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I've had to use the CDC lab to figure out a drug-resistant Trichomonas infection. Lots of very skilled people at that facility and this is a bad one to lose; it was the only lab that did those sorts of tests. There's not enough money in it for commercial labs.

Ugh, what a complete lack of regard for actual human lives aaaand the article gets flagged. What a mess.

Well, fuck. Or, on second thought, don't. You'll probably will die of super-syphilis.

I've been casually watching Moderna's progress towards a herpes vaccine which IIRC was supposed to come out in 2028.

Herpes is one of those things that obviously isn't as big a deal as cancer but it would be nice to be one less thing to worry about when having sexual encounters with new people, and sufferers of it would love to have some sort of relief from infections and the elimination of the stigma around it. It's also associated with Alzheimer's disease so the cost of not producing this vaccine might be hundreds of billions of dollars and years of life and the prevention of so much suffering down the line.

It's really dismaying to know that this kind of stuff might not come to fruition because of the combination of incompetence and intentional chaos.

This feels similar to the Reagan administration’s approach to the HIV epidemic, and for similar reasons. This will disproportionately impact men who have sex with men, and I have very little doubt that that’s the point.

Another skill to cede to a foreign country i guess.

Do these nationalists always dismantle their nation?

Is there some benefit here for Trump voters?

I don't see it.

But then again, I don't see how a trade war against the world is going to "Make America Great Again" either. It is much more likely to do the opposite.

More "own goals" by the US in the fight against infectious disease.

See also:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/health/cdc-sti-lab-gonorr...