UN appeals for funds to help contain Uganda Ebola outbreak

KAMPALA, March 4 (Reuters) - The United Nations has launched an emergency appeal to raise $11.2 million to help fund Uganda's response to an Ebola outbreak that has killed two people, after the country's health budget was strained by U.S. cuts to foreign aid. ...

Vaccination rates are declining and might get worse as states relax rules More states are loosening vaccine mandates, scaling back vaccine promotion efforts and taking other steps likely to lower vaccination rates—even as a major measles outbreak spreads in Texas. Shalina Chatlani Medical Xpress

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West Texans, Mennonites at center of measles outbreak choose medical freedom over vaccine mandates Measles has sickened nearly 150 mostly unvaccinated people in rural West Texas, and a school-age child has died. AP News

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U.S. actions may set polio eradication back, WHO says

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began firing staff on Thursday, continuing a wave of government-wide layoffs ordered by the Trump administration. The terminations, which include staff at the National Weather Service, could impact weather forecasting used by many people and industries across the U.S. economy.

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research

The Trump administration has imposed a new restriction on employment that could push out thousands of NIH’s senior scientists: The agency cannot retain scientists in 1-year to 4-year positions that have long been routinely renewed.

It’s the Trump administration’s latest blow to NIH’s $5.2 billion intramural program. Less well known than the agency’s $39 billion extramural program, which gives grants to researchers at outside institutions, it includes basic research labs and a research hospital that treats patients with rare diseases—and helps showcase NIH’s work and build support from Congress, those familiar with it say.

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