The physician and pharmacologist died on February 1st, aged 74

Congratulations and well done, Tom Whitehead, on this excellent case report. Fantastic cross-departmental collaboration @ouhospitals.bsky.social to care for this patient & share his journey. Thank you also to colleagues at @escmid.bsky.social Global 2025 for input. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍⚕️ 👩‍🔬 💊 🧪 🦠 🦟 💉 ⚕️ 🔬 🏥 🤝 🕊️

🧫 Thank you, @escmid.bsky.social, for the kind sponsorship to attend one of your 2025 leadership courses. 💡What an enriching and eye-/heart-opening experience. Love the photo of us practising strategic crisis management!

Rebalancing viral and immune damage versus repair prevents death from lethal influenza infection www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org @niaidnews.bsky.social

💊 Exciting news for dengue therapeutics 👏 Congratulations, Anna Durbin and colleagues! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Not all medicines are equal ⏱️ Some need to be taken at a certain time 🍽️ Some need to be taken with food 🍂 Some may interact with herbal remedies #MedSafetyWeek

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New Review: Kyasanur Forest disease: an emerging arboviral threat www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Our framework that informed the @who.int TB & climate change policy brief out now in @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social, exploring the intersections and implications of climate change for the TB epidemic. Key message? TB should be considered a climate-sensitive disease www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

SO excited to see this work come out, led by the incredible Laura Marks: doi.org/10.1093/ofid...

New Review Core outcome measurement set for clinical trials in dengue: an international Delphi consensus study (DEN-CORE) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"Usutu, which mainly infects birds, was first detected in London blackbirds in 2020 and has been found in birds or mosquitoes every year since, making it now endemic to the UK … Usutu often establishes first, with West Nile following as temperatures rise." theconversation.com/first-eviden...

Pleased to see this out today in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... We estimate the independent effects of AMR genes on MIC at a drug-bug level and challenge the idea that resistance is a binary phenomenon.

📢 "Invasive #mosquito surveillance in the #UnitedKingdom 2020 to 2024: First detection of #Aedes aegypti eggs in the UK and further detection of Aedes albopictus 🦟" by Colin Johnston et al. @ukhsa.bsky.social published in @plosglobalpublichealth.org journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

The invasive form of Ae. #aegypti mosquito evolved within the Americas, after arriving from Africa ~320 ya. Our most recent paper is out @science.org. Years of work with collaborators all around led by J. Crawford! Great resource for the Vector Research community!. www.science.org/content/arti...

🦟" #France 🇫🇷 reports 1st local #dengue case, #chikungunya cases rise to 25" via @outbreaknewstoday.substack.com.web.brid.gy open.substack.com/pub/outbreak...

Great news for paediatric access to artemether-lumefantrine 🦟 💊 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

"Regardless of its justification—be it financial, convenience, or otherwise—a lone actor should not be allowed to unilaterally undermine the ethical provision of healthcare in the United States." academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

📆 15 June is World Dengue Day 🦟 Dengue is the most important vector-borne viral infection in humans, with record cases in 2024, but no licensed treatments 💊 @who.int are seeking feedback on target product profiles for dengue treatments 🗣️ Do share widely - thank you! www.who.int/news-room/ar...

Applications for the Barnett Christie Lecture at FIS 2025 are now open! Each year the BIA invites applications to deliver this highly prestigious lecture at the conference of the Federation of Infection Societies. Find out more and apply 👉 champ.ly/2kIjacU-

Given #YellowFever vaccination seems to have become topical, this article might be of interest. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Read our June issue! Featuring effectiveness of RSV vaccination in older people in the US, malaria prevention in children with sickle-cell anaemia, and testing new serological tools for arboviral infections www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🏅Thank you, @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk and @medsci.ox.ac.uk for the news coverage on my work on drugs for vector-borne infections 🦟💊 @escmid.bsky.social www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-...

Thank you Touch Medical Media for the lovely profile of @escmid.bsky.social Young Investigator Award winners🏅 It was so good to have those precious few minutes amidst the buzz of #ESCMIDGlobal2025 to reflect on my career path in global health 💊🦠🦟☀️ touchinfectiousdiseases.com/insight/qa-w...

A packed #ESCMIDGlobal2025 #ESCMIDGlobal! So good to meet old friends and new from around the world in beautiful Vienna. Thank you @escmid.bsky.social for the Young Investigator Award and an amazing conference. Well done Shanghavie Loganathan, Alice Scharmeli, and Tom Whitehead on your posters!

