What is the side dish for your next Holiday dinner? Salmonella!

5 years ago I started a team competition on Twitter to raise $ to fight hunger. @tmprowell.bsky.social gave us a hashtag & much needed organization Our team of teen volunteers work wonders in the background & we’ve raised >$3.1 million! Competition starts tomorrow, join us? HCWvsHunger.org

"The younger you are when you get hepatitis B, the more likely it will become chronic." www.voicesforvaccines.org/jtf_topics/d...

Dr. Blumberg reminding Americans that the Transplant Community is fully supportive of the safety and efficacy of vaccines. Efforts 2 weaken recommendations & 2 question vaccine safety lead to 📉 uptake. Community immunity is crucial to protecting these vulnerable pts. #TxID tinyurl.com/3evskx3w

Step away from my computer and .....😬 Paging Senator Cassidy.....again.....

“All I can say is ‘Wake up, America. This administration wants to take your vaccines away from you. And they’re on a path to do that,’” Michael Osterholm, director of @cidrap.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...

Paul is right. open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...

Got mine!

Decades of rigorous and scientifically sound research have proven that vaccines do not cause autism. CDC’s decision to change language on its website reversing that finding is reckless & harmful. Our statement w/ @hivma.bsky.social, APIC, @sheaepi.bsky.social & @sidpharm.bsky.social: bit.ly/3XEc0KH

"Essentially Cassidy asked for a promise. And all he got was an asterisk." Former CDC senior leader Dan Jernigan on how, after promising not to do so, Kennedy's HHS has rewritten #CDC 's webpage on whether there's a link between #vaccines & autism. www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...

Seems like a recipe for disaster in the midst of national shortage of nurses. Nurses are the lifeblood of any healthcare system. www.statesman.com/news/article...

I often hear "I wish we didn't have to waste these expensive meds every time a patient stops & has extra left over." Here's what the state of Michigan did to combat this: - Statewide cancer drug repository, 105 sites - $26 million value/>100K pills donated to >1K pts ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...

👧🏽 Since 2008, vaccination against human papillomavirus #HPV is free for girls in Denmark 🔎 Researchers looked at 16,955 cervical cell samples from 8,659 women over a 7-year study period 📉 #vaccination has reduced infections with cancerogenic HPV 16/18 types #VaccinesWork #CervicalCancer 🛟

Warnings rise for U.S. as severe flu strain causes outbreaks in Canada, U.K. and Japan www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com @erikaedwards.bsky.social

Highly pathogenic H5N5 avian flu has mostly been detected in wild birds and transmitted from Europe to N. America by pelagic seabirds. Mammals (seals, walrus, cats) have been infected, but this is the 1st documented human case. Some have a PB2-E627K mutation known to facilitate mammalian adaptation.

The suspected outbreak of a hemorrhagic vial illness in Ethiopia has now been confirmed to Marburg Virus Disease. So far 9 cases have been identified in a part of the country that shares a border with Sudan. apnews.com/article/ethi...

I had the HUGE honor of being the 40th Forbes Fellow - when I was the previous awardees, I was truly humbled. The ID community is incredible in Melbourne. @monashuniversity.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social @thedohertyinst.bsky.social @trubianojason.bsky.social @bradgardiner.bsky.social

This is so odious and spiteful. But par for the course for these monsters.

This Week! Register now to unlock key insights on HSV Infections in this upcoming ICHS webinar! Free for ICHS members + select attendees/$25 for non-members. Register at: ichs.org

A major loss for everyone trying to understand how to prevent respiratory viruses and other major pathogens worldwide. Sharing data assures we are prepared. Now we are not

On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5

Not recommending COVID vaccines for healthcare workers is a disaster waiting to happen. Great piece from @drjudystone.bsky.social and Judith Feinberg. www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/c...

Got a great session idea for next year's @idweek.bsky.social ? You can submit either a full symposium or a quick topic or speaker idea ! #medEd #IDfellow #TID #IDSky @idsainfo.bsky.social #IDWeek2025 idweek.org/program/

New study shows antagonism between olorofim and voriconazole in vitro, suggesting this may be a class effect academic.oup.com/jac/advance-... #MedMycoSky #TxID #IDSky

ICHS is an ESCMID Affiliated Society. Together we strive to strengthen the vibrant collaboration among worldwide experts & specialists in the field. ESCMID opportunities and programs are listed on the ICHS website. ICHS.org

From UW/FHCC Dr Michael Boeckh: Inclusion of immunocompromised individuals in clinical trials of influenza antivirals is essential to ensure that ICIs have equitable access to valuable interventions. #IDSKy academic.oup.com/jid/article/...

