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When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Good afternoon, and a very warm welcome to our friends from ACANU to our final media briefing for 2024. This year has been another challenging one for our world, and for the health of its people. But there has also been much good news, and that’s where I would like to begin. This year, 9 countries were certified for the elimination of diseases: Cabo Verde and Egypt became malaria-free; Brazil and Timor Leste
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Food recalls fell sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic but are on an uptick now. Here’s how the government is tracing outbreaks — and some tips on handling food safely to minimize the risk of illness.
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Food recalls increased in 2024. "Typically...fresh produce accounts for roughly half of all the number of outbreaks that we have in the U.S." https://t.co/0j2FBQX57G
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Mashup Score: 9Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination - 3 month(s) ago
Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.
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“The letter, obtained by The New York Times, marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice” https://t.co/BCsZUumQUZ
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Mashup Score: 22
Food recalls fell sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic but are on an uptick now. Here’s how the government is tracing outbreaks — and some tips on handling food safely to minimize the risk of illness.
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Food recalls increased in 2024. "Typically...fresh produce accounts for roughly half of all the number of outbreaks that we have in the U.S." https://t.co/0j2FBQX57G
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Mashup Score: 22
The new rules call for testing unpasteurized milk from dairies across the country and for farm owners to provide details that would help officials identify and track cases more easily.
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This is a long overdue development. Bulk milk testing is the primary way we are finding H5N1 outbreaks on farms and, by extension, able to offer antivirals to exposed or infected farmworkers. I am glad to see this extended to more than a handful of states. https://t.co/rVBFDFe2CT
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Mark McAfee, whose products have been repeatedly contaminated with bird flu, asked by RJK Jr to apply for job
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2/ Source of above quote: https://t.co/Z1unCwuAli
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Mashup Score: 4How Kennedy Has Worked Abroad to Weaken Global Public Health Policy - 3 month(s) ago
The health secretary pick and his organization have worked around the world to undermine longstanding policies on measles, AIDS and more.
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Mashup Score: 4‘Wildly disruptive’: What happened last time Trump moved a federal agency out of DC | CNN Politics - 4 month(s) ago
As part of his campaign to reclaim the White House, Donald Trump made clear that in a second term in office, he’d move tens of thousands of federal jobs outside the “Washington swamp” and into “places filled with patriots who love America.”
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“The BLM move became an unproductive debacle marked by an exodus of experienced employees and a surge in vacancies that arguably undermined the then-Trump administration’s agenda” https://t.co/YTz2TehBa3
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What he did during a measles epidemic in Samoa shouldn’t be forgotten.
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RFK Jr "holds dangerous beliefs about vaccines. The consequences of his views — and those of his orbit — are not merely absurd but tragic" https://t.co/T6wyKd2t7A
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Mashup Score: 61What to know about federal employees working from home as DOGE looks to end remote work | CNN Politics - 4 month(s) ago
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are determined to force federal employees to return to the office in hopes that some will opt to quit instead. That effort is going to affect some agencies – and workers – much more than others.
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“the federal government has the same number of employees as it did 50 years ago, when it had far fewer programs and duties. ‘I don’t think you can just eliminate a quarter or half of federal employees on an ad hoc basis without paralyzing the government’” https://t.co/0N37MLVH3h
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Update: 10/12 samples from outbreak in DRC tested positive for malaria. WHO rightly acknowledges that there may be multiple causes. https://t.co/qvUSdKsQc7 https://t.co/HpZ6zNGKwc