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Gregory C. Gray, MD, MPH, FIDSA

Professor in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Departments of Internal Medicine (Infectious Diseases), and Microbiology and Immunology.

University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)

301 University Boulevard, Route 0435

Galveston, Texas  77555-0435

Phone: (409) 772-0633

FAX: (409) 772-6527

www.utmb.edu/one-health

Email: gcgray@utmb.edu

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https://substack.com/@canaryinacornfield/note/p-175030701?r=36ndv6&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web 

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We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

“Under the “One Health” initiative, the DLS is working with the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to educate communities on proper …”

“What was even more shocking than a US President telling pregnant women, “Don’t take Tylenol [paracetamol, acetaminophen], don’t take it…fight like hell not to take it”, was watching the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) stand approvingly by his side. The White House briefing on Sept 23 was a live seminar in health disinformation. Robert F Kennedy Jr, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, accused NIH of creating a culture of “politicised science” and “corruption”. He described paracetamol use during pregnancy as having a “potential association” with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, such as autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He reported an “exciting therapy” for autism, based on no new evidence—leucovorin. And he then drifted into his obsession: vaccine safety. He alleged that previous administrations had gaslighted and marginalised mothers who believed their child had been injured by a vaccine. Jay Bhattacharya, NIH’s Director, blamed scientists for allowing taboos to block research that might give a “politically incorrect answer”. Marty Makary, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, spoke of inaugurating an “historic shift in medical culture”. “We now have data we cannot ignore”, he said. He quoted the Dean of the Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Andrea A Baccarelli: “There is a causal relationship between prenatal acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders of ADHD and autism spectrum disorder.” …”

“Second International Workshop on One Health Research: Improving Food Security and Resilience.”

Galveston, Texas — April 15-17, 2026

SEE: https://www.utmb.edu/one-health/news-events/OH-symposium/welcome

“The Importance of Vaccines

October 1, 2025 By Laura Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP

The goal of public health is to prevent disease. In 1800, over 46 percent of children in the U.S. did not survive past age 5 years. By 2020, the percentage plummeted to single digits. The graphics are stunning. Along with improvements in sanitation and hygiene, vaccines have been essential for this achievement.

Gone are the days in which parents lived in fear that their children would die from childhood diseases such as diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus (lockjaw), and polio.

Every summer during the mid-20th century, polio would appear raising so much terror that many parents would flee town with their children, hoping to protect them from permanent disability or death.

The parents of the 21st century have been spared these terrors. Cases and deaths from tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis have plummeted along with other vaccine-preventable diseases.

Polio cases and deaths have largely vanished except for a few cases in Pakistan, Angola, and Nigeria, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.

Tragically, measles is experiencing a resurgence because of a flawed paper that falsely linked the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism. Subsequent misinformation campaigns have resulted in parents refusing to vaccinate their children with the MMR vaccine.

What led to this fiasco?  …”

Advancing Health Care in Humans, Animals and the Environment

“America’s Retreat from reliance on public health science hurts us all.”

by One Health Initiative:   September 26, 2025 in Health

Health  24th September 2025

Also see:

The American Academy of Pediatrics’ Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule can be found here.