<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>Most stereotypical Canadian thing ever.</p><p><a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.canada.ca/en/public-health.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.canada.ca/en/public-health</span><span class="invisible">.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#Canada</a> <a href="/tags/goodneighbours/" rel="tag">#GoodNeighbours</a></p>
<p>NEW: Who is Casey Means, whom Trump has nominated to replace Janette Nesheiwat as his US surgeon general pick?</p><p>The MD dropped out of residency, became a functional medicine doctor, and recently penned a poem called “The Devil’s Wellness Plan,” <span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsie.social/@STAT" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>STAT</span></a></span>'s Isa Cueto tells us</p><p><a href="https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/trump-picks-casey-means-maha-influencer-for-surgeon-general-post/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/trump-picks-casey-means-maha-influencer-for-surgeon-general-post/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-picks-casey-means-maha-influencer-for-surgeon-general-post/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#publichealth</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#medicine</a> <a href="/tags/healthpolicy/" rel="tag">#healthpolicy</a> <a href="/tags/hhs/" rel="tag">#hhs</a> <a href="/tags/maha/" rel="tag">#maha</a></p>
<p>Thank you to CAESV (Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence) for inviting us to speak to their coalition. </p><p>We shared our free games about consent and how they can be used to teach young people about consent from an early age.</p><p>I appreciate this opportunity to do something meaningful on my birthday! 🎁 </p><p>🎮 <a href="https://consent.games" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>consent.games</a></p><p><a href="/tags/consent/" rel="tag">#consent</a> <a href="/tags/indiegame/" rel="tag">#indiegame</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#publichealth</a> <a href="/tags/prevention/" rel="tag">#prevention</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://games.ngo/@stopTDV" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stopTDV</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://games.ngo/@gamingagainstv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gamingagainstv</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@stopTDV" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>[email protected]</span></a></span></p>
<p>Happy to announce that <span class="h-card"><a href="['https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/defendpublichealth.bsky.social', 'https://www.defendpublichealth.org/']" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>defendpublichealth.bsky.social</span></a></span> has a website at last!! Check us out at <a href="https://www.defendpublichealth.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.defendpublichealth.org/</a> Big thanks to the great team at Elevated Third for volunteering their time and expertise to create the site, and all the other volunteers who have helped make it possible. <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> is under attack in the U.S., and we must fight back!</p>
<p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#Introduction</a> </p><p>I've joined <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@cnrs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cnrs</span></a></span> as a GIS Engineer at CEREGE (Environmental geosciences research and teaching centre) in Aix-en-Provence, France where I'll be working on remote sensing, but with a focus on very high-resolution acquisition (by photogrammetry and LiDAR) So back in the field ! </p><p>Very interested too in <a href="/tags/opendata/" rel="tag">#OpenData</a>, <a href="/tags/openstreetmap/" rel="tag">#OpenStreetMap</a> and <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> Research since a previous job at <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/ird_fr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ird_fr</span></a></span></p><p>Love hiking, trekking and doing via ferrata 🧗</p>
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<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system.</p><p>Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-childhood-vaccines-vicp?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/rfk-childhood-vaccines-vicp?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/rfk</span><span class="invisible">-childhood-vaccines-vicp?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/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#Vaccines</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/epa/" rel="tag">#EPA</a> Report Finds That Formaldehyde Presents an “Unreasonable Risk” to Public Health<br>—</p><p>The report was published weeks after a ProPublica investigation found that the chemical causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant and can trigger asthma, miscarriages and fertility problems.</p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/cancer/" rel="tag">#Cancer</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a></p><p><a href="https://propub.li/4fIZP60" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/4fIZP60</a></p>
<p>RFK Jr. says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy pregnant women.</p><p>Yet doctors have found that stillbirths can result from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta — even for people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent.</p><p>(Published 2022)<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/covid-maternity-stillbirth-vaccines-pregnancy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/covid-maternity-stillbirth-vaccines-pregnancy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/cov</span><span class="invisible">id-maternity-stillbirth-vaccines-pregnancy?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/covid/" rel="tag">#Covid</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#Vaccines</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/pregnancy/" rel="tag">#Pregnancy</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#Women</a></p>
<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>Zeroes.ca is a COVID-aware Glitch Mastodon server hosted in Canada, open to people from anywhere in the world. </p><p>This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters, and up to 8 poll options.</p><p><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/social.growyourown.services/Fediverse.png" class="emoji" alt=":Fediverse:" title=":Fediverse:"> <a href="https://zeroes.ca" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>zeroes.ca</a></p><p>You can find out more at <a href="https://zeroes.ca/about" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>zeroes.ca/about</a> or contact the admin <span class="h-card"><a href="https://zeroes.ca/@zeroes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>zeroes</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/featuredserver/" rel="tag">#FeaturedServer</a> <a href="/tags/covid19/" rel="tag">#COVID19</a> <a href="/tags/covid/" rel="tag">#COVID</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/glitch/" rel="tag">#Glitch</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/glitchmastodon/" rel="tag">#GlitchMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/freefediverse/" rel="tag">#FreeFediverse</a></p>
<p>"Pres Trump just fired: </p><p>• 90 physicians <br>• 350 nurses <br>• at least 25 nurse practitioners <br>• nearly 20 dentists <br>• 85+ pharmacists <br>• 45 lab techs </p><p>Employed by the Indian Health Svc to provide HC. This is going to have dangerous consequences for our Indigenous brothers & sisters."<br>-Sen Luján</p><p>Snr officials: ~5,200 ppl on probat. employment -recent hires -across agencies incl. <a href="/tags/nih/" rel="tag">#NIH</a> <a href="/tags/cdc/" rel="tag">#CDC</a> will be fired🚨Fri. CDC: ~1,300 WKRs...</p><p><a href="/tags/racism/" rel="tag">#Racism</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/hhs/" rel="tag">#HHS</a><br> <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/federal-employee-layoffs-at-hhs-cdc-on-first-day-robert-kennedy-health-secretary/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/federal-employee-layoffs-at-hhs-cdc-on-first-day-robert-kennedy-health-secretary/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/fe</span><span class="invisible">deral-employee-layoffs-at-hhs-cdc-on-first-day-robert-kennedy-health-secretary/</span></a></p>