In the past 2 weeks several European countries have reported locally acquired cases of #mpox clade Ib. This is new. There had been patients before but those infections likely happened elsewhere. Now it looks like mpox Ib is spreading here in the sexual networks of men who have sex with men. #IDsky

Due to the USG Shutdown, I wasn’t able to attend or present @idweek.bsky.social. I was supposed to give the talk on top viral studies that will impact your practice. Here are the papers I was going to highlight: See next posts

Important Ongoing Studies where we have or will have publications soon: Pritelivir for refractory or resistant HSV (presented @idweek.bsky.social by @kottonnelson.bsky.social): www.aicuris.com/press-releas... CD388 for prevention of influenza: www.cidara.com/news/cidara-...

UW ID Fellows (all of us together!) @ #IDWeek #IDSky

UW Faculty, Fellows and alums together for the annual #IDWeek Mount Ranier Society Reception. #IDSky

🥳 A huge crowd gathered at the #IHCoP #BugHub stage to listen to #AlpanaWaghmere, #StellaRadosta & #GabrielMotoa discuss #ChallengingCases in #TxID!! #IDWEEK2025

The US is on track to lose its measles elimination status this year or early next year. The current public health leadership seems intent to ignore the outbreak until more children die avoidable deaths. The vaccine is the most effective way to end the outbreak. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/more...

Trump’s proposing removal of aluminum salts from vaccines. Half of childhood vaccines rely on them (hep A/B, DTaP, Hib, HPV, meningo/pneumococcal). That change would take years, cost billions, and expose millions to preventable diseases despite zero evidence of harm. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/h...

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Such valuable data and expertise lost. Hard to improve health when we don’t even know what is happening. Call your senators and reps to push back - our voices do make a difference

👉 10/20/25: 5-5:25pm TID fellows, Drs. Gabriel Motoa Cardona (Columbia Presbyterian-Cornell) and Stella Radosta (UT Southwestern) will each present a case, with discussions led by Drs. Alan Koff (UC Davis) and Alpana Waghmare (University of Washington/Fred Hutch)

💥Transplant ID colleagues attending #IDWeek2025, please mark your calendars 💥 👉 10/20/25: 8-8:25am Dr. Jeremy Walker (UAB) is our invited speaker on “Bridging the Gap between General and TID Practice”, moderated by Drs. Andrea Zimmer and Emily Eichenberger

A study of nearly 300,000 people published today in the New England Journal of Medicine found “that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

Don’t become numb to these events

Without robust uptake of effective vaccines, children will continue to suffer and die needlessly. A large measles outbreak in Indonesia resulted in 2000 infections and 17 children dying. Mass vaccination campaign now underway. This was avoidable! www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.pbs....

Important update that CMV still is the Troll of transplantation Cytomegalovirus Viral Load Continues to Predict Poor Outcomes in Adults and Children Despite Improved Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Success url: academic.oup.com/ofid/article...

The situation is even worse than the article indicates. Aztreonam-avibactam & cefiderocol are the only beta-lactams active against NDM+ bacteria, but strains with PBP3 insertions conferring resistance to aztreonam-avibactam & cefiderocol are already circulating. academic.oup.com/jac/article-...

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In case you’re wondering, it’s barely fall & our children’s hospital is already almost always full with kids boarding in the ER. And the pediatric workforce is stretched thin. Our system does not have the capacity to care for the influx of vaccine preventable diseases that is coming.

Need to be more prepared as Chagas continues to expand its range to the southern states. Consequences of climate change. wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Here are the first vaccine recommendations issued by the West Coast Health Alliance, which includes California, Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii:

Insurance trade group says COVID, flu vaccines covered through 2026 AHIP's statement says all ACIP-recommended immunizations as of September 1, 2025 will be covered. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c... Photo: govonortomwolf/ Flickr cc

The Pitt won Outstanding Drama Series at the #Emmys, and R. Scott Gemmill dedicated the award to healthcare workers: "Respect them. Protect them. Trust them.” 🏆 www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...