#wired.com. #Feb.27.2025 × The US May Start Vaccinating Chickens Against Bird Flu. With egg prices soaring, the US is considering vaccinating laying chickens, which have been hit particularly hard by the avian influenza outbreak.
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#wired.com. #Feb.27.2025 × USAID Was Promised Emergency Waivers for Ebola and AIDS. They’re Not Working. Elon Musk claims he mistakenly fired Ebola prevention workers, then quickly fixed the error. But Ebola programs are still in tatters, along with other livesaving efforts like AIDS treatments for childr
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#theguardian.com. #Feb.26.2025 × UK ‘falling short’ in fight against rise of superbugs resistant to antibiotics. Antimicrobial resistance contributing to estimated 35,000 deaths a year in UK, and government ‘a long way’ from containing the problem, says NAO
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#wired.com. #Feb.25.2025 × Costa Rica Is Saving Forest Ecosystems by Listening to Them. Monitoring the noises within ecosystems reveals their health—allowing researchers to monitor changes in biodiversity, detect threats, and measure the effectiveness of conservation strategies.
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#wired.com. #Feb.24.2025 × DOGE Is Inside the National Institutes of Health’s Finance System. At least three people linked to Elon Musk’s DOGE task force have access to NIH systems that control budgets, procurement, and more, according to records and internal documents viewed by WIRED.
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#wired.com. #Feb.24.2025 × Nearly 100 Measles Cases Have Been Reported in Texas. Over the past month, the virus has spread in areas with low vaccination rates, and most of those affected are minors.
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#theguardian.com. #Feb.22.2025 × Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding. Experts say current US outbreak is unlikely to end without intervention with further mutation of virus likely
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#theguardian.com. #Feb.22.2025 × Are noise-cancelling headphones impairing our hearing? Some audiologists are beginning to worry. Some specialists suspect that constantly filtering out background noise may have unintended consequences
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#wired.com. #Feb.21.2025 × The Ozempic Shortage Is Over. The semaglutide shortage has officially ended in the US—which means the GLP-1 drug industry is about to undergo massive changes.
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#theguardian.com. #Feb.21.2025 × Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’. US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety
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#bbc.com. #Feb.21.2025 × 'Oldest horse' thrives on linseed cake and light exercise. Roana has recently celebrated her 46th birthday and is believed to be the oldest horse in the UK
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#bbc.com. #Feb.12.2025 × Avian flu outbreaks see 1.8 million farmed birds culled. There have been 33 outbreaks so far on farms, but the risk to humans remains low, the government says.
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#wired.com. #Feb.10.2025 × NIH Funding Cuts Appear to Draw on Heritage Foundation Report That Blasts ‘DEI Staff’. In its notice outlining the large cut in university funding, the US National Institutes of Health seems to draw on a report from a conservative think tank that denounces the “political left.”
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#huffingtonpost.co.uk. #Feb.08.2025 × Trump Administration Orders 'Catastrophic' Funding Cuts For Science Research. Scientists and medical experts said the move to effectively slash NIH grants will interrupt research across the country.
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#wired.com. #Feb.05.2025 × This Weird, Fleshy Novel Is Exactly What You Need Right Now. ‘Dengue Boy,’ a book about a humanoid mosquito taking his revenge in the dying years of planet Earth, is unsettling and essential.
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#theguardian.com. #Feb.05.2025 × Flies in hospital wards may be spreading drug-resistant bacteria to patients. Scientists in Nigeria found the insects carry infections resistant to last-resort antibiotics, adding to fears about superbugs
#Health × #Science × #Nigeria #Africa
#huffingtonpost.co.uk. #Feb.04.2025 × New Study Finds Big Increase In Microplastics Found In Human Brains. Most of the plastics found in brain tissue were tiny nanoplastics far narrower than a human hair.
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#theguardian.com. #Feb.04.2025 × UK online pharmacies face stricter rules for sales of weight-loss jabs. Regulators to tighten up criteria after concerns over inappropriate private prescriptions of popular drugs
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#wired.com. #Feb.01.2025 × The Damage to Federal Medical Research Is Already Done. Clinical trials may have to be scrapped, research applications will be pushed back, and unpaid researchers will quickly leave the sector—even if the Trump administration’s funding pause is only tempora
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