Friday, 20 March 2026

COVID-19, COVID Inquiry, Meningitis, Measles and Other Health and Virus UK and World News Update 20th March 2025

COVID-19, COVID Inquiry, Meningitis, Measles and Other Health and Virus UK and World News Update 20th March 2025

8th March was the UK's National COVID-19 Day of Reflection
As per latest data on the day, up to 20th February 2026, the UK had officially lost 232,489 people to COVID. They all had friends, relatives, carers, neighbours. People who will miss them.
In early 2021 the UK lost up to 8,000 people to COVID a week. That figure has come down and continues to drop, and COVID testing is not what it once was, but even now we officially lose around 40-150 people every week to COVID. I am sorry to everyone who has lost someone. 

UK HSA meningitis and septicaemia symptoms with images of young people in black and white

Shall we start with the obvious? There has been an outbreak of Meningitis B centred around a nightclub event mainly attended by students from University of Kent and local sixth forms in Canterbury, UK. This has now been declared a 'national emergency' and an 'urgent public health alert' has been issued, asking doctors to be on the lookout for symptoms.  
As of 12.30pm yesterday there are a total of 29 known cases (18 confirmed, 11 suspected). 2 young people have died. One was a University of Kent student and the other a year 13 secondary school pupil. At least 4 schools have confirmed cases, as does Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU). At least 11 of the patients attended Chemistry Nightclub over the weekend of 5th, 6th, 7th March. 
Several thousand contacts have already been given antibiotics as a precaution. All contacts (including club-goers, 6th form pupils, uni students) are also being offered a Meningitis B vaccination, including around 5,000 students who live in Kent University halls of residence.

Meningitis B is caused by a bacterial infection. Around 10% of us have Meningitis B in our noses at any given time, but it only becomes a problem when it passes into the body, often through the back of the throat. The incubation period is 2 days to 2 weeks - so more cases are still expected. Outbreaks are really rare, usually it affects 1 or occasionally 2 people at the same time. No-one really understands why this outbreak is different, but it is a rare do. Testing results came in this afternoon suggesting this is a known strain (group B meningococci, sequence type 485 belonging to the larger clonal complex ST-41/44) that's been circulating in the UK for 5 years. (I dread to say it, but we know COVID affects your immune system... however lets leave that for now.) 
Close contact (e.g. living together) is the most common way to catch Meningitis B. Despite what UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting keeps saying on the telly, Meningitis B is an airborne illness and you CAN catch it by sitting together with an infected person. It is a lot LESS catchy than flu or COVID, so your risk is far smaller, but it does exist. People dancing and sharing drinks/vapes at a packed nightclub may have spread it very effectively. As Susan Hopkins, UKHSA chief executive said, this "looks like a super-spreader" event with "ongoing spread" through universities' halls of residence. 

Easter holidays are now here, many students left early - potentially taking it home with them. One student presented at a hospital in London early this week (no community contacts). The first case actually diagnosed in this outbreak is an exchange student who had returned home to France. 

Photo of a toy called an alien baby which was a rubbery thing that came in a pull apart egg, with text saying 'did you used to think putting these together could make babies'

Over 20% of pharmacy weekend availability in England has been cut since 2022, meaning people often have to travel further to visit a pharmacy, or even go to A&E instead. Rural areas are obviously worst affected. 
This is because pharmacies are struggling to make ends meet. Many have already been completely lost (according to The Guardian 1,550 closed down in England since 2017), and those remaining simply do not have the available budgets to stay open as much as they used to. Closing on Saturdays and Sundays is an easy way to cut staffing and other costs.
Wes Streeting - please just pay them properly for dispensing prescriptions, vaccinations and all of the 'pharmacy first' services you are now expecting them to carry out. It’s cheaper in the long run. 

From April all hospitals in England are expected to use Palantir’s federated data platform (FDP) for record-keeping. It offers ways to integrate information that wasn't recorded using similar systems, so in theory that's really handy. In reality it means all of your information is in a single place for a rogue entity to look at or steal, or a future government could decide to access your health information for their own reasons. If you can't see how this can go against you, consider what's happening in the US, with law-abiding legitimate residents being arrested and imprisoned, and even deported to countries they've never visited in their life. Human rights and medical groups, including Amnesty and the British Medical Association, have expressed real concerns.
Palantir don't have a spotless record, with close ties to the US (one of the owners is Trump ally Peter Thiel) and the Israeli military, and a history suggesting they don't always respect international and other laws. They say they only sell the product, it's up to the UK how they use it, and access to the data will always remain under NHS control. 

