Today I and everyday I am: Grateful for Vaccines Grateful for Science Grateful for Public Health Workers Grateful for Doctors Grateful for Nurses Grateful for Scientists Grateful for everyone whose job has been a little harder to do especially this year, yet who keep showing up. #Thanksgiving

Our paper is out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧵 We estimated key epidemiological parameters for scabies, a disease affecting 400M people globally that's been rising across Europe. These are the first estimates of serial interval, R0 and Rt. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AcademicSky #EpiSky #IDSky

This would get my vote for the 'best slide' category at #Escaide2025 were it to exist.

Viviane Bremer from @rki.de at #ESCAIDE2025: "At risk populations are not mutually exclusive, there is a large overlap, and they face a wide range of barriers such as stigma and language barriers". #ESCAIDE #PrEP #AIDS #HIV #HealthEquity

"It's as if it stopped raining, so why fix the roof?https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-administration-dismantling-efforts-fight-next-pandemic

Join the #ESCAIDE2025 session exploring: ⚕️ What #AI really means for #publichealth 💡 Real-world applications & expert insights 🎤 Speakers: Mary-Anne Hartley, Yannis Paschalidis (@ypaschalidis.bsky.social), and Sergio Consoli 📅 19 November, 12:35-13:35 Learn more: www.escaide.eu/en/programme...

Phylodynamic analysis of Slovenia’s 2022 #Mpox outbreak: 🔬 19 introductions, 2 major clusters → importation was the main driver. Real-time inference can guide targeted control. Read more: https://cup.org/3Lg7EXg #Genomics #OutbreakControl

🧬 Did you know Epidemiology & Infection has been publishing since 1901? Celebrate 125 years of infectious disease research with us at #EPH2025. Watch the anniversary video trailer – full video soon to be released! 🔗 https://cup.org/4nMlw9f #Epidemiology125 #InfectiousDisease

My new plan for encouraging resident colleagues to document in the electronic patient record appropriately...

Bluetorial-Jim Watson I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions. What follows is my personal perspective. 1/41

In praise of being a football fan, by my colleague Simon Kuper: as.ft.com/r/349446da-4... (I am not really a fan, but my son is, and I loved this piece.)

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Be part of a legacy in infectious disease research! 📚✨ Epidemiology & Infection is looking for Associate Editors to join the editorial board. If you're passionate about epidemiology, this role is for you. Apply today! https://cup.org/46U2mJQ

📢 Call for Papers! Read about our updated Call for Papers, 'Using generative AI in epidemiological studies, infectious disease surveillance or outbreak response' and submit today ⬇️ 🔗 https://cup.org/4nb4diI

Very please to say that for the first time in nearly a year, I have a new Substack post coming on Monday! Looking at the successes and tribulations of novel therapeutics to protect infants from RSV Looking forward to sharing ✍️ open.substack.com/pub/alasdair...

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health. Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Researchers: Live #H5N1 avian flu can survive in raw-milk cheese for up to 6 months Infectious virus persisted throughout the cheese-making process and aging in cheeses made with raw milk at pH levels above 5.0. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

Dream job this.

"...in many fields, productivity declines, in part because workers have to be deployed to double-check AI outputs, lest their mistakes or fabrications find their way into mission-critical applications..." www.latimes.com/business/sto...

I am 7 to 10. I thought I was being non-confrontational 😲

We are really happy to share Epidemiology & Infection's #keymetrics from 2024! Thank you to all our #authors, #editors and #peerreviewers 🌟

🦟 West Nile virus in Europe As summer progresses, IT, EL, RO, BG & FR have reported 163 locally acquired human cases of #WestNileVirus infection so far this year. 📊 This is above the 10-year average for this point in the season, but far below the same period in record years of 2024 & 2018.

There is a broad scientific consensus that significant challenges remain before reliable estimates of community prevalence of disease can be made from wastewater RNA monitoring. It's a laudable goal, but the science is not there yet. 1/ nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2751...

Come join us!

How might AS01 work? It contains MPL (a TLR4 agonist) and QS-21, which activate dendritic cells and trigger IFN-γ responses, factors implicated in reducing amyloid pathology and slowing cognitive decline in prior studies. An intriguing immunologic pathway for neuro-protection worth exploring.

