Volume 12, No. 8o, Released December 21, 2025

“The topic: ACIP’S new misguided, reckless, and unscientific recommendation to remove the universal birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine from the childhood schedule. This recommendation, made at the December 2025 meeting, puts the health of our nation at risk. Here’s why it matters. …”

As dangerous eugenic ideas spread, NIH falls silent

Medical experts from the One Health initiative debunk vaccine myths promoted by RFK Jr. and outline what must be done to protect public health

Milk Supply Safe; Considered Low Risk to Human Health and Safety 

“ … According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HPAI viruses circulating in birds and U.S. dairy cattle pose a low risk to the general public in the United States. However, people who have job-related or recreational exposures to infected birds or mammals are at higher risk of infection and should take appropriate precautions outlined in CDC guidance.”

New Delhi

The University of Oxford has launched the world’s first Phase II clinical trial of a Nipah virus vaccine candidate in Bangladesh, manufactured by Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII). The vaccine is urgently needed as Nipah virus infections can be fatal in up to 75% of case

The breadth of the Trump Administration’s intervention in the arts has been torturous and staggering.

This report by the European Food Safety Authority and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control presents the results of zoonoses monitoring and surveillance activities carried out in 2024 in 27 Member States (MSs), the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) and eight non- MSs, according to the Zoonoses Directive 2003/99/EC.

Key statistics on zoonoses and zoonotic agents in humans, food, animals and feed are provided and interpreted historically.

In 2024, the first and second most reported zoonoses in humans were campylobacteriosis and salmonellosis, respectively, followed by Shiga toxin- producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infections.

Listeriosis was the fourth and most severe zoonotic disease, with the highest percentage of hospitalisations and the highest case fatality rate.

The number of cases reported in the last 5 years showed a significant increasing trend in campylobacteriosis, salmonellosis, listeriosis and STEC infections. Fourteen MSs and the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) met all targets for reducing Salmonella prevalence in poultry populations for the relevant serovars.

Salmonella samples from various animal carcases, and samples for Campylobacter quantification in broiler carcases, were more frequently positive when carried out by the competent authorities than with food business operators’ own checks. Twenty- seven MSs and the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) reported more food- borne outbreaks, cases and hospitalisations in 2024 than in 2023, although the number of deaths decreased. Salmonella in ‘eggs and egg products’ was the agent/food pair of most concern. Salmonella was also the causative agent associated with the majority of multi- country outbreaks reported in the EU in 2024.

Foods of non- animal origin, and in particular ‘vegetables and other products thereof’, caused the largest number of deaths in strong- evidence outbreaks. This report also provides updates on brucellosis, echinococcosis, trichinellosis, tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis, rabies as well as other zoonotic bacteria, viruses and parasites in food and animals.