Jason Kindrachuk

Yes, apropos dangers of supplements, there is an outbreak of extensively antibiotic-resistant Salmonella in #moringa supplements.

Moringa has absolutely no proven health benefits

but
#AntimicrobialResistance kills more than a million people every year

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Poster for an online course on epidemiology for journalists

During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, I taught three, online courses for journalists on basics of epidemiology

Course recordings and slides are still available as a free resource on my teaching website

www.teachepi.org/courses/epid...

As US Is Poised To Lose Measles-Free Status, RFK’s New CDC Deputy Downplays Its Significance - KFF Health News Measles is at a 30-year high in the U.S., but technicalities may stave off the loss of the nation’s measles elimination status.

🦠My latest:

RFK's new CDC appointee shrugs off the potential loss of the U.S.’ measles-elimination status and deflects blame to other countries.

“It’s just the cost of doing business with our borders being somewhat porous.”

@kffhealthnews.org

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We're already well into the new year, but it's not too late to kick the year off with a good read

My grandfather created the hepatitis B vaccine. Would he recognize public health in the U.S. today? Physician Emilie G.C. Thompson’s grandfather created the hepatitis B vaccine. Now she’s watching his legacy get dismantled.

"Because of a decision made decades before by frightened parents, these babies may grow up to suffer the misery of cancer — and, always, the risk of passing the curse of illness to future generations."

www.statnews.com/2026/01/15/h...

Don't be fooled! This is NOT a venomous snake.

It just looks like one.

You're looking at a Giant Dead Leaf Mantis (Deroplatys desiccata), native to Malaysia, Philippines & Borneo.

These little guys are masters of disguise. This is their "scary sharp-toothed predator" trick, but they have MORE!

Zoonotic and Avian Pathogen Detections in Fecal and Sediment Samples - A Low-risk, High-throughput One Health Approach to Surveillance Many pathogens, both those with human spillover potential as well as avian-specific viruses, are maintained in wild bird populations. While much surveillance for influenza A viruses (IAVs) is performe...

Really excited to see this come together across collaborators and led by an amazing postdoc - Dr. Hannah Wallace - and summer student Gabi Rzeszutek.
Zoonotic and avian pathogen detections (including H5) in Manitoba from environmental sampling:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

‘This is immoral’: Public Health experts respond to funding cuts to science & medicine  Over the course of the year, the Trump administration cut billions in funding for the National Institutes of Health, and $500 million worth of mRNA vaccine research. “There has been erosion of trust in science and public health and medicine,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at the Texas Children’s Hospital. “But it’s not random, this occurred deliberately by bad actors for political motivation.” Dr. Francis Collins, the former director of the NIH, said he’s never seen anything like this. Cuts to NIH resulted in the cancellation of 383 clinical trials affecting 74,000 trial participants. “Many of these people very serious cancers for which we don't have a great answer, but maybe we're in the middle of discovering one, and then the trial gets stopped, and all that data is lost, and those people are basically left to drift,” Dr. Collins said. “This is immoral to drop somebody into that space.”

“There has been erosion of trust in science & public health & medicine,” vaccine & infectious disease expert @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social said in response to the Trump administration’s cuts to vaccine and medical research. “It’s a terrible tragedy,” said Dr. Francis Collins, former NIH director.

Such a humbling honour to be a part of this amazing study. Thanks to those who led this critical work, to all of the team, and to the participants and communities who continue to help us identify and understand these ongoing public health impacts of #mpox

Fantastic and impactful work from everyone involved, and especially those who led the team. A huge debt of gratitude to all study participants

Sharing this here at the request of Dr. Florian Krammer:

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This feels like a lifetime ago!

Really fortunate to have presented along these very esteemed colleagues and to have some great questions from our audience today

Enjoy it as a participant - you’ve certainly earned that!

What an outstanding pleasure it was to attend last year and will hopefully be able to make it back out this coming round

So, @angierasmussen.bsky.social and @kindrachukjason.bsky.social and other #ViroSky folks, Virology Africa 2026 is going to be INSIDE the Kruger National Park in South Africa in September 2026!! It will be awesome 😁

When speed meets experience: emergency funding builds on past mpox research When speed meets experience: emergency funding builds on past Mpox research

🧪 #mpox #DRC
MBOTE-SK project major contributions to understand and respond to new Clade Ib mpox virus

Glad to be part
@globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social
@labgenpath.bsky.social
@itmantwerp.bsky.social
@kindrachukjason.bsky.social
@ispm.unibe.ch

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Surface sampling for mpox virus in multiple healthcare settings in Sierra Leone, June 2025 Background: As mpox virus (MPXV) has continued to expand geographically, critical knowledge gaps in environmental persistence in resource-limited healthcare settings remain. Despite evidence of fomite...

reat to see this collaborative effort out bridging our colleagues from Sierra Leone, DRC, Belgium, US, and Canada. Kudos to my MSc student Michaella Jaba and all of our team

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

I think about this a lot!
Medical professionals and their societies are sounding the highest level of alarm about the dangers of rejecting science and favoring conspiracy theories and it is hardly breaking through.
That's how far down the rabbit hole the US is.
This fight is hard.

Amazing achievement of global solidarity #SmallpoxEradication

Now, we just have #mpox 🙊

New outbreaks, new lineages #orthopox 🦠

#VaccinesWork but 💉 needs to be delivered to #DRC #Africa now

@boghuma.bsky.social @kindrachukjason.bsky.social @onisillos.bsky.social

Completely agreed. We know what can be achieved with ingenuity and perseverance - but need global leaders to champion this

I’m actually at a loss for words…

I haven’t heard anything new on h2h transmission for IIa

A systematic nomenclature for mpox viruses causing outbreaks with sustained human-to-human transmission - Nature Medicine We propose a new nomenclature for mpox virus lineages with sustained human-to-human transmission to improve tracking, communication and public health response.

A pleasure to be included on this as part of the WHO TAG-VE along with many esteemed colleagues:

A systematic nomenclature for mpox viruses causing outbreaks with sustained human-to-human transmission

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you 🙏

Thank you 🙏

Thank you so much 🙏

Thank you! Feeling is very mutual

🤣 thanks!

Going to maintain my program at UM for the time being. It will be a hefty balance but really proud of the work we’ve been doing internationally through the generous support of our funders