Infectious Disease

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Nurses decry CDC advisory panel’s weakened vaccine policies

National Nurses United decries the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for removing parental choice in MMRV (measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella) vaccinations and changing Covid vaccine policy to an approach that can create barriers to access and undermine public health.

National Nurses United
September 22, 2025

News

Another deadly consequence of climate change: The spread of dangerous diseases

With President Trump’s decision on U.S. participation in the Paris climate accords expected in the next few days, there has been widespread discussion of the many consequences that climate change will have for us and our children, including extreme weather events, displacement of people, submergence of lands and devastation to our oceans.

By Brian Deese and Ronald A. Klain, The Washington Post
June 1, 2017

Blog

U.S. hospitals not prepared for Ebola threat

With reports that a nurse who treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas has been infected, one thing urgently needs to be made clear: Our hospitals are not prepared to confront the deadly virus.

RoseAnn DeMoro, writing in The Washington Post