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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · 5d

“My termination, unfortunately, shows that the leaders of HHS and the National Institutes of Health do not share my commitment to scientific integrity and public health."

Details 👇🏻

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Kennedy fires NIH official weeks after whistleblower complaint

A top NIH official who filed a whistleblower complaint last month alleging she was removed from her job for political reasons has been fired by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to her at...

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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · 7d

🔐 More than 32,000 HHS staff will be furloughed during the #shutdown — or about 41% of the nation’s federal health care workforce.

#MedSky

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More than 40% of federal health workers furloughed during shutdown

The first government shutdown in almost 7 years began Wednesday after Congress was unable to come together on legislation to fund the federal government. The disagreement between Republicans and Democ...

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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · 11d

🧫 The CDC recently made major cuts to a program that for decades has monitored foodborne illnesses through a partnership between federal agencies and state health departments.

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Q&A: CDC makes major cuts to foodborne illness surveillance

The CDC recently made major cuts to a program that for decades has monitored foodborne illnesses through a partnership between federal agencies and state health departments, according to an expert who...

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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · 19d

"In a disorganized start to the second day of their meeting, members of the ACIP also reversed a vote they made the previous evening that preserved some children’s access to a vaccine that the panel had just voted not to recommend."

#IDSky #MedSky

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CDC advisors table vote to delay hepatitis B vaccination in newborns

CDC vaccine advisors voted Thursday to remove a longstanding federal recommendation that allowed young children to get a vaccine that combines protection against measles, mumps, rubella and varicella.

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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · 19d

💉 CDC advisors say COVID shots should require talk with doctor.

❓ But also: Details of a strange vote (which failed) that would have recommended COVID-19 vaccines require a prescription, something the ACIP does not control.

More coming soon:

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CDC advisors say COVID shots should require talk with doctor

CDC vaccine advisors voted Friday to weaken federal recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, even among older adults, saying vaccination should be based on shared clinical decision-making.The Advisory C...

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Gerard Gallagher @gerardgallagher.bsky.social · 20d

Whoops ... #MedSky 🙃

Gerard Gallagher @gerardgallagher.bsky.social · 20d

🏆 Emmy wins for ‘The Pitt’ feel personal for health care professionals

"Our emergency medicine group chats lit up like we had just won the Super Bowl."

💻 @owaisdurrani.bsky.social @rdglatter.bsky.social

#MedTwitter

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Emmy wins for ‘The Pitt’ feel personal for health care professionals

Although The Pitt is fictional, health care professionals praise actors Noah Wyle, Fiona Dourif and the rest of its cast and crew for accurately portraying the dynamic chaos of a shift in the ER as we...

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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · 21d

"Robust scientific evidence and safety data have unequivocally shown that universal birth dose HBV vaccination saves lives and is safe to administer in newborns."

🗣️ New editorial up on the site ahead of this week's #ACIP meeting.

#IDSky #MedSky

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Universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth saves lives

Universal administration of a hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth is a safe, highly effective, evidence-based practice that has saved thousands of lives by preventing chronic hepatitis B infe...

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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · 21d

On the agenda for this week's 2-day ACIP meeting, which starts tomorrow:

💉 MMRV vaccination
💉 Hepatitis B birth dose
💉 COVID-19 vaccines

“I’m hoping that they listen to the experts, but I guess we’ll just have to see what happens.”

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More vaccine changes could be in store for US

On Thursday, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will begin a 2-day meeting in Atlanta that could impact the availability of a few vaccines. It is the second ACIP meeting since Robe...

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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · 22d

💉 The US is losing its only dengue vaccine. What now?

#IDSky #MedSky

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Q&A: The US is losing its only dengue vaccine

The only dengue vaccine ever approved in the United States is being discontinued, raising questions about control of the mosquito-borne virus amid a decades-long surge in cases. The vaccine, Dengvaxia...

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Gerard Gallagher @gerardgallagher.bsky.social · 26d

In addition to #Ebola, there are numerous other ongoing outbreaks in Africa competing for limited resources, especially in the wake of the United States’ gutting of foreign aid programs that funded outbreak responses.

#IDSky #MedSky

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Congo’s Ebola outbreak spreads as cases double

An Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has doubled in size and spread in the province where it started, raising fears of cross-border spillover into neighboring Angola, a heal...

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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · Aug 22

🦠 Latest #HookedOnID went up this morning: Sara K. Schultz, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FCPP, from @templeid.bsky.social.

#IDSky #MedSky #PotatoSalad

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Hooked on ID with Sara K. Schultz, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FCPP

When I attended Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, I was pre-med mainly for the fun of getting to say, “I’m pre-med,” with little understanding of the actual...

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Gerard Gallagher @gerardgallagher.bsky.social · Aug 7

🗣️ “It’s perplexing to me why President Trump is allowing Secretary Kennedy to undermine his legacy in leading a medical intervention that really did save millions of lives.”

