🗞️ Recent study with @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social modelled the potential impact of funding cuts to TB #PublicHealth initiatives from international donors Already implemented USAID cuts could cost $7.5 billion (USD) for healthcare systems & people living with TB Read 🔽 www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

“The childhood vaccination schedule needs to be eliminated," MAHA Institute's president said at a meeting Monday, @notus.com reports www.notus.org/health-scien...

Omicron-adapted COVID vaccines may reduce death, hospitalization risk Vaccination timing may also influence protection. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

California boy dies of SSPE (measles complication) after being infected at age 7 months, when he was too young to be vaccinated.

Spot on Vinay Prasad was "impulsive and careless, and did more harm to the FDA than good"

“The number of potential antimicrobial treatments being developed by the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies nosedived by 35% — from 92 to 60 — over the past five years” www.statnews.com/2026/03/10/d...

Measles has sent 120 people in Utah to the ER since June, including 31 who were hospitalized, 3 placed in the ICU. Health providers across the state have reported measles-induced hepatitis, and aplastic crisis, which results in life-threatening anemia.

The #VRBPAC committee is scheduled to meet Thursday to advise #FDA on #flu vaccine strain selection for next winter's shots. VRBPAC is supposed to have at least 15 members. It currently has 7 voting members & no chair. It has been convened only twice since Jan. 2025. www.fda.gov/advisory-com...

“Statewide..more than 120 people have gone to the emergency room over the course of the outbreak. Thirty-one people were hospitalized for at least one night, and three people were placed in the intensive care unit.” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

“I was able to get the records..on the percentage of people in the Butler Area School District who are vaccinated against measles..In the older grades..over 96%. In the younger grades..fall below that 95% threshold. Some grade schools are as low as 77%” www.butlereagle.com/20260308/no-...

Biosecurity depends critically on the early identification of novel pathogens. Our international team developed a global multi-scale model of infectious diseases to evaluate the time to detection in aircraft wastewater vs. other surveillance modalities. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Billions spent fighting neglected tropical diseases could unravel after the U.S. eliminated the U.S. Agency for International Development, researchers warn. Programs targeting river blindness and elephantiasis are stalled around the world, risking new infections for millions.

There's a common misconception that zoonotic viruses require significant adaptation to jump from animals to cause human epidemics. Not so 👇. Further, we see clear signs of 1977 flu experiencing cell passage, prior to epidemic. SARS-CoV-2? Business as usual. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Le vaccin mCombriax, premier à protéger contre la grippe et la Covid-19, validé par l’Agence européenne du médicament

Read this: When #HHS rewrote the childhood vaccination schedule, it pushed several "recommended for all vaccines" to the "shared clinical decision making" category. SCDM has been conflated with informed consent by proponents of the change but it isn't that. jakescottmd.substack.com/p/when-the-d...

And if a drug inhibits growth, while control samples keep growing, then what looks like "drug response" might just be the lack of transcriptional changes of growth, thus not specific to your drug, & often not interesting. See this a lot in bacteria / antibiotic response, within hours. Non-trivial.

Contribution of fungal diseases to the U.S. chronic disease burden From the CDC Mycotic Diseases Branch journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #IDSky #MedMycoSky

“suggest that virologic confirmation can increase clinicians' confidence in withholding antibiotics when a viral etiology is identified, thereby supporting more judicious prescribing practices, particularly in nonserious cases," www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/r...

Most acute and persistent COVID-19 symptoms decrease and asymptomatic infections increase over time, after multiple infections and with vaccination, but plenty remain.

More adjunctive immunomodulation for an infectious disease! Here it's dupilumab (IL-4/13 blockade) in coccidioidomycosis. Case series only, but not overtly harmful and maybe even helpful. #IDSky #immunosky academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

What is the role of #microbial #genomics in delivering the #UK National Action Plan (NAP) for confronting #AntimicrobialResistance ( #AMR ) 2024-29? Read our new open-access #OA piece in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social exploring this topic from various expertise🛟🧪🧬🖥️🦠💉🧫😷 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Testing menstrual blood for human papillomavirus (HPV) could be a “robust alternative or replacement” for current cervical cancer screening by a clinician, finds a BMJ study from China www.bmj.com/content/392/...

This is a remarkable study. A simple sanitary pad could transform cervical cancer screening. Researchers enrolled 3,000+ women (age 20–54) & compared 2 approaches: Standard clinician-collected cervical HPV test HPV testing from menstrual blood collected on a sanitary pad www.bmj.com/content/392/...

