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💰 WHO’s new “3 by 35” push urges countries to raise real prices of tobacco, alcohol and sugary drinks by 50% by 2035—cutting NCD risk while generating domestic revenue for UHC and preparedness. #HealthTaxes #GlobalHealth #FiscalPolicy
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🧬 Confirmed measles cases linked to the March for Life rally in DC have triggered a multi‑state contact‑tracing effort, after infectious attendees passed through crowded transit h...
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🟠 In Q1 2026, WHO logged 13 human infections with avian & swine flu across 4 continents, including 4 H5N1 cases and 1 H5N1 death in a child in Bangladesh. Overall risk is still “l...
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🦠🌡 In the Western Pacific, climate change is helping superbugs spread. WHO projects 5.2 million AMR‑linked deaths and US$148B in costs between 2020–2030, as heat and extreme weat...
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🧫 WHO now estimates 1 in 6 common bacterial infections worldwide is resistant to standard antibiotics, with resistance rising ~5–15% per year for many bug–drug pairs. Without stew...
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💻 A 2026 ransomware attack on Belgium’s AZ Monica hospital shut down all systems, cancelled 70+ surgeries and forced emergency transfers of critical patients. The AHA warns health...
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🧬 Microplastics aren’t just in oceans—they’re in us. Recent studies find them in human blood, artery plaque and even brain tissue, and people with plastics in carotid plaque had higher risks of heart attack, stroke or death.
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🌫 WHO is sounding the alarm over the health fallout from recent airstrikes on Iran’s oil depots. Burning fuel tanks are sending toxic plumes and “black rain” over nearby communities, contaminating air, soil and water.
🟠 Madagascar is facing its first mpox outbreak: hundreds of cases across most regions, driven by the newer Clade Ib strain in a setting with thin surveillance and limited labs. That’s the latest from State of Health News. #Mpox #Madagascar #GlobalHealth
🦠🌡 In the Western Pacific, climate change is helping superbugs spread. WHO projects 5.2 million AMR‑linked deaths and US$148B in costs between 2020–2030, as heat and extreme weather drive infections and antibiotic misuse. Climate policy is antibiotic policy.
🟥 Famine was confirmed in Gaza in 2025: 500,000+ people in IPC Phase 5 “catastrophe” and at least 54,600 children acutely malnourished, as health services, water and sanitation collapse under bombardment. That’s the latest from State of Health News. #Gaza #Famine #GlobalHealth
🧪 PFAS “forever chemicals” are found in ~99% of Canadians’ blood and are linked to thyroid disease, cancers, immune disruption and other harms. EPA, Canada and the EU are now tightening PFAS rules—but these chemicals are already everywhere.
🧠 Overcrowded tents, sewage, malnutrition and a shattered health system are fuelling rising meningitis cases among children in Gaza, with fatal bacterial infections reported as hospitals run out of beds, labs and antibiotics.
📱 Heavy daily smartphone use in teens is increasingly linked to anxiety, depression and behaviour problems—mainly via less physical activity and disrupted sleep—while more countries roll out school phone bans and lawsuits target social‑media harms.
⚠️ Scholars say Project 2025 is more than a wish list: it’s a blueprint to centralize power, weaken CDC/NIH, and rein in independent science changes that erode surveillance, vaccine R&D and pandemic preparedness far beyond US borders. #Project2025 #PublicHealth #ScienceIntegrity
Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social Four Republicans flip and for the first time, Senate votes to move War Powers resolution to stop Trump’s war forward. The four Republicans are Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, and Bill Cassidy.
This data center only employs only about 40 people. It uses local resources and drives down nearby home values with constant noise, without boosting jobs or contributing in taxes. They are toxic and should be heavily regulated-forcing them to use renewable energy and other cooling methods-not water.
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Not to sound like a golden protocol droid here, but.... begging your pardon, sir, I do believe it is pronounced “the Force.”
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The demented fuckhead is posting AI shit about Greenland again. I just can’t mince words where that weird slimy orange asshole is concerned anymore.
Trump on a deal with Iran: “So if it doesn’t happen, I’m blaming JD Vance. If it does happen I’m taking full credit.”
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Adam Bell says public vs private ownership of gas is a practical question, not ideology. It depends on asset value, cash, and remaining lifespan. #EnergyPolicy #Gas #NetZero #UKEnergy
Still celebrating Journalist April Ryan's 29th Anniversary as the longest running Black White House Correspondent! Congratulations! #AprilRyan #Blackwomenlead
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They clutched pearls over Dijon mustard. Over Billy Beer. Over Hunter repaying a truck loan. But Trump’s family is looting the Treasury in real time and Republicans are silent. Their selective outrage was never about ethics. It was always about power.
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German Ambassador blows up Pierre Poilievre's Geography-101 take on the feasibility of Canada-Germany LNG deal
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ANÁLISIS | José Antonio Martín Pallín, magistrado emérito del Tribunal Supremo 🗣️"Hay un hecho cierto, que en un momento determinado un grupo en el que participa Leire creen que chantajeando a jueces iban a conseguir algo, esto es de tamaña idiotez" rtve.es/rneaudio
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