Everyday Epidemiologist
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Epidemiologist, Science Communicator, Geneticist
It is confirmed, Washington state has the first human avian influenza case in the US since February. It is the first known human case of the H5N5 strain, all previous cases have been H5N1. Encourage your governments to support public health to prevent more cases. www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
First ever human case of H5N5 avian flu confirmed in Washington state
Previous human detections in the US have involved the H5N1 strain.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It is confirmed, Washington state has the first human avian influenza case in the US since February. It is the first known human case of the H5N5 strain, all previous cases have been H5N1. Encourage your governments to support public health to prevent more cases. www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
Ethiopia has confirmed an outbreak of Marburg for the first time. Marburg is a disease similar to Ebola that kills about 50% of the cases. At least 9 cases have been identified so far. Ethiopian authorities have responded quickly to contain the outbreak. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Ethiopia confirms outbreak of deadly Marburg virus
Africa CDC says at least nine cases have been detected of Ebola-like illness, which kills up to 80% of those infected
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Ethiopia has confirmed an outbreak of Marburg for the first time. Marburg is a disease similar to Ebola that kills about 50% of the cases. At least 9 cases have been identified so far. Ethiopian authorities have responded quickly to contain the outbreak. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
In the past month, there have been 66 poultry flocks in the US hit by bird flu causing the death of 3.5 million birds. This may lead to higher food costs and more human cases. The US government has scaled back the FDA and CDC hurting their ability to respond effectively. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Bird flu surges among poultry amid a scaled back federal response
Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response.
www.npr.org
November 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
In the past month, there have been 66 poultry flocks in the US hit by bird flu causing the death of 3.5 million birds. This may lead to higher food costs and more human cases. The US government has scaled back the FDA and CDC hurting their ability to respond effectively. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Egypt has eliminated trachoma! This is a horrible bacterial infection that can lead to blindness if not treated. Egypt is the 7th country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to do this bringing the world total to 27. Only 30 countries to go! www.who.int/news/item/12...
Egypt becomes the seventh country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem
The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that Egypt has successfully eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, marking a historic public health milestone for the country and WHO’s Eas...
www.who.int
November 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Egypt has eliminated trachoma! This is a horrible bacterial infection that can lead to blindness if not treated. Egypt is the 7th country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to do this bringing the world total to 27. Only 30 countries to go! www.who.int/news/item/12...
In 1981 the WHO and CDC decided to try to eradicate Guinea worm disease. In 1986, The Carter Center joined the fight. Since then, the number of cases has dropped 99.99%. Come by my YouTube channel Sunday, Nov 16 at 10 am PST to learn all about it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0brr...
Dracunculiasis: Taming The Dragon Worm
YouTube video by The Everyday Epidemiologist
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
In 1981 the WHO and CDC decided to try to eradicate Guinea worm disease. In 1986, The Carter Center joined the fight. Since then, the number of cases has dropped 99.99%. Come by my YouTube channel Sunday, Nov 16 at 10 am PST to learn all about it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0brr...
An infant botulism outbreak in the US has been linked to ByHeart Whole Nutrition infant formula. See the link below for symptoms to look out for as well as the products affected. This is critically important as this can cause life threatening illness. www.fda.gov/food/outbrea....
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An infant botulism outbreak in the US has been linked to ByHeart Whole Nutrition infant formula. See the link below for symptoms to look out for as well as the products affected. This is critically important as this can cause life threatening illness. www.fda.gov/food/outbrea....
In 1986 there were an estimated 3.5 million cases of dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease). In 2024 that was down to 15. Stop by my YouTube stream Sunday, Nov. 16th at 10:00 am PST to find out all about this disease and the efforts to eradicate it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0brr...
Dracunculiasis: Taming The Dragon Worm
YouTube video by The Everyday Epidemiologist
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In 1986 there were an estimated 3.5 million cases of dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease). In 2024 that was down to 15. Stop by my YouTube stream Sunday, Nov. 16th at 10:00 am PST to find out all about this disease and the efforts to eradicate it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0brr...
The climate crisis is a health crisis. As part of one health, environmental health, animal health, and human health are all interconnected. At COP30, the Belém Health Action Plan has been adopted to address health inequities that are impacted by climate change. Let's go! news.un.org/en/story/202...
