The U.S. CDC on Friday issued a health alert to inform clinicians, state health departments and the public of a case of avian influenza in a person who had contact with dairy cows presumed to be infected with the virus.
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Appeals Court Ruling Blocks CDC, FBI, White House from Censorship
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a modified version of an injunction in the landmark Missouri v. Biden case, blocking the White House and federal agencies from pressuring social media companies to censor American citizens.
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Biden Admin Violated First Amendment Rights
A federal appeals court ruled that the Biden administration likely violated Americans’ First Amendment rights when it worked to censor speech during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the Friday decision, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said the White House, surgeon general, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Federal Bureau of Investigation improperly commandeered speech.
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CDC Removes Data On Vaccine Adverse Effects From Website
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website appeared to have quietly stopped collecting COVID-19 vaccine adverse events on the federal agency’s V-safe website earlier this summer.
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Locally Transmitted Malaria Found For First Time In U.S. In Two Decades
For the first time in two decades, people in the U.S. have contracted malaria from mosquitoes inside the country, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a health alert.
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Ex-CDC Head Explains Origins Of Covid
Dr. Robert Redfield, the former CDC Director, talks about three suspicious events that took place at the Wuhan lab in September 2019:
“In September of 2019, three things happened in that lab, One is they deleted the sequences. Was highly irregular. Researchers don’t usually like to do that. Second thing they did was they changed the command and control at the lab from the civilian control to the military control. Highly unusual, and the third thing they did, which I think is really telling, is they let a contractor redo the ventilation system in that laboratory.”
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CDC Encourages Schools To Use New Transgender Tool For ‘Inclusivity’
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) this week promoted a tool meant to encourage schools across the U.S. to embrace gender ideology to increase “inclusivity.”
On Tuesday, the CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health put out a link to a resource aimed at helping school administrators “quickly gauge inclusivity” at their schools.
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TB OUTBREAK IN LOS ANGELES
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Reports of an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the downtown area of Los Angeles has even the police taking precautions. Over the weekend, LAPD officers in the skid row area were advised via email and roll calls to use masks to protect themselves from risk of being infected by the disease if a situation seems to warrant the preccaution.
Mabel Aragon, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Health Department (LACHD), gave a statement Friday that the federal agency, The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is helping in the process of surveillance and statistic gathering as the LACHD is in the process of confirming the number and type of TB cases in LA County.
Scott Bryan, spokesman for the CDC, confirmed they have been asked by both state and local TB officials to assist with the investigation. They are planning on sending in a team in about 2 weeks to further help with containment of the disease.
According to the Los Angeles Times, there have been almost 80 cases of a unique strain of TB identified including 11 deaths. Of those, 60 of the cases were from homeless individuals from the skid row area of Los Angeles. The strain which is unique to Los Angeles can be treated with anti-TB medications for 6 – 9 months.
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Downtown L.A. TB outbreak: LAPD urges officers to wear masks
Multi-State Meningitis Outbreak
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are currently coordinating a multistate investigation of fungal meningitis among patients who received an epidural steroid injection with a potentially contaminated product.
This form of meningitis is not contagious.
Several patients also suffered strokes that are believed to have resulted from their infection. The investigation has expanded to include fungal infections from other steroid injections.
The current case count has risen from 64 cases 6 days ago to 170 cases reported as of today, with 14 deaths so far.
Medicines associated with three lots of preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate (80mg/ml) from the New England Compounding Center (NECC) were recalled on September 26, 2012. The potentially contaminated injections were given starting May 21, 2012.
Persons with Fungal Infections Linked to Steroid Injections, by State
| State | Case Count | Deaths |
| Florida (FL) | 7 | 2 |
| Idaho (ID) | 1 | 0 |
| Indiana (IN) | 21 | 1 |
| Maryland (MD) | 13 | 1 |
| Michigan (MI) | 39 | 3 |
| Minnesota (MN) | 3 | 0 |
| New Jersey (NJ) | 2 | 0 |
| North Carolina (NC) | 2 | 0 |
| Ohio (OH) | 3 | 0 |
| Tennessee (TN) | 49 | 6 |
| Virginia (VA) | 30 | 1 |
| TOTALS | 170 | 14 |
HIV Incidences in gay/bisexual men inexplicably continues to rise in US
The cumulative incidences of HIV in gay men in the United States is only slightly lower than that of gay men in portions of Africa and has been rising steadily since 2001.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), gay and bisexual men are the only group seeing this rise in rates of HIV infection.
See The Shocking Second HIV Epidemic Among U.S. Gay Men That No One Is Talking About | Alternet.