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Bruce MirkenYesterday, absolute chaos unfolded in the wake of a federal judge's decision to block actions off HHS Sec. Kennedy's hand-picked (anti)vaccine advisors. The Guardian recounts the circus, with comments from me for Defend Public Health https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/acip-vaccine-advisory-committee
Politico.eu (Unofficial RSS)France reports meningitis death, says ‘no link’ to UK outbreak https://www.politico.eu/article/france-reports-meningitis-death-says-no-link-to-uk-outbreak/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #VaccinationCampaign #Infectiousdiseases #Healthsystems #Publichealth #HealthCare #Patients #Vaccines
Dr. Tiki, doctor of pandologyI generated a gift link so I'm sharing it here. This does not imply a blanket endorsement of the NY Times and all their bullshit. #uspol #measles #vaccines #PublicHealth
Rich Stein (he/him)How the #antiscience agenda of #RFKjr risks a #PublicHealth nightmare:
1) Encouraging #VaccineSkepticism about safety of #vaccines and considering changes that may cause manufacturers to flee the U.S. market
2) Can lead to a U.S. resurgence of deadly vaccine-preventable diseases.
3) Meanwhile, as the U.S. pulls international aid, deadly and disabling diseases like diphtheria, rubella and polio spike abroad
4) And can easily reach the U.S.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues #misinformation #disinformation
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.
Bich Nguyen"We found that long-forgotten plagues have roared back, killing and maiming children in parts of the world where access to vaccines or trust in them faltered. What seemed like subtle changes to a country’s vaccine policies had disastrous consequences years later."
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues
#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #disabilities #measles #meningitis #covid #smallpox #diphtheria #tetanus #rubella #polio #HHS #CDC #ACIP #mistrust #misinformation #gavi #GlobalHealth
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.
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With the rate that these old skool infections are coming back, we need like a health dashboard we can refer to check if our vaccinations are up to date.
Or maybe an ‘apt update’ command?
NoBorg
auscandoc#Vaccines' indirect benefits overlooked in battle over 'medical freedom' https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/vaccine-success-widespread-hidden-benefits-make-skepticism-possible/ “The #HPVvaccine is a medical wonder. As noted above, it is preventing cancers in both women and men. Human papillomaviruses, which are transmitted through sexual contact, cause a number of urogenital cancers — cervical cancer, anal cancer, penile cancer — and oropharyngeal cancers.
HPV vaccines were originally licensed for girls only. But it soon became apparent that boys were benefiting from them too.
“I think HPV is one of the most elegant herd immunity stories that we have, because the indirect protection showed up so clearly and so quickly, in a population that wasn’t even targeted by the original program,” Scott said.
Within five years of the rollout in Australia — a campaign that only targeted girls — researchers there were reporting significant declines in genital warts (caused by human papillomaviruses) in heterosexual men. A study from the U.S. found that oral infections with HPV strains covered by the vaccine dropped 38% between 2009-2010 and 2015-2016 in unvaccinated men, during a time when rates of HPV oral infections with strains not included in the vaccine went unchanged.
Many countries now vaccinate both girls and boys against HPV.”