A survey by Healthwatch England has found that by the end of 2025, almost a third (32%) of people in England had turned to private dentistry because they could not access NHS care. In 2023 22% of people had gone private.  
This hits the poorest people the hardest. Not only are they often entitled to completely free care anyway (as are children and pregnant people), an NHS check up costs £27.40, but private can cost £50-£75. What are you going to do? Buy food or shoes for the kids, or go to the dentist? Poor oral health has strong links to conditions including heart disease, lung disease, pneumonia, low birth weight and premature babies. 

Text listing who is going to be offered a menB vaccine as per the post text

"We coped, but only just. Collapse was only narrowly avoided thanks to the extraordinary efforts of all those working in health care."
Baroness Hallett, COVID Inquiry Chair.
The UK COVID Inquiry released the results of module 3 yesterday. It is extensive, so look online for more detail, but here are some of the main points:
"The UK entered the pandemic with its healthcare systems in a parlous (precarious) state with severe workforce shortages."
- We didn't have the staff, beds, PPE or resilience to cope, which we knew from a 2016 exercise. We still do not. 
- We should assume all methods of transmission are possible until proven otherwise. COVID IS airborne. Surgical masks will protect others, but aren't designed to protect the wearer from aerosols, so healthcare workers were not (and still are not) adequately protected. Instead wear FFP masks which fit snugly to the face.
- Healthcare workers paid with their lives, and staff from ethnic minorities were disproportionately affected.
- Vulnerable people should not be abandoned, and blanket DNR orders were wrong
- Data systems weren't adequate, affecting access to healthcare, and making it harder for people to return to pre-pandemic lives
- 'Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives' caused harm because people with other health problems didn't go for help.
- Cancelling so many non-emergency operations had a dramatic effect on health and mobility for thousands of people.
- We are not prepared for another pandemic
In summary, the Inquiry recommends: 
- increasing capacity in urgent and emergency care and ensuring hospitals have the ability to implement surge capacity.
- strengthening the body responsible for infection prevention and control guidance, broadening its membership to enhance its decision-making and improving the  guidance itself. 
- improving data collection, enabling individuals at highest risk of harm from infection to be more easily identified and recording deaths of healthcare workers more accurately.
- promoting a standardised process and documentation for advance care planning, recording patients’ preferences for future care and treatment.
- increasing support for healthcare workers, improving retention and increasing resilience.
-  publishing guidance to assist decision-makers, providing clear criteria for clinical decisions if critical care resources become completely exhausted.

New Zealand have held their own Royal Commission 'COVID Inquiry' and the 2nd report was released last week. It found that although New Zealand's COVID response was among the best in the world, COVID and the response to it had left 'scars' on the population. 
“During the period examined in this phase, people continued to die and others suffered long-term health impacts. Some lost all faith in government and other institutions, and remain disengaged, sceptical or even hostile towards them today.”
New Zealand had less restrictions than most countries, suffered less financially and has recorded a total of 5,641 Covid deaths since 2020. 
The UK has 13 times the population of New Zealand, so by comparison at the same rate would have lost 73,000 people to COVID. The actual figure is over 232,000. Jacinda Ardern is still my hero. 

text from University of Kent with details about receiving vaccines from the NHS

The American Academy of Pediatrics (and other medical groups) took the US Department of Health and Human Services and RFK Jr to court, arguing that changes to the US vaccination schedule and to the ACIP advisory committee for immunisations violated federal law.
The AAP have won.
A Federal Judge agreed that the actions were not in line with science and did not follow procedural law, and has blocked changes to the childhood vaccine schedule and limitations to COVID vaccinations, and any members added to the ACIP committee since June 2025 are on hold (that's all of them).
ACIP were due to meet this week to discuss COVID vaccinations and other items. This meeting has been postponed, as there wouldn't be anyone there. Sadly the HHS are already appealing, so the win may be short-lived. 

The director of the US FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Vinay Prasad, is next to leave through the US Health and Human Services revolving door, and unusually he gave a month's notice. 
He oversees vaccines for the Food and Drug Administration, and is the person who made the apparently baseless and random decision in February not to review Moderna's new mRNA flu vaccine for approval, and then changed his mind when all the drug companies said "what now? Without legitimate reason? But it cost $150 MILLION. I guess we won't be investing in any more US drug development then" or words to that effect. 

