The deadly fever in Ethiopia has been identified as Marburg disease. It’s the first time a Marburg outbreak has been identified in Ethiopia. #IDsky 🧪 www.afro.who.int/countries/et...

The influenza season may be starting early in Sweden too.

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🚨 Ebola outbreak – Kasai, DRC -Index case: pregnant female died 25 Aug of organ failure - 28 suspects, 15 deaths (CFR 54%), 4 hcw’s - Most ≥15 yrs - Sequencing: new spillover event - 2,000 Ervebo doses deployed for ring vaccination & frontline workers @who.int DON 👇 www.who.int/emergencies/...

I think about this a lot! Medical professionals and their societies are sounding the highest level of alarm about the dangers of rejecting science and favoring conspiracy theories and it is hardly breaking through. That's how far down the rabbit hole the US is. This fight is hard.

And here’s confirmation from @WHO: “Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Kasai Province where 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, including four health workers, have been reported as of 4 September 2025.” #IDsky 🧪

New Ebola outbreak in DRC They will need quick access to tests, vaccines and therapeutics www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

Sweden's state epidemiologist resigns and criticizes the Public Health Agency for serious shortcomings in leadership and medical competence #idsky #episky #publichealth

Ökning av fall med harpest i Västra Götaland vgrfokus.se/2025/07/okni...

📣 A hospital-wide outbreak of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Klebsiella oxytoca associated with contaminated sinks and associated plumbing: outbreak report, risk factor analysis and plasmid mapping - Journal of Hospital Infection #episky #idsky

Drum&Bass-Tuesday www.mixcloud.com/residentadvi...

Last week in #epidemiology - check our weekly Communicable disease threats report - #CDTR. This issue focuses on: ➡️ #WestNileVirus ➡️ #measles ➡️ #chikungunya ➡️ #MassGathering monitoring ➡️ invasive #pneumococcal disease, ➡️ #H5N1 Read full report: bit.ly/3SSm7cA #IDsky #EpiSky #EpidemicIntelligence

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

An sink-related outbreak of Klebsiella oxytoca, our study is now online #idsky #episky #amr #medsky

Vår studie om ett utbrott av resistenta bakterier på ett sjukhus i regionen är nu publicerad

Bra artiklar i DN om socioekonomiska skillnader mellan bostadsområden, en väg kan skilja mellan två helt olika världar

We have had our study published in which we analyzed the importance of the socioeconomic status of the residential area for morbidity, death and vaccination coverage. #episky #idsky #medsky #publichealth #COVID-19 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We have had our study published in which we analyzed the importance of the socioeconomic status of the residential area for morbidity, death and vaccination coverage. #episky #idsky #medsky #publichealth #COVID-19 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Har fått en artikel publicerad om bostadsområdets socioekonomiska status och skillnader i COVID-19 sjuklighet, död och vaccinationstäckning.

Smittsamma sjukdomar i Västra Götaland, en årsrapport. Ökad smittspridning av gonorré, harpest och antibiotikaresistenta bakterier. Hepatit C minskar dessbättre och många botas från infektionen.

Important real world evidence from Denmark using routinely collected data from registries. Flu vaccines with adjuvants or higher doses offer superior protection in 65+ y.

Together, we can #EndTB and ensure a healthier future for all. Learn more about this important day and how you can be part of the solution 👉 ecdc.europa.eu Follow our social media channels to learn more about #tuberculosis through various stories & formats. #WorldTBDay #WeCanEndTB #IDsky #EpiSky

📢 It's #WorldTuberculosisDay 2025! #TB is preventable and curable, yet millions are still affected! This year we focus on early diagnosis, universal treatment access & the responsible use of medicines to save lives & stop the spread. ➡️ bit.ly/WorldTBDay2025 #TB #Tuberculosis #WorldTBDay #EndTB

The flu peak has been reached in Sweden for this season #episky #idsky

This is the first death from measles in the US since 2015. Measles is a horrible disease that used to kill millions of people every year. But today in the US any death is an entirely preventable tragedy. If the US continues on its current trajectory there will be more and more tragedies... #IDsky 🧪

This is so upsetting. This child’s death was preventable. This outbreak was preventable. “A child in Texas has died from measles, officials said Wednesday, the first known death in the current large outbreak in West Texas and the first death from measles in the country since 2015.”

