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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 2h

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.
#GiftLink

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 2d

"October 1918 would become the deadliest month in American history as a contagion the likes of which had not been seen since the days of the Black Death raged around the world."

The "Great Influenza" - #IDSky + #MedSky.

www.history.com/articles/spa...

Why October 1918 Was America's Deadliest Month Ever | HISTORY

More Americans died of the Spanish flu than in all the wars of the 20th century combined.

www.history.com

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David Amado Vidal @holdthelamp.bsky.social · 15h

News: Two Nobel laureates — the French E. Duflo and the Indian A. Banerjee — are now leaving their well-paid positions at MIT and moving to Europe. For money? No, for reasons like this. The good news is that Europe is regaining the brains that once made the U.S. great.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Rossana Rosa @drrossanarosa.bsky.social · 3d

Everything is a zoonosis!drawing/listing challenge
#18- Deer
This got me thinking *what* is a zoonosis?
Per WHO they r ifx “naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans”
I’ve seen Lyme referred to as “vector-borne zoonotic disease”
And what is a reservoir?
Thoughts #IDSky #VetSky?

A cute picture of a deer and zoonoses associated with them. If this deer looks orange to you is because somehow I thought mixing orange and yellow alcohol markers would make a tan color, and to my surprise it didn’t so then I tried coloring over it.

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Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular (SEBBM) @sebbm.bsky.social · 2d

🌱 Un universo oculto de ARN se revela: @marcos-dlp.bsky.social en #revistaSEBBM explora cómo existen miles de ARNs circulares con ribozimas, llamados “Obeliscos”, “Zetavirus” y otros, que desafían las fronteras conocidas.
👉 Léelo aquí: https://f.mtr.cool/nefrfsagzk

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VLS Vaccination et Lien Social @vlsdirect.bsky.social · 3d

🔷 La HAS présente les recommandations de vaccination pour les personnes vivant avec le VIH.

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Seema Grewal @seemagrewal.bsky.social · 3d

So sad to hear the news - John truly was an inspiration to so many, and one of a kind.

www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

www.cam.ac.uk

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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 4d

“The notion that hepatitis B is only confined to transmission for prostitutes, drug users, etc., is such an ignorant and uninformed way of approaching infectious disease” - Dr. Jason Goldman of @acpimphysicians.bsky.social.

Bingo... #MedSky + #IDSky

www.medscape.com/s/viewarticl...

CDC Panel Sidesteps Key Exposure Risk in Hep B Vax Debate

The Trump administration is continuing its push to revise federal guidelines to delay the hepatitis B vaccine newborn dose for most children.

www.medscape.com

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 4d

The NHS and social care would cease to function under the government’s new rules to be imposed on foreign staff, nursing leaders have said, as hundreds of medics condemned the policy as “divisive and xenophobic”.

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 4d

This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was just announced:
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

This seems like a good opportunity for me to explain a bit about peripheral immune tolerance and where the prizewinners' work comes in 🧵

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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to:

Mary E. Brunkow
Institute for Systems Biology,
Seattle, USA

Fred Ramsdell
Sonoma Biotherapeutics,
San Francisco, USA

Shimon Sakaguchi
Osaka University,
Osaka, Japan

“for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”

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Bruce Stallsmith @laimosemion.bsky.social · 5d

This may be the best response to much of the junk science being pushed by the trumpies in the US. 🧪🌎🐟⚒️ #TeamFish

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Pharmageddon @pharmageddon.bsky.social · 10d

The Epipocalypse is here!

Learn infectious diseases while playing cards. Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives teaches symptoms, transmission, reservoirs, geography, & more for over 150+ different infections.

#IDSky #MedSky #EpiSky

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pha...

Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives, A Medical Card Game

Learn infectious diseases by playing cards. Symptoms, transmission, reservoirs, and more!

www.kickstarter.com

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David Amado Vidal @holdthelamp.bsky.social · 9d

That would be a revolution of magnitude! 😅

Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 10d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

David Amado Vidal @holdthelamp.bsky.social · 10d

Thought of a physician filled with humanity and wisdom👇

Paul Sax @paulsaxmd.bsky.social · Jul 7

"What’s it like to have lived through both HIV and COVID as an ID doctor?"

A new intern asked me that last week.

I didn’t answer it fully then -- but I did here. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

Two Pandemics, Compared: Reflections on HIV and COVID-19

“Dr. Sax, what’s it like to have lived through two pandemics as an ID doctor?” The question came from a brand-new intern during afternoon sign-out. I took a breath — because wow, were they different. ...

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Paul Offit @pauloffit.bsky.social · 10d

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The risks of discouraging the birth dose for hepatitis B vaccine.

Jumping Without a Net

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new CDC advisory board continues to try and fix things that aren’t broken. Next up: the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose.