In 2024 there were 2,911 laboratory confirmed measles cases in England, the highest number of cases recorded annually since 2012. In 2025, there were a total of 959 laboratory-confirmed measles cases.
Between 1 January 2026 and 16 March 2026, there have been 270 laboratory confirmed measles cases reported in England, an increase of 75 cases since 5th March 2026, mostly driven by outbreaks in North London and Birmingham. These outbreaks are clearly not about to stop, and late reporting doesn't give us a very clear picture - so far only 28 of those cases were actually detected in March. 
Enfield in North London has reported at least 87 children with measles. This is almost double the 50 cases in the whole of Birmingham.
Enfield's measles vaccination rate is just 64.3%. The average for England is 83.7%, and 95% is needed for herd immunity to prevent cases and protect the most vulnerable among us.

As of March 19, 2026, 1,487 confirmed measles cases were reported in the United States in 2026. 5% (74) have been hospitalised, only 4% fully vaccinated. 
For the full year of 2025, there were a total of 2,285 confirmed US measles cases.
Texas had reported 136 measles cases already this year by 17th March, and as of 11th March 99 were in the West Texas Detention Facility. Sounds horrifying really... 

In Canada in 2026, a total of 504 measles cases (460 confirmed, 44 probable) have been reported up to 7th March. 93 of those in the first week of March, so that's not going well either... 

UK HSA remind you not to use these 4 types of wipes

A review released last week compared earlier COVID vaccines with Omicron-adapted COVID vaccines. The vaccines especially tailored for Omicron variants appear to offer healthy adults (who aren't immunocompromised or pregnant) a reduction in all-cause mortality (death from anything, including COVID). Estimates vary between 26.6% and 75.2%.
Interestingly they found this added benefit existed only when people were given Omicron-adapted vaccines a year after their previous COVID vaccination, and not if they were given it as a booster within a year of their previous jab.
When examining risk of additional harm, one study suggested there may be more cases of myocarditis as a result of Omicron-adapted vaccines, but the authors were not confident (it involves a very tiny number of people, so a single case makes a huge difference). 

The Guardian have done a review of the work of Mr Retsef Levi, a man who claimed that Covid-19 vaccines are the “most failing medical product in the history of medical products", despite increasing mountains of evidence otherwise. Why is this important? Well, Retsev is an MIT operations management professor, not a doctor or a vaccine expert, and he is one of RFJ Jr's hand-picked ACIP vaccine advisory committee members. 
The Guardian found over a dozen instances where experts accused him of being misleading. He has repeatedly claimed vaccines cause harm, and then when questioned he has nothing to back up his statements. The former head of Israel’s COVID response is one person quoted: “At the meeting it was clear that he was not familiar with the way the data is collected and potential wrong interpretations. What was more troubling: he didn’t seem to care.” 

"Half of all vaccines don't reach those who need them, due to cold chain failures. 
UKHSA scientists are supporting trials of a room‑temperature tetanus and diphtheria vaccine – a potential breakthrough for global immunisation. "
UK HSA 
Room temperature vaccinations save everyone money in multiple ways, and they make vaccinating the world’s poorest and most remote populations possible. 

200326 WHO is releasing funds to middle east countries impacted by war

Argentina has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organisation. They gave notice around a month after the US last year, and that time is now up. They've also given similar reasons, saying WHO acted badly around the COVID pandemic and that suggested safety measures were “the greatest experiment in social control in history”. 
It's at this point I like to remind world leaders that WHO offers scientific and medical advice, it does not make the law and cannot obligate any country to do anything, that was up to individual Governments. But you crack on... 

