“In the middle of worsening nationwide outbreaks of bird flu and measles, not to mention a fentanyl epidemic, Trump is wrecking vital health agencies with the precision of a bull in a china shop,” said Senator Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat who has been a leader on health issues in Congress.
She called Mr. Kennedy’s comments about doing more with less an “absurd suggestion” that “defies common sense.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/health-department-job-layoffs-rfk-jr.html #Trump #RFKjr #healthcare #healthcrisis #DOGE #Project2025

Malaria confirmed as cause of deadly outbreak in DRC http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJlSnp #Malaria #HealthCrisis #DRC #Outbreak #PublicHealth

https://mountaintui.substack.com/p/nz-government-an-atlas-network-puppet Depressing #nzpol #healthcrisis news

Africa: Covid-19 - We're No Better Prepared for a Pandemic Today Than We Were in 2020: [The Conversation Africa] On March 11 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. According to official data there have been more than 770 million cases of COVID, which have caused over 7 million deaths in 231 countries - almost 2.2 million of them in Europe. Other reports estimate that the number of… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJdZwV #COVID19 #Pandemic #HealthCrisis #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth

Africa: WHO Warns of Worsening Health Crises Amid Funding Cuts: [Premium Times] According to Ms Balkhy, the organisation is responding to 16 graded emergencies, including seven complex humanitarian crises and over 50 disease outbreaks http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJcglX #Africa #HealthCrisis #WHO #PublicHealth #DiseaseOutbreaks

Africa: Cholera and Mpox Cases Increasing Dangerously in DRC As Aid Cuts Push Health Systems to Near-Collapse: [Oxfam] Preventable diseases are sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Cholera cases increased by 326, Mpox by 269, and measles by 95 people in North Kivu alone, during the last week of February, according to Oxfam's partners on the ground. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJcb0B #Africa #Cholera #Mpox #HealthCrisis #DRC

FREE TO HARM THEE
Industry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protections

https://www.propublica.org/article/legislation-targets-epa-science-toxic-chemicals

Two bills in Congress would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using hundreds of chemical assessments completed by its IRIS program in environmental regulations or enforcement.

Africa: After Covid-19, Is the World Ready for the Next Pandemic?: [WHO] One question I am frequently asked since the COVID-19 pandemic is, "Are we more ready for the next pandemic than we were for the last one?" http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJT4XJ #PandemicPreparedness #COVID19 #HealthCrisis #GlobalHealth #WHO

Africa: 5 Years Since Covid Was Declared a Pandemic, We're Still Poorly Prepared for the Next One: [The Conversation Africa] On March 11, 2020, as COVID continued to spread rapidly around the globe, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared a pandemic. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJRwjp #COVID19 #PandemicPreparedness #HealthCrisis #Africa #WHO

Marking five years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJRR8d #COVID19 #PandemicAnniversary #HealthCrisis #GlobalImpact #PublicHealth

Africa: DR Congo Fighting Forces Hundreds of Mpox Patients to Leave Treatment Centres: [allAfrica] Monrovia -- More than 600 people infected with mpox left treatment centers in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to fighting in the eastern part of the country, the African Centers for Disease Control said during an online briefing on the status of the disease on March 6. The continental health body said, although… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJR5pY #DRCongo #Mpox #HealthCrisis #PublicHealth #DiseaseControl

Mpox outbreak hits Kabare amid ongoing conflict in DRC http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJPRxh #Mpox #Kabare #DRC #SouthKivu #HealthCrisis

https://craigrenney.substack.com/p/not-in-rude-health-just-rude?publication_id=1199069&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&r=f8a6 #nzpol #healthcrisis

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2503/S00032/need-not-race-approach-to-bowel-cancer-screening-will-save-lives.htm

This is a huge load of horseshit from the 8% party just total horseshit that the nats lapped up. a pox on all their houses

#worstgovtever