Protecting lives in a warming world: Health takes centre stage at COP30
Hailed by Brazil as “a crucial moment to demonstrate the strength of the health sector in global climate action,” a blueprint for global health systems to adapt to rising temperatures and extreme weat...
news.un.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The climate crisis is a health crisis. As part of one health, environmental health, animal health, and human health are all interconnected. At COP30, the Belém Health Action Plan has been adopted to address health inequities that are impacted by climate change. Let's go! news.un.org/en/story/202...
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THIS WEEK'S WHOPPER:
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. SAYS HE GETS FAN-MAIL FROM DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS, THE LETTERS SENT TO CONGRESS ACTUALLY ASK FOR HIS RESIGNATION
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. SAYS HE GETS FAN-MAIL FROM DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS, THE LETTERS SENT TO CONGRESS ACTUALLY ASK FOR HIS RESIGNATION
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: RFK, Jr. says he gets fan mail from scientists and doctors, the letters sent to Congress actually ask for his resignation | Defend Public Health
Physicians and scientists across the country warned Congress that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was unfit to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, who has no medical or scientific training...
www.defendpublichealth.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
THIS WEEK'S WHOPPER:
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. SAYS HE GETS FAN-MAIL FROM DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS, THE LETTERS SENT TO CONGRESS ACTUALLY ASK FOR HIS RESIGNATION
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. SAYS HE GETS FAN-MAIL FROM DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS, THE LETTERS SENT TO CONGRESS ACTUALLY ASK FOR HIS RESIGNATION
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Malaria causes over 600,000 deaths per year. But now, the first new class of drug in over 25 years may give hope for increased treatment and decreased drug resistance. It shows a 97.4% cure rate and clears artemisinin resistant malaria faster than standard treatment! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
First new type of malaria treatment in decades shows promise against drug resistance
If approved, GanLum could be available within a year and a half, according to maker.
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Malaria causes over 600,000 deaths per year. But now, the first new class of drug in over 25 years may give hope for increased treatment and decreased drug resistance. It shows a 97.4% cure rate and clears artemisinin resistant malaria faster than standard treatment! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Israel is blocking shipments of syringes and solar powered refrigerators from Gaza. This is limiting vaccination efforts against polio, measles and pneumonia. As if starvation and bullets isn't enough, now they are stopping disease preventing. This is unacceptable! www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Israel is blocking shipments of syringes and solar powered refrigerators from Gaza. This is limiting vaccination efforts against polio, measles and pneumonia. As if starvation and bullets isn't enough, now they are stopping disease preventing. This is unacceptable! www.reuters.com/business/hea...
With an ongoing outbreak lasting longer than 12 months and over 5,000 cases, Canada has officially lost its measles-free status. If the US doesn't end their outbreak by January, they will follow. This is a preventable disease. Vaccinate your kids!!!! www.bbc.com/news/article...
Canada loses measles elimination status, with US on track to follow
The country hasn't been able to curb an outbreak of more than 5,000 cases over the last year, while US cases are at a 33-year high.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 AM
With an ongoing outbreak lasting longer than 12 months and over 5,000 cases, Canada has officially lost its measles-free status. If the US doesn't end their outbreak by January, they will follow. This is a preventable disease. Vaccinate your kids!!!! www.bbc.com/news/article...
A new study suggests that are wrong about where the Black Death plague of the mid 1300s originated because we misunderstood a poem. This study suggests it began in Central Asia as opposed to East Asia and traveled along the Silk Road. phys.org/news/2025-11...
How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread
Myths about how the Black Death traveled quickly across Asia, ravaging Silk Route communities, date back to a single fourteenth-century source, experts have found.
phys.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:31 AM
A new study suggests that are wrong about where the Black Death plague of the mid 1300s originated because we misunderstood a poem. This study suggests it began in Central Asia as opposed to East Asia and traveled along the Silk Road. phys.org/news/2025-11...
Dr. Oz, the head of the US Medicare and Medicaid Services, said that with Ozempic and Zepbound, Americans will lose 135 billion pounds in a year. That is 400 pounds per person in the US. How can we follow scientific advice of people that can't figure out simple math? www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Dr. Oz made a stunning estimate after Trump’s obesity drug deals: ’135 billion’ pounds?!
