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One person dead from Nipah virus in Bangladesh, WHO says https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/07/one-person-dead-from-nipah-virus-in-bangladesh-who-says #Bangladesh #Epidemics #Health #SouthAndCentralAsia #Animals

(4/4) … whether that is animal disease #epidemics or environmental rules. They want to deliver high quality #protein to as many people as possible, as profitably as possible, so they’re agnostic on the production process: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Humanity’s favourite food’: h...

The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own by Tom Frieden, 2025

The formula to stop invisible killers—an approach that can protect your health and prevent the next pandemic—from one of the most influential public health leaders in the US.

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#nonfiction
#PublicHealth
#epidemics

In The Formula for Better Health, Tom Frieden—named “the most influential leader in American public health since C. Everett Koop” by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg—reveals how to defeat the world’s deadliest diseases.
Drawing from decades leading New York City’s health department after 9/11, directing the CDC during the Ebola epidemic, and fighting tuberculosis and other lethal threats in India and around the world, Frieden combines compelling stories with insider knowledge to show you how to win the battle for health.
In this book, you will step into laboratories that solve mysteries and expose deadly deceptions. You’ll meet a trailblazing epidemiologist who survived a Nazi concentration camp, a seventeenth-century cloth merchant...

This Texas Family Was Part of the Biggest U.S. Measles Outbreak in a Generation

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/measles-outbreak-texas-timmons.html

Five members of the Timmons family were hospitalized for their symptoms from measles.

#FDA #healthcare #publichealth #vaccines #medicine #epidemics #pandemics #measles #publicschools U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines for #children and defer to #doctors. This approach, which is not finalized, would mark a fundamental shift in the #healthcare system that generally relies on federal health agencies to guide how children are protected against disease. It was not immediately clear which #shots would no longer be recommended. #insurance #medicine doctor visits - really!!

🦠 Pandemics don’t spread randomly - they follow the paths we create through our social lives and movements.

📖 🔊 Read and listen about how networks shape outbreaks: https://www.worldpop.org/blog/how-our-social-connections-shape-the-spread-of-disease-what-new-research-reveals/

#InfectiousDisease #NetworkScience #HealthBehaviours #Epidemics #DataScience

Reciting the names of the dead: how Australia’s response to HIV/Aids was emotionally – and politically – powerful | Leigh Boucher https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/01/australia-response-hiv-world-aids-day-memorial-names #AidsandHIV #Epidemics #Health #Health

The biological warfare the US is waging against its own people. #waronscience #unitedstatesoftrump #measles #epidemics #vaccination

This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought second-hand copies of Fevered Planet: How #Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature by the late John Vidal and #Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens, and picked up a review copy of Uncommon Ground: Rethinking Our Relationship With the #Countryside by Patrick Galbraith.

#AtmosphericSciences #Pandemics #Epidemics #PublicHealth #Zoonoses #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing upright on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books.

On the left, Fevered Planet, showing a black-and-white photo of the rocky landscape of a hand-dug open-pit mine. In the foreground is a small, lone human figure resting one leg on a pile of shattered rocks. The title is written across the photo in neon-orange, with the last letters of each word rendered as if they are powdering into fine dust at their edges.

In the middle, Uncommon Ground, showing part of the oil painting "Wivenhoe Park, Essex" by John Constable, showing a bucolic landscape with a grazing cow behind a wooden fence. The fence runs across the picture in the foreground, while there is a large pond in the background. Behind the pond can be seen a small planted grove of large trees, and on the right, part of what looks like a mansion. The centre of the image has been rendered as if part of the drawing has been ripped out, showing the rough edge of torn paper and at the bottom, a curled-up piece of torn paper.

