ASAN Condemns Dangerous Disinformation at ACIP Meeting - Autistic Self Advocacy Network For the past two days, the Advisory Council on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met to discuss various topics related to vaccination. At this meeting, ACIP members continued to spread false information a...

"Vaccines do not cause autism. Vaccines let autistic children live long enough to become autistic adults. Autism is not a tragedy to be prevented; it is a way of being deserving of support and respect." From @autisticadvocacy.org:

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Zack Polanski: ‘I’m going to confess I haven’t finished The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg’ The Green party leader on his ‘floordrobe’, doomscrolling, and getting arrested on Waterloo Bridge

"What's the closest you’ve come to death?"

Zack: "Catching Covid. I don’t think any of us know what we’re messing with still to this day"

Solidarity @zackpolanski.bsky.social #Covid & #LongCovid can be very serious, even for young people. Thank-you for highlighting this! 💚

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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

In French adults aged ≥65 years, RSV infection resulted in 647,619 GP visits, 24,319 hospitalizations, & 878 deaths per year. Incidence of GP visits for RSV 2x as large as for influenza; hospitalization rates were similar and mortality was lower… #IDSky #vaccines

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You cannot try or pretend to feed nor shelter people with psychotherapy over and over again…

Medicine has been reframing health problems it doesn't understand as mental illness for decades. A growing trend.

Now those problems have seen zero progress, and everyone hates it because miscategorizing things to make them disappear doesn't actually make them go away.

Object permanence, please.

Yes, but they cannot feed or shelter themselves with psychotherapy…

MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS

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MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS

Celia Wookey
The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners 1975; 25 (160): 839.
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#ME/CFS #pwME

MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS

Correction 1975!!!

Celia Wookey
The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners 1975; 25 (160): 839.

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encompass both commonly used names.

#ME/CFS #ICD-118E49 #pwME

accurate tracking of the disease's prevalence, severity, and outcomes.
Clinical Use: Supports standardized diagnosis and treatment approaches globally.
In essence, ICD-11's 8E49 provides a specific and appropriate neurological home for ME/CFS, using "Postviral fatigue syndrome" as the umbrella to

shift from older classifications where it was sometimes grouped with general symptoms.

Why This Matters:
Improved Recognition: Moves ME/CFS out of general symptom codes (like in older ICD-10-CM versions) and into neurology, reflecting its recognized disease status.
Better Data: Allows for more

related conditions under 8E49.
Exclusions: Fatigue (MG22) is excluded, meaning ME/CFS is recognized as a distinct disorder, not just a symptom.
Context: This classification places ME/CFS in the neurology chapter, recognizing it as a multisystemic neurological illness, a

viral infections, with exclusions for simple fatigue, aiming to better track the illness's burden.

Key Details of ICD-11 Classification:
Parent Term: 8E49 Postviral fatigue syndrome.
Included Terms: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) are listed as synonyms or

In ICD-11, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome #ME/CFS is classified under Chapter 8: Diseases of the Nervous System, specifically as 8E49 Postviral fatigue syndrome, which serves as the parent term for both ME and CFS, acknowledging their neurological basis, especially following

Epidemic myalgic encephalomyelitis An official website of the United States government

Epidemic myalgic encephalomyitis
C. Wookey (1978) !!!
#ME/CFS #pwME #ICD-11G93.3 #ICD-10G93.32 (US) #ICD-118E49

And we can name most of them…

additional protection, and vaccination-first approaches consistently outperform infection-first scenarios. ⚠️⚠️⚠️ These findings support proactive vaccination policies over reliance on infection-acquired immunity and inform rapid response strategies for future pandemic threats. ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Conclusions
This study provides evidence-based principles for future pandemic vaccination strategies. Platform-switching heterologous boosting (from inactivated vaccines to mRNA vaccines) offers meaningful advantages for inactivated vaccine recipients, bivalent vaccines provide substantial

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Grateful to MEP Romana Jerković @JerkovicRomana for her support in raising our comments on ME progress in the European Parliament

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Infant mortality rates have plummeted over the last 50 years. Globally, they’ve fallen by over two-thirds, from around 10% in 1974 to less than 3% today. A recent study — published in The Lancet by Andrew Shattock and an international team of researchers — estimates that increased access to crucial vaccines means that infant mortality rates are 40% lower than they would be in a world without vaccines. The chart shows the actual reduction in infant mortality rates with vaccination (in blue) and the researchers’ estimates for a hypothetical scenario in which vaccines wouldn’t have been rolled out (in red). Based on these figures, vaccines are estimated to have saved 150 million children over the last 50 years. Vaccinations accounted for 40% of that decline.

Are all these vaccines we're giving seriously harmful?

No, they are saving lives.

Report Shows How Recycling Is Largely a 'Toxic Lie' Pushed by Plastics Industry | Common Dreams "These corporations and their partners continue to sell the public a comforting lie to hide the hard truth: that we simply have to stop producing so much plastic," said one campaigner.

Recycling was never designed to solve the plastics crisis.

Industry sold a myth while plastic production kept rising.

We need governments to cut plastic at the source and secure a strong #PlasticsTreaty that puts people and planet over profits.

Public health has been hijacked by politics — and what happened with ACIP proves it. This wasn’t science. It was ideology overruling evidence and putting power ahead of people.

And the real victims? Our kids are innocent bystanders while science gets sidelined.

Sabin Vaccine Institute’s Investigational Marburg Vaccine Delivered to Ethiopia for Outbreak Response Sabin has sent more than 640 doses of its investigational cAd3-Marburg Vaccine to Ethiopia to support the country’s response to its first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease.

As anti-vax voices get louder, viruses like Marburg are still a death sentence for many — with devastating fatality rates.

This is why vaccines matter. Science saves lives.

The new Marburg vaccine being deployed in Ethiopia right now isn’t ideology — but survival.

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One of the things that is circular about how we got here: HepB cases are low, so why do we need to give this vaccine to babies? Cause we vaccinated to lower the incidence.

Cut to: increased incidence, more opportunistic infections of mothers who don't know they are HepB+.

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Risks of Revising Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccination Recommendation This Viewpoint from infectious disease experts cautions about the consequences of rescinding the ACIP policy to immunize all newborns against hepatitis B.

I strongly recommend:
- A JAMA commentary published on Wednesday.
- The CIDRAP Vaccine Integrity Project on HepB vaccination safety, effectiveness, and public health impact.

#HepB

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The effects of the ACIP poisoned recommendations may not be seen clearly at scale for years.

But every child that unnecessarily develops HepB-associated chronic liver disease and cancer is the fault of those on that committee, the HHS Secretary, and those that capitulated to put him in power.

~40% of Hepatitis B infections are caught in childhood. It is contagious enough that it can be spread just from sharing common household objects.

The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.

The lingering shadow of epidemics: post-acute sequelae across history The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has drawn global attention to post-acute infection syndromes (PAIS), with millions affected by post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC, or Long COVID). While Long COVID is newly ...

Terrific brief review of Post-Acute Infection Syndromes (in particular Long Covid and ME/CFS) by Akiko Iwasaki and colleagues.

The lingering shadow of epidemics: post-acute sequelae across history: Trends in Immunology www.cell.com/trends/immun...

The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of the dementia disease course A natural experiment found that herpes zoster vaccination reduced the occurrence of mild cognitive impairment and deaths due to dementia, indicating that the vaccine may slow the progression of dement...

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #virosky #immunosky #neurosky #Publichealth @cellpress.bsky.social This study provide evidence that shingles vaccination may have a beneficial effect across the entire clinical course of dementia,
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