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  • Bird Flu Knowledge, Misleading Claims About Measles Prevention, and Health Content Restrictions — The Monitor

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    This volume features findings on beliefs about bird flu from KFF’s latest Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust, as well as the false promotion of vitamin A as a preventative for measles. The Monitor also shares developments in content moderation on social media and how a study about mental health after gender-affirming care is misrepresented to make false claims about health care for transgender and non-binary people. Additionally, this volume explores when people prefer to use an AI chatbot, instead of a person, for health information.

  • U.S. Public Health

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    This Health Policy 101 chapter examines how public health is governed and delivered in the United States. The chapter includes explanations of key public health frameworks, services, capabilities and characteristics, how the public health system works in state, local and territorial governments, public health funding, workforce, and communication challenges in an era of declining trust and more.

  • This quote card is a quote from Josh Michaud that reads, "Given the current trends and embrace of vaccine skepticism on the part of the administration, and potential changes to federal policy around childhood vaccines, we might continue to witness more and longer outbreaks of preventable disease—and just maybe lose our measles elimination status, which as a country we’ve had for 25 years."

    U.S. Measles Outbreaks: A New Abnormal in a Time of Vaccine Hesitancy

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    Given the current trends and embrace of vaccine skepticism on the part of the administration, and potential changes to federal policy around childhood vaccines, we might continue to witness more and longer outbreaks of preventable disease — and just maybe lose our measles elimination status, which as a country we’ve had for 25 years.

  • Race-Based Vaccine Myths Spread Amid Measles Outbreaks — The Monitor

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    This volume discusses the spread of race-based vaccine myths and shifts in health communication from fact-checking to fostering open dialogue. It also explains common misconceptions about heart attack treatment and prevention, a new scientific journal that questions established science, and gaps in research standards for AI chatbots used in healthcare.

  • Skepticism About Vaccines and Response to Bird Flu — The Monitor

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    This volume shares findings from the latest KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust, along with updates from Robert Kennedy Jr’s senate hearings. It also examines distrust in public health messaging about bird flu, motivations for sharing information online, and how fraudulent research can sometimes inform AI chatbot models.

  • Myths About Raw Milk and Vaccines — The Monitor

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    This volume explores narratives linking vaccines to autism and misleading claims about the benefits of raw milk. It examines how trust and perceived expertise influence misinformation and AI's role in spreading false mental health information.

  • Vaccine Misinformation Spreads as Children Head Back to School — The Monitor

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    This edition highlights vaccine hesitancy and misinformation around MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccines as children return to school and measles cases resurge in parts of the U.S. It also examines emerging narratives around COVID-19 vaccine misinformation following the FDA approval of COVID-19 boosters and false claims linking mpox to the vaccines.