Raw Milk, Screwworms, and the Collapse of Disease Monitoring
June 10, 2026
Screwworm monitoring programs slashed by DOGE are allowing pests to breach U.S. borders, while measles outbreaks surge as Trump and RFK Jr. rewrite vaccine schedules and raw milk distributors profit from deregulated supply chains that bypass safety oversight. These material failures converge with the hunt for AI-designed vaccines and new Ebola countermeasures, revealing a split where advanced biotech tools race to contain crises that political defunding and deregulation actively resurrect. The return of preventable pathogens and agricultural threats exposes how the erosion of disease surveillance and vaccine programs converts biological risks into political liabilities for vulnerable communities.
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
The post He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him. appeared first on ProPublica.
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DOGE Cut Screwworm Fly Monitoring Program From USAID Last Year. Now They’re Back In The U.S.
Back in March of 2025, when Elon Musk was spearheading his bullshit DOGE non-agency and running around cutting funding to all kinds of government programs under the notion that they were a blatant waste of taxpayer money, the cuts were so obviously haphazard and ill-informed that it was making every…
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What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks
The post What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks appeared first on ProPublica.
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Trump Attempts To EO America Into Mimicking Denmark’s Vaccination Schedules
Back in January of this year, RFK Jr. clearly strong armed the CDC into changing the childhood vaccination schedules in America to mimic those of Denmark. The public messaging was crafted to sound as reasonable as possible and amounted to a claim that America was going to revise vaccination schedule…
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Anguished Parents, Crying Doctors: Life Amid Utah’s Measles Outbreak
The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.
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World’s first AI-designed vaccine explained
Sooksaard/Shutterstock.com Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed what they describe as a fundamentally new type of vaccine using artificial intelligence (AI). The vaccine’s key component was designed entirely by AI and has now been tested in people for the first time. The goal is…
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The hunt for a new Ebola vaccine: two scientists explain the challenges
The ongoing Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda has now killed 61 people, with 359 confirmed cases. The Bundibugyo strain of the virus has a fatality rate of between 30% and 50%, and there is currently no vaccine approved for it. Two scientists at the University…
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