Dr. Oz's wildly optimistic weight loss projections raise eyebrows.
www.yahoo.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Dr. Oz, the head of the US Medicare and Medicaid Services, said that with Ozempic and Zepbound, Americans will lose 135 billion pounds in a year. That is 400 pounds per person in the US. How can we follow scientific advice of people that can't figure out simple math? www.yahoo.com/news/article...
1/ "I think public health is under attack by our own federal government more than anything else," says the head of the APHA, Dr. Georges Benjamin. He is right. We need to fight to protect ourselves and our ability to do good work that is supported by science and evidence. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Public health defends its time-tested approach against the rise of MAHA
Public health leaders convene in Washington, D.C. this week to defend their vision for America's health, and look ahead for how to rebuild after the Trump administration's attacks on the system.
www.npr.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1/ "I think public health is under attack by our own federal government more than anything else," says the head of the APHA, Dr. Georges Benjamin. He is right. We need to fight to protect ourselves and our ability to do good work that is supported by science and evidence. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
There is a recall for Nate's Fine Foods, Inc. pre-cooked pasta due to it being linked to a listeria outbreak. Check this link vs anything you may have. Throw out anything you have on the list. If you have symptoms of listeria (also in that link), see your doctor.
www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...
www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...
Outbreak Investigation of Listeria monocytogenes: Prepared Pasta Meals
Do not eat or serve certain pasta salads or meals containing pre-cooked pasta.
FDA’s investigation is ongoing.
www.fda.gov
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
There is a recall for Nate's Fine Foods, Inc. pre-cooked pasta due to it being linked to a listeria outbreak. Check this link vs anything you may have. Throw out anything you have on the list. If you have symptoms of listeria (also in that link), see your doctor.
www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...
www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...
With the start of the 2025 American Public Health Association meeting, thousands of amazing people gather to try to find ways to make the public's health a priority. They will, among other things, work to figure out how to fight back against the MAHA movement. Good luck! www.npr.org/2025/10/31/n...
Public health leaders are meeting to figure out how to counter the MAHA movement
Public health leaders and researchers are kicking off a meeting in Washington, D.C., to discuss how to counter what they see as dangerous ideas coming from the Make America Healthy Again movement.
www.npr.org
November 3, 2025 at 5:04 AM
With the start of the 2025 American Public Health Association meeting, thousands of amazing people gather to try to find ways to make the public's health a priority. They will, among other things, work to figure out how to fight back against the MAHA movement. Good luck! www.npr.org/2025/10/31/n...
Hello! In one hour at 10:00 am PST I will be hosing my first epidemiology live stream on YouTube. I'll be talking about smallpox and how it was eradicated! See you there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS2T...
Smallpox: Dead, But Not Forgotten
YouTube video by The Everyday Epidemiologist
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hello! In one hour at 10:00 am PST I will be hosing my first epidemiology live stream on YouTube. I'll be talking about smallpox and how it was eradicated! See you there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS2T...
42 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits to have food to eat. The government shutdown has stopped those benefits from going out. Access to food is a necessity. We can not allow this to continue. Contact your senator and representative and tell them to shape up! abcnews.go.com/Politics/sna...
SNAP benefits run dry as government shutdown continues, here's how states are stepping in
On Saturday, some 42 million low-income Americans, including 16 million children, lost access to benefits through the SNAP program as the government shutdown continues.
abcnews.go.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
42 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits to have food to eat. The government shutdown has stopped those benefits from going out. Access to food is a necessity. We can not allow this to continue. Contact your senator and representative and tell them to shape up! abcnews.go.com/Politics/sna...
Do you or someone you know have a scar from a smallpox vaccine? Have you ever wondered how smallpox was ended as a human disease? Find out all about smallpox and the eradication campaign in my live stream on YouTube Sunday Nov. 2 at 10:00 am PST. See you there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS2T...
Smallpox: Dead, But Not Forgotten
YouTube video by The Everyday Epidemiologist
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Do you or someone you know have a scar from a smallpox vaccine? Have you ever wondered how smallpox was ended as a human disease? Find out all about smallpox and the eradication campaign in my live stream on YouTube Sunday Nov. 2 at 10:00 am PST. See you there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS2T...