With whom will you build bridges? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

For years, the need for longer durations in immunocompromised patients was treated as the exception to every shorter-duration bacteremia discussion. BALANCE may have finally put that belief to rest. Dogma continues to lose ground. #idsky

#Ebola update from DRC: Confirmed cases are now at 635, with 127 confirmed deaths. There were 37 new cases yesterday including 12 deaths. It appears the number of case contacts being followed is still quite low, about six per confirmed case. insp.cd/sitrep-n26-m...

Progress www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

👏👏👏 Fantastic seeing people with a moral compass standing in solidarity with physicians and scientists Colluding with MAHA/MAGA authoritarianism is never justified

Nature Africa: The missed opportunity from a past Ebola outbreak by Paul Adepoju go.nature.com/4uqFo5c

States can do more to mitigate medical neglect by ICE www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

“They physically grabbed us, forced us out of the conference center and now are telling us we can no longer attend this meeting. They’re taking our lanyards. It really has come to this in America. Censorship is real” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Ebola outbreak in DR Congo could top 20,000 cases in worst case, CDC says Experts said they hope the CDC report will help galvanize the response to the crisis. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

🔄 Re-upping this: tomorrow is the last day to sign our open letter to Congress regarding the proposed use of third-country facilities for Americans potentially exposed to or infected with #Ebola If you agree, please consider adding your name and sharing with colleagues. Thank you for the support

Uganda's Ministry of Health has a dashboard for its #Ebola #Bundibugyo cases, perhaps recognising that this will not be a case of cases and done.😔 It doesn't include contacts or suspect cases (which IMO helps inform the public of the scale of the threat & work underway) evd-daily.health.go.ug

“Brazen indifference” www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

CDC modeling suggests the Ebola outbreak could grow by 20K cases over the next 3 mo w/out a stronger response -- on the scale of the world's worst outbreak in W Africa. But models are only as good as the data they're based on & the data is *very* poor. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Evolving story but very worrisome that law enforcement were engaged (at points) violently to eject experts due to editorial speech www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Hey cool, I’m gonna open this here box! #bioethics www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/s...

🆕💥🟢Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV): what first responders/clinicians need to know. #idsky www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295...

".. and because it’s not funded [..] we can’t be part of the conversations and be at the table. It’s all at the mercy of people still being willing to work with us despite all the limitations that we have, and despite the fact that we pulled our funding to them.” www.statnews.com/2026/06/03/n...

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

What the ICU hears when I tell them to stop the meropenem that’s been on for 12 days after negative cultures finalized. #IDsky

"However, it is important to remember that preparedness is not static. It requires sustained investment, coordination, and public trust." www.statnews.com/2026/05/28/e...

Ouch, but true “No one is surprised to see the maximum selfishness of US government policy these days. Because it’s just one thing after another. They’ve already withdrawn from WHO…they’ve already destroyed USAID… no one is really expecting a lot of them right now” www.statnews.com/2026/05/28/t...

Antisense oligonucleotide yields 20% functional cure of chronic hepatitis B — and 16% experienced grade 3-4 infections adverse events www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

We will look back at the medical abuses in ICE detention as a modern day #bioethics failure akin to Tuskegee & Japanese internment during WWII New one with @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social & Katie Peeler at @healthaffairs.bsky.social www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Hey kids, let’s play another game of, “Is This The Onion, Or Is This Your Real Life?” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

Reuters: US CDC seeks staff for Ebola screening as outbreak response expands Next: a bake sale to pay them reut.rs/4u8NPCg

This is just crushing. Emily Waldorf was denied care for a risky miscarriage due to Arkansas’ abortion ban, even after she met the hospital’s CEO, called the governor’s office and got a lawyer. www.propublica.org/article/arka...

"AI does not humanize medicine, but it can remove one of the most durable excuses for failing to do so." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"This is not a simulation. It is a practical step that the American and global public health communities must take to prevent a worst-case scenario from undermining what we all pray will be an international celebration of sport and cooperation." www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

New piece in @newyorker.com Yes, it’s true, in a kooky right wing rag last November Jay Bhattacharya—who now leads the US pandemic response—said the US should stop all pandemic preparedness & response efforts Instead, individuals must just get healthy—so at least the strong will survive 😢 1/2

"Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks prompt raft of conspiracy theories" No wonder, given that media, pundits, politicians and, yes, scientists have reveled for years in conspiracy theories that the last major pandemic was concocted and covered up by evil scientists. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

AI deemed dangerously sycophantic when giving relationship advice How would that behavior play out in medicine? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

From Thomas Mann to Rene Dubos to John Green, how authors and books shape our understanding of TB My essay in @theunion.org journal journals.theunion.org/content/ijtl...

Hey Adam Douglas Thompson and @newyorker.com now do the Department of Health and Human Services www.newyorker.com/cartoons/dai...

“It’s palpable right now in the pancreas cancer world — we’re excited” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.

SCOOP: US is sending PHS officers to Kenya to screen Americans returning from Ebola-affected areas. Will they assess individual risk, or treat everyone as high-risk like hantavirus cruise passengers? landmansplained.com/p/news-alert-the-us-government-plans-to-screen-americans-for-ebola-overseas-1d65

This is what the antivax movement does to kids. You are under no obligation to kowtow to these people when they try to impose their delusionals on your school districts or anywhere else.

Obeldesivir,you might hear more about it soon! No approved treatments for Bundibugyo Ebola strain,experimental therapies under consideration Gilead's obeldesivir &Mapp's MBP134 antibody cocktail show promise in animal studies Vaccine development may take months #idsky www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

“We’re in a dangerous moment for public health,” Todd said. “Federal agencies are being undermined by leaders who dismiss science and silence experts, particularly when it involves LGBTQ+ people.”

As Ebola resurfaces in eastern DRC and Uganda, familiar patterns are returning too. Fear, travel bans, stigma, and selective compassion. I wrote about what this outbreak about preparedness, whose lives we value and what we owe each other. bktitanji.substack.com/p/what-we-ow...

My colleagues and I published op-eds about Ebola this week. Here's where we agree. Read & subscribe (for free!) www.celinegounder.com/p/three-ebol... www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Ebola was caught too late in DRC. Blame greed & corruption for the neglect of Congolese citizens; blame the US for cuts to aid; blame a chronic lack of funds for healthcare. Also: The WHO has definitely gotten faster, at least in early days. My timeline of W Africa outbrk: nautil.us/how-slow-res...

🚨 Trump & RFK Jr have a new & extremely inhumane approach to global health: holding vulnerable people to ransom 🆕 My latest article in @bmj.com examines how the Trump administration is withholding life-saving health aid from countries & from Gavi to extract concessions www.bmj.com/content/393/...

“NIH is flagging just the fact that this co-authorship was there as evidence of a foreign component without looking further... Everybody’s very confused by this interpretation right now.”

Grant funding in the U.S. has additional big problems www.nature.com/articles/d41... #nih #grants #funding #agenticAI

“Elon Musk gleefully boasted about feeding the United States Agency for International Development into a ‘wood chipper.’” Now we are seeing real-world life-and-death consequences of their historic carelessness www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/o...

The American people will be thrilled to be rid of experts in or insurance coverage for preventive care apnews.com/article/trum...

Ebola is worse now than it had to be, after Trump and Rubio savaged funding www.statnews.com/2026/05/19/u...

"We cannot repeat the mistakes of the past — valuing some lives more visibly than others, focusing only when a person from a high-income country becomes infected, or treating frontline health care workers as expendable" 🔥 @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2026/05/20/e... #ebola