Nsikan Akpan
Managing Editor, Think Global Health at The Council on Foreign Relations
Highly melanated. Managing Editor, @ThinkGlobalHlth/@CFR_org Threads: nscience Past: WNYC/Gothamist, NatGeo, PBS NewsHour | PhD pathobiologist | YNWA
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1 month ago |
thinkglobalhealth.org | Nsikan Akpan
Originally published on February 12, 2025; Updated on March 12, 2025On Wednesday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shared its latest update on consumer prices, showing that the average cost of a dozen large grade A eggs increased nearly $1 in a single month—to $5.89. This price jump is the largest since 1980–even after adjusting for inflation and beats the record set by February's price data.
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2 months ago |
thinkglobalhealth.org | Nsikan Akpan
On Wednesday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly price data, showing that the average cost of large grade A eggs is the highest in 45 years. The price is the second highest—falling $0.15 of a record set in January 2023—after adjusting for seasonal inflation. The egg-price surge stems from H5N1 avian influenza—or bird flu—hitting poultry producers hard this winter.
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Nov 26, 2024 |
snexplores.org | Sophie Hartley |Nsikan Akpan |Stephen Ornes |Sharon Oosthoek
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May 24, 2024 |
thinkglobalhealth.org | Chloe Searchinger |Nsikan Akpan
After more than two years of discussion and negotiations, the representatives for 194 nations failed to finalize a draft of the Pandemic Agreement, an international accord meant to fix the weaknesses and global inequities in pandemic preparedness that COVID-19 revealed.
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Apr 28, 2024 |
pbs.org | John Yang |Harry Zahn |Vicky Stein |Nsikan Akpan
New research is revealing the secrets of Io, the mysterious volcanic moon of Jupiter. Four centuries after Galileo discovered Io in 1610, NASA sent a spacecraft called Juno on a five-year mission to Jupiter and its moons. Last week, NASA released animated artists’ conceptions of Io based on data Juno collected during two flybys. John Yang reports. Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors.
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