Joy is its own resistance. If you need inspiration on how to spread it, the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation has a calendar to give you ideas for every day of the year. Goodnight, folks!
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Concentration camps are the defining issue in public health right now. Measles and TB outbreaks, healthcare being withheld as punishment for your race. It is not enough simply to turn the grants tap back on. To do so would make us the same as the Nazi scientists who discovered smoking causes cancer
“Some children affected by measles in the ongoing South Carolina outbreak have developed a serious complication of the disease called encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, state epidemiologist Linda Bell said… Among children who get measles encephalitis, 10 to 15% die”
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#LongCovid patients had distinct enlargement & reduced cerebral blood flow in a region of the brain called the choroid plexus. The alteration to that region in #LongCovid correlates w/ cognitive impairment, a new study found alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
State vaccine requirements for school entry are absolutely essential if we have any hope of maintaining herd immunity.
It is madness for states to repeal these requirements. And vaccine exemptions should not be permitted unless for a documented medical contraindication.
When animals like hedgehogs, pangolins and potato bugs (AKA rolly pollies or sow bugs) curl up into a defensive little ball it's called "Conglobation." Because they roll up into a cute little globe.
In related news, here's an Armadillo Projection map: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadil...
Viruses with human-to-human transmission are, by definition, not personal. Refusing measles vaccine is choosing to endanger those around you. “Medical freedom” is just a way for anti-vaxxers to sell their message in a society that values the choice to be unvaccinated over the choice to be unexposed.
A family of very round splitgill mushrooms pack tightly on the side of an upturned branch over the first early green growth of spring, 2025. All photos by me
Here are some nice mushrooms
A bright spot amidst all the public health doom and gloom: we're getting closer to a Guinea worm-free world
Our very beloved President Carter was a key leader in the fight against Guinea worm
1986: ~3.5 MILLION cases
2025: 10 cases 🤯
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We stand with Dr. @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social! She’s a champion for health equity and scientific integrity.
No one should face retaliation for speaking up for public health and science. We must protect whistleblowers and defend equitable health research for all. 💪
Gift link below👇
Just thinking about some of the national security implications of the U.S. government undermining confidence in vaccines and public health.
An illegal biological lab was just busted in Vegas. The owner is being investigated having samples of stuff like HIV, tuberculosis, and Ebola in another…
*Drank raw milk in pregnancy*
Good lord. You have MAHA demonizing vaccines and Tylenol when they love them some raw milk, and this is the shit that's actually dangerous.
Any "single" vaccine. He thinks combined vaccines are the culprit. Sneaky.
As we say goodnight, a reminder that from lifesaving research to community care, Black innovators have shaped public health at every turn.
We honor their brilliance, resilience, and impact. Black history is American history. Just a few public health heroes below.
Happy Black History Month!
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Minneapolis patients are avoiding medical care because they feel hunted by ICE. Masked & armed ICE agents have been seen inside & around the city's hospitals. Even U.S. citizens, if they have an accent or worry that they look like someone ICE might target, are fearful of seeking medical care👇
Just because Wall St is humming doesn't mean the US economy hasn't crashed. We've lost wealth of + infrastructure to produce knowledge. People can't just wait 4 years. The damage can't easily be undone at home and abroad the trust is gone. It's heartbreaking.
Don't forget how bad prisons and other types of detention centers are for both public health and long term well being off detainees.
Add in ICE quotas and you've got innocent people and communities exposed. It's sickening. Literally and figuratively.
I've gotten a question from a friend worried about Nipah.
Nipah virus, while very serious, does not transmit easily between people. Nothing so far suggests that has changed. Officials in India particularly are used to containing small outbreaks like these.
No need to panic.
@eeid2026.bsky.social @danahawley.bsky.social Hey there! Any idea yet if there will be any childcare organized?
Menace in French means threat. It sounds too cute in English.
What blast! 40 AI for Science Fellows from AIMS South Africa and Google DeepMind at CERI - Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation. This collaboration aims to advance AI technologies in Africa. We also welcomed the directors of AIMS, Ulrich Paquet and Karin-Therese Howell #AI #Africa #Science
Happy Diwali, the festival of lights in India, depicted with lit lamps
Happy Diwali 🪔 to all
The world needs more light, compassion and peace
Add to it the rapid recent increases in AMR and we could find ourselves in the same situation we were in a century ago, losing many more lives - especially children's - from both primary and secondary infections than COVID took.
So this interview lasted 2 hours so this “you’re scaring me” part might seem like an overreaction or fearmongering to someone without that context.
There’s a lot of evidence to support my hypothesis that a potential H5N1 pandemic would be worse than COVID.
"We're sleepwalking into a disaster," he says. "I shouldn't say we are — we already have sleepwalked into a disaster."
@npr.org
Just under half of all infections are now resistant to antibiotics.
Not the time to reduce funding for science and health.
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Rasmussen: What Would it Take for Bird Flu to Go Pandemic?
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#h5n1
Wow -- great primer on flu
#Chikungunya spread in New York by a home grown infected mosquito apnews.com/article/chik...
#medsky Important: #WestNile entered the US in New York and has now spread across the continent. Another mosquito-borne disease.
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
The Maldives 🇲🇻 became the first country in the world to eliminate mother to child transmission of:
-HBV
-HIV
-Syphilis
#IDSky
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