“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

It doesnt stop there. Did you know "zombies" are an African creation? Zombie comes from the Haitian creole "zanbi," which itself comes from the Kikongo word "nzambi" that translates to "spirit of a dead person.' It embodied the spirit of haitian slavery. Body is alive, the soul is not short🧵

Excellent reporting by @stephanienolen.bsky.social on the resurgence of #Diphteria in displaced populations, with a focus on #Somalia. The resurgence of this infectious disease is happening globally due to declining vaccination rates. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h...

"An AP investigation found that the wave of legislation has cropped up in most states, pushed by people with close ties to HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. The effort would strip away protections that have been built over a century and are integral to American lives and society."

I reported recently from Somalia, as part of our ongoing effort to document the effect of the major cuts to U.S. foreign assistance. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...

Eighty-five percent of parents said they trust their child’s pediatrician on vaccine information — a level of confidence that cuts across political divides, including among MAGA Republicans, according to a Washington Post-KFF poll.

Blog with CGD colleagues: Cholera in Africa: Rising Deaths, Shrinking US Aid. Africa seeing rising cholera deaths, but US foreign assistance not responding...

“There are good doctors, there are great doctors, and there is JC. He’s in a category by himself. He is one of the best doctors I’ve ever worked with and one of the best human beings I’ve ever worked with.” #pedsIDsky #pedsky #IDsky www.rileychildrens.org/connections/...

I was very lucky to be able to meet Jane Goodall 22 years ago, in western Tanzania. She was incredibly kind to me and I was just in awe to meet my hero and spend a bit of time together.

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

5-year-old Suza from #DRCongo should still be alive. Malaria is treatable, but medicine wasn't available when she needed it. Heartbreaking, urgent reporting from @washingtonpost.com shows how even brief interruptions in aid delivery can have dire consequences for vulnerable communities:

87-year-old Cecil Williams walked down the runway to "Neva Scared" during Actively Black and Spill's #NYFW show this weekend www.whatimreading.net/p/civil-righ...

As much as we combat #TB in patient care, public health, or research, we need to advocate for our leaders to invest in this fight - to choose a different world in which TB is not killing 1.25 million/yr. Thank you to @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social #PIH and #TBfighters for the tremendous #TBHillDay.

Amid the heartbreak in so many directions, it was a wondrous balm to spend today on Capitol Hill with over 200 TB Fighters from every state in the U.S. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who made it happen from @tbfighters.org to @partnersinhealth.bsky.social. Together, we are strong.

“All I can say is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims - and as far as possible one must refuse to be on the side of the pestilence.” - Albert Camus, The Plague

If you can't afford to use a diagnostic test, then its relative performance characteristics become irrelevant. Important issue raised re blood cultures 👇 @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social #ClinMicro #IDSky #AMR www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Testing. Treatment. Advocacy. We are proving that TB can be beaten, but it takes all of us to drive change 💪 Let’s fight for a world where no one dies from a preventable disease. Click here to learn more about TB by downloading our advocacy guide: act.pih.org/tb

New publication, led by @rachaelburke.bsky.social In meta-analysis of ~100,000 hospital admission, we found that AIDS-related illnesses (42%) & especially #TB (19%) remain the commonest cause of hospitalisation for people with #HIV, despite high ART coverage. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

"You Are (Still) Not Alone: #HIV Long-Term Survivor Rebecca Denison Lays Out the Next Phase of the Fight" via @thebodydotcom.bsky.social

(🧵) In honor of #WorldTBDay, we're sharing recommendations from PIHers on what to read about #tuberculosis. These books highlight the urgent fight against TB—through history, research, and the voices of those affected. Follow the thread to check out some of these recommendations 👇

On World Tuberculosis Day, we acknowledge that “tuberculosis is both a form and expression of injustice,” as @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social put it and recommit to ending TB www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... via @thelancet.bsky.social

"On #WorldTBDay 2025, a glaring weakness in the cascade of care for children with #Tuberculosis—case finding—is the crucial first step." Read the Comment from global experts ➡️ buff.ly/zFWotbv #EndTB #IDsky

