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Duaa Eldeib @deldeib.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
“Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.” Shot in the head and face. Executed with their parents. No words.
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Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank
Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in their car as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 06/02/2026
Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
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Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school
A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Nothing says “restoring trust in public health” like RFK Jr. funding a modern-day Tuskegee-Nazi mashup study that puts the lives of Black children in a vulnerable country at risk.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/12/2025
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
"They needed less than $20 mil to fund lifesaving health programs, including cholera response efforts, for 3 months — an eighth of what Trump recently approved to buy private jets for one cabinet secretary." Awful, important story by @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government. She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her. So I confronted him.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19/10/2025
Experts say that some effects of starvation in Gaza can be permanent. And for the severely malnourished, simply starting to eat normal meals again can cause sickness—even death. www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/wha…
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 09/10/2025
It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“Mohammed was born healthy but his mother was too malnourished to produce breast milk, and the family has only been able to get two cans of baby formula since. At seven months old, he weighs just 9 pounds.”
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‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly
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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
i cannot emphasize enough that there is no better time to mask up. preventing illness before it happens is your best bet as the nets meant to catch you disintegrate before your eyes.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Every word of this is depraved beyond belief. ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment. I don’t know what to say. www.tpr.org/border-immig...
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying," Mukherjee said. "The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

The family was then transported to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, where they have been detained for several weeks.

The 6-year-old boy has been diagnosed with leukemia and has missed a medical appointment to be treated for worsening symptoms, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in San Antonio by the Immigrant Rights Clinic and The Texas Civil Rights Project.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/06/2025
“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Rubber hitting road: The elimination of US funding for programs that help countries fight neglected tropical diseases like lymphatic filariasis & river blindness is having & will have an enormous negative impact, @martinenserink.bsky.social reports. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Crippling tropical diseases threaten to surge after U.S. funding cuts
Closing of programs that fought neglected diseases imperils drug donation and distribution efforts in 26 countries
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Just wondering if you knew that kids too young for COVID vaccines have COVID hospitalization rates that are similar to people 65-74? Just wondering if you knew over 1000 people a week died from COVID while we were celebrating winter holidays and the New Year? Does FDA Administrators know?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is America.
Maydee, still confronting the officers, says
"Where is the warrant?" Officer Lugo, according to his nameplate, says "Ma'am we are trying our best but they are federal."
Morales again asks for the warrant.
"They're federal."
"They still need a warrant."
Another officer, frustrated, says "They don't need a warrant." Finally, one of them tells the truth. Due process is not a matter they're concerned with.
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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
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World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Today: I talked to one of my absolute heroes, @deborahb.bsky.social, about RFK Jr., how the US got food purity laws, the wild west of American food in the 19th century... and how to avoid going back to the days of formaldehyde milk and brick-dust spices. buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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How to Not Get Poisoned in America
The minute I saw that Robert Kennedy Jr., a notorious disease-loving health crank, was going to be responsible for the nation’s health—and the health of its...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/04/2025
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
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For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
1️⃣ Maryland's GOP sheriffs are rushing to join an ICE program that's one of the most visible funnels into the deportation machinery. State Democrats were on the verge of banning the program in Maryland—but chose to stand down. @burness.bsky.social reports on what happened, & why it matters:
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“A Betrayal in Slow Motion”: Maryland Democrats Forgo Banning ICE Contracts  - Bolts
The clock neared midnight on Monday, April 7, the final day of Maryland’s 2025 legislative session, and immigrant rights advocates, who’d been at the statehouse all day, and for many... Read More
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The Trump-Vance admin just deported two families, including three US citizen kids ages 2, 4, and 7. Both families were detained and then blocked from communicating with attorneys or family members. One of the moms is pregnant. One of the citizen kids has cancer. Both deported without medical help.
ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation
 
Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 25, 2025
 
CONTACT: media@aclu.org
 
New Orleans, LA – Today, in the early hours of the morning, the New Orleans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Field Office deported at least two families, including two mothers and their minor children – three of whom are U.S. citizen children aged 2, 4, and 7. One of the mothers is currently pregnant. The families, who had lived in the United States for years and had deep ties to their communities, were deported from the U.S. under deeply troubling circumstances that raise serious due process concerns.
 
