Why Utah uses sewage to find measles, COVID, flu outbreaks Cutting-edge system was built during COVID but can pivot to other diseases

One way we use pathogen genomics for public health here in Utah. www.deseret.com/lifestyle/20...

New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in the USA from October, 2013, to March, 2022: a retrospective molecular epidemiological analysis Most US carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) isolates harbour carbapenem-hydrolysing class D β-lactamases. Other carbapenemases, such a…

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Measles Case Confirmed in SLCo Measles Case Confirmed in Salt Lake County; Source of Infection Unknown

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I’m curious. If an outspoken atheist was to set up tables outside churches on Sunday and on campuses of Christian colleges with a sign that said “God doesn’t exist, prove me wrong,” would that person be hailed as a figure who was trying to engage in good faith debate and heal our divisions?

I miss the old brand #CDC

The C.D.C.’s Vaccine Chief on Why Quitting Was His Only Option Podcast Episode · The Daily · 08/29/2025 · 29m

Going forward, what comes out of the CDC “will be a Frankenstein of science and ideology”

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Opinion | The Public Health Disaster Everyone Saw Coming

Kennedy “is trying to fully dismantle the nation’s vaccination apparatus, regardless of what science says or what most people want. And less than a year into his tenure as health secretary, he is succeeding brilliantly.” We are all at deep risk unless we push Congress to actually act. NOW.

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.

They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.

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🗓 Pathoplexus turns ONE! 🎂🎉

In the past year we’ve grown from 4 pathogens to a truly global, community-driven platform for transparent, equitable & impactful pathogen sequence sharing.
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Trump admin pulls nearly $62M in solar grants from Utah, leaving rural towns in the dark The Trump admin clawed back $62M in federal aid to bolster solar energy across Utah, derailing projects for rural towns, tribes and families.

Trump takes light

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Warning issued for possible measles exposure on NJ Transit, PATH trains A Hudson County resident who tested positive for measles used public transit while potentially infectious, health officials say.

“New Jersey health officials are issuing a warning about a possible measles exposure on NJ Transit and PATH trains.
A Hudson County resident who was diagnosed with measles used public transportation while potentially infectious, the New Jersey Department of Health announced Friday.”

Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense “Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.

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They're all cool with sexually assaulting children it appears

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🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬

Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.

I once talked to Ice-T about skiing in the Delta customer service line in Salt Lake City.

How Next-Generation Sequencing Is Revolutionizing Food Safety  - APHL Blog By Donna Campisano, specialist, Communications, APHL Last year, 113 people across 23 states were sickened with Salmonella Typhimurium after eating cucumbers. Another 61 people from 19 states developed...

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NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

Contamination Chronicles: How Laboratory Scientists Cracked Three Unusual Food Safety Cases - APHL Blog By Donna Campisano, specialist, Communications, APHL What do raw milk, raw pet food and a drug-laced chicken sandwich have in common? They were all subjects of the “Contamination Chronicles” session a...

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Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10

This week’s main story is about the budget and staffing cuts being made to public health agencies in the U.S. under RFK Jr.’s leadership, how those cuts will impact all of us, and some foolproof ideas for what scientists can do in the absence of totally superfluous stuff like, y’know, centrifuges.

RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

💣The Carpet Bombing of HHS 💥

It's hard to describe how America's health agencies have been bombed and shelled in the past few months, but John Oliver is a good start. 🧵

Picture of RFKJ in a dark suit and blue tie leaning back in an arm chair with both arms on the arm rests looking confidently back at the camera. Caption reads "Ask me why I combined HIV research...with occupational and environmental health."

We agree that CDC needs to be more nimble and efficient. But CDC restructuring should be done by someone who understands the mission and respects science. RFKJ is not that person. He does not understand the work he is destroying and does not care to find out.

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Utah just banned fluoride in drinking water, undoing decades of science-based public health progress.
Time for a fluoride #factcheckfriday:

Those NAS worked great for almost 9 years. RIP!

CDC leadership has not been included in decisions that affect the agency's future. Termination emails will go directly from HHS to CDC staff. The tone from Center directors today: “sorry we don't know anything. Please tell us if you're RIF'd. We'll do a headcount Monday of those still standing".

RFK Jr. announces big cuts to Department of Health and Human Services In all, the agency will cut 20,000 positions, half of them through layoffs.

The hits just keep coming! This in the same week as the cuts to state public health agencies.

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Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.

RFK Jr puts an absolute crank with a history of retracted papers and license violations in charge of his “no really vaccines do cause autism” study.

David Geier… incredible, really. Nice job, Bill Cassidy!

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I can’t believe we just went through the worst pandemic of a generation and are now just going to ignore it for political reasons. As if COVID just disappeared and there’s no chances of another similar pandemic down the road 🤦🏻😨

In <24 hours, Covid funding is DOGEd across HHS, CDC, NIH as if it and Long Covid didn't exist and there is no worry for future pandemics
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