Europe’s independence moment or the long road to agony?

🚨 The @ec.europa.eu has just published its #MCM & #Stockpiling Strategies! Proud to have contributed. Big step for 🇪🇺 health security, contributing to both EU competitiveness & security. Aligns with #LifeSciences Strategy and upcoming #BiotechAct & #InnovationAct. 🔗 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The EU is shaping its #LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy for 2026-2030, aiming to strengthen rights and combat discrimination across Europe 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 Your voice matters 📢 Join the public consultation to help build a more inclusive future: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... #Equality #Inclusion #HaveYourSay #IDAHOT

Have your say on the future of biotech in Europe 🧬🇪🇺 The EU is shaping a new Biotech Act to boost innovation and ensure responsible use of biotechnology. Public consultation is now open: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... #EUConsultation #Biotech #Innovation #SciencePolicy #HaveYourSay

Today is World Hand Hygiene Day 🖐️🧼 Clean hands are your first line of defense — preventing the spread of bacteria and viruses alike. Protect yourself and others with every wash. #HandHygiene #InfectionPrevention #StopTheSpread #WorldHandHygieneDay

Charlemagne’s realm is a place of many flaws, lots of them enduring. But in their own plodding way, Europeans have created a place where they are guaranteed rights to what others yearn for: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 📰🔗 www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Have your say on the future of EU health security 🛡️ The EU is shaping a new Medical Countermeasures Strategy to boost vaccines, diagnostics, PPE & more. ⏰ Help design it — share your views before 9 May! Speak up here: europa.eu/!C7nKbc #EUHealth #PreparednessUnion #HealthSecurity #HERA 🧬💉🧪⚕️

Me travelling to Asia at 21: I'll just go raw in jeans Me travelling to Asia at 28: chewing gum, sleep mask, skin cream, lip balm, 10 thousand snacks, earbuds, noise cancelling earbuds, hand wipes, comfy stretch pants...

💉 Proud to announce a new @ec.europa.eu (HaDEA / #HERA) tender for the development next-generation #influenza #vaccines open until 19/5 3pm (Brussels). This tender will be a pre-commercial procurement R&D scheme valued at EUR 225Mio. #HealthUnion 🔗 hadea.ec.europa.eu/news/eu4heal...

75Mio children will not be vaccinated and an estimate 1.2Mio will die for the US to save 0,0078% of their yearly spending. #heartbreaking 😢💔 U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

❓Is anyone on this network aware of clinical trials with Brincidofovir in the EU/Africa (apart from MOSA) or any local stockpile of it? Considering the designation of orphan drug in the EU... If so ➡️ DM

🚨 New EU Tender Alert! HaDEA & HERA seek rapid PoC devices for AMR detection 🦠 Targets: WHO 2024 priority bacteria, Candida spp., A. fumigatus 📈 TRL 3+→8 | CE pathway 💶 €12.86M | ⏳ 48 months 📅 DDL: 12 May 2025, 4pm CET 🔗 ec.europa.eu/info/funding... #EU4Health #AMR #Diagnostics #Innovation

📢 HaDEA & #HERA have launched a new EU tender under #EU4Health! 🔬Objective: Strengthen evidence on #Mpox vaccine immunity & optimal booster strategies. 💰 Budget: €4.9M 📅 21 April 2025, 16:00 CET 👉 Details & application: ec.europa.eu/info/funding... #GlobalHealth #Vaccines #ClinicalResearch

🚨 Dangerous rhetoric from RFK Jr. downplaying measles risks! Measles is NOT a harmless childhood disease - it can cause severe complications and death. #Vaccination saves lives. Spreading misinformation undermines public health. #VaccinesWork #MeaslesPrevention 💉👪

#HERA & #HaDEA thank all the respondents to the survey on the Next-Gen #Influenza Vaccines upcominf call. Tender soon to be published in the F&TS Portal - more info in the link below. #EU #EU4Health #Innovation 🔗 ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

🚨 Article published in @science.org, co-authored by #CEPI Director, alerts to the rapid spread of deadly H5N1 bird flu & demands urgent 🌍 action! 🦠⚠️ Faster Vx, stronger response plans & better coordination are critical to prevent a pandemic. #H5N1 #PandemicPreparedness 🔗 cepi.net/world-should...

