Executive Vaccine Orders And DRC Ebola Surges Stress Public Health
August 12, 2026
The Trump administration's executive order rolling back childhood vaccination guidelines and promoting fragmented MMR schedules aligns with congressional attacks on public health officials like Anthony Fauci. Simultaneously, the record-breaking Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo exposes a dangerous convergence of institutional neglect, delayed reporting, and global health vulnerability.
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Why Trump’s MMR vaccine order is the latest public health disaster, with effects set to last years
Digicomphoto/Science Photo Library/Getty US President Donald Trump has this week signed an executive order that recasts the country’s childhood vaccination policy to “support maximal parental choice”. The order: reduces the vaccines recommended for every child from 18 to 11. Vaccines no longer routi…
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Trump orders fewer childhood vaccinations including splitting up MMR
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccinations and splitting up MMR.
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What effect will Donald Trump’s childhood vaccine recommendations have in the US and beyond?
Is there any science behind the recommendations? Will they result in lower vaccination rates? And will they cause a resurgence of preventable diseases? A new executive order from the US president, Donald Trump, calls for sweeping changes to childhood vaccine recommendations. His plans would result i…
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Donald Trump Just Became The World’s Most Famous Anti-Vaxxer Nonsense Peddler
When it comes to the bullshit, batshit-crazy anti-vaxxer movement that currently has the United States in its un-scientific grip, I’ve focused most of my attention on RFK Jr. And, frankly, for good reason. For arguably decades, but definitely for the last five to ten years, RFK Jr. was the most infa…
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Fauci’s Senate Hearing Shows How Conspiracy Theories Have Become Political Weapons
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions from a Senate committee more than 100 times on July 29, 2026. The Republican-led hearing – convened to scrutin…
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Senate panel votes to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress over Covid hearing
Anthony Fauci invoked fifth amendment dozens of times to parry hostile Republican inquisition over Covid response US politics live – latest updates A Republican-controlled US Senate committee voted to hold Dr Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after the veteran public health official repeatedly p…
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DRC Ebola death toll passes 2,000 amid fastest-growing outbreak on record
A total of 4,381 cases across five provinces have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as of Tuesday.
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DRC’s Ebola outbreak began months before it was officially declared, says WHO
Earlier cases of the disease were wrongly attributed to malaria and typhoid, the WHO said.
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Ebola cases top 4,000 in DRC as WHO urges Ervebo vaccine trial
The Bundibugyo epidemic, the world's second-largest, has been described as the fastest-spreading on record.
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Trump’s vaccine order is about feelings, not facts | Robert B Shpiner
There’s no evidence that vaccines cause autism, or that we should separate MMR shots. This order is dangerous “This is based on what I feel.” That was the president last September, explaining why he wanted the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine broken into three separate shots. On Monday, he s…
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First mRNA flu shot approved by FDA bodes well for improving drugs of the future – though a few hurdles remain before mRNA can move beyond vaccines
Two hurdles mRNA drugs face are a short half-life and impurities that trigger immune responses. Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Vaccines have been reliably and affordably protecting people from diseases worldwide for centuries. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, however, vaccine…
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