🧫 The CDC recently made major cuts to a program that for decades has monitored foodborne illnesses through a partnership between federal agencies and state health departments. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

"In a disorganized start to the second day of their meeting, members of the ACIP also reversed a vote they made the previous evening that preserved some children’s access to a vaccine that the panel had just voted not to recommend." #IDSky #MedSky www.healio.com/news/pediatr...

💉 CDC advisors say COVID shots should require talk with doctor. ❓ But also: Details of a strange vote (which failed) that would have recommended COVID-19 vaccines require a prescription, something the ACIP does not control. More coming soon: www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🏆 Emmy wins for ‘The Pitt’ feel personal for health care professionals "Our emergency medicine group chats lit up like we had just won the Super Bowl." 💻 @owaisdurrani.bsky.social @rdglatter.bsky.social #MedTwitter www.healio.com/news/psychia...

"Robust scientific evidence and safety data have unequivocally shown that universal birth dose HBV vaccination saves lives and is safe to administer in newborns." 🗣️ New editorial up on the site ahead of this week's #ACIP meeting. #IDSky #MedSky www.healio.com/news/pediatr...

On the agenda for this week's 2-day ACIP meeting, which starts tomorrow: 💉 MMRV vaccination 💉 Hepatitis B birth dose 💉 COVID-19 vaccines “I’m hoping that they listen to the experts, but I guess we’ll just have to see what happens.” www.healio.com/news/infecti...

💉 The US is losing its only dengue vaccine. What now? #IDSky #MedSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

In addition to #Ebola, there are numerous other ongoing outbreaks in Africa competing for limited resources, especially in the wake of the United States’ gutting of foreign aid programs that funded outbreak responses. #IDSky #MedSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🦠 Latest #HookedOnID went up this morning: Sara K. Schultz, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FCPP, from @templeid.bsky.social. #IDSky #MedSky #PotatoSalad www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🗣️ “It’s perplexing to me why President Trump is allowing Secretary Kennedy to undermine his legacy in leading a medical intervention that really did save millions of lives.” #IDSky #MedSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

We asked the hosts of "This Podcast Will Kill You" to name the weirdest topic they have covered. Hint: 🐠 👅 🎙️ "It’s horrifying and adorable." @tpwky.bsky.social @flandmines.bsky.social @gohealio.bsky.social #IDSky

📉 Cuts to U.S. foreign aid will endanger #HIV treatment and prevention services globally, and are likely to reverse decades of progress against the virus, researchers said this week during a press briefing ahead of #IAS2025. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

💊 More evidence has emerged that a promising CDC-endorsed STI prevention strategy that involves taking the antibiotic doxycycline after having unprotected sex - known as doxy-PEP - may be contributing to antibiotic resistance in the United States. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🗳️ Senators voted along party lines Wednesday to advance the nomination of Susan Monarez, PhD, to be the next CDC director. Her nomination will now go to a vote of the full Senate. Here's our rundown 👇 www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🚨Senate HELP committee votes 12-11 on party lines to send the nomination of Susan Monarez, PhD, to be CDC director to the full Senate. All Rs voted yes, all Ds voted no. Story coming later ...

Taking aim at a longtime target of anti-vaccine activists, CDC advisors said the US should not administer flu vaccines containing thimerosal, a safe mercury-based preservative used to protect multi-dose vials of vaccine. Lots more inside 👇 www.healio.com/news/infecti...

New members, new agenda, surprise presenters: What to expect from this week's 2-day meeting of the CDC’s vaccine advisors. 🗣️ With comments from Paul A. Offit, MD ‪(@pauloffit.bsky.social‬) and Yvonne “Bonnie” A. Maldonado, MD. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🚨 The FDA has approved Gilead's twice-yearly injections for HIV PrEP. 💉 Now, it's a matter of getting shots into arms. 💪 #HIVSky #IDSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🚨 HHS announces "clean sweep" of CDC vaccine advisors. Removes all 17 members of the ACIP. www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

Experts painted a grim picture of STI surveillance following the closure of a key CDC lab in April. “A future without a lab like this is dim, and the risk to Americans is incredibly high." #IDSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🔗 Reposting this from November in light of the recently reported funding cuts to #HIV vaccine research and the argument that current approaches are enough. #IDSky #HIVSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🚨 HHS has terminated contracts with Moderna worth $766 million that were meant to fund the development of pre-pandemic influenza vaccines, including the company’s H5 bird flu vaccine candidate. 👇 www.healio.com/news/infecti...

