2 days after the lab's scientists received their reduction in force emails, #HHS Secy #RFKJr acknowledged that ~⅕ of the cuts at HHS were made *unintentionally* & some people would be offered their jobs back.
On April 4, the Assn of #PublicHealth Laboratories sent a letter to RFKJr urging HHS to reinstate all personnel in the Division of #Viral #Hepatitis & at the Division of #STD Prevention, another lab at the #CDC that was shuttered.
Wisconsin has seen a 1,450% increase in congenital syphilis cases since 2019, the state's Dept of Health Services reports.
This at a time when the country's premier #STD lab has been shuttered in the devastating cuts at #CDC.
What could possibly go wrong? https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/cdc-sexually-transmitted-diseases-laboratory-closed-by-trump-administration/
Update. "#CDC's #STD Lab Shuttered by #Trump Layoffs"
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/stds/115065
"A critical laboratory for surveilling sexually transmitted diseases (#STDs) in the US has been lost in the Trump administration's mass layoffs…One of its most remarkable projects is a one-of-its-kind repository of 50,000 isolates of gonorrhea used to monitor antibiotic resistance, which is quickly becoming a global health concern. The lab has been doing this work for nearly 40 years -- but will now, at best, have a gap in data."
Also see the public statement by the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (#ASTDA).
https://www.astda.org/statement-from-astda-on-cuts-to-the-cdcs-division-of-std-prevention/
The lab's efforts aren't duplicated anywhere, there's no $ to be made so the private sector won't step in, and this lab is key to fighting anti-microbial resistance.
“To me, this is like a blind man with a chainsaw has just gone through the system and arbitrarily cut things without any rationale.”
Improving on std:count_if()'s auto-vectorization — https://nicula.xyz/2025/03/08/improving-stdcountif-vectorization.html
#HackerNews #Improving #std:count_if #auto-vectorization #programming #optimization #C++ #performance
Remember: #ToplessVlad #Putin is evil and he won't stop at #Ukraine
#EndOligarchs #EndFascism #EndElmo
#STD #StopTheDonald
Bald ist März und meine nächste #STI-Testung dürfte anstehen. Bei mir sind es sechs Monate. Wie sieht das bei euch aus?
#CDC Centers for Disease Control & Prevention sites datasets removed as of 1/31/25 . Not immediately clear what day they were removed: the Youth Risk Behavior Survey; AtlasPlus, which housed #HIV #AIDS, #Hepatitis and #STD information; #contraception page for #healthcare providers; page on ending #gender based #violence; Evidence supporting recommendations for #HPV vaccination harmonization across genders, ages 22 -26 yrs; #Heartdisease death rates by gender, by county https://www.axios.com/2025/01/31/health-cdc-websites-data-removed-trump
I have no real desire to watch Star Trek: Discovery.
But one thing that bugged the hell out of me about what I did see was how the Klingons looked like racist caricatures. To me, they made them look like a white man's version of a savage African stereotype. Was I the only one who saw that? Like, it was just as bad (to me) as the Harry Potter movies turning goblins into Protocols of Elder Zion illustrations.
The Disco thing was weird because all they could talk about was how progressive the show was but the villains were the most regressive Star Trek representation since "Code of Honor".
Rückkehrer aus der „Neuen Welt“ brachten im 15. Jahrhundert nicht nur Schätze nach Europa – sie bescherten uns auch die Syphilis, wie DNA-Analysen belegen. #Syphilis #Kolumbus #Geschlechtskrankheit #Infektion #STD
https://www.scinexx.de/news/archaeologie/syphilis-kam-aus-der-neuen-welt/
The fact BlueSky shortens to BS feels like an object lesson in how not to name things. The same lesson Paramount/CBS learned with Star Trek: Discovery and the Committee for the Liberation of Terrifying Organisms and Their Rehabilitation Into Society should really have put their finger on earlier.
#BlueSky #STD #RedDwarf
Weil ich heute meinen Hausarzt darüber aufklären musste, warum ich mich vor kurzem habe gegen HPV impfen lassen: für uns, die wir noch nicht regulär in der Pubertät gegen HPV geimpft wurden, kann eine Impfung dennoch sinnvoll sein (sie ist allerdings teuer):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10038021/#
https://www.frauenaerzte-im-netz.de/frauengesundheit/impfschutz-impfungen/impfung-gegen-hpv/
Selbst wenn man bereits Gebärmutterhalskrebs hatte, senkt die Impfung das Rezidivrisiko. #std #hpv #cervicalcancer #prevention
WTF, y'all generation z/α need to wrap that shit up! People out here having syphilis and whatnot, you don't want your dick rotting off (or your brain turning to pudding like Trump's did).
https://www.actionnews5.com/2024/10/02/condoms-arent-fact-life-young-americans-theyre-an-afterthought/
#condoms #std #herpes #syphilis #gonorrhea #chlamydia #hiv #genz #genalpha
https://www.yahoo.com/news/emphasize-abstinence-sex-ed-florida-194800565.html
"‘Emphasize #abstinence’ in #sex #education, #Florida tells #schools, skip lessons on #contraception"
So what's going to happen is:
Increases in #STD s
Increases in #teen #pregnancy
Increases in nutty misconceptions and lies about human #sexuality and human #biology
But most tragic of all:
By curtailing #reproductivehealthcare (which is what is decimated when they go after #abortion), the increase in pregnancies will result in teens and young #women dying
A Daily Pill to Prevent #STI? It May Work, Scientists Say.
A common #antibiotic, #doxycycline, greatly reduced cases of #syphilis, #gonorrhea and #chlamydia when taken every day.
Their study was small and must be confirmed by more research. Scientists still have to resolve significant questions, including whether #STD might become resistant to the antibiotic and what effect it could have on healthy gut bacteria in people taking it every day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/health/doxycycline-sti.html
https://archive.ph/XqC1X
#MEMPHIS y’all need to use those jimmy hats. Don’t be scared, put a rubber on the head!
https://www.actionnews5.com/2024/08/15/greater-memphis-area-ranks-2nd-us-new-hiv-cases/
#std #hiv
Would you rather be immune to STD’s or have free KitKats for life?
#CriticalQuestions #Quiz #PubQuiz #KitKat #Immune #STD #StayHome #StaySafe #StayHomeStaySafe
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