<p>This <a href="/tags/arborday/" rel="tag">#ArborDay</a>, a reminder that trees aren't just important for the environment.</p><p>Tree loss can create the conditions for humans and virus-infected animals to collide — meaning the next deadly pandemic is just a forest clearing away.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/pandemic-spillover-outbreak-guinea-forest-clearing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/pandemic-spillover-outbreak-guinea-forest-clearing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/pan</span><span class="invisible">demic-spillover-outbreak-guinea-forest-clearing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/forest/" rel="tag">#Forest</a> <a href="/tags/trees/" rel="tag">#Trees</a> <a href="/tags/pandemic/" rel="tag">#Pandemic</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/disease/" rel="tag">#Disease</a></p>
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<p>One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated.</p><p>The USAID programs were cut anyway.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-rubio-usaid-musk-death-toll-malaria-polio-tuberculosis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-rubio-usaid-musk-death-toll-malaria-polio-tuberculosis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-doge-rubio-usaid-musk-death-toll-malaria-polio-tuberculosis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/usaid/" rel="tag">#USAID</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/aid/" rel="tag">#Aid</a> <a href="/tags/disease/" rel="tag">#Disease</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>
<p>Ticks are showing up in places where they didn’t use to<br>Ticks are showing up in more places, earlier in the season and bringing disease risks with them. CBC's Johanna Wagstaffe breaks down how climate change is helping ticks thrive — and why public-health experts say it’s time to pay attention. <br><a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> <a href="/tags/disease/" rel="tag">#disease</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6795771?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6795771?cmp=rss"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.67957</span><span class="invisible">71?cmp=rss</span></a></p>
<p>“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline<br>—</p><p>While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak, experts warn that whooping cough and other preventable diseases could get much worse with falling vaccination rates and Trump’s slashing of public health infrastructure.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/whooping-cough-measles-outbreak-vaccine-hesitancy-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/whooping-cough-measles-outbreak-vaccine-hesitancy-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/who</span><span class="invisible">oping-cough-measles-outbreak-vaccine-hesitancy-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/measles/" rel="tag">#Measles</a> <a href="/tags/whoopingcough/" rel="tag">#WhoopingCough</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#Vaccines</a> <a href="/tags/disease/" rel="tag">#Disease</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>Whooping cough (pertussis) cases have skyrocketed by more than 1,500% nationwide since 2021.</p><p>Deaths tied to the disease are also up — hitting 10 last year, compared with about two to four in previous years — and cases are on track to exceed that total in 2025.</p><p>Read more: <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/whooping-cough-measles-outbreak-vaccine-hesitancy-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/whooping-cough-measles-outbreak-vaccine-hesitancy-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/who</span><span class="invisible">oping-cough-measles-outbreak-vaccine-hesitancy-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/whoopingcough/" rel="tag">#WhoopingCough</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#Vaccines</a> <a href="/tags/disease/" rel="tag">#Disease</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
