Yup, @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social is right We aren’t smarter than Anna but wrote an analysis of this last year—commissioned by the Kiel Institute—titled Can Development Assistance for Health Mutually Benefit Donors and Recipient Countries? TLDR: yes, it can www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Da...

Europe—not US—first to authorize Moderna’s combo mRNA flu-COVID vaccine https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/04/europe-not-us-first-to-authorize-modernas-combo-mrna-flu-covid-vaccine/

Here's more info: www.cidrap.umn.edu/dengue/butan... Brazil recently began production of the vaccine, which could be a major step in limiting dengue -- also known as "bone-break fever" for reasons you can probably imagine

Experts are worried we're losing ground to HIV even as the end of the epidemic is in sight. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Severity of the Measles Outbreak in Israel—Cause for Alarm | Health Policy | JAMA Health Forum | JAMA Network jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

In Uganda, there has been a spike in disease-related deaths since the Trump administration dissolved USAID. https://to.pbs.org/4ctEm2Q

Is it time to rethink the plethora of special issues scientific journals publish? The growing number of retractions from what is perceived to be a more lax peer review process points to a problem, @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/04/24/s...

From shrimp farms to human eyes: The emerging human eye disease POH-VAU (persistent ocular hypertensive viral anterior uveitis) has been linked to Covert Mortality Nodavirus (CMNV). This aquatic virus is prevalent in farmed and wild shrimp, crayfish, crabs and some fish globally.

Emily Bass: PEPFAR's Chief Science Officer Resigns on Matters of Public Health Principle bit.ly/48NnCRD by @emilybass.bsky.social

The list of 100% fatal infectious diseases is short. SSPE (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis) is on it.

The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) today reported three more H9N2 avian flu cases on mainland China, all in children under the age of 6 years. Last week, CHP recorded two cases. Read more: ow.ly/Ub1z50YNHMO

New PEPFAR Dashboard: PrEP trends bit.ly/3ODKZX4 need to do better

Lol. Poor guy. "World War I (1917–1918) roughly 45,000 to 63,000 Am soldiers die from the Spanish flu & pneumonia, roughly equal to or greater than those killed in combat. The 1918 influenza pandemic ravaged training camps & troops overseas, becoming the leading cause of death during the war"

Also Continental soldiers were required to be inoculated against smallpox in 1777. www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Famously soldiers in trenches developed herd immunity to the flu in 1917

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

The thing about that Washington painting behind him: “Washington wanted to make sure that his troops were not affected by disease, and he believed that inoculation would help with that. So, just before this letter was written, Washington created a mandated system of inoculating his soldiers.”

Remember the unvaccinated boy who contracted tetanus in 2017, hospitalized for months at a cost of almost $1M? The boy who was a patient of (former) antivax doctor Paul Thomas? He's not the only recent case. 4 kids, unvax'd, none received immunoglobulin when symptoms developed. Those poor kids.

Measles outbreak means my immunocompromised son can’t leave the house without extreme safety measures www.statnews.com/2026/04/20/i... via @statnews.com

HIV treatment reduces accelerated biological ageing by nearly four years, landmark study shows Swiss HIV Cohort Study bit.ly/4tWt9NV

“the spread of HIV, mpox, typhoid, and other diseases in Pakistan is largely driven by poor infection control. She highlighted the rise of quackery in rural and peri-urban areas” tribune.com.pk/story/260370...

“The take home is that these problems with cognition, that we had seen a year or two years later, persisted out to eight years,” www.emjreviews.com/microbiology...

A large real-world study from the UK Health Security Agency presented at ESCMID Global 2026 finds that maternal RSV vaccination given at least two weeks before birth cuts infant hospitalizations by more than 80%. #ESCMID2026 www.contagionlive.com/view/materna...

Normal urine is not sterile! Urine microbiome being introduced by @nicoledenisco.bsky.social #ESCMIDGlobal2026 #UTISky

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

RSV maternal vaccine cuts baby hospital admissions by up to 85% www.gov.uk/government/n...

“Testing showed that samples from patients tested negative for more than 200 pathogens..This includes Ebola and Marburg virus diseases, Rift Valley fever, yellow fever, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin...

BREAKING: President Trump announces he's nominating Dr. Erica Schwartz for CDC director.

Avian flu was detected in Idaho dairy cows. The milking cows were the first avian flu detections in cattle since a Wisconsin report in December 2025. Researchers are studying the role of virus RNA detection in bovine semen. Read more: ow.ly/cRON50YKBGI

One of the most reprehensible humans alive Modeling by Brooke Nichols at Boston University estimates that dismantling USAID led to 762,000 deaths, including >500,000 children Charles Kenny & Justin Sandefur at the Center for Global Development estimate the number to be between 500,000 & 1 million

I'm sure this stuff happened in the before times, but I'm convinced that the flood of attention that fell on our colleagues in academic public health and medicine during the pandemic just absolutely broke their fucking brains, leaving them forever scarred and chasing the next hit.

NEWS - Erica Schwartz, former deputy US surgeon general, is favored candidate to lead CDC former Walmart exec Sean Slovenski favored as a top deputy still pending Trump's approval w @lenasun.bsky.social

After 20 years of HPV vaccines, what have we learned? A new study finds vaccinated men and boys are almost 50% less likely than unvaccinated males to develop an HPV-related cancer (cancers of the head/neck, esophagus, penis, anus). www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

“Nearly 12,000 people in the U.K. who received a first dose of the MenB vaccine will now be offered a second shot starting next week” www.healthday.com/health-news/...

Iran war has some US water utilities facing a fluoride shortage abcnews.com/Health/wireS...

A Trump guy who was part of the team dismantling USAID didn't think political appointees could grasp the concept of drug-resistant tuberculosis so he asked workers to explain it as "Super TB" in "Barney-style" slides. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Medical care isn't a buzzer-beater. "Life-threatening" shouldn't require death to be moments away When doctors are threatened with life imprisonment if abortion is not for a life threatening emergency, women die Hospitals embracing policies supporting early care protect women from sepsis and death

Medical care isn't a buzzer-beater. "Life-threatening" shouldn't require death to be moments away. When doctors are threatened with life imprisonment if abortion not for a life threatening emergency, women die. Hospitals embracing policies have to allow for early care protect women from sepsis.

💉 #Meningitis · #Vaccination 💉 Outbreaks of bacterial meningococcal disease in England and recent cases in students in New Zealand have raised awareness of this serious and life-threatening disease.

· #MedSky · #Artificialintelligence · AI models can fake visual understanding of images that don't exist

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

Loreen Willenberg has died, but not from HIV. She was diagnosed with HIV in 1992, and then, "unlike almost all people living with HIV, was able to keep her virus undetectable and immune cell count high without ever taking antiretroviral therapy." www.amfar.org/news/remembe...

Devastated to learn today that Loreen Willenberg has died of lung cancer. We first met when I was at AIDS Treatment Data Network in the 90s. An amazing advocate for elite controller & cure research, donator of endless cells to science, and the 1st person believed to have cleared all viable HIV. 1/2

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Standards adoption as a bottleneck for pandemic preparedness: empirical evidence and funder recommendations from a cross-sectional #Survey of European emerging infectious #Disease consortia (preprint) #openscience #PeerReviewMe #PlanP

“Protection was reduced for residents aged 75 years or older, with a 73% adjusted vaccine effectiveness in the first season vs. 53% in the next.” www.healio.com/news/infecti...