On the right, Dust, showing a NASA satellite photograph of planet Earth at night. Next to artificial lighting, several colourful swirls are visible in blue, red, and purple. This is a composite image that was taken on the 23rd of August 2018 that shows the various aerosols in our atmosphere. You can read more about this particular image here: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92654/just-another-day-on-aerosol-earth

Whooping cough is resurging as vaccination rates fall, creating preventable risks for infants, families, and entire communities. 🦠🍼

A reminder that public health only works when participation stays strong.

#PublicHealth #Vaccination #Epidemics #Brewminate

https://brewminate.com/the-whooping-cough-surge-falling-vaccination-rates-and-a-growing-public-health-crisis/

This #Trump attack on #PublicHealth has flown under the radar, but it means fewer people to keep us safe from #epidemics and other threats. https://aspph.org/department-of-education-proposal-excludes-public-health-degrees-from-professional-degree-definition/

The Trump administration plans to require countries receiving U.S. health aid to share pathogen data with Washington as a funding condition, a draft document shows. 🧬🌍

#Trump #USPolicy #GlobalHealth #Epidemics #ForeignAid #GBSMedia #BWHL #BlueWaterHealthyLiving

Africa: Boost Your Immunity - a Guide to Fighting Disease in a Toxic World: [New Times] Over the past decade or so, the world has witnessed epidemics, one after another: SARS, Bird flu, Swine flu, Ebola, Marburg virus, and the deadly Covid pandemic. About a century ago, there was devastation due to infectious diseases, as there were no effective measures or medicines to check or cure infections. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TP4yJZ #Africa #Immunity #HealthAwareness #DiseasePrevention #Epidemics

If you live in the #US & think your country has turned to shit under #Trump - seriously consider #LEAVING IT.

With the #TrumpRegime’s morons running things into the ground, a sudden or continued #BrainDrain might open his supporters eyes, as the best & brightest get outta Dodge.

Things will only get uglier & more violent as time goes on

Think about it #USPol #auspol

Time’s running out. If #ICE don’t target you or someone you care about, you’ll be dealing with #epidemics & no #FEMA or #CDC

The Triumph of the Fungi: A Rotten History by Oxford Nicholas, 2006

This book is concerned with the most devastating fungal diseases in history. These are the plagues of trees and crop plants, caused by invisible spores that have reshaped entire landscapes and decimated human populations.

#books
#history
#fungi
#FungalDiseases
#epidemics

The Triumph of the Fungi focuses on the fascinating biology of the well- and lesser-known diseases, and also tells the stories of the scientists involved in their study, and of the people directly impacted by the loss of forest trees like the chestnut, and cash crops such as coffee and cacao. In a surprisingly brief time, human knowledge of the fungi that infect plants has evolved from Biblical superstition, to the recognition of the true nature of plant disease, and, more recently, to a sense of awe for the sophistication of these microbes. The crucial issue of human culpability in these fungal epidemics is addressed in the books closing chapter.

Did the people of Afro-Eurasia have a higher disease load than native Americans during the pre-modern era?
#history #worldhistory #diseases #epidemics #epidemology #humanhistory #immunesystem #afroeurasia #nativeamericans #illness #premodernity

US anti-vax stance to blame for continent-wide surge in measles, say experts https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/17/health-infectious-diseases-vaccination-measles-us-robert-kennedy-latin-america-antivax-blamed-cases-deaths-rise #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Trumpadministration #Infectiousdiseases #Globaldevelopment #RobertFKennedyJr #Globalhealth #USpolitics #Worldnews #Epidemics #Americas #Society #Bolivia #Health #USnews #Mexico #MMR

"Japan’s health authorities have declared an influenza epidemic, with thousands of people infected with the respiratory virus. The number of infections is unusual for this time of year, researchers say, and could seed outbreaks in countries that are heading into winter in Asia and Europe — although it is unlikely to become a global pandemic."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03367-z

#Japan #Flu #Epidemics #Health #Diseases

The Anthropology of Epidemics by Ann H. Kelly, 2019

Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a transformational impact on social life...

#OpenAccess
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102306/1/9780429868085.pdf

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#anthropology
#epidemics

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