Polizzi underwent hysterectomy because of cervical cancer. "Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide... HPV vaccine is 97% effective and has minimal side effects, research shows." www.today.com/popculture/n... via @todayshow.com

Watch Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi’s Emotional Update After Hysterectomy Following Cancer Diagnosis

“I’m here to show you what’s up,” an emotional Polizzi said in the video, following her surgery. “And it’s scary, and it’s okay to be scared.”

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In the wake of Covid, a wave of research assessed masks, school closures, trust & more. Critical work for future emergencies. Sad to see much of it being ignored or, worse, twisted to suit a narrative. @tombollyky.bsky.social corrects the record on his own research: www.statnews.com/2026/07/31/l...

One of the more frustrating legacies of 2020 is the idea that reporting risk factors for mortality is somehow always a slight against disabled and chronically ill people, as opposed to an essential piece of information for people in that category to assess their risk before *or after* they get sick

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

New Review A review of Bundibugyo virus and the 2026 outbreak: lessons for epidemic preparedness www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A review of Bundibugyo virus and the 2026 outbreak: lessons for epidemic preparedness

The ongoing 2026 outbreak of Ebola virus disease caused by Bundibugyo virus (BDBV) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has renewed attention to one of the least studied human-pathogenic...

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it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

The US owes the Pan-American Health Organization $135 million in past dues. Trump's budget proposal cuts funding for PAHO entirely, even though our contribution is 0.001% of federal spending. The result will be even weaker defenses agst measles, dengue & more. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/h...

Former Officials Protest U.S. Plan to Defund Pan American Health Organization

The group of former health and national security officials warned that Americans will be more vulnerable to infectious disease threats.

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“Kenneth Ngure, the president-elect of the International AIDS Society, called the use of the map at the conference “disheartening.” “African countries must be taken seriously,” he said in a statement… “our focus must now return to advancing the H.I.V. response.”

U.S. Government Mislabels Map of African Countries at AIDS Conference

Nigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had been “hastily altered.”

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Wuhan or Ituri, COVID or Ebola. Without the small print, it's the same story: a chance encounter with an animal, in a market or for dinner or a kid playing, and the disease ends up where we don't want it. Common things are common.

Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 6d ago

The evidence supports the alt theory of a spillover from animals sold at the market. Spillovers also happen to account for all other novel infectious disease epidemics. I'm tired of writing about this since I'm tired of the harassment. Pretty much every science writer I know feels the same.

Total case numbers have surpassed 11,500 reported cases across 41 states—but Michigan has by far been the hardest hit.

Michigan Passes 10,000 Cyclosporiasis Cases—And Experts Still Don’t Have A Definitive Cause

Total case numbers have surpassed 11,500 reported cases across 41 states—but Michigan has by far been the hardest hit.

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Between this, and 19 million salmonella eggs, and cyclospora greens.... Diners are suffering right now

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · last wk.

Over 12,000 pounds of bacon recalled. See affected products

The @cfr.org is looking for a Managing Editor, Think Global Health @thinkglobalhealth.org careers-cfr.icims.com/jobs/2993/ma...

Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies

Kennedy has focused on nutrition but has neglected food safety, critics say.

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Really, really fascinating. Iirc there was also a study in JAMA indicating fewer bacterial infections across the board because of RSV shots. Given RSV's ability to complicate a baby's lungs (secondary infections, asthma, etc), that makes sense

CIDRAP@cidrap.bsky.social · 2w ago

One immunization may protect newborns against 2 serious diseases Newborns immunized against RSV also had a 36% lower risk of infection with a life-threatening illness called invasive pneumococcal disease. Read more: https://bit.ly/4yTZY1s

NEW: I dug into the court documents in the case of Andrea Shaw, the Idaho mother charged with killing her toddlers. Shaw insists they died following a set of vaccinations. I looked at how the anti-vaccine movement insinuated itself into this case and her life. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

She's charged with killing her twins. The anti-vaccine movement made her a martyr.

Andrea Shaw is charged with suffocating her toddlers. Children's Health Defense says it was the vaccines.

