{"id":889114,"date":"2026-10-20T18:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/889114\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T18:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:24:11","slug":"opinion-chronic-and-infectious-diseases-are-not-separate-health-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/889114\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Chronic and infectious diseases are not separate health priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CBVJCEVIYZGCDLNVTX23RKV6NY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/CHRG-119shrg59490\/html\/CHRG-119shrg59490.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/CHRG-119shrg59490\/html\/CHRG-119shrg59490.htm\">central argument<\/a> of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s Make America Healthy Again movement is that public health has devoted too much attention to infectious diseases while neglecting chronic conditions such as cancer. A new study reveals a crucial flaw in that logic: An estimated 2.3 million new cancer cases worldwide \u2014 about 1 out of every 8 \u2014 are caused by infections, many of which are preventable through vaccination or early detection and treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A central argument of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s Make America Healthy Again movement is that public health has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-889114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}