How measles impact the brain.

Physicians across South Carolina are advising patients without the benefit of comprehensive data about how many residents have been hospitalized due to measles-related pneumonia, dehydration, brain swelling and other serious complications.

1/ Man, The Pitt is so good! I was thrilled to see they decided to bring back the measles plot from season one because it’s so relevant right now. We’re on the brink of losing our measles elimination status, yet I still hear people brush off measles like it’s no big deal.

CDC: Unvaccinated international traveler spread measles to 17 other travelers to, within US www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cdc-...

2026 is already half of all of last year's cases, and it's only March! You know what to do. Spread the word, not measles. doh.wa.gov/measles

ProPublica contacted state health agencies across the South and found most do not require hospitals to report measles-related admissions. Alabama is among the few that do. Virginia does too, but it doesn’t release that data to the public.

ByHeart infant formula botulism outbreak ends with 48 babies sickened apnews.com/article/infa...

7M s/p measles at 7 mo (before vaccination age) now w/ 3 mo of cognitive decline and seizures → SSPE Those bright white areas on MRI represent inflammation and brain injury They shouldn’t be there Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis is rare but when it happens, there's no good outcome, most die

Dr. “Measles outbreaks are the cost of doing business” Ralph Abraham left his role as Deputy anti-vaxxer at the CDC because of “unforeseen family obligations”. He’s now the campaign manager for a Republican candidate running against Bill Cassidy in the Senate primary in Louisiana.

Camp East Montana in El Paso is currently under quarantine following a measles outbreak and cases of tuberculosis. My breaking story:

New: At least 14 active measles cases have been reported at a troubled El Paso tent camp holding more than 3,000 immigrants, Democratic U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar said Tuesday. Another 112 people in the facility are being isolated.

Before taking my #HIV medication, I took advantage of the public comment period that’s open now through March 4 to weigh in on the cuts to Florida’s ADAP program. You can tell the State of Florida what you think of these ADAP cutbacks: flrules.org/Gateway/View_notice.asp?id=30517381

ADAPs achieved 87% viral suppression serving 257,644 people in 2024, but 340B rebates now fund 52% of budgets—and multiple federal policies are eroding that revenue while H.R. 1 Medicaid cuts will surge demand. Our analysis examines the crisis ahead. #ADAP #HIV

Joint Statement on the Proposed Changes to Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program ADAP Advocacy and HealthHIV Conjoin Patient and Provider Concerns Threatening the Well-Being of Floridians Living with HIV/AIDS Read more: www.adapadvocacy.org/pdf-docs/202...

States are facing budget constraints that are putting pressure on HIV programs like Ryan White’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), with several states scaling back access to HIV treatment. Our new brief tackles what this means: https://on.kff.org/4cq460q

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

What happened during a febrile illness outbreak in Panzi, Democratic Republic of the Congo? Was it something new or something we knew? Check out the amazing collaboration (inc. @pathogenomenick.bsky.social & @arambaut.bsky.social ) that came together: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Up to 56,000 people died from COVID-19 or RSV last year, according to CDC. RSV-associated hospitalization rates were highest among babies in the first year of life, at a rate of 1,117 cases per 100,000 people. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/560...

‘Truly spectacular’ drug for sleeping sickness simplifies treatment. Jennifer Palmer explains symptoms can be misidentified & trigger behavioural changes, including aggression & psychosis, which are difficult to manage, as new one-time dose drug announced. www.science.org/content/arti...

How well did this year's flu shot work? Interim results: Decently, not perfect. "the risk of medically-attended influenza A(H3N2) illness was reduced by 40% among vaccinated relative to unvaccinated individuals." tinyurl.com/emw36bfa by Separovic et al., in @eurosurveillance.org

Tens of thousands of Americans are losing access to treatment for H.I.V. as nearly 20 states impose restrictions on assistance programs and several others weigh such changes. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...

That's right. Worse than Pointless www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Meetings on Ebola at the US State Department had more tech security than this...and no one thought Ebola was trying to listen in.

Worried about this one www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

As the U.S. officially breaks 1,000 measles cases in 2026, experts say that the rate of infections is accelerating much faster this year than it did in years past

“What is uncertain is whether FDA will agree with WHO on the vaccine virus updates and not add new barriers on influenza vaccine manufacturers making this fall's vaccine,” former CDC official Dan Jernigan told me.