Despite claims of progress, this doesn't give a genuine sense that anything has moved. www.who.int/news/item/20...

If willingness to pay is factored in, then higher risk due to deprivation should also be a factor. Argh.

Academic clinical jobs @lshtm.bsky.social for people in UK clinical training Clinical Lecturers 1) Infectious Diseases (ST3-6) tinyurl.com/4vbjwrkr 2) Paediatrics (ST4-7) tinyurl.com/2hajhbs3 3) Public Health (ST3-5) tinyurl.com/yzd5cmxa Clinical Fellow in Primary Care (ST1) tinyurl.com/mpsmk7zk

Teenage son asking for Stephen King books -- I raised him well.

Seven American aid workers are being quarantined at a recently built US facility on an air base in Kenya — the first to be monitored at the site — even as the Trump administration announced a new Ebola-related travel ban this week. 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/w...

New comment by WHO and Africa CDC -- while we have trials ongoing for Ebola antivirals and mAbs, we MUST make sure that there is access for therapeutics and diagnostics once approved.

We're looking for a Clinical Trials Data Management Specialist to join our team in Amsterdam. If you have at least 3 years' relevant experience, and skills in clinical trial data management or statistical programming then apply now! careers.ema.europa.eu/job/EMA-Amst...

More than 4 years of war have profoundly affected children's lives in Ukraine. A new World Report examines the impacts on children's health, education, & wellbeing—and the efforts to sustain essential health services during conflict. Read this & more: spkl.io/633287yLyw

The problem with AI is that the pain and the gain are not affecting the same people... Bottom line though, we all risk drowning in a sea of slop.

RCT evidence for prevention of long Covid by antivirals during acute infection 👇 Tour-de-force by Nina Langeland and coll.

For @theatlantic.com, I wrote about all the lessons we've learned over the last decade in battling Ebola And how the U.S. appears hellbent on learning them all over again, the hard way. Gift link below: www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

If you look beyond the number of cases and deaths things look bad too: More than 80% of new cases are not known contacts, so transmission chains are being missed. Two thirds of Ebola deaths happen in the community without ever receiving care in a health facility.

Sneak peek of our August cover, coming out next Wednesday! Delicious 🎂

"Eighty percent of new Ebola cases in eastern Congo are emerging from unknown chains of transmission, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, a sign the outbreak is spreading faster than health officials can track despite an expanding response." www.npr.org/2026/07/15/g...

New research article First nationwide full-genome characterisation of human-derived #AndesVirus in Chile: a retrospective genomic epidemiology study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #ViroSky #hantavirus #OpenAccess #OA

New comment Difficult decisions: navigating #ethics in the #Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #ViroSky #Ebola #OpenAccess #OA

This is wild... She should get restitution.

620,000 doses!! Love to see the international collaboration.

Another extraordinary achievement by UK scientists at Oxford, who are partnering with the Serum Institute in India. The advances in vaccine technology during the Covid pandemic saved millions of lives - there is every reason to hope they will save countless more. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think I'm going mad. Now we're even receiving letters in reply to fabricated references in our own journal! Fake letters in reply to fake references. Please send them to fake journals and not to me.

I hope treatment trial starting will help with community trust and people coming forward earlier/at all to receive care at treatment centres.

Among adults invited for colorectal cancer #FIT screening, adding H pylori stool antigen testing improved lifetime health outcomes and was cost-effective or cost-saving in most scenarios—even with incomplete adherence—when H pylori prevalence was moderate. ja.ma/4pg3dvE

"AI may accelerate problems of questionable research practices and research misconduct, but it did not create them."

New comment Recurrent #Ebola outbreaks: reframing spillover from pathogen-centred narratives to ecological disruption, structural vulnerability, and proactive preparedness www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #ViroSky #OpenAccess #OA

New genomic data suggest the ongoing #Bundibugyo virus outbreak arose from a single zoonotic spillover, with the outbreak lineage likely emerging weeks before detection—underscoring the critical role of genomic surveillance for early outbreak detection and response. virological.org/t/genomic-ep...

Big need for pharmacological trials in long Covid. No clinically meaningful improvement here, alas, compared to control.

~1/3 of Shigella cases are in MSM and rising, resistance increasingly becoming a problem. Emerging STI, in my opinion...

Disappointing data on meningitis vaccine preventing Neisseria gonorrhoea infections Then again negative trial data is as useful as positive findings, so that we focus resources most effectively #IDSky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

It really is not a good sign if the majority of new cases is already dead.

I'm usually pretty thick-skinned but sometimes I get emails that I find creepy. Authors, please don't do that. Be mindful that email doesn't carry tone and the tone I perceive might be different from what you intended. Friendly or informal is fine. Personal only if I indeed know you personally.

Mixed feelings today. On the one hand, big outbreaks such as Ebola trouble me greatly and make me sad because the knowledge would be there to prepare, we just don't invest. On the other hand, it's also exciting and fulfilling to be an infectious disease editor in these times.

Silly goober. He inexplicably really likes the heat.

I don't have a work phone number. Please don't call the office. This is by design. Just send an email and if I don't reply immediately, wait a little bit, and then maybe follow up.

96 BDBV cases in healthcare workers at the time this comment was written, and that's only the confirmed ones... These people are essential and deserve better IPC and PPE!

Increased dengue transmission following highway paving in the Peruvian Amazon www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I have to go to the office in a couple weeks time and realised that I don't even remember which floor the office actually is on 🤣 WFH forever 💙. Or it's a sign of impending old age.

9.11 million new TB cases and 1.22 million deaths in 2023 -- this is not good enough. MDR-TB and TB+HIV eroding progress. Latest GBD TB data 👇

Time for the regular reminder, if I reject your paper, it doesn't mean that I think it's bad or it shouldn't be published. In fact, I have to reject many good papers, only so much space. We are a high-touch journal with limited staff and page budget, and we receive a LOT of papers.

Hello little friend, you look hungry. Glad you're enjoying the weeds in our unruly garden 🦋

Interesting recommendation. Did they consider Panoramic and CanTreat? Probably only came out afterwards. Always difficult to make evidence-based recommendations in a shifting landscape.

<opens fortune cookie> "The only way to judge if a paper is good is by reading it" <cries in lazy>

Why are people resisting those who are working so tirelessly to save them? "The answer may lie in a fundamental truth of public health: we must follow not only the path of the virus, but people’s response to it" Dr Gitahi healthpolicy-watch.news/mind-the-gap... @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social

Cheaper HPV vaccines on the way!

📣 Deadline for the open call to join the CMI editorial board as an editor in virology is July 31st! Learn more about the qualifications and expectations of the role, and how to apply in the editorial note: ow.ly/iVSJ50YUtvb

Uganda has not yet confirmed it publicly, but it appears to have a #Marburg outbreak. A very reliable source tells STAT that 2 cases have been confirmed. The US government has issued a level 4 — aka do not travel there — advisory based on intel it has received. www.statnews.com/2026/06/30/m...

Author replying to my email just with an emoji 😂❤️

👀 Notably, only detected because of sick cat, cows apparently mostly asymptomatic.

Two youngest kids making their own breakfast -- yay. Two youngest kids having ice cream for breakfast -- it's milk, I guess.

If you're dying with anxiety because the status of your paper has not changed from "under review" for weeks, you may want to read the Future of Peer Review report from Silverchair that came out recently and replaced the outdated Publons report from 2018... #ScientificPublishing #PeerReview /

Previous Lyme vaccine was falsely linked to arthralgia and under threat of lawsuits, that were the main reasons why it was pulled. I'm glad we have a new Lyme vaccine on the horizon with VLA15. We've published several trials, including safety.