Delaware County launched a mobile clinic to improve access to measles vaccination. Pennsylvania has 142 cases, but none are in the county. Learn more: www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...

Delaware County, Pennsylvania, launches mobile health clinic to offer measles vaccines

Delaware County health officials hope a mobile clinic will help get more residents vaccinated against measles.

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West Nile made up 92 percent of reported US arboviral cases in 2024. Powassan hit a record 60 cases. No vaccines or antiviral treatments are available, so prevention matters www.cidrap.umn.edu/west-nile/we...

West Nile accounted for most US arboviral cases in 2024 as Powassan cases hit record high

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"No link between MMR vaccination before age 2 and autism, large US study suggests." In a related note, a dead horse keeps getting beaten, and authorities have no clue why. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

No link between MMR vaccination before age 2 and autism, large US study suggests

The findings reinforce existing evidence of the safety of MMR vaccination, the authors say.

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Over 400 vaccine bills were filed in US states this past year, yet only nine became law, and no state dropped core childhood immunization requirements. Article:

Over 400 state vaccine bills, 9 new laws, 2 fed charters, and 1 step closer to a CDC director: The State of US Vaccine Policy

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For those of you who have decided you’re going to speak truth to power, even when the power is being irrational. It boils down to being calm, professional, and not answering personal attacks. Dr. Fauci showed all this at his hearings 38 years ago and just this week. buff.ly/P8nfPBw

Can a tuberculosis vaccine treat type 1 diabetes? Current evidence does not support BCG as an approved treatment or proven prevention strategy. Some adult findings are intriguing but unfinished. Respectful skepticism helps science advance. phnightschool.substack.com/p/a-vaccine-...

Content warning: This post discusses suicide and gun violence. The New Yorker profiles Stormy Kay, a Maryland woman who lost two partners to gun suicide and then fought the NRA over her late partner’s retirement savings. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect

The majority of suicides in the U.S. involve guns, and eighty per cent of those are done by white men, a pattern that the gun-rights organization has spent decades denying.

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In the United States, deaths and serious illness from vaccine-preventable diseases are rare, thanks to vaccines. Meanwhile, unscrupulous anti-vaccine activists are happy to take that rare and powerful story of vaccine adverse events and amplify it as if it is the norm. ino.to/b05Y84E

How emotionally powerful stories fuel vaccine skepticism

Sometimes, compelling stories beat medical evidence.

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We were listening to a podcast episode of "Inside of You" with Michael Rosenbaum when the guest, Zach Braff, mentioned that he had gotten shingles on… A very sensitive area. Thank God for the shingles vaccine. medium.com/microbial-in...

Yes, You Can Get Shingles There… Just Ask Zach Braff

What a celebrity’s excruciating experience teaches us about the virus most adults carry.

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Dewey City, a historic Black neighborhood in Thomasville, GA, lost a nearly $20 million EPA grant after the Trump administration’s DEI crackdown, stalling vital public health upgrades and a planned community clinic.

Public health improvements stall in Georgia amid Trump’s DEI crackdown

Three months after winning an EPA community change grant, Thomasville, Georgia, became one of 80 communities across the country to see the funding stripped as priorities shifted in Donald Trump’s…

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Cross-sectional studies give us a photograph of a population at one moment in time, and they are great for measuring prevalence. They can show that two things are associated, but they cannot tell us which came first or prove causation. phnightschool.substack.com/p/study-desi...

India has approved its first dengue vaccine, Takeda's QDENGA, for ages 4 to 60. Trials showed 80.2% efficacy against dengue and 90.4% against hospitalizations, though experts say it won't stop outbreaks alone.

Japanese drugmaker Takeda's QDENGA becomes first dengue vaccine approved in India

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New Jersey has lost 29 hospitals since 1992, and proposed Medicaid cuts could put 12 more at risk. Protecting Medicaid means protecting care for the state's most vulnerable residents.

N.J. lost 29 hospitals in three decades. Now Medicaid cuts could claim more | Opinion

After losing nearly 20% of its hospitals since 1992, the state can't afford further erosion of care for its most vulnerable residents.

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Why do medicine bottles have a foil seal? In 1982, seven people died from Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide near Chicago. The crime was never solved, but it gave us tamper-evident packaging. That little pause when you peel the seal is their legacy. medium.com/@epiren/why-...

Why Medicine Bottles Have Foil Seals: The Unsolved Tylenol Murders

How seven poisoning deaths in 1982 Chicago transformed drug safety, tamper-evident packaging, and public health forever.

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Public health is personal and measurable in the body. In a powerful essay, Tara Fay Coleman reflects on losing both parents and how poverty shortened their lives. Treating poverty as a personal flaw means accepting shortened lives as normal. www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-p...

My parents’ premature deaths made public health a personal reality

Data shows life expectancy, chronic illness, disability and premature mortality remain sharply stratified by race, income and neighborhood.

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Philadelphia is under a Code Red air quality alert. Wildfire smoke and extreme heat together are more dangerous than either alone. Check the AQI, stay indoors, filter your air, and wear an N95 outside. medium.com/@epiren/wild...

