NEW YORK (APP) – A federal scientific post on Thursday returned to a two -week break, with two papers examining the effects of forest fires in Hawaii and California.
Disease control and prevention centers resumed weekly reports of illness and death, which Trump administration Suspend As part of the rules, guidance, announcements, press releases, social media posts and website posts as part of “pause”.
The CDC has slowly resumed some communications and reports, but the silence of MMWR, as it is known, has caused concern for public health leaders and some legislators.
A Democrat, a Democrat from Illinois, said in a statement Wednesday night that the publication was demanded to resume, “the outbreak does not contain because scientists have been ordered that they Stop talking about. “
MMWR issues usually run on 20 to 25 pages and contain four or more reports about diseases, health trends or other public health developments. Thursday’s publication It was thinner than usual: on just eight pages, with two short notations.
Research on the effects of forest fire health
A report Was about the previous year Maoi Wildfire. Researchers measured blood to respond to firefighters, and searched for and Poly Florolalilile substances, or PFAs. Human chemicals are linked to cancer and other health problems.
Previous studies have said that the number of PFAs is high in the blood of firefighters. Thousands of firefighters Have been tried Manufacturers and companies who make firefighting gear and foam want to be damaged for display.
This new study looked at 180 firefighters and 80 employees of 80 county. He found that the number of PFAs was high in the blood of firefighters, but mostly were still at the bottom of the medical level, which stimulates the need for further testing. The authors acknowledged that the researchers had no basic measurement of people in the study before the 2023 fire, so it is difficult to know if Blays had cooperated or not, the authors acknowledged.
The second article The hospital’s Emergency Department visits during the last month Los Angeles Wildfire. It found that visits have decreased by 9 % during the first six days of forest fire.
This is in accordance with other research that immediately made natural disasters. Later, the ER visits have been shown. Drop withdrawal can cause people departing from Los Angeles or caused medical care from places other than hospitals. Information from hospitals in nearby counties was not included in the new report.
Journal never took a two -week holiday
Prior to the journal, the CDC was expected to publish articles about the spread of birds flu. A CDC spokesman did not say why articles were not published this week but said he was “still in the pipeline.”
During the Obama administration, CDC director, Dr. Tom Freden, said he was happy to see the return of the journal, but he also expressed concern that it was “spreading the flu of birds and people in people.” There is no report, which is a new stress of MPOX outbreak or other emerging risks of health.
Dr. Georgez Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said he wants to look at the materials that contain information that researchers, local health officials and others have “data -driven decisions” to researchers, local health officials and others. Need
The MMWR is called “CDC sound”. Published weekly since 1961, it has been the main way to mention the investigations of diseases from generations, share health recommendations and deliver other health information.
He had never taken a two -week break.
Usually released every Thursday, the journal has more than 147,000 electronic Users – A reader who is primarily a doctor, nurses, educators, researchers and public health scientists.
Subjects often turn into news for ordinary people
In an article published in June 1981, before, he came down with a lung infection about the men of Los Angeles of healthy homosexuals. First published report Documenting the disease known as AIDS. Journal reported The first two cases H1N1 is known as the “swine flu” pandemic disease.
In 2020, during the first Trump administration, MMW became the focus of concerns about political interference in RCDC’s scientific works. White House officials believe CDC scientists are trying to make Trump a lot of worsening to make Kovade 19 pandemic diseases worse.
The editor of the Journal, Dr. Charlotte Kent, Later told Congress Administration officials pressured him to delay the publication of at least one article and asked him to delete an email in which political interference was shown.
“If political decisions highlight the risks of health, we will all be less safe,” said Freden, president of a series of life -saving life, said Freden, a non -profit organization working on international health issues. “I hope the new administration will publish CDC prices every week without health interference with health risks.”
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