A false statement about #brucellosis increasingly reproduced in scientific literature (117 articles). Supportive reference absent/ erroneous. LLMs partly adopting this claim. How is scientific integrity eroded? I researched this in @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2026/05/why-...

Hantavirus in a cruise ship, looks like Andes virus, looks like a voyage of the damned: 1. Trip starts in Argentina, where South American Hanta, Andes virus, is endemic. Patient No 1 rapidly deteriorates, meaning that he was infected before boarding (incubation 20 days).

Neglected Tropical Diseases remain a public health, sociopolitical, and ethical issue. At PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases we have launched a series of state-of-the-art reviews on NTDs, to shape research priorities, inform practice, and become definite resources 1/n journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Nature remains a massive biological laboratory- Humans increasingly tend to intrude and interact with unknown ecosystems, aggravating the risk of novel zoonotic spillovers. I have written about how we can avert future outbreaks in @thebulletin.org 1/n thebulletin.org/2026/04/pyth...

The legacy of William H Foege, 1936-2026- the embodiment of global health, a hero to guide us. The man who conceived, working in the 1960s in forgotten African villages, the methods that successfully led to smallpox eradication. 1/n

After all, mRNA vaccines were deemed useful by the same people that constantly maligned them and now run ACIP. "Just let it be someone else's decision, not ours". Their disinformation was either a vehicle to gain power, or a lie that, when in need of scientific evidence, didn't find any...

A recent Sounding Board article in @nejm.org by Makary & Prasad outlined their policy on/ against COVID-19 vaccines. Their policy violates a human's right to be protected from infection. Their distorted "science" needed a response and my response was published in NEJM: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

An honor and a duty, to be selected as an Editorial Fellow covering biosecurity, for @thebulletin.org. thebulletin.org/2025/07/the-...

Virus, 1980. A film about a lethal virus, no vaccine available, and something that reminds us of the present times:

It was perhaps Jimmy Carter's most significant heritage: it was the Carter Center that was crucial in the path towards dracunculiasis elimination. An Alien-like parasitosis that few, in the developed world, knew or cared about (images are derived from its site) 1/n

Can synthetic mirror-bacteria induce an annihilation event? Why, and why now, are major scientists warning about the need to avoid (or abort) similar experiments? what has changed for them since 2010? I have written some notes on this here: 1/n georgiospappas6.substack.com/p/can-synthe...

History repeating? I wrote for @bulletinatomic.bsky.social how US future health under RFK Jr may be a 3rd major episode of science denialism, post Soviet Lysenko times and Thanbo Mbeki’s South African HIV-denial (obliged to @mattyfield.bsky.social ) : 1/n thebulletin.org/2024/11/lyse...

What to expect in global health after the US Election? Matt Field, for The @bulletinatomic.bsky.social asked experts of public health/ biosecurity/ biology/vaccines/ health law on their thoughts. My opinion focused on isolationism and science-scepticism: 1/n thebulletin.org/2024/11/what...