Our story on the FDA's new restrictions on COVID-19 vaccines. 👇 #IDSky #MedSky

🦠 The field of ID has never been more important. Tell us why you chose it by emailing [email protected], with the subject line “Hooked on ID." #IDSky #HIVSky #MedSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

"There is no other federal panel that can do this work." @flandmines.bsky.social spoke to a couple committee members about the decision to fold HICPAC.

🚨 HHS confirms to Healio that HICPAC was shuttered based on an executive order to eliminate "unnecessary government entities and federal advisory committees that should be terminated on grounds that they are unnecessary." We're still adding to this. #IDSky #MedSky 👇 www.healio.com/news/infecti...

Much better at doffing than donning. #ESCMIDGlobal

#ESCMIDGlobal continues its recent tradition of hosting an art exhibition featuring original artwork with a common theme. This year’s theme: climate change and infection. 🎨 The art gallery is a lovely addition, and more conferences should consider it. @escmid.bsky.social #IDSky

“We cannot do the complex and serious work of protecting Americans from infectious diseases amid this chaos and confusion." www.healio.com/news/infecti...

King Holmes, MD, PhD, an infectious diseases physician and researcher who helped create modern STI research and was a central figure in the early AIDS epidemic, died Sunday at the age of 87, the University of Washington announced. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

Two more people have been potentially cured of #HIV after receiving stem cell transplants from donors with a rare genetic mutation that can make people naturally resistant to the virus. One or two of these every year now. News from CROI: www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🦠 In interviews, experts described the bird flu outbreak as smoldering, still mostly a threat to animals, but more likely to pose a larger danger to humans the longer it sticks around and the less engaged the U.S. becomes in global public health. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

MMWR, the CDC’s primary medical journal for disseminating public health information, went unpublished this week — seemingly for the first time ever — amid the communications freeze issued by HHS to the nation’s health agencies. Comments from CDC, and reaction 👇 www.healio.com/news/infecti...

We spoke to experts about the state of the #STI epidemic in the United States and what can be done to bring STI rates down further. @gohealio.bsky.social @gerardgallagher.bsky.social #chlamydia #gonorrhea #syphilis #InfectiousDiseases www.healio.com/news/infecti...

After leaving office, Jimmy Carter led a decades-long effort to eradicate Guinea worm disease, and he nearly lived to see it happen. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🦠 INBOX: CDC confirms first case of severe bird flu in US, and first US case linked to exposure to a backyard flock. The patient in Louisiana has been hospitalized. Testing shows a relation to viruses detected in wild birds and poultry in US and recent human cases in BC and Washington state. 👇

A child in California suspected to have highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza consumed raw milk before experiencing symptoms. www.healio.com/news/infecti... #rawmilk #MedSky

Long-acting injectables are poised to change the landscape of HIV prevention, allowing people to go months in between doses of PrEP. In the era of lenacapavir and cabotegravir, does the world still need an HIV vaccine? I asked around and got one answer. #HIVSky #IDSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

Hey #MedSky! We're happy to be here as your reliable source of medical news. 🩺 We also want to invite you to Healio Community, an HCP-only space that provides mentorships, job opportunities and forums with medical professionals across all specialties. Hope to see you there! community.healio.com

INBOX: CDC confirms first pediatric case of bird flu in US: ◾ Child had mild symptoms, received antivirals, is recovering ◾ Family members tested negative ◾ No evidence of human-to-human spread ◾ CA officials looking into child’s exposure ◾ National surveillance caught case #IDSky #Medsky

The BALANCE trial results have been published in NEJM. Here's our report on the findings from IDWeek, including a perspective from Brad Spellberg, MD. #IDSky #Medsky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

In case you haven't seen it: @who-global.bsky.social now has a presence here on bluesky as well! #IDsky 🧪

NEW: CDC announces E. coli outbreak linked to organic whole and baby carrots sold by Grimmway Farms: ◾ 39 cases in 18 states ◾ 15 hospitalizations ◾ 1 death Grimmway has recalled the carrots. "These products are likely no longer in stores for sale but may still be in your home," CDC says. More 👇

New "Hooked on ID" went up yesterday. #IDSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

#Measles cases increased globally by 20% last year, and roughly 22 million children missed their first measles vaccine dose, the CDC and WHO reported yesterday. The timing. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🦠 Good morning, #IDSky and #HIVSky. For the past 6 years, we've been collecting origin stories from physicians for our "Hooked on ID" series. If you'd like to tell us (in 200 words or less) how you got hooked on ID — or read your colleagues' stories — click the link. www.healio.com/news/infecti...