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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 2h

🚨 Mpox isn’t gone.

Last week, 3 locally acquired Clade Ib cases were reported in California.

Today, @ecdc.europa.eu reports locally acquired Clade Ib in Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, and Portugal.

Controlling outbreaks at the source protects everyone.

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Local transmission of clade 1b mpox cases detected in EU/EEA, ECDC urges renewed vigilance

Following the first detections of locally acquired mpox clade Ib cases within the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is c...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 8h

The White House website has updated it's Major Events Timeline to include some extremely political content attacking Democrats. Every structure, symbol, and system has to be debased to serve the MAGA-agenda.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 4h

In the past 2 weeks several European countries have reported locally acquired cases of #mpox clade Ib.
This is new. There had been patients before but those infections likely happened elsewhere.
Now it looks like mpox Ib is spreading here in the sexual networks of men who have sex with men.
#IDsky

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 8h

It’s everywhere except Australia. I don’t know if H5N1 will make the jump to human adaptation and pandemic potential, but it’s never had more opportunities.

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Avian flu “real disaster” as over 1K cranes found dead at key German roosting spot: experts

YouTube video by Global News

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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 6h

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 6h

Detection of Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Mucosal Immunoglobulin A in Clinical Saliva Samples After a Dose of Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine

Watch out, this does not mean Novavax induces mucosal responses and mRNA does not, as some claim. All vaccines induce some IgA.

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Detection of Anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 Mucosal Immunoglobulin A in Clinical Saliva Samples After a Dose of Novavax COVID‐19 Vaccine

Immunoglobulin (Ig) A acts as a first line of defense against respiratory pathogens. Mucosal IgA in salivary and nasal passages has a rapid response to antigens and can play a protective role against...

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 6h

I’m so honored to be a guest on the last episode of Science in Action after a decades-long run. I only wish it were ending on a happier note, but if science were in a better place, it wouldn’t be ending.

Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 7h

If we had a normal Science in Action next week, we'd likely lead on this milestone in H5N1 bird flu, and the global picture
As it is, it's the final episode, and @angierasmussen.bsky.social will be joining a top top panel to discuss the dire state of anti science in 2025.
H5N1 will get a look in?

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 8h

It’s everywhere except Australia. I don’t know if H5N1 will make the jump to human adaptation and pandemic potential, but it’s never had more opportunities.

youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY?...

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 14h

Lower vaccination rates will mean increased rates of diseases like measles, hepatitis, meningitis, and pneumonia -- and even the return of diphtheria and polio. Many of these diseases threaten not just the unvaccinated but also those they come in contact with.
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DeSantis moves to end Florida's childhood vaccination mandates. Doctors brace for impact

Florida announced plans to end mandatory vaccination. Now scientists are assessing which of several diseases deadly to children are likely to make a resurgence and when.

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Norma @looftsabine.bsky.social · 8h

"The freedom of the individual ends where the freedom of others begins." This means that every individual must be considerate of others and respect their rights.

Don't call it freedom when there are children who have to sacrifice their health for your freedom.
#vaccineswork

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 11h

Schneider Shorts 24.10.2025 – Our eureka moment
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Schneider Shorts 24.10.2025 – Our eureka moment

Schneider Shorts 24.10.2025 – minibrained autism quacks poison Neanderthals!, two sleuths expose massive FDA fail, journalists reveal secret investigation in Canada, California fraudster gets…

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 10h

A big shift in technology.

The purple bars show the sales of cars powered by combustion engines in China.

In green, you see the rise of electric cars in recent years.

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 18h

Immune cell communication networks and memory CD8+ T cell signatures sustaining chronic inflammation in COVID-19 and Long COVID

Another paper on blood cells from people infected with SARS-CoV-2.
No LongCovid patients included, nothing strange found.

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Frontiers | Immune cell communication networks and memory CD8+ T cell signatures sustaining chronic inflammation in COVID-19 and Long COVID

BackgroundCOVID-19, including its post-acute sequelae (Long COVID), is increasingly recognized as involving persistent immune dysregulation and chronic infla...

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 18h

Deadly H5 strain of bird flu suspected on sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Breaking: Deadly strain of bird flu suspected on remote Australian island

Suspected bird flu has reached Australia's sub-Antarctic Heard Island, with signs of the deadly H5 avian disease observed in elephant seals.

www.abc.net.au

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 18h

Long COVID in children and adolescents: results from three cross-sectional school-based cohorts with adjudication

Small study, but something that should be kept in mind: LC symptoms are present independent of SARS-CoV.2, not all is due to COVID.19.

