Listen: Healthbeat staff talk vaccinations, bird flu and other public health stories on ‘What the Health’

HIV physician John Weiser talks about why complying with President Donald Trump’s orders to erase transgender people is bad for science and society. And he notes that acquiescing didn’t spare the CDC from further harm.

A kid forgets breakfast and can't focus: blood sugar. Another keeps his head down: exhaustion. One loses a cousin to gun violence: trauma, grief, and community health.

The British Consul General to the Southeast U.S., based in Atlanta, shares a story from her global health work in the Balkans, where a program to install doors on toilets in schools grew into other projects that became a lifeline for women.

They urge vaccinations, masking in crowds, and prompt treatment to prevent complications as the winter virus season picks up.

Universal infant and childhood vaccination against hepatitis B, recommended since 1991, has reduced by 99% the number of reported cases among U.S. children, adolescents, and young adults.

Meanwhile, flu and RSV cases are increasing across the city and state.