Viruses, bacteria and Cancer: New review shows EBV, H. pylori, and SARS-CoV-2 fuel gut inflammation, disrupt immunity & genes, and raise cancer risk. More reasons to prevent infections. buff.ly/cpqp7JG #medsky #IDsky #oncsky 😷🛟🧪

You need a balanced, not boosted immune system!

Alberta Health Services says someone with a confirmed case of measles visited the Calgary International Airport on May 19 #yyc www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

We have allowed a multi system vascular virus to spread unchecked for nearly 6 years. Public health has failed to advise folks of the risk to long term health, or of the fact that there’s no such thing as “mild” COVID. Yet doctors blame sudden rise in young stroke patients on everything BUT Covid

The researchers also found people who received antiviral treatment for Herpes (HSV-1) had roughly a 17% lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease compared to those who were untreated. www.sciencealert.com/new-link-con...

Derby researchers studied 46 people with Long COVID and found that even mild exercise breaks large microclots into smaller ones, triggering inflammation and possibly worsening symptoms. Exercise may harm more than help without careful oversight. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

From the pediatric section of @batemanhornecenter.bsky.social’s new Clinical Care Guide to ME/CFS and Long Covid. The truth is a lot of adults who don’t know they have ME and/or LC say these things too.

Dear Canada: tomorrow is Election Day. This is Mark Carney. Hint, hint.

COVID infection tripled the risk of inflammatory heart diseases and was associated with 68% increased risk of any cardiovascular symptoms in kids with normal hearts. Study period March 2020 to September 2023. Minimum 6 month followup. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Boy, when I listen to Mark Carney talk about his plan for investing in Canada’s economy, for breaking down interprovincial & international barriers, for doubling home building, and for turning Canada into an energy superpower, I’m struck by how clearly he knows what he’s talking about. Refreshing.

I looked into it so that you do not have to have to. What's at stake now that milk quality testing by the FDA is suspended? What does milk quality testing involve by the way? Should you care? A 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Reminder as we watch measles rates climb in Canada that *this* is Poilievre's attitude towards vaccination during a public health emergency. MMR vaccination has long been mandated for health care workers. Would a Poilievre govt ban the MMR mandate in health care during a huge measles outbreak?

Confirmed cases of measles prompts public alert to potential exposures in the #Edmonton area www.albertahealthservices.ca/news/Page188... #Alberta #Measles

“I’m not worried about Long Covid” Of course you’re not. Most people weren’t worried about it, until it happened to them This is true of most disabilities. People think they’re the exception. That we’ve done something “wrong”. It’ll be different for them Disability can & does happen to everyone.

Hamburg researchers scanned 44 Long COVID patients and found severe shrinkage in key brainstem-cerebellum bridges. These structural breaks, called “Broken Bridge Syndrome,” may underlie fatigue, motor issues, and autonomic dysfunction. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

goddd the number of things that turn out to be caused (at least partly) by infectious, vaccinatable diseases. apparently some dementia is actually "long chickenpox"? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

Masking discourse is on again and I’ll just say if you see people masking when few others are it’s likely because they’ve determined that for them, in that setting, the benefit of not catching (or spreading) whatever’s going around is worth the cost of masking. It’s rarely more complicated than that

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

Does anyone with ME or Long Covid have experience taking Xolair for MCAS you’d be willing to share?

Long-term heart risks from COVID-19. "A study found that having a COVID-19 infection doubles the risk of cardiovascular diseases, with risks extending up to 3 years." "The risks presented by COVID-19 apply to all patients, regardless of age, gender, or prior health conditions."

Thank you @rollingstone.com for the front page coverage Make the invisible visible. Long Covid is REAL and a growing crisis

Today is International #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay. How can you take action? 📢 - Talking about COVID and #LongCovid in the present tense. - Wearing a respirator mask to protect yourself and others. 😷 buymask.ca - Donating so that we can continue sending free masks to people in 🇨🇦 who need them.

Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.

A massive story in Canada is that damn near the entire country is turning on national God Wayne Gretzky because he refuses to stand up for Canadian sovereignty due to his desire to keep getting invites to Mar A Lago. An entire country choosing dignity over star-f*cking. We could take a lesson.

I’m just not sure I agree that we owe Wayne Gretzky a lifetime of deference because he scored a lot of goals a long time ago!

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

A Bird Flu update in the new @thelancet.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧵on the US response

I’m quietly meditating… yet there are 2 chilling thoughts keep haunting me— 📌1. Measles is not just highly infectious with R0 of 12-18, but it has a long ***2 WEEK*** INCUBATION period—ie Texas outbreak could be in the HUNDREDS or more already, and we are seeing just the early tip of iceberg.

if you're reading this 50 years from now I need you to know that this series of world events isn't as dumb as it probably seems, it's actually much, much dumber than you can possibly imagine

There's an official Canadian petition asking the Prime Minister to revoke Elon Musk's citizenship. It has received over 50k signatures so far. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Albertans are slowly waking up to the depths of the scandal enveloping the UCP government. A lot of folks are wondering how to explain what's going on to people who haven't been tuning in. Here's the what, so what now what, and what's next of the situation. 🧵

🎯 article 👇 by @thewhn.bsky.social to bookmark & share: H5N1 Safety Guidelines for Individuals - WHN (Feb 16, 2025) whn.global/guidelines/h...

BREAKING: Deadly Bird Flu Can Travel Nearly 5 Miles by Wind, New Study Warns Far More Contagious Than Thought.

🧵 Just to recap what is happening, since public health has gone AWOL: * This is the worst flu season in 15 years. Not just number of cases but number of *severe* cases. 1/

There’s been so much interest in from US 🇺🇸health workers and jobs in Canada that I’m posting recruitment links for all 10 provinces and 3 territories: 🧵 #healthcarejobs🇨🇦

"Are you going to mask indoors forever?" No, just until I die or stop caring about being alive and healthy. Unfortunately, people like you have made sure COVID is around everywhere, all the time.

I'm receiving reports from Indiana something is seriously wrong. Hospitals are filling up with flu A patients on ventilators. The ICU is overflowing, forcing critically ill patients into the Progressive Care Unit (PCU).

Breaking—Bird flu found in wet markets in New York City. Quick, let’s find the nearest XXX Institute of Virology and witch hunt them! www.nbcnewyork.com/news/health/...

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KEEP CATS SAFE—there is clear proof of cat-human household transmission of bird flu. CDC scientists posted the data—but suddenly deleted soon afterwards. CDC is being blatantly muzzled. C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Wow. So not only were several bird flu studies left out of today’s CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, some data on bird flu briefly appeared in the online report and then was quickly removed.

They say women are so emotional but then a man goes and buys an entire social media platform so he can win another man an election because he can’t himself run for president so he can go ruin all the organizations he holds grudges against, sure bro.

Important update: H5N1 variant D1.1 identified in milk and dairy cattle in Nevada. This is not the same as the variant that has been circulating in cattle until now, it is the one responsible for the death in Louisiana and a severely sick teenager in canada. www.aphis.usda.gov/news/program...

New development: this is the first detection of genotype D1.1 H5N1 virus in cattle. All cattle sequences to date were genotype B3.13 & were all descended from a single spillover. New genotype means new introduction to cows from birds. www.statnews.com/2025/02/05/u...