Undernutrition is the leading risk factor for TB globally, so its very exciting to see this roadmap for integrating nutrition into the care of people with TB out now in @lancetgh.bsky.social, led by the amazing @tbtakenseriously.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Aidsmap is back and you can get their insightful coverage of CROI2025 directly to your inbox.  Sign up to the new mailing list ✉️

As the #measles outbreak continues, and has now unfortunately resulted in the death of a child, I see a lot of posts along the lines of: "I had measles as a child and I'm fine". Let me tell you a different version of that story: 🧵1/11 🧪 #medsky

"5 billion people—ie, 60% of the world's population—do not have access to affordable, high-quality medical oxygen services" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

🗞️News 📰Historic #TB outbreak a wake-up call for US policy makers Written by @bryantfurlow.bsky.social tinyurl.com/8u6nmf4a #EndTB #TBsky #tuberculosis @theunion-tblh.bsky.social

“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

In 2025, TB is the number 1 infectious killer of humankind Four new books bring renewed attention to this ancient plague Thank you Handaa Enkh-Amgalan, Maria Smilios, Vidya Krishnan & @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social communities.springernature.com/posts/tuberc...

Over 100 refugees who were scheduled to be resettled in Indiana have seen their flights canceled in the last two days. Refugees make our state stronger, and the bipartisan support for U.S. refugee resettlement has been a pillar of our nation for over a century.

Dr. Arthur L. Caplan [bioethicist & polio survivor]: “I always felt like the voices that need to be heard are the kids who died, the kids who didn’t make it.” He said of the hearings: polio survivors will be watching, “and there will be a lot of ghosts in that hearing room.” #IDsky #pedsID #pedsky

New preprint (with all pre-print caveats!) tinyurl.com/589ffhu4 on Mtb infection risk by sex & age. Men are at higher risk of #tuberculosis v women- but unclear how much driven by higher infection vs progression to disease. We meta-analysed Mtb immunoreactivity surveys to find out more🧵 #tbsky

What a cool study and a powerful demonstration that Tuberculosis is largely a disease of poverty. In Brazil a large scale intervention which provided cash monthly to families living in poverty led to profound reductions in TB cases. Up to 50% among the poorest groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today, I travelled back in time, to the pre polio vaccine era I closed my eyes, imagined being paralyzed… unable to breathe I imagined being stuck in this claustrophobic iron lung, to breathe Maybe we all need to time travel, to appreciate how science & public health saves us, every day.

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

Pediatrics is becoming medicine’s largest skeleton crew. www.statnews.com/2024/11/27/p...

“These are people who are going through extremely stressful, life-destroying situations and they have to do the emotional calculation of, ‘will disclosing this make me less safe?’ … It is not just about access, it is the reality that HIV stigma is still very alive and well and still very powerful.”

‘It’s indescribable’: the hospital on the frontline of Haiti’s devastating gang war www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Something you can do right now to combat the world’s deadliest infectious disease - urge Congress to pass the #EndTB Now Act. See the link below from @tbfighters.org #TBSky #IDSky #PedsIDSky

What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.” HUMANS!

Arguably, the greatest advance in healthcare in the past 100 years was the widespread vaccination of children.

1/8 🧪Speaking of respiratory illnesses, 277 cases of #measles in 🇺🇸 as of November 7, 2024. Drs. @adamratnermd.bsky.social & Marie Wang wrote a nice short review a few years ago that, unfortunately, remains relevant. #IDsky #HMsky shmpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.12788...

New research article in The Lancet Microbe Performance of stool-based molecular tests and processing methods for paediatric #tuberculosis diagnosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #MicroSky #TB #OpenAccess #OA

Today seems like a good day to share this Scientific American story on how vaccines have saved more lives throughout history than any other intervention www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

“There's only one rule that I know of, babies-‘God damn it, you've got to be kind.’” —Kurt Vonnegut It’s Kurt Vonnegut’s birthday today.

“We can choose a world where no one dies of TB, just as we are currently choosing a world” where 1.25 million people do. - adapted from John Green The Global TB Report shows there is still much to do to combat the world’s deadliest pathogen. #TBsky #HIVsky #IDsky #PedsIDsky

What can the #IDSky #PedsIDSky community do to mitigate the climate crisis? Healthcare Sustainabilty is the way to go! @abxaware.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jpids/advanc...