At least 65 dead in latest Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/at-least-65-dead-in-latest-ebola-outbreak-in-eastern-dr-congo/
Ebola outbreak with uncommon strain erupts in Congo and Uganda; 65 deaths https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/ebola-outbreak-confirmed-in-congo-and-uganda-246-suspected-cases-65-deaths/
#DRC #Congo #Uganda #environment #health #PublicHealth #Ebola
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EU trade deal could force UK to restrict use of weedkiller linked to cancer https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/06/eu-trade-deal-could-force-uk-restrict-glyphosate-weedkiller-linked-to-cancer
#EU #UK #UnitedKingdom #environment #farming #pesticides #weedkiller #health #PublicHealth #cancer
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@Nonilex@masto.ai
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May 08, 2026
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai
#law, #climate, #science, #geopolitics, #politics, #democracy, cool stuff &… #BabySquirrel Recovering lawyer. Spending less time on world news since US voters re-elected a rapist/convicted felon, who tried to end democracy, but who Americans decided to give a mulligan, cuz democracy shlemocracy right? Occasionally I’ll come across something that I feel compelled to share, but… …these days… I've stopped my dreaming …these days I sit on corner stones & count the time in quarter tones to ten
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…#RFKJr on Monday announced initiatives intended to reduce #SSRI use, while attempting to reassure Americans who still “want” [have] to take them. They include reimbursement guidelines for physicians who help patients come off of the medications as well as plans to share data on prescribing trends & an investment in training for #healthcare providers.
#MentalHealth #PsychiatricCare #health #PublicHealth #science #medicine
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@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca
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May 07, 2026
Broadwaybabyto
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca
Disabled & chronically ill writer. Former theatre critic. Passionate about disability rights, clean air, masks and covid caution. Clean air is a human right & masks work. I write about the experience of being highly vulnerable during a pandemic, isolation, loss of healthcare and euthanasia. My focus is on how we can find support, fight back & create better systems and safety nets everyone. #CovidisAirborne #Disability #Pandemic #MasksWork #CleanAir #Ableism #ChronicIllness #CovidIsNotOver
zeroes.ca
Respirator masks like N95s will prevent hantavirus infection.
Clean air will drastically reduce hantavirus spread.
We already have the tools, people just need to use them.
Public health requires everyone’s participation.
“You do you” gets people killed
#hantavirus #publichealth #wearamask #n95 #ableism #eugenics #chronicillness
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@ProPublica@newsie.social
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May 06, 2026
ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social
The official Mastodon page for ProPublica. Pursuing stories with moral force.
newsie.social
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
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The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Parenting #Health #PublicHealth #Science #Medicine #Children
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@dnkboston@apobangpo.space
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May 05, 2026
Deb Nam-Krane
@dnkboston@apobangpo.space
Indie author, parent, human rights enthusiast, cancer survivor. Proud Korean, proud Jew. Life's too short, so I block Substack posters as well as NYT posts, and mute BlueSky references. I hate crypto and AI, but everyone else here does, too. Picture is a Mother's Day present from my son and his girlfriend. Foreground is a picture from the Boston Commons.
apobangpo.space
Today is the fourth anniversary of the surgery I needed for colon cancer. I have a year and a few months left of surveillance before I can throw myself a party, but so far, so good.
#FuckCancer but also our medical system, which wanted to diagnose me with depression 🙄 rather than listen to what was going on before I got to Stage IIIc. I am lucky, because people a decade younger have died of this.
Stay on your doctors for better care, stay on your politicians for better #publichealth
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Pesticide exposure linked to 150% higher cancer risk in major study https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260426012314.htm
#environment #pesticides #health #PublicHealth #cancer
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@bich@apobangpo.space
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May 02, 2026
Bich Nguyen
@bich@apobangpo.space
Migrated from @bicmay@med-mastodon.com | She/her | FM physician interested in helping patients get all the health care they need and none they don't | Boosts ≠ endorsements | Opinions are mine, not of any organization I'm affiliated with Posts autodelete after 2 weeks Header: Sunlight pouring through clouds above landscape of mountains and volcanic crater Profile: Man with black hair wearing black top, left dangling earring, and bracelets looking at camera.
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"The surge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in St. Cloud earlier this year created a climate of intense fear and anxiety in the Somali American community that lasted for months, and left some still feeling the effects on their mental health."
