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Multiple contemporary reports and commentaries estimate that USAID-related funding cuts have been linked to substantial excess deaths, but . Published analyses presented here range from an 80,000 deat...
spends its money primarily on large-scale grants and direct charitable contracts across global health, development, and , funded in part by an investment Trust that supplies the foundation’s endowment...
(thiomersal) remains used primarily as a preservative in multi‑dose vials of influenza (flu) vaccines worldwide, while routine childhood vaccines in high‑income countries have been reformulated to be ...
Early test‑negative real‑world studies from England report that the 2025–26 seasonal vaccine is reducing medically attended H3N2 (subclade K–dominated) illness by roughly 70–75% in children and about ...
Early real‑world studies from the UK show the 2025–26 seasonal vaccine reduced influenza‑related emergency department attendances and hospital admissions by about 72–75% in children and adolescents an...
Multiple lines of documentary evidence show that private donors and private philanthropic organizations have funded in and —most prominently , , and other foundations that channel money through and na...
A precise list of countries still using for routine childhood immunizations in 2026 cannot be compiled from the available reporting; the evidence instead describes a clear global pattern: high‑income ...
Yes — dogs can and are routinely vaccinated against several zoonotic pathogens that pose a real risk to humans, most notably rabies, and veterinary vaccination programs have measurably reduced human e...
Mutations that created A(H3N2) “subclade K” (also called J.2.4.1) emerged after the 2025 vaccine strains were selected and show reduced lab reactivity to the vaccine reference viruses, prompting conce...
Laboratory and surveillance reports show that antibody responses elicited by the 2024–25 H3N2 vaccines were antigenically weaker against some circulating viruses that season, while the 2025–26 vaccine...
The compiled analyses conclude that , with one prominent peer-reviewed estimate warning of roughly if cuts persist . These projections rest on retrospective estimates of lives already saved by USAID o...