H5N1 Avian Flu should be calmer in the Northern hemisphere now that migrating birds have gone and Summer heads our way, but sadly it's unlikely to be a real respite after by far the worst Winter in H5N1 history. In the European Union between 29th November 2025 and 27th February 2026, EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) logged 2,514 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) Flu A(H5) virus detections in domestic (406) and wild (2108) birds across 32 countries. Waterfowl were far more heavily affected than previously. 
Latest updates...
- The UK have reported 96 HPAI infected flocks this season - only 1 in the last 30 days. 
- The US have reported another 88 infected flocks in the last 30 days (47 commercial, 41 backyard). No newly infected cattle herds.
- The USDA reported 9 infected US live bird markets between late December and February, and another 9 since then. 
- A total of 16 elephant seals, a sea lion and an otter have died at Ano Nuevo State Park in California.
- Cambodia have reported a second 2026 human infection with H5N1. She is a 45 year old woman who had contact with sick and dead birds.
Since 29th November 2025 there have been 11 cases of HPAI infection in humans, none fatal. Cambodia 2 x H5N1, China 8 x H5N1 and 1 x H10N3. 

Russian cattle appear to be having a dreadful time with 2 diseases - pasteurellosis ​and rabies - which are spreading and reportedly affecting at least 10 regions, however there is scepticism about diagnoses and treatment. Farmers are complaining whole herds are being culled when they could be given antibiotics (pasturellosis) or haven't been tested. Their agriculture watchdog says 'the situation is under control, although the disease has been mutating' which isn't the reassuring statement they think it is. 

Shadow drawing of 2 children in a red circle (the same as a UK lollipop crossing patrol stick) only with a bomb approaching from the corner and the text stop killing children

The US has a penicillin shortage. As I have reported previously, there has been a massive rise in syphilis, rates are at a 70 year high, and this is partially to blame. In some areas clinicians are being asked to preserve any remaining stocks of penicillin as it is the only recommended treatment for pregnant women and babies with congenital syphilis. The next expected delivery is August, and stocks are not expected to recover until at least December. The US FDA has allowed temporary importation of 1.2 million units of Lentocilin as an alternative. 

Sudan, Ukraine, Iran and the entire Middle East. Whenever there is war, it is the ordinary people who suffer the most, including the children. Militaries now have the precision to hit a desk lamp from hundreds of miles away, so why do they keep killing children? 

Conservative peer Lord Chadlington (or Peter Gummer as he's now known) has left the House Of Lords after an investigation found he committed 5 breaches of standards with VIP lane Covid PPE deals worth £50m, £24m of which was substandard and unusable. He also failed to cooperate with 2 previous inquiries. Thanks to the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice (CBFFJ) group for raising the complaints, and at least it's a part win for some common decency - Pete left voluntarily, he didn't sit on a yacht complaining it was unfair... 

Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (hmmm, that name rings a bell) have managed to vaccinate mosquitoes against Nipah virus and Rabies (by feeding it to them in blood - bowk). They then put them in a habitat with bats. The bats naturally eat the mosquitoes and get stung by them. They then studied the bats and found around 2/3 had strong immune signals against Nipah and Rabies. This is genius. Vaccinating bats is pretty much impossible, but releasing mosquitoes with a hidden ingredient is far easier.
Even more easy, they also put out traps with Nipah and Rabies vaccine in saline (salt water), and the bats happily drank it, which also elicited a strong immune response in around 2 out of 3 bats. So simple, so effective.
The vaccines are engineered to pass from mosquito to bat, but not bat to bat, because we really don't know what side effects that might cause, but it would likely result in stronger viruses. 
I talked at length on 6th Feb about why bat viruses are so concerning - it's mostly to do with living in gigantic colonies with heaps of your own poo. Only the elite can survive the ensuing ongoing battle between ever-stronger pathogens and bats.
Bats harbour tons of known and unknown viruses that can infect humans, there are bajillions of them and people are living closer and closer to them all the time...  

UK MMRV vaccine schedule

I have warned every year that university age young people are one of the highest risk groups for strains of meningitis that you can catch - which is why all school pupils are offered a Meningitis ACWY NHS vaccination as teenagers. It's free to anyone under age 25. Please take up that offer.
Meningitis B now accounts for around 80% of transmissible cases in the UK, in large part because the ACWY vaccine is so effective.
The Meningitis B vaccine has been offered to UK babies and 1 year olds since 2015. It was decided that overall it wasn't financially justifiable to give it to adolescents, as it's an imperfect vaccination that does not prevent you carrying and transmitting Meningitis B from one person to another. Protection can begin to wane after about 3 years, although it protects around 80% of teenagers and adults against over 3/4 of the many Meningitis B strains for over 7 years. Vaccination is however excellent at keeping people from becoming seriously ill or dying, so it's ideal if you know you are at risk of exposure. The UK Government assure us that the Bexsero vaccine (used in the UK and currently being offered in Kent) should provide protection against the strain identified, and protection starts around 2 weeks after vaccination.
Meningitis B vaccines are available privately in the UK, including at Boots and supermarket chemists, but they aren't cheap. The cost for the 2 jab dose is around £200. ASDA have announced they are selling at cost price of £150 until stocks run out. The UK Government have announced they'll make 20,000 vaccines from the NHS supply available to the private market, to ease current demand experienced by pharmacies.
 
