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Trump has promised Americans he’ll lower their drug costs. But imposing stiff pharmaceutical tariffs risks the opposite and could disrupt complex supply chains, drive cheap foreign-made generic drugs out of the U.S. market and create shortages.
The US’s top public health agency was plunged into chaos on Wednesday after the Trump administration moved to oust its leader Susan Monarez, sworn in less than a month ago, as her lawyers said she would not resign and that she was being “targeted” for her pro-science stance. ... read full post
Mexico has reported a 53 percent increase in cases of flesh-eating screwworm in animals over the past month, as the parasite continues its northward trajectory towards the United States border, according to government data. ... read full post
This is relevant and continues to be a problem in recent years, see this article from 2024: ... read full post
Scientists tested lab-grown Escherichia coli biofilms in various environments, including on microplastics, on tiny glass fragments and in cell culture media. They found that pathogens in the plastisphere not only grew faster—reconfirming earlier research—but, importantly, were harder to kill when treated with several different antibiotics. The effects “were significantly larger than what we were expecting,” says Zaman, who was senior author of the study. ... read full post
The first case of a New World Screwworm infestation in a human was confirmed in the U.S., according to the Department of Health and Human Services. ... read full post
- Burkina Faso's military government has ordered the suspension of the Target Malaria program led by Bill Gates. ... read full post
TLDR:
In a newly published study in Emerging Infectious Diseases, state and federal health researchers suggest that the four linked cases indicate that the dangerous bacterium—Burkholderia pseudomallei—has been lurking in the Georgia area the entire time. They also think they know what triggered its recent reemergence: Hurricane Helene.