What a special Saturday night receiving the @escmid.bsky.social Young Investigator Award 2025 in Vienna 🇦🇹 from President Robert Skov at the #ESCMIDGlobal opening ceremony recognising a decade of work on drugs 💊 for tropical infections with many amazing global collaborators- thank you 🕊️ @ox.ac.uk

Looking forward to meeting many of you again at @escmid.bsky.social Global 2025 in Vienna, Austria later this week. Pleased to share our presentations. Thanks to fantastic resident doctors and senior co-authors for their energy and teamwork to bring these years of work to an international audience.

Just published. Our review estimated that vertical transmission of hepatitis B in the WHO African region could be eliminated with birth dose vaccination and maternal antiviral prophylaxis. An exciting possibility- will we find the political will? #idsky #hepsky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

1/3 Thrilled to share the PREPARE (now @ecraid.bsky.social) MERMAIDS Arbovirus study (21 hospitals in 7 countries over 4 years) coordinated by @ndm.ox.ac.uk in @thelancet.bsky.social ID. Think arbovirus!🥵🦟🦠🌡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @laurenhookham.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! I'll be reprising the British Infection Association 2024 Barnett Christie Prize Lecture today at the Clinical Infection Departmental Seminar. This time with the opportunity for questions. Come say hello! @ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social

From tick-surveillance to the first confirmed cases of tick-borne encephalitis in the UK. Super work by Helen Callaby, and a big group including clinicians across the U.K. and UKHSA diagnostics/tick surveillance teams- #RIPL #IFS #emerginginfections #idsky shorturl.at/jpnHQ

Do consider applying for this: smooth straightforward process pre- and post-award 🤝 I’m very grateful to @biainfection.bsky.social for last year’s 2024 Young Scientist travel award which has already been a big boost to my career 🥇 See you at ESCMID Global 2025! 🦠

Jab could give lifelong protection against virus that inspired ‘Contagion’ film, scientists say www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Toscana virus – an emerging Mediterranean arbovirus transmitted by sand flies. Published #OpenAccess and fee-free in #JGenVirol using a #PublishAndRead agreement: https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.002045

Ivermectin is completely ineffective against COVID or cancer but it works against soil transmitted helminths in a fixed dose combination co-administered with albendazole and this combo may be better than albendazole alone 🧪 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Recent work showing diverse treatment responses in #HBV infection. Treatment can work well but we need to understand it better, & focus on those in whom viraemia is not suppressed. @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk #HepSky 🧪 JHEP REP www.jhep-reports.eu/article/S258...

Looking forward to seeing this in print, Hannah! 😷

CCHF prevalence in northern Tanzania at 3.1%! Associated with close animal contact. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39756807/

Health systems experience difficult trade-offs when paying for new drugs. A recent study evaluated the population-health impact of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommendations for new drugs during 2000–20. 🔗 tinyurl.com/ydaw2yzd

Though "Oral is the New IV" with antibiotics (h/t @bradspellberg.bsky.social), it's not always easy to convince reluctant inpatient clinicians -- especially (in my experience) surgeons, who want to treat "aggressively". Interesting dynamic ... blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

💫 Thank you @escmid.bsky.social! Looking forward to the 2025 meeting in Vienna 🇦🇹

Full report by @aabdolra.bsky.social @andy-borman.bsky.social in Emerging Infectious Diseases 👏 wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Spread of Antifungal-Resistant Trichophyton indotineae, United Kingdom, 2017–2024 @aabdolra.bsky.social et al T indotineae (which is terbinafine resistant in 3/4 cases) has rapidly spread thru the UK, now comprising 38% of dermatophytes at the national reference lab wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Yes but why

Infectious diseases is not only about the latest trials and big cohort studies. So, here is a list of my favourite pieces that you might missed from The Lancet Infectious Diseases in 2024 that reflect on the field at large, in no specific order. #IDSky

Pandemic potential of the Nipah virus and public health strategies adopted during outbreaks: Lessons from Kerala, India journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

I hope, before the west inevitably turns away, they at least absorb this: "Malaria still kills almost 600,000 people a year globally, and 12% of those deaths occur in the DRC." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Tragic, unnecessary & preventable loss of life. When I speak about access to essential medicines 💉 💊 in all health systems, I’m often told it isn’t ’real research’ or of ‘true academic importance’. This work matters to those whose lives depend on us caring enough to carry on. @boghuma.bsky.social

🕊️ 🌍 🌎 🌏 ⚕️🕊️ It's #OxTropMed24 this Friday at Lecture Theatre 2 at the John Radcliffe Hospital & online on Teams. Come join @laurenhookham.bsky.social & me for a fun morning of bugs & drugs from around the world! 🧫 🦟 🦠 🪱 💊💉 @ox.ac.uk @ctmgh.bsky.social @ndm-cghr.bsky.social @ouhospitals.bsky.social