Infectious disease MD (also CCM & EM) focused on pandemics, emerging infections, biosecurity, biotech https://xitter.cf/t.co/0U7G1vKZzE
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“In a better-prepared world, vaccines against known threats would be developed in advance and held ready for outbreaks, he said. ‘We’re not there yet.’”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“Within the primary vaccine cohort (mean age, 56 years; 75% men) RZV was significantly associated with lower rates of heart failure (hazard ratio [HR], 0.564; 95% CI, 0.429-0.740; P <.001), atrial fibrillation/flutter (HR, 0.658; 95% CI, 0.465-0.932; P =.018), and diastolic heart failure”
infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com…
“In-hospital death incidence among adults aged 65 years and older declined by 47% from 2017 to 2020, from 18.1 to 9.6 deaths per 100,000 population. Between 2020 and 2024, the rate increased by 57% to 15.1 deaths per 100,000 population.”
infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com…
“I think our data would imply that if we continue to wait until 12-15 months to vaccinate, we're going to have a subsection of our population at risk for measles and for its complications”
medpagetoday.com/meetingcove…
“ Since September, Florida’s total reported dengue cases have almost doubled from 392 to 721” washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
“Crawford County was also added to the list of counties with at least one case as well.”
butlerradio.com/another-coun…
“People here were just dying everywhere before the epidemic was even announced,” he said, pointing up a winding alleyway. “On this street alone, more than 80 people died in a few weeks. Now there is almost nobody left; they have all died or fled.” nytimes.com/2026/10/23/world…
“The goal of the center, the senior official said, is to get to the bottom of why some people’s immune systems have more outsized responses than others, and to ultimately learn more about diseases as well as how to make vaccines more safe and effective”
statnews.com/2026/10/26/nih-…
A woman in Nigeria was treated for malaria for 12 days before her Ebola diagnosis. Her likely exposure, at a Ugandan airport, went unseen. Kenya has every case inside its contact circle. That and the rest of the week’s infectious disease news in my new video:
“Trader Joe's..pulled its Tarragon Chicken Salad Wraps from shelves in 9 states after the FDA notified the chain in September that there may be a "possible issue" with them” usatoday.com/story/money/foo…
Russia has told the world what this wasn't. It still hasn't said what it was. No autopsy findings, no clinical history, no list of organisms tested. That isn't yet a closed case. My comments to @NewYorkSun: nysun.com/article/moscow-dec…
“Every year, teenagers account for a significant share of new STI & HIV diagnoses in the US, & far too many of them don't know their status or realize that prevention exists beyond abstinence, condoms, regular screening and for those at higher risk..PrEP..though not uptaken..as in adult populations”
idsareporter.com/issues/2026…
“The remaining seven Ebola patients were receiving treatment at two isolation facilities. No new infections were reported” triblive.com/news/health-now…
“Washington County is now among 43 other counties across Pennsylvania that have recorded confirmed cases of measles amid a growing statewide outbreak” triblive.com/news/pennsylvan…
“The approach is already being used in Singapore, but this is the first large-scale release in Europe. “In Barcelona, we are talking about the first example of a real introduction in the public spaces of the city,””
newscientist.com/article/259…
“that in 2024, the most recent year for which it has figures, there were some 100,000 cases of gonorrhoea in Europe, over three times as many as in 2015. Cases of syphilis more than doubled, to around 46,000. Chlamydia is an exception: after peaking in 2022, prevalence has fallen back to the level of 2015”
economist.com/europe/2026/08…
“Because of the demise of ACIP, we’ve created a whole new structure to be able to provide the medical community and the general public with definitive evidence on how well our vaccines work, how they protect us, and what the potential safety issues are,” cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-integ…
“the number of US cases since the beginning of last year is “probably greater than 20,000.””
cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-me…
“Under the new leadership, IDSA will continue pursuing strategic priorities focused on strengthening the infectious diseases and HIV workforce, expanding access to evidence-based infectious diseases information and improving preparedness for public health threats.” idsareporter.com/issues/2026…