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“They call themselves "the dinosaurs" – a group of activists who were diagnosed as HIV positive during the period when the virus was considered a death sentence” www.haaretz.com/science-and-...

She wasn't supposed to survive. Her fight saved thousands

Nothing in Susan Newman's life prepared her for the possibility of contracting HIV. But once she did, she turned her diagnosis into a battle that saved countless lives

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Musk keeps focusing on “names” which is disingenuous when the most effective program he killed was focused on AIDS *prevention*. The people it saved were people who *did not get sick*.

Cynthia Brumfield@metacurity.com · last wk.

"It’s beyond contestation that USAID’s destruction unleashed fresh humanitarian horrors. But the key event here is Musk continuing to assert otherwise in the face of an escalation of human suffering that’s amply documented: You can’t name these people. They never existed."

I'm super happy that Mamdani is cutting red tape for small businesses. Frozen dessert permits seem frivolous now, but ice cream used to be really deadly! Absent good sanitary practices, it used to be carry of all sorts of diseases (remember typhoid mary?). The initial law was a public health win!

Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”

He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.

With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...

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Doctors in Utah pull back the curtain on what's happening in America. You can read (and listen!) to my piece for WIRED/KFFHN without a paywall, here: kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

‘The Child Is Terrified’: Doctors on the Front Lines of a Measles Comeback Speak Out - KFF Health News

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah as the U.S. faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous diseas...

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Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧵The US no longer meets criteria for measles elimination. Utah's outbreak has lasted for more than a yr. And cases this yr are at a 35-yr high. I talked w/pediatricians treating measles & talking w/parents who don't vaccinate. My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

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If you've been confused about the cyclospora outbreak, you're not alone. I tried to make sense of the Taylor Farms recall timeline, and dug into why the outbreak seems to be expanding instead of slowing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Confusing product recall adds to US cyclospora outbreak uncertainty

Explosive diarrhea infection detected in 41 states with at least 72 sickened by new, as yet unknown source of parasite

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"The individual acquired the infection while traveling outside the country," www.fox10phoenix.com/news/mpox-ar...

Mpox: Arizona reports case involving a new type of the virus

Arizona health officials say a case of Mpox involving a type of the virus known as "Clade I" has been confirmed in the state.

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13 Americans w/o Ebola exposure put in detention when returning from Africa. “Staff even created a map for Bhattacharya that showed the vast distance from Kinshasa to Ituri province, to highlight the low risk. He ordered them to be detained anyway.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump's CDC Is Detaining Americans in Response to Ebola: A 'Wild Misuse' of Power

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is needlessly detaining Americans as part of a chaotic Ebola response led by Jay Bhattacharya.

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Rolling Stone obtained CDC meeting notes highlighting how Jay Bhattacharya created a crisis at the agency by having Americans detained in response to the Ebola outbreak. One CDC employee called it a “wild misuse” of power. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump's CDC Is Detaining Americans in Response to Ebola: A 'Wild Misuse' of Power

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is needlessly detaining Americans as part of a chaotic Ebola response led by Jay Bhattacharya.

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NYT: 1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds by Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social nyti.ms/4wTighg

1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds

New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.

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Leprosy is still spreading in #Florida, to the point that the CDC says it's becoming endemic. These 2 women want that to change. www.theledger.com/story/news/h...

Leprosy is still spreading in Florida. These women want that to change

Rising evidence point to leprosy becoming "endemic" or common in Florida, but a new group is hoping to make it more obvious to patients and doctors.

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If the people who run companies see "Taco Bell helps authorities find outbreak > then just gets blamed for starting it" How willing do you think they're gonna be to help pin down the next outbreak?

They kept distributing it until Thursday. So we've still 2 weeks of poss. new cases. "The shredded iceberg product was distributed June 29th thru July 16th in AL, AR, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, and WI." www.taylorfarms.com/recall/

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

New: Late last night, Taylor Farms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states It was for some reason still being sent out up until Thursday July 16 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

Parasite-Linked Lettuce Was Sent to Walmart Stores and Food Distributors in 27 States - Consumer Reports

Taylor Farms' recalled the parasite-linked lettuce it said was sent to Walmart stores, Sysco, and other food distributors in 27 states.

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