NEW: 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.”
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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 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“Cervical cancer elimination isn't just a public health objective. It's a moral imperative. No one should be diagnosed with or die from a cancer we have the ability to prevent."
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The U.S. government has charged two scientists at NIH of criminally conspiring to smuggle biological samples into the country and lying about it. The researchers have pled not guilty. https://scim.ag/4uRHH2k
Liz Szabo
More than 14,000 deaths in Canada in 2018 were associated with resistant infections. Of these, 5,400 deaths were directly attributable to antimicrobial resistance. bit.ly/3NljSvK
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Defendants face up to 5 years prison for alleged “smuggling” and “conspiracy”
Ahead of the September 26 UN General Assembly high-level meeting on AMR, the CCA revisited When Antibiotics Fail, a 237-page report from its Expert Panel on the Potential Socio-Economic Impacts of An...
This is an important & original analysis of whether & how “coercion” is defined in scholarship about public health. Very well done.
Can something similar be done for the word “politics” in public health? My sense is the word is much used, rarely defined, and this confuses things.
Just published in BMJ Public Health: "Coercion in public health: a scoping review of definitions"
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ACOG’s Maternal Immunization Schedule: "Together with the RSV and Tdap vaccines, the flu and COVID vaccines can help to keep both pregnant mothers healthy and their baby safe ...before they develop immunity from their own vaccines." open.substack.com/pub/stopanti... @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social
"They have spent so much time talking about not having the government impose on peoples individual decisions..."
"And yet, in response to the hantavirus and Ebola, this administration has chosen to impose very draconian and extreme public health measures."
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Council of Canadian Academies/Conseil des académies canadiennes
The ACOG immunization schedule reinforces that vaccines are safe and necessary during pregnancy.
Canada restricts U.S. livestock imports from areas affected by screwworm
Just published in BMJ Public Health: "Coercion in public health: a scoping review of definitions"
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Canada will place temporary import restrictions on livestock entering the country from affected areas in the U.S. after a case of screwworm was confirmed.
The administration imposed mandatory quarantine orders on two passengers from the cruise ship hit by hantavirus and is blocking Americans who catch Ebola from returning home for treatment.
