#Brazil, #FIOCRUZ: Margareth Dalcolmo warns: "The #risk today is that an #H5N1 #epidemic could occur", https://portal.fiocruz.br/noticia/2025/03/margareth-dalcolmo-alerta-o-risco-hoje-e-que-uma-epidemia-de-h5n1-possa-ocorrer

Margareth also lamented that access to #monitoring of the circulation of new viruses, offered by the US agency #CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), was interrupted due to the new measures adopted by the US government.

Compared to the last major outbreak...During the last major measles outbreaks in the US, it took extraordinary measures to stop the spread https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-outbreak-new-york-2019-lessons-learned (or not) #measles #outbreak #publichealth #epidemic

TX Health Officials: Don't have "measles parties"! True, back in the 1950s, it was THE way to get immunity and the only way for parents to have a little control over when the kids actually got sick. The vaccine meant not having to wait for an outbreak to get immunity. https://www.wired.com/story/measles-parties-texas-outbreak/ #measles #immunity #epidemic #outbreak #vaccines

A #WHO global #framework to guide #investigations into origins of potentially #epidemic and #pandemic #pathogens, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-who-global-framework-to-guide.html

Evidence suggests that measles immunity fades about 10-15 years after vaccination. If it's been more than 10 years since your MMR, or you can't find the latest record of vaccination, update your shot.

And WEAR A MASK. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases of all time. There is NO reason to expose yourself when a KN95/N95 mask offers so much protection.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8189124

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5312088/measles-texas-outbreak-contagious-spread

Africa: Africa CDC's Emergency Consultative Group Recommends Continuation of Mpox As a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security: [Africa CDC] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | -- The Emergency Consultative Group (ECG) of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), chaired by Professor Salim Abdool Karim, has unanimously recommended the continuation of Mpox as a Public Health Emergency of… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJGLmv #Mpox #PublicHealth #AfricaCDC #HealthEmergency #Epidemic

An epidemiologist has a lot of really good info on the current measles outbreak in Texas.

#measles #Texas #epidemic

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-child-is-dead-from-measles

whaaaaaaaat

#epidemic #pandemic #health

https://www.wired.com/story/a-deadly-unidentified-disease-has-emerged-in-the-drc-ebola-marburg/

NY TIMES - Unvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas, Officials Say
It is the first known death from an outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico. At least 124 cases have been identified in Texas since late January, mostly among children and teenagers who are either unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown, officials said… #News #BreakingNews #Measles #epidemic #PublicHealth #epidemiology #virus

The number of ongoing and potential epidemics and pandemics we are facing all at once is deeply alarming.

The ruthlessness of capitalism, the impotence of governing institutions, the erosion of public and/or affordable and/or accessible healthcare, the changing climate and weather, the massive concentration of exploited animals, the devastation of some countries economy...

It's a death by a thousand, systemic, malicious and self-destructive cuts...

#epidemic #pandemic #healthcare #BirdFlu #h5n1#covid #mpox

Unknown illness kills over 50 people in Congo http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJ9hDy #Congo #PublicHealth #Epidemic #HealthCrisis #UnknownIllness

In just five years, the world's health authorities hope to declare an end to the #AIDS #epidemic.

But with a stroke of a pen, #Trump may have pushed that out of reach.

Trump’s plan to #slash #foreignaid has #derailed efforts to contain growing HIV epidemics in the Asia Pacific & caused some programs to be suspended.

The region has the largest HIV epidemic outside of Africa, with 300,000 new cases & 150,00 AIDS-related deaths in 2023. #auspol #USPol #TrumpSabotage

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-20/us-funding-freeze-impacts-hiv-programs-in-asia-pacific/104948194

Bird Flu Found in California Rats as USDA Scrambles to Rehire Scientists

https://www.newsweek.com/bird-flu-found-california-rats-usda-scientists-2034873

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed H5N1 bird flu in four black rats in Riverside County, California this week. The rats were discovered in late January near two recently affected poultry farms, marking the first detection in rats since 2021.