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David Amado Vidal @holdthelamp.bsky.social · 10d

¡Qué bien dibuja usted! Aquí le dejo una foto de otra bonita flor, a la que por si acaso, tampoco me acercaría demasiado si estuviera inmunodeprimido. Como ud. bien dice, hay que cuidarse de las zoonosis, pero esas preciosas flores lejos de nuestros pacientes también se aprecian mejor. Un saludo

Ruellia sp. , reservorio conocido de Candidozyma Ruelliae, levadura relativamente termotolerante, filogenéticamente cercana a C. Auris y qué produce perfiles cromogénicos à ésta similares en cultura , incluso a temperaturas superiores a 40º necesitando de un MALDI o métodos moleculares robustos para su detección certera. A diferencia de C. auris no se describen a priori aún casos de infecciones o colonizaciones en humanos de esta rara levadura.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Feb 5

Nearly two-thirds of antibiotics were introduced during the “golden age of antibiotics”! (short thread)

Timeline of antibiotics titled The Golden Age of Antibiotics: the year when each antibiotic drug class was first available for clinical use.

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Nelesh Govender @neleshg.bsky.social · 13d

🎉to Charlotte Rabault - she published this after a 6-month fellowship in Joburg

In patients aged >90 days, prior antifungal use was associated with non-susceptible Candida bloodstream infection (OR 2.02). In young infants, hospital transmission was more influential.

wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 14d

Meandering roads in the Lavaux vineyards, with the autumn colours just starting to appear... 🍂🍇

#BlueskyArtShow #TheRoad #photography #switzerland

Photo of vineyards in the foreground, with winding roads passing through. Woods on the left with the trees starting to show their autumn colours. Sun reflecting on the lake in the background.
Taken in Lavaux, Switzerland.

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David Amado Vidal @holdthelamp.bsky.social · 14d

Unfortunately, the slow but real resurgence of drug-resistant (now) tuberculosis is an international trend… The question I would like to ask the medical specialists in this field is: From what prevalence would it be prudent to once again recommend routine BCG vaccination? Any paper on this?

Jorge @jjorgepoveda.bsky.social · 21d

El repunte de la tuberculosis, bajo la lupa: ¿se enfrenta España a una reemergencia de la enfermedad? gacetamedica.com/investigacio...

El repunte de la tuberculosis, bajo la lupa: ¿se enfrenta España a una reemergencia de la enfermedad?

Los sistemas de vigilancia epidemiológica para la tuberculosis pulmonar se han activado tras la detección de una decena de casos en un asentamiento en Badalona y de otro brote en la Universidad del Pa...

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David Amado Vidal @holdthelamp.bsky.social · 14d

👍Será interesante pq sus reservorios hospitalarios d largo plazo ambientales/humanos no están aún del todo documentados y los Valencianos son ideales para hablarnos d ello. Por cierto, hablabais d alarmismo en el último episodio, y Auris es un caso típico de esto con muchísimo relato excesivo.

David Amado Vidal @holdthelamp.bsky.social · 17d

Respectfully: this modest nurse agrees with both 😅 , but there are so many nuances. For ex., in some countries nurses also have limited prescribing authority under specific conditions and medical oversight.....too complex a topic for 300 characters…

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Eurosurveillance journal @eurosurveillance.org · 18d

Looking at the #evidence

#Vaccination is not only an act of self-protection but also one of #solidarity

Without widespread vaccination, many diseases that are now rare thanks to #vaccines, could return

#VaccinesWork #UnitedInProtection #IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky

Eurosurveillance journal @eurosurveillance.org · Jul 11

'The more people are vaccinated against diphtheria the easier it is to stop outbreaks and to prevent future ones.'

Report on the first #outbreak of respiratory #diphtheria caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae with local transmission in Germany in 40 years

#EpiSky #IDSky #MedSky #PublicHealth 🦠🧪

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kabiraj @kabiraj404.bsky.social · 20d

I love the Ig Nobel Prize
To me, it is awesome, it is science in its natural human form.
Congrats to 2025 Ig Nobel prizewinners :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1cP...

The 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony (2025) FULL SHOW

YouTube video by Improbable Research

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David Amado Vidal @holdthelamp.bsky.social · 20d

What a beautiful drawing! The story of the Black Death is a fascinating subject, that has shaped a part of the history of medicine and History in general.

Rossana Rosa @drrossanarosa.bsky.social · 22d

Everything is a zoonosis! Drawing/listing challenge
#16- Tien Shan Marmot
h/t @holdthelamp.bsky.social

Reservoir for Y. pestis.
Fascinating historical perspective:
“What unites historical pandemic events is not the type of pathogen. It is human agency”

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#IDSky

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