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The Trump administration intervened the release of important studies on bird flu, while an epidemic degenerates in the United States.
One of the studies will tell if the vet who treats cattle is infected without knowing it by bird flu virus. Another report is the document of cases in which people carrying viruses can infect their cat cats.
Studies in the official journal of the Disease Control and Prevention Center were to appear in a weekly proportion of sickness and mortality. The prestigious magazine has been published since 1952 without any interruption.
Her scientific reports were swept away by the federal health agencies commanded by the interim secretary of the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Dorothy Fink, in an “immediate break” on communication. Mémo de Fink “intends to publish any document,” he wrote, “until he was investigated and approved by a president”. He was sent all day before President Donald Trump.
Former CDC officials said it is worrisome, as a firewall has long been present between scientific reports from the agency and people have appointed politicians.
“MMWR is the voice of science,” a pledge to save lives, former CDC director and CEO of Non -Group Organization.
Former CDC Chief Assistant Director Anne Shuhat said, “The idea that science can continue as long as a political purpose on it is unprecedented.” “I hope it will be small, but if it is not less, it is a censorship.»
According to the interview and email collected in the 2022 report with the convention investigators, the manager of the White House first attended the scientific study on Kovid -19 during the Trump administration. However, MMWR came out as expected.
“What is happening now is very different what we have experienced in Kovid, because there was no restriction between MMWR and other scientific manuscripts,” said Shoocht.
Neither the White House nor HHS officials responded to the requests for the comments. CDC spokesman Melissa Dibal said: “This is a brief break that allows the new team to establish an amendment and priority process.»
There were reports of a sudden interruption last week, as Fred Gingrichch, Executive Director of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners, a group of veterinarians expertly specialized in veterinary doctors, preparing to organize a webinar with members. He planned to reveal the results of a study to help provide for publication in MMWR at the end of this week. In September, around 150 members answered the questions and gave blood for the study. CDC researchers have analyzed antibody samples against bird flu virus, to find out if the vet was infected without going before last year.
Although it is too late to treat previous cases, the study has promised scientists to help understand how the virus spreads from cows to people, what symptoms cause and how to infection. “Our members were very happy to hear the results,” Gingrich said.
Like agricultural laborers, livestock veterinarians are at risk of bird flu infection. The results of the study can help protect them. And low infections will reduce the possibility that the H5N1 bird flu virus is developing to propagate effectively among people within a person – the entrance to an epidemic of flipper birds.
At least 67 people were positively tested for bird flu in the United States, obtaining majority cows or hen virus. But studies and reports suggest that many cases have not been detected because the tests are uneven.
Just before the webinar, Gingrich said, the CDC informed that due to the HHS order, the agency could not publish the report last week or not communicate its findings. “We had to cancel,” he said.
Another study on bird flu published in MMWR last week worries the possibility that people working in the Michigan dairy industry have infected their pets. These cases were partially reported in the email received by KFF Health News. In an email of July 22, an epidemiologist pushed to publish the group investigation to “inform others on the ability of indirect animals”.
Jennifer Morse, Medical Director of Middle -Mishigan District Health Department and scientist at the current study said that he had received a note of a colleague last week, saying “There is a delay in our publication – out of our control”.
A person close to the CDC, speaking on the condition of anonymity, was expected to be at least on 6 February, speaking on the condition of anonymity. 1 February.
“It’s surprising,” Freeden said. He said that if the reports are not restored then it will become dangerous. “It would be equal to find out that your local fire service is invited not to bring in any fire alarm,” he said.
In addition to publishing studies, MMWR updates the country on epidemic, poisoning and maternal mortality, and cancer monitoring data, heart disease, HIV and other diseases. Freeden said that the delay of reports or manipulation of reports can harm Americans by slowing down the ability to detect and slow down health hazards by the US government.
Frost also reminds how the Trump administration intervened with the CDC report on Kovid, revealed in 2022 expanded emails with the Chamber subcommittee on the Koronwirus crisis by the Congress investigators. The survey showed that people appointing politicians in HHS have changed or delayed the publication of five reports and tried to control many others in 2020.
In one case, HHS scientific advisor Paul Alexander criticized MMWR publishers in an email at Georgia Summer Camp at Georgia Summer Camp of July 2020 on an epidemic of Koronwirus, which was revealed in the Congress investigation. He wrote, “He only sends the bad message as written and really reads to send a message,” he wrote. Although the report data remained the same, the CDC removed the comment on the implications of the results of the schools.
Later that year, Alexander sent an email to the spokesman for that time, Michael Caputo, citing another example of his grip on the report, said: “Little victory but still a win and yippee !!!»
At that time, Shoocht, who lives in the CDC, said that he had not experienced such efforts to run or influence the agency’s scientific relations in more than three decades with the agency. He hopes that this will not happen again. “MMWR cannot become a political means,” he said.
Gingrich hopes that veterinary studies will be released soon. “We are a political organization,” he said. “It is necessary to maintain open communication and continuous research with our federal partners because we fight on this epidemic. ,
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