ICE detained the first family on Tuesday, April 22, and the second family on Thursday, April 24. In both cases, ICE held the families incommunicado, refusing or failing to respond to multiple attempts by attorneys and family members to contact them. In one instance, a mother was granted less than one minute on the phone before the call was abruptly terminated when her spouse tried to provide legal counsel’s phone number.
 
As a result, the families were completely isolated during critical moments when decisions were being made about the welfare of their minor children. This included decisions with serious implications for the health, safety, and legal rights of the children involved – without any opportunity to coordinate with caretakers or consult with legal representatives.
 
These actions stand in direct violation of ICE’s own written and informal directives, which mandate coordination for the care of minor children with willing caretakers – regardless of immigration status – when deportations are being carried out.
 
Both families have possible immigration relief, but because ICE denied them access to their attorneys, legal counsel was unable to assist and advise the…
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24/04/2025
Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.
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The Last Hospitals in Gaza
In the ruins of a health-care system, many medical facilities have become graveyards. Doctors continue to deliver lifesaving care—but they risk their own lives in the process.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/04/2025
NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article)
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
the womanhood imagined by transphobes is a prison
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Eric McD | Hill @ NPR @ericm.cd · 17/04/2025
I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Smart People said "Abolish ICE" was too radical. Then ICE kidnapped students, sent innocent people to a mega prison, broke into a car to take a mom from her daughter, and tried questioning elementary kids while lying that they had parents permission. Ask yourself: which part is more "radical"?
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
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Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 08/04/2025
What happened on the other side of Signalgate? An eyewitness says that the U.S.’s attack in Yemen killed women and children, including a newborn baby.
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The Other Side of Signalgate
The Trump Administration’s extraordinary security breach has elicited shock, amusement, and anger. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/04/2025
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The people responsible for this should be fired directly into the sun www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/03/2025
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
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sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
well this made me cry over breakfast. to any democrats holding even a shred of power right now: look at what’s possible from people far more endangered and vulnerable than you and grow a spine, you fucking cowards www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-s...
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Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana
Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
there has never been a past without trans people and there won’t be a future without them either, no matter what. no law can change that. i refuse to allow them to talk about people i love like that.
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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Regardless your specific view on this, consider what it means for the Trump/Vance administration to halt aid to Ukraine, but then in the same week rush $4 billion more to Israel as it blocks all aid into Gaza
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...
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What Gutting USAID Means for My Young Patients in Burundi
“To my patients and their mothers, I offered apologies from the American people,” writes Dr. Jennifer Furin.
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Waleed Shahid @waleedshahid.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
NEW: A Harris campaign organizer says senior officials ordered them to erase voters who asked about Gaza—marking emails as “no response” so they’d be removed from outreach. No engagement, no persuasion, just ignored. “The only clowns are the ones who decided to abdicate on this.”
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids. “I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.
New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/01/2025
🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy: How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The 45 Democrats who joined Republicans in voting to sanction International Criminal Court officials as the court pursues justice against Israeli government leaders accused of war crimes:
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
"The study is impressive in its scale...cases and deaths dropped by more than 50% and in the Indigenous population the drop was even more dramatic: more than 60%." Nature Medicine study shows the effects of Bolsa Familia strongest in Black and Indigenous populations www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in poverty get a monthly cash payout
A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Sobering story on the high rates of parasitic infections linked to poverty and neglect in the Mississippi Delta. This is not a developing country with limited resources. This is America. Most infectious diseases can make a comeback if sufficiently neglected. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Infrastructure neglect and poverty lead to parasites in the Mississippi Delta
New research suggests parasitic infections in US south are far more widespread than previously acknowledged
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