Adriel Bettelheim

Adriel Bettelheim

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Senior health care editor at Axios. Politics and policy with some music and sports sprinkled in. Signal: oradea.10 https://linktr.ee/abettelheim

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NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

propublica.orgBird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act.Federal officials brushed off the issue as Utah prioritized the fur industry’s interests. Little has been done to stop the spread of the virus and ensure it can’t spread to humans, a failure that expe...

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Dorit Reiss
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"Controversial vaccine researchers who have been praised by Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, had their offices in Guinea-Bissau raided by judicial police, who seized doses of hepatitis B vaccines..." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.comRFK Jr’s ‘deities of vaccine research’ raided by police in Guinea-BissauPolice seize doses of hepatitis B vaccine from people at center of dispute over research on African newborns

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Dan Diamond
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Chris Klomp, who’s currently going through Senate confirmation to be deputy HHS secretary, appears to be off the panel.

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Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency