"Spit Queen" (she/her) Pneumococcologist dabbling with respiratory viruses #SpitKingdom 🇳🇿
New Haven, CT
Joined June 2009
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" We’ve officially entered the fuck-around-and-find-out phase". On the handling of the bovine influenza outbreak in the US. thenation.com/article/societ…
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This is why I’m never impressed by any catch in baseball! 😳
Glenn Phillips adds another unbelievable catch to his career resume! The 151-run Brook-Pope (77) partnership is broken. Watch LIVE in NZ on TVNZ DUKE and TVNZ+ #ENGvNZ
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Lots of ?s about raw milk. 1) there is no credible evidence raw milk benefits health. 2) There is evidence raw milk can harm. Small outbreaks, yes. But that's likely b/c raw milk producers are small. If raw milk were distributed nationally, there'd likely be larger outbreaks.
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Public health is: protecting health, preventing disease, and improving quality of life. We know that #PublicHealthIsALifesaver, every day. On #PHTYD, we say thanks to public health professionals who work to promote and protect the health of our communities. @ResearchAmerica
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1/ We're seeing a concerning rise in H5 wastewater positivity in Turlock CA.
Unlike previous H5 signals, @WastewaterSCAN is showing an exponential rise in H5 (and flu A) concentration that has persisted for almost a month!
ALT Figure shows an exponential rise in flu A concentration in wastewater over the past month. The inset shows H5 positive samples. Data from WastewaterSCAN. Location is Trulock CA.
.@CAPublicHealth reports another 4 probable #H5N1 #birdflu human cases today. Their release says 5 presumptive positives, but one was reported on Friday. If @CDCgov confirms all of these, it would take the state's total to 11 cases & the national total to 25 this year.
Wowza.
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Raw milk is popular in some circles, but can contain pathogens. That is well known. In the US , that list of pathogens is expanded and includes H5N1, a virus that is a pandemic threat. If you did not like the pandemic, don’t take a gamble for a next one: dont drink raw milk
California reports finding #H5 #birdflu virus in raw milk bought in a store.
How risky H5-containing raw milk is to humans isn't clear. Here's hoping we're not about to find out. statnews.com/2024/11/24/bird…
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If my technique was so poor that I got even a single lab-acquired infection in the course of culturing any virus, I wouldn't brag about it.
In my lab, staff with this low level of technical competence would not be allowed to handle infectious virus at any level of containment.
I worked as a post-doc on a 2011-12 DARPA virus GoF study to understand how Influenza-A evolved under selective pressure of anti-viral therapeutics. It was shutdown after GoF studies were banned by EO fm President Obama after Ron Fouchier and his team at Erasmus Medical Center took the H5N1 flu virus and made it more contagious by serial passage in live ferrets in 2011.
As part of my work I grew-up high-titer yields from cell culture (not live animal, we were barred from that) of H1N1 and H5N3 clinical isolate virus in BSL-2+ conditions. Even though I strictly adhered to protocols, I still ended up giving myself Inf-A infections several times in the first 6 months before my healthy immune system had built up high levels of protection.
From experience and IMO: Anything outside of BSL-4 protocols will result in release/escape outside of containment of any high titer, highly infectious respiratory virus to those working there.
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A Toronto man ran 1,105 kilometers (687 miles) over a year, carefully planning his routes to form the shape of a dancing figure
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This bill should never have been introduced, it fails to uphold Māori rights.
The Hīkoi (march) will arrive at New Zealand’s parliament and calls for the bill to be dropped.
#ProtectTheProtest
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The Sanger PrizeThe Sanger Prize - The Sanger Prize is an outreach competition aimed at undergraduate students who live and study in low or middle income countries sanger.ac.uk/about/study/the… #sangerinstitute
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The Sanger Prize Competition 2025 - calling for undergraduate students in LMICs
The winner will be offered a 3month internship with travel, living and research expenses are all covered by the award. sanger.ac.uk/about/the-sange… #sangerinstitute
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I would love to tell you about the times vaccines prevented me from getting sick, but every time it happens, I don’t notice. I just keep feeling well.
Neither do you.
Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.
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The majority of Americans supports vaccines. This pick goes aga public values.
RFK Jr., Trump's pick for secretary of health and human services, has built a "Make America Healthy Again" campaign that has already alarmed experts.
It blends conspiracy-tinged ideas about corruption within the FDA, fluoride in water and vaccines. trib.al/nqB1D3u
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Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital was illuminated in blue in recognition of World Pneumonia Day. One of the leading causes of pneumonia in young children is caused by RSV. A new 24/7 RSV Chatbot offers reliable info on symptoms and prevention. #WorldPneumoniaDay #ReSViNET
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BREAKING: Will.i.am just dropped a new track titled "Yes She Can"—and yes, “She” is Kamala Harris.
This is the anthem America needs to hear right now.
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Lotta people pointing out that removing fluoride from water would be very bad for dental health (yes- overwhelming evidence supports this) but it’s also worth mentioning that dental caries are a key modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease- it wouldn’t just be bad teeth.
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Limiting sugar before age 3 protects against diseases later in life science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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We must take actions to stop H5 birdflu from becoming next pandemic
Currently we are doing almost none
First is seeing true spread of the virus - yet we remain essentially blind
@JanikaSchmitt and I wrote in May in @TIME steps to take to stop H5N1
time.com/6976402/bird-flu-ne…
Anne Wyllie retweeted
Oh my goodness. Here is a male version of the “your vote is secret” video & it’s so good. Men, your vote at the ballot box is yours. It’s secret. Think about your girlfriend or your wife or your daughter. No one will know if you vote for Kamala Harris.
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Join our group for exciting new PhD project on “Ageing-related susceptibility to pneumococcal pneumonia”
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership. Deadline 13 Dec. findaphd.com/phds/project/mr…