Wildfire Smoke and Extreme Heat in Philadelphia: How to Protect Yourself During a Code Red Air…

Canadian wildfire smoke and dangerous heat have collided over the Philadelphia region. Here’s what PM2.5 does to your body, who’s most at…

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Potential game-changer for Legionellosis: NIST patents a water heater that heats water hot enough to kill nearly all Legionella, then cools it safely before it reaches your taps. No scalding, no wasted energy.

NIST Receives New Patent for Microbe-Killing Water Heater

Warm water in household pipes can be a breeding ground for harmful bacteria.

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The Oxford Vaccine Group is testing a new vaccine against Bundibugyo ebolavirus. Healthy adults aged 18 to 55 near Oxford may join this one-year study on its safety and immune response. One volunteer today, potentially millions protected tomorrow.

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Developing a vaccine against Bundibugyo ebolavirus

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A new Journal of Urban Health editorial warns that population health science faces terminated grants, dismissed leaders, and creeping censorship of research terms. The authors argue we still need a rigorous, open science to solve real problems.

Censoring Population Health Science: Death by a Thousand Cuts - Journal of Urban Health

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Religious vaccine exemptions are not as old as the country. They began in the 1960s. Nine children died in Philadelphia in 1991; two more in Texas in 2025. The lesson is about trust, not doctrine. historyofvaccines.org/blog/faith-l...

Faith, Law, and the Needle: A History of Religious Exemptions to Vaccination in the United States

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An academic review highlights 38 popular free infectious diseases podcasts, from outbreaks to virology, HIV, and ID history. COVID-19 fueled the boom, and research shows podcasts can rival textbooks for learning.

“Like and Subscribe”: A Compendium of Infectious Diseases Audio Podcasts

Abstract. In little more than 15 years, the podcast has gone from being virtually unknown to becoming a multibillion-dollar industry. There are an estimate

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Some mentors shape a career without ever meeting you. In 2000 a friend gave me CJ Peters book Virus Hunter, and it convinced me to become an epidemiologist. His work carried me through my MPH and beyond. He died this July 4. He will be missed.

Vaya con Dios, CJ

The year is 1998, and I’m beginning the first year of the medical technology program at UT El Paso. The general lab studies professor shows us the movie “Outbreak” as a way to sho…

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C.J. Peters, one of the legendary virus hunters of decades past, has died. In 2018, I traveled to his home in Galveston, Tex., where he told me jaw-dropping story after jaw-dropping story. He had an extraordinary brain and was hugely curious. Such a loss. www.statnews.com/2018/02/20/v...

The virus hunter: In a bygone era, C.J. Peters learned how to bend the rules

A legendary scientist reflects on why he became so successful: He got out of the office — and away from bosses.

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A study of over 740,000 Norwegian children found no link between the infant rotavirus vaccine and celiac disease before age 5. The vaccine's benefit stands: it cut rotavirus hospital admissions by about 76 percent.

A Large Norwegian Study Finds No Link Between the Rotavirus Vaccine and Celiac Disease

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I am starting my term as President Elect of @nfidvaccines.bsky.social - #MedSky + #IDSky + #ObGynSky. And please plan on joining us for our annual gala and awards ceremony this October in conjunction with @idweek.bsky.social. www.nfid.org/nfid-announc...

NFID Announces 2026-2027 Board of Directors

NFID is pleased to announce the 2026-2027 NFID Board of Directors and leadership team.

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“The [Legionella] bacteria don’t care,” said Dr René Najera, director of public health at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. “If they see a warm spot with water they’re going to thrive and multiply.”

Legionnaires’ outbreak rocks New York as experts warn of rising climate threat

Officials say climate crisis ‘worsening our exposure’ to bacteria as at least 28 people sickened in Manhattan

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A "sleeping sickness" infected ~1 million people in the 1920s, killing half, and left survivors with neurological damage. Medicine still can’t fully explain it. My new piece on encephalitis lethargica covers the unsolved cause and what it warns us about Long COVID today. medium.com/microbial-in...

The Sleeping Sickness Epidemic That Medicine Still Can’t Explain

How encephalitis lethargica disabled a million people in the 1920s, and what it warns us about Long COVID today

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Former CDC chief medical officer Dr. Debra Houry describes pure chaos under HHS Secretary RFK Jr., including the removal of all 17 ACIP vaccine panel members. She says she resigned to protect scientific integrity and warns of irreparable harm.

Former CDC official describes "pure chaos" as RFK Jr. sought to transform health agency and take over vaccine panel

Former CDC chief medical officer Dr. Debra Houry warned the "scientific integrity" of federal health agencies are at risk.

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A newborn's cut umbilical cord is a wound. Where babies are born at home, cords covered with substances like soil or ash can carry the bacterium causing neonatal tetanus, a preventable disease. Prevention: maternal vaccination and clean cord care.

The First Week of Life: Umbilical Cord Care and Neonatal Tetanus in Africa

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A 25-year-old Air Force trainee died June 16 from flu during a Lackland outbreak that sickened nearly 300 troops, after flu shots were made voluntary. The mandate has since been restored. Flu vaccines protect against serious illness.

Air Force trainee in San Antonio, Texas, died from flu

The trainee was among nearly 300 troops who fell ill in a flu outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base.

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