Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays. Listen in ⬇️

The National STD Curriculum (www.std.uw.edu) has launched the long-awaited Image Library and Weekly Quiz series... Test your STI knowledge, learn and obtain free CME! www.std.uw.edu/image-librar... #IDSky #STI

The White House East Wing has been completely demolished. The demolition is basically at the main White House walls.

You can read all this and more here: • www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/more... • www.everydayhealth.com/infectious-d... • www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic... • www.health.harvard.edu/blog/measles... • www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and... • www.nfid.org/resource/fre... • www.yalemedicine.org/news/should-...

The author of the law told ProPublica she believes infectious diseases have been made “the bogeyman.” She thinks measles can protect against cancer and put cancer into remission. (The sources she provided for this claim don't actually say that.)

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #immunosky #virosky #Publichealth Based on a study in @sciimmunology.bsky.social , a #covid booster immunization drives a germinal center mediated broadening of #Bcell responses by recalling existing #memoryBcells

Medicare telehealth payment for services will mostly end tonight, September 30, 2025. Still works for behavioral/mental health with periodic in-person visits and rural at an approved "originating site", i.e., not the patient's home.

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

CDC Infectious Disease Data Project Shelved www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

(2/2) As of May 29, there are 1,088 confirmed measles cases in 33 jurisdictions in the US. For context, there were a total of 285 cases in all of 2024. Way to go, America! 🦅 #Measles #VaccinesSaveLives

E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Trump in 2024: we are going to deport illegal immigrants, who committed crimes, to their home country Trump in early 2025: we are sending legal immigrants, with no criminal record, to random foreign gulags Trump in midway through 2025: we are going to deport legal visitors studying at Harvard

Yup, one of the terminated NSF awards was #2140743, which allows Harvard to draw funding for its NSF graduate research fellows (GRFP), all current and new. Confirmed here: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... Just cruel.

A corrupt pro wrestling promoter given the authority to shut down the nation’s oldest university is about where we’re at right now, as a country.

A 27 y/o woman with hx of relapsing Kikuchi disease presented for altered mental status and 1 month of painful, bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy & fever. Brain MRI showed multiple cortical, subcortical, and callosal enhancing T2-FLAIR hyperintensities with restricted diffusion #Medsky #Neurosky

Inject the second paragraph of this footnote directly into my veins. (And then send it to the nine firms that have bent the knee.)

asked by Stephen A. Smith about his Harvard shakedown, Trump starts ranting about Harlem and says "I got a very high Black vote"

Today Harvard University became the first university to directly refuse to comply with the Trump Administration's demands. @nathanheller.bsky.social reports on the pressure from Washington threatening America’s oldest school—and the soul of higher education.

Cancers related to CT scanning could account for 5% of all new future cancer diagnoses, annually. In this risk model, the 93 million CT scans performed in 2023 were projected to result in approximately 103,000 future cancers. (H/t Topol) CT scans exposes patients to ionizing #BlueSky #MedSky

Thru the CDC AR Lab Network, the Maryland and Washington State Public Health Labs offer nationwide gradient strip method antimicrobial susceptibility testing for NG - not sure if they were indirectly impacted through federal funding cuts, though.

Thank you 🙏. Super helpful info. Found their info here, in case helpful to others: www.cdc.gov/antimicrobia... Also reached out to folks at our state and local health departments, because it seems there might also be some options in California.

Goodnight friends ♥️ Our hearts are with all of us at HHS who receive bad news tomorrow. And all those at health departments across the country who received bad news this week. Call us cheesy, but Lord of the Rings is on our minds.

NEW: A letter from an anonymous federal worker. Please read and share: www.muellershewrote.com/p/letter-fro...

If you are an NIH or CDC scientist that lost your job, we have a home for you at UTHealth. I’m hiring physician scientists and we also have transplant ID fellowship slots open. Contact me. #IDSky #MedSky

Caution - salmon crossing.

Promising work in E. faecalis showing cefobiprole (which has high affinity for all Enterococcus PBPs) reaching PK/PD targets when used alone or in combination with ampicillin. #IDSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A DNA Methylation Signature From Buccal Swabs to Identify Tuberculosis Infection #IDSky

The policy lead for CDC's H5N1 response has abruptly resigned. Sources tell me CDC's response to the bird flu pandemic has been severely hobbled by the chaos of the past two weeks.

If you care for patients with suspected tuberculosis, this excellent online tool helps assess the risk of active TB disease and potential medication side effects. Link: www.TSTin4D.com From colleagues at McGill. #IDSky #MedSky

Giving a lecture on foodborne outbreaks tomorrow. Digging in some history, found this ole' gem from NEJM 1932: "A Small Milk-Borne Outbreak of Septic Sore Throat" "These [outbreaks] are fortunately becoming fewer because of ... pasteurization." Ironic! #IDSky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

We are doing our level best! It's just a beginning, we'll keep going. www.cmi-comms.com/article/S295...

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #nursesky #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇 web.archive.org/web/20250131...

Long-term survival after invasive pneumococcal disease - a matched cohort study using electronic health records in England https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.31.25321460v1

✨PLEASE SHARE! CDC GUIDELINE ARCHIVES✨ ▶️STI GUIDELINES buff.ly/4jReLT4 buff.ly/3EmjR9B ▶️Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC) for Contraceptives buff.ly/3PZzQNf buff.ly/4aKMEko ▶️VACCINE VIS buff.ly/4jJ1603 ▶️Others from @jessicavalenti.bsky.social LGBTQ CDCGuidelines.com #medsky #pedsky #IDsky 🛟🧪

Holy shit, did the CDC take down the 2021 STI Treatment guideline?! #IDSky

AMFAR has published a report on how the foreign aid freeze affects PEPFAR, which actually still hasn't resumed. They estimate that hundreds of thousands of people lose access to HIV antivirals and 1500 babies are expected to contract HIV — *each day* 🧵

New in @nature.com Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out now @nature.com Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What’s stopping @idsainfo.bsky.social from doing this?

New CLSI M100 ed35 #MicroSky #IDsky Antimicrobial Agents That Should Be Considered for Testing and Reporting my Microbiology Laboratories ➡️ Burkholderia cepacia Complex (none.. 😅)

🧫Doxycycline breakpoint update for Acinetobacter from CLSI Table below displays tetracycline breakpoints prior to 2025. Minocycline breakpoint was reduced at June 2024 meeting and published in 2025 #IDsky #Medsky #Pharmsky

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

Following the withdrawal from the WHO, pausing communication from government health agencies is very concerning. #idsky www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/h...

my current favorite jwst images 🌌

RS Puppis. At a distance of 6,000 light-years, the Cepheid variable star was observed by Hubble and is one of the biggest and brightest known Cepheids in the Milky Way galaxy. Processed by @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