People diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis (MS) often worry about their symptoms intensifying or returning after receiving a live attenuated vaccine, which can cause vaccine hesitancy. 

But a recent study published in JAMA Network Open found that MS patients can receive live attenuated measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) and chickenpox (varicella) vaccines without an increased chance of symptom relapse. 

Vaccines and antibodies forge ahead despite certain idiocies. Including a new ACIP charter that de-emphasizes vaccines?!

Ebola cases were near 900 on the 18th. They topped 1000 on the 22nd. Deaths are over 300 on the 26th.

Pandemic disease, dengue, and cholera created the most disease burden on the world from 2000 to 2022.

Some of the good news about Covid vaccines that RFKJr doesn’t want you to hear. They cut serious outcomes significantly.

Plague has been with the human race far longer than we knew.

And H5N1 isn’t going away in dairy cattle.

It has even reached Australia now. And H9 flus are causing cases too.

The predictable result of Pete Hegseth playing culture warrior with flu shot requirements, is that a bunch of unvaccinated soldiers came down with the flu. Which rapidly got out of control, and now the Army, Navy, and Air Force have been granted exceptions to the new policy and are requiring the shots again. How about that.

Also the soft cheese Listeria outbreak is still growing. (previous link)

Resting warm water is a risk for Legionella, as shown by an infant case.

We are up to 19 detected cases of screwworm in the US. And that is just domestic animals we have our eyes on. You can bet wild ones are suffering too. But hey, the hantavirus scare is finally over.

oops, make that 25 screwworm cases.

Measles cases have topped 2100, so we are on track to surpass last year’s total and we are only halfway through this year. There are obvious reasons why we can’t contain outbreaks anymore.

We’ll get straight to the point: The financial hardships that Daily Kos is facing this year are tough.

We continue to be paywall-free. We continue to be supported by our readers, not billionaires or corporations. But we need to bring in more revenue. We are leaning on our community more than ever to help make ends meet.

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