Accuracy in Media

From Life Site News: But the good news does not extend to the African-American Community. That’s because the percentage of abortions done on black babies continues to be at alarming levels. The new CDC report makes it clear that even though black Americans constitute just 13% of the US population 35% of the babies killed […]

Uh oh; this isn’t good news for travelers, but then again, natives are apparently immune to Zika: The CDC has issued a travel warning urging pregnant women to consider postponing nonessential travel to Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, East Timor and Vietnam. The alert is less serious than warnings the CDC […]

When ABC News fact checks you, Bernie Sanders, that’s a new low: Fact Check: One in Five Cannot Afford Medicine Claim: One in five Americans can’t afford their medicine Rating: Mostly false. Even more have some difficulty paying, but CDC most recently reported that only 5.6% actually go without medicine due to cost.

The CDC’s findings are worrisome, especially with mosquito season (i.e. summer) starting soon. Photo by Agência Brasília

From the Free Beacon: The life expectancy for white women in the United States dropped slightly in 2014, according to a federal report released Wednesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data showed life expectancy among non-Hispanic white women declined by one month—from 81.2 years to 81.1 years—between 2013 and 2014.

The issue is that the U.S. government can’t figure out the origins of the virus and how to contain it. Photo by PAHO/WHO

Health officials confirm that there is at least one case of the Zika virus in the U.S. Photo by Coordinadora Nacional para Reducción de Desastres

Former GOP representative from Arkansas, Jay Dickey, and former CDC director who was ousted over gun violence statistics, Mark Rosenberg, wrote a joint op-ed which was run by the Washington Post. An interesting read, though.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) cannot get their act together. Instead of giving a dead Ebola virus for observation by technicians in their Atlanta, Georgia headquarters, the CDC mistakenly sent a live sample to an ill-equipped lab. Now the technician is being monitored for the next 21 days, which is the virus’s incubation period. […]

WASHINGTON — American troops, sent to West Africa to help with the efforts to curb Ebola, will be held in quarantine until cleared by medical staff, the Pentagon announced yesterday. Reuters reported American troops returning home from assignment in West Africa are being quarantined, especially after several debacles in the U.S. One instance was when a doctor […]