🦟 #Dengue in Philippines (Quezon) with spike in cases. Travellers to the area should be cautious and apply anti-mosquito spray frequently, avoid water bodies especially at dusk, use bed-nets, and monitor and alert for any symptoms #ProtectYourself #PublicHealth

✨ Guilded Age's back ✨ but only that part in which measles kill a lot of children. Not sure, but looks like they are aiming at 1890's death burden (9250 ppl.)

The 457 UK and 90 French soldiers that die in Afghanistan maybe were just there on vacations, and not fighting in that US initiated war. Somebody teach JD how to look for info on Wikipedia, or even his buddy's Grok. www.politico.eu/article/jd-v...

🚨 Deadline Extended! The @ec.europa.eu is seeking input on its next-gen influenza vaccine tender. Help shape the future on flu prevention and next-gen vaccines! 🦠💉 📝 Survey extended until March 10, EOB 👉 ec.europa.eu/info/funding... #Influenza #Vaccines #Innovation #EUScience

Como escreveu Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, às armas, às armas!

🚨🚨Powerful response by the EU team by @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu on Trump's drastic decision to pause their military aid commitment to Ukraine. Her press statement is worth reading in full. 🧵 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

I cannot, and I repeat - I CANNOT stress how much of a dumb idea this is 🤦! We had exposure to gain immunity approach for some millennia. Basically ppl die. #VaccinesSaveLifes 💉 Parents are holding ‘measles parties’ in the U.S., alarming health experts | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1106288...

There will come a day of reckoning with #Orbán. Question to EU law experts: considering that it is not possible to expel a country, is it possible that the current EU succeeds into a new one by 25 or 26 MS evoking article 50 and creating a new Union with the existing institutions in place?

A tragic, preventable loss - a child has died from measles in the U.S. due to lack of vaccination. Science is clear: measles kills, vaccines save lives. Yet, the U.S. SoH RFK remains a vaccine skeptic. Public health must be led by facts, not misinformation. #VaccinesWork #Measles #PublicHealth

🐦🦠 Bird flu #H5N1 is affecting food prices and supply. Egg shortages and soaring prices reflect the virus's spread from poultry to mammals and cattle across the U.S. 🔬 70 human cases have been confirmed, mostly linked to dairy and poultry exposure. #PublicHealth www.unmc.edu/healthsecuri...

#mpox remains a public health emergency of international concern The announcement follows the third meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee regarding the upsurge of mpox. The Director-General concurred with the Committee’s advice. More: bit.ly/4bgz4p3

Conclusions? 👀

Studies show that funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved by the FDA from 2010 to 2019. Recklessly slashing NIH funding will mean that patients will be waiting much longer for life-saving treatments.

Today (Feb 22) in 1943, three courageous young people in the group White Rose were executed for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets in Germany. Sophie Scholl: "The greatest damage is caused by the silent majority that just wants to survive, submit and go along with everything."

Interesting set of learning resources 🤓

Considering what is going on on the FAA, please note that I now fully support clapping whenever a plane safely lands in the USA.