Meningitis can kill within hours, and if it doesn’t kill you, it will not make you stronger. Around 1 in 10 survivors of Meningitis B have major physical and/or neurological disabilities, including amputation, deafness, epilepsy and/or learning difficulties, and around 1 in 3 result in less severe physical and/or neurological disabilities. On average 1 or 2 in every 20 will not survive. 
If you feel like you have a hangover, with a crippling headache and you cannot touch your chin to your chest, this may be meningitis. Meningitis often goes together with septicaemia. You can have changes to temperature, rapid breathing, cramping pains, joint pain, and bleeding under the skin (a rash that doesn’t go away when pressed). If you have symptoms of meningitis or septicaemia seek medical advice immediately. Do NOT wait for a rash. A rash means you are already badly damaged. If someone you know goes to bed ill, check on them regularly. In 2013 my partner had a 'cold' with a nasty headache and felt rotten, so he slept on the sofa. He had viral Meningitis C, and was admitted to hospital seriously ill in the morning. If he'd had bacterial Meningitis B he would have died overnight while I was in bed. 

On Thursday last week, 12th March, it was 6 years since COVID was declared a pandemic. 
"I worked on the Covid pandemic right from the very start 
Many died, it was very real and very scary, our intensive care unit had to TRIPLE in capacity, and we didn't do any dance routines"
Dr Neil Stone MBBS PhD FRCP FRCPath DTMH, consultant with dual accreditation in clinical Infectious Diseases and Laboratory Microbiology, or 'Infectious Diseases Doctor' as he describes himself, and the first person to officially use the word COVID.
Well done to all of you - you are still here, and have lived through something truly historic. You have tested, masked up, worked from home and kept your children schooled in very difficult circumstances. You have lost people you cared for and loved, you have learnt to exist alongside Long COVID. You have sifted through all of the misinformation and conspiracy theories. Thank you to everyone who worked through it and put themselves at risk to help others - your selflessness should never be forgotten. 

Drawn image of a pill bottle with the lid off and several white doves flying out of the top

It's the weekend - hurrah! I have a very important 16th birthday this weekend, and the Easter holidays are coming up. Over Easter I'll be catching up with all 6 of our offspring to have a belated Christmas celebration, so I'll be taking a break from reading studies and writing, instead pulling crackers, handing out stockings and eating an April Christmas dinner! Unless something explosive really does happen, I shall be back on 17th April, so until then, please look after yourselves, and don't forget to treat yourself regularly and often! It doesn't have to cost, but have something to look forward to, and some joy to make you smile and forget the worries of the world, even if just for a few minutes. You have earnt it. 

Eid Mubarak to all who are celebrating today, and an early Happy Easter...

Play Outdoors, Don't Overdo The Chocolate, Save The NHS... 

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Sources COVID
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
UK Health Data 
UK latest COVID cases UPDATES THURSDAY 4pm
https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-viruses/covid-19
GP surveillance England Primary Care 
US CDC respiratory dashboard 
https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/data/index.html
Reference pages H5N1 
https://bnonews.com/index.php/human-cases-of-h5n1-bird-flu/
https://www.paho.org/en/topics/avian-influenza
https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html
Measles Sit Rep US CDC
UK cases Measles 
Canada Measles


Source images
WHO Peace is the best medicine image
UK HSA don't use these wipes image bacteria risk Burkholderia
WHO choose peace image middle east 
Stop killing children image
UK HSA meningitis and septicaemia
World Health Network A single COVID infection can have lasting results image
https://x.com/i/status/2031086110105862653
Image American Academy of Pediatrics et al vs RFK Jr et al judges summing up with Sagan quote 
https://substack.com/@kmpanthagani/note/c-228857094?r=354hjt
Canterbury hall student residents antibiotics and vaccinations image UK HSA
UK HSA Men B vaccine eligibility image