New research - Artenie et al - Global, regional, and national estimates of HCV infection incidence among people who inject drugs and number of new annual HCV infections attributable to injecting drug use: a multi-stage analysis www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #LiverSky #IDSky #MedSky #HepSky

The Lancet Infectious Diseases is on Bluesky now! Have we missed anything? Quiet time of the year, isn't it... 👉 Follow us for the newest research and commentary in infectious diseases! #IDSky

Röda hund/rubella/German measels i Göteborg

Read @katherinejwu.com’s article. They are memory holing the entire CDC. These are essential public health & scientific data. They were generated with our tax dollars. I never imagined I’d see authoritarians deleting all the data on HIV on grounds of ideological purity. Fuck this.

🧵 WHO and partners boosted their support to the Ugandan government’s response to an outbreak of Sudan Ebola virus disease, incl. by facilitating access to a candidate vaccine and candidate treatments bit.ly/3EjuKc5 1/4

Uganda confirms deadly outbreak of Sudan #Ebola virus The index patient is a 32-year-old man who worked as a nurse at a hospital in Kampala and died after seeking care at multiple facilities. www.cidrap.umn.edu/e...#Ebola Photo: Simon Davis, DFID / Flickr cc

1. #Ebola: There is a new outbreak, Ebola Sudan, in Uganda. The current index case (who probably isn't the index case) died yesterday. The person was a nurse who sought care in multiple hospitals before dying. Ebola was only determined post mortem. Possibility of additional cases high.

This is happening at the worse possible time. There is also an ongoing marburg outbreak in Tanzania. The US has pulled out of WHO, the CDC is banned from communicating with WHO, USAID funds cannot be used for outbreak response. The world is more exposed to the threat of these diseases.

"At least 12 suspected cases of Ebola haemorrhagic fever have been reported in the Boyenge health area incorporated into the Bolamba health zone, located more than 250 km from the city of Mbandaka, capital of the Equateur province." www.congo-press.com/sante/equate...

Since taking office the Trump administration has put the CDC on a "communications pause," announced its withdrawal from the @who.int, & ordered #CDC not to interact with WHO. News that there may be a new #Ebola outbreak in DRC underscores why these moves are unwise. www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/p...

Och så var det onsdag igen. I veckans Vetenskapsrummet: virus (fågelinfluensa, covid-19, influensa) och så Trump, tyvärr.

Med anledning av ökad smittspridning av RS-virus

Vet ni att man i år rullar ut lungcancerscreening i två regioner i Sverige? 1000 DT thorax räddar tre liv. En dör under utredning. Så totalt 2 i vinst. Ytterligare 3 skadas allvarligt. Massa oro. Riktade kampanjer/åtgärder mot rökning räddar 10ggr fler och är billigare. Men det är ju politiskt.

UKHSA has confirmed a case of influenza A(H5N1) in a person in the West Midlands region. (…) The person acquired the infection on a farm, where they had close and prolonged contact with a large number of infected birds. The risk to the wider public continues to be very low. #idsky #episky #H5N1

The sequence of SARSCoV2 was made available on Jan 10 2020. Exactly 11 months later on Dec 11th 2020 the first EUA was issued for an mRNA COVID vaccine. These vaccines saved over 20 million lives. None of this would have been possible without NIH funding & dedicated scientists. #ScienceMatters

Yes, it is #Marburg: after saying last week that the rumored Marburg outbreak in Tanzania wasn’t real, the country confirmed today it is. Not clear what’s going on here. www.who.int/director-gen...

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🧵 WHO informed its Member States and International Health Regulation State Parties of an outbreak of suspected Marburg Virus Disease in the Kagera region of #Tanzania So far, we are aware of 9 suspected cases incl. 8 deaths across 2 districts. 1/2

And the Robert Koch-Institut, Germany’s CDC, has also abandoned X and is now posting here on bluesky instead. They are explicitly joining the universities and instititues that announced they are leaving X a few days ago. 🧪 #IDsky

San Francisco reports H5N1 avian flu in child Officials are still investigating how the child contracted the virus. In other developments, the USDA today confirmed the first outbreak in Puerto Rico's poultry. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a... Photo: NIAID/Flickr cc

The RSV epidemic has started in Sweden #episky #idsky www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/nyheter-och-...