The #AvianFlu has been reported in birds, cows, and yesterday's the USDA reported first detection in rats (mammals!) 🐥🐄🐀 #Preparedness is essential more than ever, with #cooperation and #info exchange at global level. Bird Flu in Cows Is a Slow-Motion Disaster www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

🚀 The future of EU funding is being shaped! The @ec.europa.eu has launched consultations on the next Multiannual Financial Framework #MFF. Have your say on key topics like: 🔹 Competitiveness 🔹 Crisis preparedness & response 🔹 Budget performance 📢 Answer by 7 May! 🗳️ 🔗 below #EUbudget

📢 #HaDEA and #HERA are launching a public consultation on their Pre-Commercial Procurement proposed upcominf project for next-gen pandemic influenza vaccines. Your input is key! Help shape innovation in vaccine development. 🦠💉 #EUHealth #Innovation 🔗 ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Donald R., Head of the House of Trump, by the Grace of Musk, King of the United Kingdom of the 50 States of America and other Realms and Territories, Defender of Tariffs, Project 2025, and Russia.

In today's fight, Kennedy's 'biological truth' concept v chapter 390 of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine - starting immediately by the introduction where the differences between chromosomal, gonadal, and phenotypical sex are explained

🌬️🦆 New evidence suggests that windborne transmission of HPAI H5N1 is possible! During the 2023-24 season, identical strains were found on Czech farms 8km apart, with wind likely spreading the virus. Game-changer for outbreak control! 🔬 Read at: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #H5N1 #AvianFlu #HPAI

🚨 EU4H call for tenders! #HaDEA and #HERA seeks proposals for a rapid PoC antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) device. Min TRL 3, aiming for TRL 8 and CE marking. Budget: €12.86M. More details soon! #AMR #Diagnostics #EUFunding Source: hadea.ec.europa.eu/news/prior-i...

🔬 New study reveals a high burden of sexual transmission of #Mpox in DRC, including through heterosexual sex. 🧬 Genomic analysis suggests significant underdetection. Research backed by #HERA via #DURABLE and #EDCTP3 project GREATLIFE. #InfectiousDiseases #GlobalHealth @ec.europa.eu

the evolution of mpox Clade Ib in DRC. Great collaborative study with support from @EDCTP3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 HaDEA & #HERA launch a PIN for a #EU4Health tender to fast-track next-gen #influenza Vx. Using an innovative Pre-Commercial Procurement scheme, this action supports #vaccines which confer broad protection against pandemic flu, also envisioning scalable platforms or new delivery methods. #R&D 💉😷🇪🇺

9th case of #Mpox clade I reported in #UK. Patient has travel history to Uganda. This shows that #diseases know no borders and intl. cooperation is essential more than ever 🌍 Additionally, #UKSHA will now stop publishing case-by-case notifications and will publish weekly statistics on Thursdays.

Sometimes international law is hard. This is NOT the case - Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Article 9 - No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. Article 17(2) - No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property. #HumanRights #StandwithGaza

Amid an #mpox emergency, plus outbreaks of #H5N1, #Marburg, #Ebola, I think that the risks of electing a Vx denier as the US Health Sec cannot be overestimated! I knew Trump was a fan of McKinley in economics, I didn't know his wish to also have the health level of that time...

#UKSHA to pilot the first ever national pandemic surveillance programme based on #metagenomics. This innovative initiative called #mSCAPE will use MGS diagnostic data, processing it at national level, to assess microbial evolution and pandemic risk. 🇬🇧🧬🔬 Source: www.gov.uk/government/n...

🐹🦠 Camp Nill viruses detected in North America shrews. This virus, belongs to the Henipavirus genus (Paramyxoviridae), which also includes Nipah and Hendra viruses (CFR 45-70 and 70% respectively). Zoonotic spillover is always a risk. Source: doi.org/10.3201/eid3...

🇪🇺 #HERA (@ec.europa.eu) is proudly supporting the @who.int Blueprint for Filoviruses, under which the Vx clinical trial for Ebola is being deployed in Uganda. #Mpox, #Marburg, and now #Ebola have shown that EU can respond fast to health emergencies, contributing to contain #outbreaks at the source

@ec.europa.eu has launched a call for evidence in the upcoming #CriticalMedicines Act 💉💊. Until 27/02 say your expertise/opinion on how to guarantee wide access and availability of medicines, ensuring every EU citizen right to health is fully fulfilled. #HERA ⏩ ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...