Source text

8th March was the UK's National COVID-19 Day of Reflection
UK Deaths to end 2025 - 232,112 + 377 = 232,489
Day of Reflection 

ALL Meningitis
Meningitis Kent
Latest news UK HSA
Wes Streeting video in Parliament giving update Men B outbreak Weds 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxg35dv7npo
Meningitis update Tuesday
Symptoms of septicaemia 
Canterbury meningitis 
Meningitis WHO
Meningitis NHS
Men B vaccination UK
How Meningitis transmits
Number of meningitis cases investigated in Kent rises to 20 | Meningitis | The Guardian
Meningitis outbreak being treated as national incident - as health secretary warns spread is 'unprecedented' | UK News | Sky News
Meningitis 'national emergency declared' after Kent deaths | London Now
England's deputy chief medical officer Dr Thomas Waite said: "This is by far the quickest-growing outbreak I've ever seen in my career, and I think probably any of us have seen of meningitis for a very long time.
No community contacts London case meningitis
French student reported
French student first case detected
Thursday updates
Urgent public health alert 
27 cases
Confirmed cases 15
Meningitis B vaccination rolled out
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Explainer - Meningitis B 
UK NHS Meningitis complications
Meningitis is aerosol
Latest from UKHSA: “ laboratories have completed an initial genetic analysis of a meningococcal strain isolated during this outbreak. 
"Results have confirmed that."
ASDA offers Men B vaccine at cost price 

Pharmacies closing at weekends

Palantir and NHS England
Palantir Medact statements 
Palantir 

People struggling financially are hardest hit by the shortage of NHS dental appointments | Healthwatch
Almost a third of people in England use private dentists amid NHS dental crisis | Dentists | The Guardian
Bad oral health 

Clinically Vulnerable Families
Covid inquiry BBC
COVID Inquiry image masks
COVID inquiry
COVID Inquiry Module 3

Covid Inquiry report says 'ill-prepared' NHS meant more people died in pandemic
The Covid-19 Public Inquiry has found that the NHS was left "in a precarious state" and "ill-prepared" after a decade of Tory rule as Britain was plunged into the coronavirus pandemic
Health leaders warn overrun emergency departments, an explosion of corridor care and soaring waiting lists mean hospitals are in a much worse position than they were before Covid hit

New Zealand Covid response among world’s best but ‘scars’ remain, inquiry finds | New Zealand | The Guardian


Federal judge blocks RFK Jr.'s changes to childhood vaccine schedule And his changes to ACIP 
ACIP 18/19 March meeting agenda
Judges ruling RFK Jr explainer
Text RFK Jr loses - judge rules vaccine and ACIP changes illegal 
BBC RFK Jr loses and threatens to challenge
CIDRAP RFK Jr loses

FDA vaccine head will step down in April after string of controversial decisions 

Measles
UK measles
Enfield 

136 measles cases reported in Texas so far this year, most of them in federal detention centers


Omicron-specific vaccines and all cause mortality study
Omicron-adapted COVID vaccines 

Retsev Levi

Room temperature vaccinations 

Argentina officially withdraws from World Health Organization

UPDATE PAGES H5N1
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/hpai-confirmed-cases-livestock

More animals die from H5N1 avian flu at Ano Nuevo State Park in California | CIDRAP
Ano Nuevo State park beaches along San Mateo coast, wildlife experts say
Live animal markets infected H5N1 US 
Avian Flu Diary H5N1 March 2026 Animal markets
Avian Flu Diary H5N1 March EFSA 
EFSA bad Winter H5N1
Human infections H5N1
Cambodia 2nd human bird flu
Cambodia human H5N1
Cambodia H5N1 2nd human



US Penicillin shortage
This is a policy failure, not a supply chain mystery.
 "Recent data for 2024–2026 shows that 358 per 100k pregnant women are diagnosed with syphilis. While other STIs like gonorrhea have declined, maternal syphilis rose 28% over the last 2 years. Syphilis remains a major public health challenge..."
Nationwide, syphilis rates are at a 70-year high. 
Across the country, 3,755 cases of congenital syphilis were reported to the CDC in 2022 — that's 10 times as high as the number a decade before. The number of cases in babies swelled by 183% between 2018 and 2022.
Current CDC penicillin shortage
FDA lentocilin replacement order details


Mosquitoes with vaccines for bats

Thursday week 1 12th March - 6 years since COVID declared a pandemic. 


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