programs. The HHS decision to stop funding the NIH programs appear to be in sync with that, and it certainly jibes with Trump’s long-running and baseless denial of the climate crisis. (He has called it a hoax originating in China.) HHS did not respond for a request for comment. ..."
 
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