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Amy Maxmen, PhD

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Award-winning public health reporter @KFFHealthNews. Bylines @NYTimes @Nature & more. She/her. More: amymaxmen.bsky.social
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🐮Exclusive: Emails from FOIA show why surveillance for human bird flu cases has been marred by delays & blind spots.

As a result, we can’t answer basic questions – like why cases have more than doubled within a few weeks.

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kffhealthnews.org Exclusive: Emails Reveal How Health Departments Struggle To Track Human Cases of Bird Flu - KFF... Emails show how health officials struggle to track the bird flu, partly in deference to the agricultural industry. As a result, researchers don’t know how often farmworkers are being infected — and...
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🚨Texas measles outbreak nears 100 cases, w/16 hospitalizations. Officials suspect it's spilled just across the border to New Mexico.

Low vax rates+undetected infections mean it will grow.

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kffhealthnews.org Texas Measles Outbreak Nears 100 Cases, Raising Concerns About Undetected Spread - KFF Health News Health officials expect a measles outbreak in West Texas to exceed 100 cases because of low vaccination rates and undetected infections. Vaccine misinformation and new laws may make such situations...
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On hold at the CDC: An analysis suggesting that flu cases *may* be at a record high. That could mean a surge of deaths comes next.

The CDC is delaying analyses to inform the situation & has cut off usual communication w/hospital networks & WHO.

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kffhealthnews.org Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate - KFF... Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird flu, and the agency’s silence, will harm Americans as outbreaks escalate, doctors and public health experts warn.
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🚨Urgent CDC analyses on seasonal flu, bird flu in cats & in wastewater have been stalled. And CDC has stopped contributing flu data to global platforms, says WHO.

“Delays in data create dangerous situations on the front line.” My latest @KFFHealthNews kffhealthnews.org/news/article/c…
kffhealthnews.org Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate - KFF... Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird flu, and the agency’s silence, will harm Americans as outbreaks escalate, doctors and public health experts warn.
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🚨At least 14 people have been hospitalized in a measles outbreak in an undervaccinated part of Texas. 24 cases so far, mainly children.

Health officials worry some parents might not seek care for their kids. Dangerous & means this will keep spreading.
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kffhealthnews.org Measles Outbreak Mounts Among Children in One of Texas’ Least Vaccinated Counties - KFF Health News With hospitalizations and at least nine confirmed cases, health officials race to contain a growing outbreak in a community with low vaccination.