#IDSky #MedSky

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US abandons mRNA vaccine development despite triumphs

The decision to cancel almost $500 million dollars in U.S. funding for the development of messenger RNA vaccines is dangerous, shortsighted and tarnishes the legacy of a scientific advancement that sa...

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Gerard Gallagher @gerardgallagher.bsky.social · Jul 12

We asked the hosts of "This Podcast Will Kill You" to name the weirdest topic they have covered.

Hint: 🐠 👅

🎙️ "It’s horrifying and adorable."

@tpwky.bsky.social

@flandmines.bsky.social

@gohealio.bsky.social

#IDSky

Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · Jul 7

🎙️ The hosts of @tpwky.bsky.social encouraged attendees at the #APIC2025 meeting to become better science communicators.

@gohealio.bsky.social inteviewed the Erins after their keynote. Here's the full Q&A and a video clip of the chat.

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Q&A: An interview with the hosts of ‘This Podcast Will Kill You’

PHOENIX — The hosts of “This Podcast Will Kill You” encouraged attendees at this year’s Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology meeting to become be...

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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · Jul 11

📉 Cuts to U.S. foreign aid will endanger #HIV treatment and prevention services globally, and are likely to reverse decades of progress against the virus, researchers said this week during a press briefing ahead of #IAS2025.

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HIV funding cuts threaten to undo decades of progress

Cuts to U.S. foreign aid will endanger HIV treatment and prevention services globally and are likely to reverse decades of progress against the virus, researchers said this week.

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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · Jul 10

💊 More evidence has emerged that a promising CDC-endorsed STI prevention strategy that involves taking the antibiotic doxycycline after having unprotected sex - known as doxy-PEP - may be contributing to antibiotic resistance in the United States.

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Promising STI prevention tool linked to antibiotic resistance

More evidence has emerged that a CDC-endorsed STI prevention strategy that involves taking the antibiotic doxycycline after having unprotected sex may be contributing to antibiotic resistance in the U...

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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · Jul 9

🗳️ Senators voted along party lines Wednesday to advance the nomination of Susan Monarez, PhD, to be the next CDC director. Her nomination will now go to a vote of the full Senate.

Here's our rundown 👇

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Monarez a step closer to becoming CDC director

Senators voted along party lines Wednesday to advance the nomination of Susan Monarez, PhD, to be the next CDC director.

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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · Jul 9

🚨Senate HELP committee votes 12-11 on party lines to send the nomination of Susan Monarez, PhD, to be CDC director to the full Senate. All Rs voted yes, all Ds voted no.

Story coming later ...

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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · Jun 26

Taking aim at a longtime target of anti-vaccine activists, CDC advisors said the US should not administer flu vaccines containing thimerosal, a safe mercury-based preservative used to protect multi-dose vials of vaccine.

Lots more inside 👇

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CDC panel says no to thimerosal in flu vaccines, recommends new RSV shot

Taking aim at a longtime target of anti-vaccine activists, CDC advisors said Thursday that the U.S. should not administer influenza vaccines containing thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used to...

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Gerard Gallagher @gerardgallagher.bsky.social · Jun 25

Did they say the vote is also being postponed?

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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · Jun 24

New members, new agenda, surprise presenters: What to expect from this week's 2-day meeting of the CDC’s vaccine advisors.

🗣️ With comments from Paul A. Offit, MD
‪(@pauloffit.bsky.social‬) and Yvonne “Bonnie” A. Maldonado, MD.

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What to expect from first meeting of CDC’s new vaccine advisors

On Wednesday, the eight new members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will begin a 2-day meeting in Atlanta that could have an impact on the availability of some vaccines...

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Gerard Gallagher @gerardgallagher.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚨 The FDA has approved Gilead's twice-yearly injections for HIV PrEP.

💉 Now, it's a matter of getting shots into arms. 💪

#HIVSky #IDSky

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FDA approves twice-yearly shot for HIV prevention

The FDA on Wednesday approved a highly effective long-acting shot for HIV prevention that is administered just twice per year, greatly extending the time people can go between doses of a medication th...

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Gerard Gallagher @gerardgallagher.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚨 HHS announces "clean sweep" of CDC vaccine advisors. Removes all 17 members of the ACIP.

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Healio Infectious Diseases @healioid.bsky.social · Jun 4

Experts painted a grim picture of STI surveillance following the closure of a key CDC lab in April.

“A future without a lab like this is dim, and the risk to Americans is incredibly high."

#IDSky

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Closed CDC lab was cornerstone of national, global STI science

The Trump administration closed a CDC lab that tracked STIs, including drug-resistant gonorrhea. Experts have painted a grim picture of STI surveillance in the wake of the lab's closing.

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