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/05/01/for-some-in-st-clouds-somali-community-stress-from-ice-surge-strained-mental-health
#PublicHealth #immigration #ICE #deportations #MentalHealth #minnesota
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@bich@apobangpo.space
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May 02, 2026
Bich Nguyen
@bich@apobangpo.space
Migrated from @bicmay@med-mastodon.com | She/her | FM physician interested in helping patients get all the health care they need and none they don't | Boosts ≠ endorsements | Opinions are mine, not of any organization I'm affiliated with Posts autodelete after 2 weeks Header: Sunlight pouring through clouds above landscape of mountains and volcanic crater Profile: Man with black hair wearing black top, left dangling earring, and bracelets looking at camera.
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"The Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement notched a win Thursday when the House voted to strip a pesticides provision from the farm bill.
The amendment was introduced by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican who has bolstered the concerns of MAHA activists in the House. It removed language from the bill that Democrats say would have shielded pesticide companies like Bayer from health-related lawsuits."
https://19thnews.org/2026/04/pesticides-farm-bill-maha-movement-democrats/
#PublicHealth #food #MAHA #toxins #FarmBill #USpol
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And here’s the part people miss: dose matters. The more virus you inhale, the higher your risk. Masks reduce that exposure, and when both people mask, protection compounds.
So no, it’s not that “masks don’t work.” It’s that not all masks, or how they’re used, work the same.
For more information, visit our “Yes, We Continue Wearing Masks” page: https://whn.global/yes-we-continue-wearing-masks/
#CleanAir #Masking #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention #COVIDisAirborne
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Lies and truths about ticks.
“I’m not sure what gets us through this,” he adds, with a note of exhaustion. “We’re at a time now—and RFK Jr. is a ringleader of this as a major conspiracy theorist—where people create their own truths, including scientific truths.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/lyme-disease-vaccine-conspiracy/
#ID #PublicHealth
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@bich@apobangpo.space
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May 01, 2026
Bich Nguyen
@bich@apobangpo.space
Migrated from @bicmay@med-mastodon.com | She/her | FM physician interested in helping patients get all the health care they need and none they don't | Boosts ≠ endorsements | Opinions are mine, not of any organization I'm affiliated with Posts autodelete after 2 weeks Header: Sunlight pouring through clouds above landscape of mountains and volcanic crater Profile: Man with black hair wearing black top, left dangling earring, and bracelets looking at camera.
apobangpo.space
"Days after a gunman charged security at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner in what investigators say was an attempt to kill President Donald Trump with legally-owned firearms, his Justice Department is further rolling back gun control measures."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/politics/justice-department-rolls-back-gun-control-laws-after-trump-assassination-attempt
#PublicHealth #GunViolence #guns #firearms #GunSense #DOJ #ATF
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@bich@apobangpo.space
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Apr 30, 2026
Bich Nguyen
@bich@apobangpo.space
Migrated from @bicmay@med-mastodon.com | She/her | FM physician interested in helping patients get all the health care they need and none they don't | Boosts ≠ endorsements | Opinions are mine, not of any organization I'm affiliated with Posts autodelete after 2 weeks Header: Sunlight pouring through clouds above landscape of mountains and volcanic crater Profile: Man with black hair wearing black top, left dangling earring, and bracelets looking at camera.
apobangpo.space
"President Donald Trump said Thursday he’s nominating radiologist and former Fox News Channel contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier for surgeon general after Dr. Casey Means’ path forward stalled in the Senate over questions about her experience and her stance on vaccines."
https://apnews.com/article/trump-surgeon-general-means-saphier-cebadfb452fb577b6cd5254e2e55d86b
#PublicHealth #SurgeonGeneral #MAHA #HepatitsB #covid #vaccines #immunizations #healthcare #ACA #obamacare #UScongress #USpol
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@simplicitarian@cloudisland.nz
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Apr 29, 2026
Ali Clarke 
@simplicitarian@cloudisland.nz
Historian, writer, living simply in retirement in Ōtepoti (Dunedin), Aotearoa New Zealand. Fan of books, gardening, walking, cycling, public transport, a livable climate, wildlife, social justice. Learner of Gàidhlig.
cloudisland.nz
Today I had flu and Covid vaccines, and I also accompanied Mum to the hospital eye clinic for the monthly injections that are helping preserve her sight (she has macular degeneration).
As always, I feel so grateful to the science and the health system that make these things possible. We get so much bad news about our health system, which is clearly underfunded and overworked, but some things just work.