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<p>"All of this leaves Americans without the information they need to understand how genuinely bonkers the direction of current U.S. <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> policy has become under Kennedy." My latest, on the dangerous sanewashing of <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a>. <a href="https://48hills.org/2025/06/the-medias-dangerous-sanewashing-of-rfk-jr/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="48hills.org/2025/06/the-medias-dangerous-sanewashing-of-rfk-jr/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">48hills.org/2025/06/the-medias</span><span class="invisible">-dangerous-sanewashing-of-rfk-jr/</span></a></p>
<p>What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic<br>---</p><p>To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/bird-flu-airborne-usda-pandemic?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/bird-flu-airborne-usda-pandemic?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/bir</span><span class="invisible">d-flu-airborne-usda-pandemic?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/birdflu/" rel="tag">#BirdFlu</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/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a></p>
<p>We recognize that people wear masks for many important reasons. Why do you mask? Help promote health and safety in our communities.</p><p><a href="/tags/masking/" rel="tag">#Masking</a> <a href="/tags/kn95/" rel="tag">#KN95</a> <a href="/tags/yallmasking/" rel="tag">#YallMasking</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/infectionprevention/" rel="tag">#InfectionPrevention</a> <a href="/tags/covid/" rel="tag">#COVID</a> <a href="/tags/covid19/" rel="tag">#COVID19</a> <a href="/tags/communityhealth/" rel="tag">#CommunityHealth</a></p>
<p>Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding<br>—</p><p>The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.<br><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-research-lost-trump/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-research-lost-trump/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/nih-cu</span><span class="invisible">ts-research-lost-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/nih/" rel="tag">#NIH</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a></p>
<p>Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling work to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death.</p><p>“We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-federal-workers-public-health-hhs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-federal-workers-public-health-hhs?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-federal-workers-public-health-hhs?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/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a></p>
<p>Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.<br>—</p><p>Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic partner in Asia.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-halted-agent-orange-cleanup-dioxin-vietnam-poison-risk?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-halted-agent-orange-cleanup-dioxin-vietnam-poison-risk?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-halted-agent-orange-cleanup-dioxin-vietnam-poison-risk?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/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/vietnam/" rel="tag">#Vietnam</a> <a href="/tags/usaid/" rel="tag">#USAID</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>
<p>EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS.</p><p>Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in funding for “forever chemicals” research.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-pfas-drinking-water?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-pfas-drinking-water?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-epa-pfas-drinking-water?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/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/epa/" rel="tag">#EPA</a> <a href="/tags/pfas/" rel="tag">#PFAS</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/foreverchemicals/" rel="tag">#ForeverChemicals</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations<br>—</p><p>The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/mea</span><span class="invisible">sles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report?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/cdc/" rel="tag">#CDC</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/measles/" rel="tag">#Measles</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#Vaccines</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a></p>
<p>RFK Jr. Wants to Overhaul a Vital System That Supports Childhood Immunization<br>—</p><p>Dramatic changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could drive drugmakers from the market, threatening access to shots, experts say.</p><p>“If (Kennedy’s) unstated goal is to basically destroy the vaccine industry, that could do it.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-childhood-vaccines-vicp?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/rfk-childhood-vaccines-vicp?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/rfk</span><span class="invisible">-childhood-vaccines-vicp?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/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#Vaccines</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a></p>
<p>High on our list of gratitudes this April 2 are two faithful donors to the Bicycling Monterey work: Kathleen Jones / <span class="h-card"><a href="https://sfba.social/@Kleen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Kleen</span></a></span> and Martin Dehmler Fine Cabinetmaking. Both donated again today! Both know that regardless of what else is happening in our country or world, we can all find ways to keep on doing what we can, right where we are, to make our country and world a better place! </p><p>We don’t take support for this grassroots bike advocacy work for granted. Thank you, donors! <a href="https://bikemonterey.org/about/financial-donations/donors" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bikemonterey.org/about/financial-donations/donors"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bikemonterey.org/about/financi</span><span class="invisible">al-donations/donors</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/peoplepower/" rel="tag">#PeoplePower</a> <a href="/tags/dowhatyoucan/" rel="tag">#DoWhatYouCan</a> <a href="/tags/climateaction/" rel="tag">#ClimateAction</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/publicsafety/" rel="tag">#PublicSafety</a> <a href="/tags/communitybuilding/" rel="tag">#CommunityBuilding</a> <a href="/tags/biking/" rel="tag">#biking</a> <a href="/tags/cycling/" rel="tag">#cycling</a> <a href="/tags/bicycling/" rel="tag">#bicycling</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>
<p>For more than a century, a smelter spewed lead dust over Omaha.</p><p>For decades, the government cleaned it up.</p><p>But a shift in guidance from the Trump administration may stop thousands more from potential cleanup, exposing families to the harmful metal.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/omaha-nebraska-lead-superfund-epa-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/omaha-nebraska-lead-superfund-epa-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/oma</span><span class="invisible">ha-nebraska-lead-superfund-epa-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/nebraska/" rel="tag">#Nebraska</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a></p>