Want to follow the #H5N1 bird flu outbreak in the United States? Check out this new timeline, courtesy of @svscarpino and @globaldothealth. The team at @thinkglobalhlth will update it weekly. 📊 by @allisonkrugman

USDA detects second bird flu strain in dairy cattle - Leah Douglas & Tom Polansek, Reuters - it's the D1.1 subtype, which recently caused a fatal case in Louisiana and a severe case in Canada - detection via USDA's milk testing in Nevada

Argentina says it will pull out of World Health Organization -- Ivonne Valdés and Eve Brennan, CNN

RT @maxwelltani: In the last month, the FCC has opened investigations into Audacy, PBS, and NPR. It has reinstated complaints against ABC…

Kennedy advances to final Senate vote - Politico

Uganda begins Ebola vaccine trial after new outbreak

Some PEPFAR programs get waiver to restart operations Antiretroviral medications and treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV are included in the limited waiver obtained by Devex - Adva Saldinger

RT @janelle_cpp: for @ObjectiveJrn i wrote about the need for archiving + gaps in accountability reporting on trans issues given the cdc we…

USAID’s website has gone dark. Reuters reported yesterday that the Trump admin is exploring the idea of bringing the independent agency under the State Department.

NEW: The webpage for vaccine recommendations from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is offline. ACIP is an advisory committee that develops recs for all vaccines used in the civilian population of the U.S. Before-after:

NEW: All the data published by CDC public health programs to help save lives has been removed until further notice to comply with Trump’s EO on gender

and the 2020 Census are down. The CDC's page on contraception ( has gone dark. Some flu pages are also wobbling. I might call it a day. Click thru the quote tweets below for an incomplete list of things the CDC altered today

NBC News: CDC site scrubs HIV content following Trump DEI policies

STAT: CDC removal of databases on sexual orientation, gender identity sparks alarm "Another CDC page on “Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities,” last publicly archived on Tuesday, was also down."

Update here: The CDC edited the mpox page on how it spreads to swap "pregnant people" for "pregnant women" ...

HIV page might be back up, but some links are still dead.

The CDC has shuttered its webpages for supporting LGBTQ+ youth in schools, Health Disparities Among LGBTQ Youth, and Creating Safe Schools for LGBTQ+ Youth

This CDC webpage for the youth risk behavior survey remains down. Its corresponding data repository shows that last night its "gender field was changed to "sex" ...

The CDC has begun purging data. Example: The youth risk behavior survey...

Resurfacing in the light of day: People should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, flu, covid, reproductive health...