Greg Folkers 🇺🇦☮️🇺🇸
@greg_folkers
Washington, DC
CFHC Feline # H5N1 Surveillance Consortium/ Cornell Feline Health Center launches initiative to address growing threat of Avian Influenza in Cats bit.ly/40Ayput

This Week in Virology --TWiV 1238: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin @profvrr @DanielGriffinMD bit.ly/454Kc5L

.@ScienceInsider : @USDA reorganization will cut agricultural and forest research One of the agency’s largest and most storied research facilities will be closed along with most forest research stations by Erik Stokstad bit.ly/3UCUVzf

.@unmc Remembering Phil Smith, MD, Nebraska’s father of biopreparedness bit.ly/45aUT6Q

.@MSF_USA : Plan to dismantle PEPFAR must be stopped The shuttering of PEPFAR will undoubtedly lead to millions of preventable deaths. bit.ly/4fdjgp0

Politico: FDA's @DrMakaryFDA defends Vinay Prasad | bit.ly/4l8IlTy

NIH Director’s Desk: Dr. Geri Donenberg on HIV Innovation & the Future of Treatment at @NIH w J Bhattacharya @NIHDirector_Jay bit.ly/44RT7ss
.@WSJ : RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs on.wsj.com/45marWv

CNN/Amanpour: ‘It’s heartless, it’s careless, and it’s deeply damaging’ says former @NIH director Francis Collins on cuts to medical research cnn.it/40AP3Ks
Nature Med: Human infections with highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses in the United States from March 2024 to May 2025 Melissa A. Rolfes et al #h5n1 go.nature.com/46ZaNDB

.@CNN: States, cities face loss of vaccination programs and staff after ‘baffling’ cuts to federal funding by @ReporterGoodman Millions of $ have been pulled from state and local vaccination programs with no explanation 👉cnn.it/4fcyZVk @HHSGov @SecKennedy

JAMA Health Forum: Global Estimates of Lives and Life-Years Saved by COVID-19 Vaccination During 2020-2024 John P. A. Ioannidis et al bit.ly/41edwFA

.@ScienceInsider : Congressional panels resist White House proposals for sharp cuts in indirect cost rates bit.ly/4lEUHng

OFID: R.I.S.E. ID: Adaptations to the Current Political Climate for the Infectious Diseases Frontline Gonzalo Bearman, Priya Nori bit.ly/4m66BX4

bioRxiv: The role of ducks in detecting Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in small-scale backyard poultry farms Steven Xingyu Wu et al. #h5n1 bit.ly/3TXYaBi

.@politico : 14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funds Katherine Tully-McManus ➡️➡️politi.co/4f723gV

OFID: Meeting Report on an Integrated Research Agenda for Mosquito-Borne Arboviruses Angela K Ulrich et al bit.ly/3H1EFoq

.@CDCMMWR : Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium Infections Linked to Commercially Distributed Raw Milk — California and Four Other States, September 2023–March 2024 bit.ly/4lKQApF

.@Nature : Meet the early career scientists planning to leave the United States By Rita Aksenfeld & Jenna Ahart go.nature.com/416IxLE cc @NIHDirector_Jay

.@angie_rasmussen : The Saga of the #H5N1 Freedom Ostriches bit.ly/456yPdw