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 12h

It's hard to overstate how grievous a mistake this is for any state that cares about the health of its people.

Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 14h

Why can't we just say "DeSantis moves to harm & kill children"?

0 sympathy for silent pediatricians noted: "A lot of them don't take a strong stance on whether kids need to be vaccinated...They don't want to lose business. And there are enough anti-vax ppl who can lambaste you on Google...'"🤦
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DeSantis moves to end Florida's childhood vaccination mandates. Doctors brace for impact

Florida announced plans to end mandatory vaccination. Now scientists are assessing which of several diseases deadly to children are likely to make a resurgence and when.

abcnews.go.com

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Thijs Kuiken @thijskuiken.bsky.social · 11h

Australian government: "Suspected H5 bird flu in elephant seals at Australian sub-Antarctic Island". If this is correct, then highly pathogenic avian influenza will have invaded Oceania, the last continental region that was still free of the disease.
www.agriculture.gov.au/about/news/s...

Southern elephant seals on Heard Island (Australian territory). Photo: Matt Curnock

Location of Heard Island, Australian territory. Source: Google Maps.

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Thijs Kuiken @thijskuiken.bsky.social · 11h

ABC News: "Deadly H5 strain of bird flu suspected on sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean". If correct, it would mean that H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza has reached Oceania, the last continental region still free of the disease.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Deadly strain of bird flu suspected on remote Australian island

Suspected bird flu has reached Australia's sub-Antarctic Heard Island, with signs of the deadly H5 avian disease observed in elephant seals.

www.abc.net.au

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Thijs Kuiken @thijskuiken.bsky.social · 11h

Volgens een nieuwsbericht van de Australische overheid is er verdenking van hoog-pathogene vogelgriep H5N1 in zee-olifanten op Heard Island. Als dat bevestigd wordt, dan heeft het virus Oceanië bereikt, het laatste continentale gebied dat nog vrij was.

www.agriculture.gov.au/about/news/s...

Zee-olifanten op Heard Island, dat valt onder de jurisdictie van Australië. Foto: Matt Curnock.

Locatie van Heard Island, onderdeel van een subantarctische eilandengroep in het zuiden van de Indische Oceaan. Bron: Google Maps

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 19h

Immune boosting?

"That’s a pseudoscience term. You're not boosting anything. You're not giving yourself more B cells or more T cells."

Ignore immune boost bunk. Better: healthy diet, sleep, and, of course, vaccinate.

Reality: You Can’t ‘Boost’ Your Immune System www.gq.com/story/boost-...

You Can’t ‘Boost’ Your Immune System. Do This Instead

GQ asked the experts to separate flu-season fact from fiction.

www.gq.com

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 19h

Scaremongering. This os:
1- in mice
2- not SARS-CoV-2-specific
3- only counts during the acute infection phase
4- can contribute to risk, is not a definate

These posts, totally overinterpreting sudies, are anti-science and can be very harmful.

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 20h

My latest column in Science appeared a few days ago, entitled Trojan gold: New US “standard” is another veiled attack on science. doi.org/10.1126/scie... The main points are as follows: 1/n

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Trojan gold: New US “standard” is another veiled attack on science

Transparency, reproducibility, and acknowledging uncertainty are meritorious attributes of science that differentiate it from other human endeavors, such as politics. But they can also be subverted. In the United States, an executive order from the Trump administration called Restoring Gold Standard Science illustrates how this can be achieved despite it being cloaked in language that most of the scientific community would enthusiastically support. The order seeks to “to ensure that federally funded research is transparent, rigorous, and impactful, and that Federal decisions are informed by the most credible, reliable, and impartial scientific evidence available,” and it has already informed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) revised procedures for conducting risk evaluations for chemicals already in commerce.

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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 19h

Avian flu detections in wild birds, including waterfowl, spike across US www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

Avian flu detections in wild birds, including waterfowl, spike across US

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 20h

Retraction @plosone.org for concerns I partially reported in 2015 with additional problems I later posted on @pubpeer.com:

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Figure from a scientific paper showing 'scratch assays' (Wound healing assays) - they show green fluorescent cells growing back after making a scratch with a pipette tip. I have marked some panels for duplications and alterations in some photos.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 20h

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