#PublicHealth
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@bich@apobangpo.space
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Apr 27, 2026
Bich Nguyen
@bich@apobangpo.space
Migrated from @bicmay@med-mastodon.com | She/her | FM physician interested in helping patients get all the health care they need and none they don't | Boosts ≠ endorsements | Opinions are mine, not of any organization I'm affiliated with Posts autodelete after 2 weeks Header: Sunlight pouring through clouds above landscape of mountains and volcanic crater Profile: Man with black hair wearing black top, left dangling earring, and bracelets looking at camera.
apobangpo.space
"About a quarter of people worldwide say they believe that raw milk is healthier than pasteurized milk, that use of acetaminophen during pregnancy causes autism, and that vaccines are used for population control.
These are a few of the harmful health claims that were surveyed in the 5th annual Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report: Trust and Health."
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/new-global-health-misinformation-survey-reveals-deep-divides
#PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #misinformation #milk #acetaminophen #autism #pregnancy #vaccines #physicians
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Why forest conservation is also public health https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/why-forest-conservation-is-also-public-health/
#environment #forest #conservation #health #PublicHealth
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@bich@apobangpo.space
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Apr 25, 2026
Bich Nguyen
@bich@apobangpo.space
Migrated from @bicmay@med-mastodon.com | She/her | FM physician interested in helping patients get all the health care they need and none they don't | Boosts ≠ endorsements | Opinions are mine, not of any organization I'm affiliated with Posts autodelete after 2 weeks Header: Sunlight pouring through clouds above landscape of mountains and volcanic crater Profile: Man with black hair wearing black top, left dangling earring, and bracelets looking at camera.
apobangpo.space
ICYMI: "Parents must realize that refusing vaccinations doesn’t just put your own child at risk. It puts other children at risk. I don’t know where Renae picked up measles. It’s one of the most contagious viruses that exists, and it could have been from anywhere.
That’s why herd immunity is so important."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/opinion/measles-child-britain-vaccination.html
#PublicHealth #measles #vaccinations #immunizations #ChildrensHealth
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@bich@apobangpo.space
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Apr 25, 2026
Bich Nguyen
@bich@apobangpo.space
Migrated from @bicmay@med-mastodon.com | She/her | FM physician interested in helping patients get all the health care they need and none they don't | Boosts ≠ endorsements | Opinions are mine, not of any organization I'm affiliated with Posts autodelete after 2 weeks Header: Sunlight pouring through clouds above landscape of mountains and volcanic crater Profile: Man with black hair wearing black top, left dangling earring, and bracelets looking at camera.
apobangpo.space
"Casey Means’ nomination was already stalled in the Senate over concerns she’s insufficiently supportive of vaccines, and now Republican factions from anti-abortion activists to anti-drug warriors are starting to pile on."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/21/trump-surgeon-general-casey-means-abortion-psychedelics-00881954
#PublicHealth #SurgeonGeneral #MAHA #HHS #UScongress #USpol
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@adachika192@hcommons.social
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Apr 24, 2026
AK
@adachika192@hcommons.social
An independent historian focusing on Medieval #Iberia; al-Andalus; #Mozarabe... At the moment researching on Roman/Latin/Christian past reflected in al-Andalus. #Orosius #IsidorusHispalensis #alAndalus #Wikipedian 中世イベリア半島史・アンダルス・モサラベ。博士（学術）。所属なし。
hcommons.social
Healthocide? Why the attack on the Pasteur Institute of Iran is more than a war crime: War is no longer only just about killing or territory. It is increasingly about the long-term viability of societies. (The New Humanitarian, 2026-04-21)
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026/04/21/healthocide-why-attack-pasteur-institute-iran-more-war-crime
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>> On 2 April, the United States and Israel bombed the 106-year-old Pasteur Institute, targeting one of Iran’s oldest and most critical public health institutions. .. the institute has long been central to vaccine production, infectious disease surveillance, and epidemiological research in the Middle East and beyond.
>> ... It was much larger than any single incident. It was a brazen attack on the infrastructure that sustains Iran’s public health. And it reflects a broader pattern in modern warfare, where the target is no longer just people, but the systems that keep them alive.
>> Disease has long been weaponised in war…
#USPol #Iran #Gaza #WarCrimes #PasteurInstitute #PublicHealth
@palestine@fedibird.com
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@ProPublica@newsie.social
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Apr 24, 2026
ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social
The official Mastodon page for ProPublica. Pursuing stories with moral force.
newsie.social
Critics claim large solar farms are a public health threat.
Despite little reputable evidence for this, their fears have helped undercut efforts across the U.S. to broaden energy sources, slowing installations even as customer costs are rising.
https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-solar-farms-health-concerns-st-clair-county?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Solar #Energy #Health #Michigan #Local #Law #PublicHealth
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