Nice!

It’s been a few weeks since posting, but delighted to share this updated preprint for anyone interested www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣Open call! ESCMID is creating a brand-new #Vaccines Subcommittee 💉and is looking for a director. Interested persons can review the call document & apply before 31 Aug! ow.ly/8Zpx50WjyUA #IDSky #clinmicro #MedSky

📢 Nearly 600 heat-related deaths expected in UK #heatwave LSHTM & @granthamicl.bsky.social real-time rapid analysis estimates impact of rising UK temperatures as researchers warn risks set to increase @gasparrini.bsky.social #PublicHeath 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

❗ Un premier cas autochtone de #chikungunya a été recensé en France hexagonale, dans le Var. 🦟 Démoustication à venir dans la commune de La Crau. Sans surprise, du fait de la très forte épidémie à La Réunion et des centaines de cas importés déjà recensés en métropole...

ICE Releases Gavin Newsom Beheading Video

Our health setup in these 'new' times

I am really laser focused on getting all my adult patients updated on their vaccines. A few vaccine doses I gave out in clinic today: - pneumococcal vaccine - Td booster - Covid booster - MMR - HPV - Hep B vaccines 8/8 acceptances, zero refusals. OFFER, COUNSEL, VACCINATE

I knew it….

That’s what Trump and Musk are known for: magnanimity and maturity.

Measles Is Now Showing Up in Wastewater Measles cases in the US have been rare in recent decades, thanks to a strong childhood vaccination program. But a few cases inevitably pop up each year as travelers bring the virus in from other countries and infect time.com/7290566/was... 1/2

An explosive outbreak of mpox in Sierra Leone is raising fears of wider spread. The country of 9 million has seen more than 3000 cases already. “We could see very rapid geographic expansion […] if we don’t really try and get things under control quickly,” says @kindrachukjason.bsky.social 🧪 #IDsky

The spread of Mpox in Sierra Leone is unlike anything we have ever seen - and we have been keeping an eye on this bug in the region for >15 years. Given geographical spread, 50/50 men vs women, this is no "sexual network". This could be the next one. clt.npha.gov.sl/outbreak.aspx

A long thread about mpox and the context specific nature of outbreaks prompted by the large outbreak of MPXV Clade IIb happening at the moment in Sierra Leone:

Call for papers! 📢  We are inviting papers that discuss, explore or evaluate the (potential) use of LLMs in any step of an epidemiological outbreak investigation, for the planned special issue of Epidemiology & Infection: Using large language models in outbreak response 👇

A phase 2b placebo-controlled trial shows the oral norovirus vaccine VXA-G1.1-NN is safe, immunogenic, and effective. It cut norovirus infection risk by 30% and reduced viral shedding in stool and vomit. Published today in Science Translational Medicine. #IDSky 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Trump’s Support Surges After He Points Gun At Nation

French health authorities have suspended vaccination in the Réunion outbreak with Chikungunya vaccine (IXCHIQ-live attenuated vaccine) in adults 65+ following reports of severe adverse events among 80+ adults (severe Chik disease) #IDSky #TropMedSky #VaccineSky sante.gouv.fr/actualites/p...

Given discussions at I had at #ESCMIDGlobal, it might be useful for new researchers to know how a journal editor screens submissions (obviously this is my approach and so it might differ for others).

Remember ICAAC? Bad name, weirder pronunciation ("ick-kack"), ugly swag, and a classic case study in conference identity crisis. A look back—and where the big ID trials land now, which is #ESCMID Global, or whatever it's called. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

ESGEM, the ESCMID Study Group on Epidemiological Markers is launching a working group to develop standards for interpreting AMR genotypes. Much like EUCAST guidance for interpreting lab phenotypes as S/I/R, we want to define the AMRrules for interpreting genotypes.

Anyone presenting an abstract at ESCMID Global: If you've been approached by a journal to publish that abstract (usually for a fee), you can say no thanks. As in 2024, CMI Comms will publish all abstracts #open-access for free #IDSky #Clinmicro #MicroSky #MedSky www.cmi-comms.com/article/S295...