"When asked by LaPook if he personally approved the more than $11 billion proposed in cuts to local and state programs that address infectious disease, mental health, addiction and childhood vaccination, Kennedy said, 'No I'm not familiar with those cuts. We'd have to go … the cuts were mainly DEI cuts, which the president ordered.'"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-sweeping-cuts-health-programs-employees-exclusive-interview/

As measles spreads, federal budget cuts force closure of vaccine clinics - RFK’s gonna kill us all. #PublicHealth #Measles #RepublicansDidThis https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5357471/measles-outbreak-hhs-federal-budget-cuts-vaccine-clinics

Coal is in the headlines! It's a great moment to educate yourself and your learning community about the impacts of coal mining on our health, the economy, and the environment. National Geographic documentary film From The Ashes presents the voices of the people most concerned with the coal industry: environmentalists, climate scientists, politicians, economists, and especially the coal miners and other residents of decaying coal towns. 1/2

Mesa County Public Health hosts ‘Public Health Hero Awards’ https://www.byteseu.com/908462/ #AwardsCeremony #celebration #clifton #Colorado #GrandJucntion #Health #MesaCounty #PublicHealth #WesternSlope

Im neuen Videoformat „kurz & knapp“ fassen wir aktuelle Themen rund um #PublicHealth zusammen.

Diese Woche mit:
Diabetes & Mundgesundheit
Impfprävention in Deutschland
Neue Online-Befragung für Ärztinnen und Ärzte

Alle Folgen in der YouTube-Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCh-G-AnLKeMyixYk4E159ah6Q2VtO1yj

Illinois Department of Public Health: IDPH Rolls Out New Measles Simulator Dashboard to Empower School Officials to Protect Students and Staff from Outbreaks. “…the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has unveiled a new data dashboard to help school officials and members of the public assess the potential severity of any outbreaks of measles, should one occur in Illinois. The new […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/10/illinois-department-of-public-health-idph-rolls-out-new-measles-simulator-dashboard-to-empower-school-officials-to-protect-students-and-staff-from-outbreaks/

#Illinois #measles #vaccinations #PublicHealth

"The new Measles Outbreak Simulator Dashboard makes it easy for the public to find out the measles vaccination rate in any school in Illinois, public or private, and to determine the risk of a child being exposed to measles if a case is introduced in their school."

https://dph.illinois.gov/resource-center/news/2025/april/release-202504090.html

RFK Jr. said that no one knows how the measles vaccine (MMR) will affect people—

BECAUSE HE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT MEDICINE OR PUBLIC HEALTH.

“We are doing that science today so we know the risks of that product and we also know what the benefits are. And right now, we don’t know the risks of many of these products because they’re not safety tested.”
— RFK Jr., US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary

(CBS NEWS interview on CNN)

Health effects of long-term exposure to PFAs: a closer look. https://www.the-scientist.com/pfas-exposure-and-health-effects-72472 #pfas #publichealth

The stock markets may be suffering, but measles is doing better than ever! Texas measles outbreak tops 500 cases across 10 counties. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/texas-measles-outbreak-tops-500-cases-across-10-counties #publichealth #Epidemiology #measles #vaccination

Public health and sociopolitical aspects of water fluoridation. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/a-look-at-the-benefits-and-potential-problems-of-water-fluoridation-as-its-under-attack #publichealth #fluoridation #dentalhealth

Two new blogs:
1. "#Disasters that never happened: 6 preventive actions" https://www.preventionweb.net/drr-community-voices/disasters-never-happened-6-preventive-actions
2. "Mental Health #FirstAid for #Bangladesh"
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disaster-by-choice/202504/mental-health-first-aid-in-bangladesh-10-years-of-progress
 
#DisastersAvoided #DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (so we avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #Health #MentalHealth #MHFA #MentalHealthAwareness #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #vulnerability #resilience

The power of vaccines in 5 charts. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00862-1 154 million lives saved from death by measles, tetanus, pertussis, TB, influenza B, streptococcus pneumonia, and polio over the last 50 years. #publichealth #diseasecontrol #Mortality #vaccination #vaccines

Locating the reservoir of Mpox in the wild: Mpox reservoirs seem to be … squirrels! https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00990-8 #mpox #health #Publichealth #zoonoses

"US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly urged people to get the measles vaccine in an interview with CBS News on Tuesday.

'We encourage people to get the measles vaccine,' Kennedy told the network’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Jon LaPook."

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/08/health/measles-outbreak-urban-areas/index.html

Smoke from US wildfires, prescribed burns caused premature deaths, billions in health damages https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250408121337.htm

The measles vaccine is safe, effective, and lifesaving.
RFK Jr. is none of those things.
#VaccinesWork #Measles #PublicHealth