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April 10, 2025 
3–4 pm CEST
Online #BeilsteinTalk “Next-generation drug and vaccine delivery for global health” with Ana Jaklenec from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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https://www.beilstein-institut.de/en/talks/nanotechnology-next-generation-drug-and-vaccine-delivery-for-global-health/?M=y
orthodox priests (at least the ones #Putin likes) are #antivaxxers now
U.S. President Donald Trump's foreign aid retreat is gutting funding for HIV treatments, risking lives globally and threatening to unravel decades of progress toward ending AIDS as a public health threat. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/27/world/politics/trump-foreign-aid-hiv-globally/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #republicans #donaldtrump #hiv #africa #vaccines
As measles breaks out across the country, Donald Trump and Elon Musk cut funding for global vaccination, and appoint a vaccine skeptic to decide vaccine policy.
Call these people what they are: Murderers. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-vaccine?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=c56d0ea580-Top+News%3A+Wed.+3%2F26%2F25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-600541243
"Parents in Gaines County, Texas, the center of a raging measles outbreak, have increasingly turned to supplements and unproven treatments to protect their children, many of whom are unvaccinated, against the virus...Physicians at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they’ve now treated a handful of unvaccinated children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/health/measles-kennedy-vitamin-a.html
As Robyn Pennacchia reports, RFK Jr. is commissioning a study of the nonexistent "link" between vaccines and autism.
And, unsurprisingly, to head that study he has picked a man who is not a doctor nor a scientist, one David Geier, who has been in trouble for practicing medicine without a license.
As with so much about the Trump administration, nothing to see here, more along.
#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #medicine #research #disinformation #PseudoScience #science
Per Orac at Respectful Insolence on David Geier: "...he has no relevant qualifications to be able to carry out a scientifically credible epidemiological study of #vaccines as a risk factor for #autism, which is probably why RFK Jr. chose him."
www.respectfulinsolence.com/2025/03/26/d...
David Geier: An blast from the...
"The measles outbreak in western Texas is continuing to grow with 18 cases confirmed over the last five days, bringing the total to 327 cases, according to new data published Tuesday.
Nearly all of the cases are in unvaccinated individuals or in individuals whose vaccination status is unknown, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). At least 40 people have been hospitalized so far."
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/texas-measles-outbreak-grows-327-cases-18-confirmed/story?id=120126483
Discredited anti-vaccine advocate will lead CDC study on vaccines and autism - #CDC #AntiVax #PublicHealth #vaccines #autism #coup #AmericanCoup
Late Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that David Geier has been hired as a "data analyst" by the Department of Health and Human Services, which is now headed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent and fervent anti-vaccine advocate. Kennedy and Geier have both long touted the false claim that vaccines cause autism, despite the extensive evidence showing that they do not. In March, HHS directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reexamine the nonexistent link between vaccines and autism, using funds from taxpayers that could have been directed at other research. @ArsTechnica reports:
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/rfk-jr-hires-anti-vaccine-advocate-to-study-debunked-vaccine-autism-link/
Discredited anti-vaccine advocate will lead CDC study on vaccines and autism
#HackerNews #anti-vaccine #advocate #CDC #vaccines #autism #controversy
Liver damage seen in children given Vitamin A instead of vaccines
"Physicians at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they’ve now treated a handful of unvaccinated children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage.
Some of them had received unsafe doses of cod liver oil and other vitamin A supplements for several weeks in an attempt to prevent a measles infection, said Dr. Summer Davies"
NY Times - #News Trump Administration to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries…
A document obtained by The Times shows the extraordinary scale and reach of the slashed spending at U.S.A.I.D. Support for efforts to combat malaria, one of the biggest killers globally, will also be significantly scaled back. #USAID #ForeignAid #ForeignPolicy #PublicHealth #Vaccines
Debunked myths that vaccines cause autism are increasing stigma
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning to devote research dollars to the debunked myth that vaccines cause autism – legitimizing stigma not only around vaccines, but around autism itself.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/vaccine-myth-autism-stigma
The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for #Gavi,
the organization that has helped purchase critical #vaccines for children in developing countries, saving millions of lives over the past quarter century,
and to significantly scale back support for efforts to combat #malaria, one of the biggest killers globally.
The administration has decided to continue some key grants for medications to treat H.I.V. and tuberculosis, and food aid to countries facing civil wars and natural disasters.
Those decisions are included in a 281-page spreadsheet that the United States Agency for International Development sent to Congress Monday night, listing the foreign aid projects it plans to continue and to terminate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/health/usaid-cuts-gavi-bird-flu.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The #Trump admin intends to terminate the #UnitedStates’ financial support for #Gavi, the org that has helped purchase critical #vaccines for #children in developing countries, saving millions of lives over the past quarter century, & to significantly scale back support for efforts to combat #malaria, one of the biggest killers globally.
Did you get the #measles vaccine when you were a kid? If you're not sure, how can you find out? And how important is it for children nowadays to get the vaccine? Who needs a booster? And what are the risks? Get straight answers on these and other questions from this neurologist/medical epidemiologist, rather than relying on cousin Vinny for your info on #vaccines and other important #health questions.
PLEASE stop listening to the brain worm guy. Get your kids and yourself vaccinated!
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Remedy Supported by Kennedy Leaves Some Measles Patients More Ill
"After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection."
PLEASE stop listening to the brain worm guy. Get your kids and yourself vaccinated!
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Remedy Supported by Kennedy Leaves Some Measles Patients More Ill
"After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection."
