Happy new week! Autism spectrum disorder isn't caused by one single factor. Tylenol is safe to use in pregnancy. People with autism spectrum disorder are not pawns in a political game and should not be further stigmatized for an agenda.

September 21st is the World Day of Peace. We desperately need to return to more peaceful times on so many fronts.

25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The interim CDC director who will rubber stamp the ACIP recommendations on MMRV vaccine and COVID vaccine is neither a scientist nor a physician. He is a former silicon valley executive. When was the last time you consulted a corporate executive for guidance on your health? 🤔...I'll wait.

I believe that the mounting pressure by many experts sounding the alarm on the threat of canceling the birth-dose of the hepatitis B vaccine contributed to the indefinite postponement of that vote by ACIP. kKeep reminding folks that canceling the birth dose will kill children. Pressure works.

Experts who know way more about vaccines that whatever ignorance and bad faith were on display at #ACIP are fact checking the pro-child death cast and their misguided votes and arguments. Follow @idsainfo.bsky.social for sound evidence based facts on vaccines.

The current ACIP is not a credible committee. It pains me to say this, but do NOT listen to them for guidance on vaccines. I am an infectious disease doc and will be roundly ignoring their misinformed and anti-scientific guidelines. Yesterday's spectacle was an insult to vaccinology and science.

Who would have thought we will see the day that the #ACIP meeting sounds like a plenary at an anti-vaccine convention? The primary emotion I feel is sadness. We are losing so much in real time.

Senegal just introduced a single shot hexavalent vaccine which covers: Tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough, polio, hepatitis B, and Haemophilus influenzae type b www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

Newborn lives are on the line. The hepatitis B birth dose is safe, effective, and lifesaving yet it’s under attack at ACIP this week. Weakening this policy would be a grave mistake. Read why we must defend it. open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj...

Susan Monarez is a public health hero. #ProfilesInCourage

Tanehisi Coates writes with a clarity that is rare. This reflection is worth reading. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Sharing this post from the #WHO LinkedIn page. Work continues,to end the #Ebola outbreak in the #DRC. Two recovered patients discharged, vaccination, and contact training ongoing. This year, the US decided to withdraw from #WHO but global solidarity is bigger than one country. Still they RISE!

We have 2 vaccines that prevent cancer, the HBV vaccine that prevents hepatitis B related liver cancer and the HPV vaccine that prevents cervical cancer and other HPV associated cancers. On Thursday, RFK.JR's ACIP will attack one of these vaccines (HBV) and restrict access to it. Let that sink in!

It’s #MythBustingTuesday. Today’s target: “mRNA vaccines change your DNA.” This myth spread like wildfire during the peak of the COVID pandemic. Unfortunately it persists today. It sounds scary, but it’s biologically implausible. Here’s why. 🧵

This is why whenever my lovely surgery Colleagues ask my opinion on whether to operate, I laugh and say, of course, the answer will always be yes to get me deep samples for culture and source control 😀. Easy for me to say, I don't perform surgery, but I know source control is my love language.

We do not talk enough about how much vaccines have transformed Ebola outbreaks. The country stock pile of 2000 vaccines was immediately deployed to respond to the outbreak in the DRC and 45,000 additional doses have been approved for shipment to the DRC. www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

Very sad to see the scale of destruction when it's laid out so plainly

What is wrong in the world is that some human lives are considered more valuable than others. That is why a journalist can call for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection and get to issue an apology and keep his job. A society crumbles when it chooses to only see humanity in a chosen few

This is why it is important to keep speaking up about the science of vaccines and the need to make sure children are protected from preventable infectious diseases. Not all of it falls on deaf ears. Most parents are not anti-vaccine, those who are just louder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Please take care of yourselves.

Very informative reporting on the resurgence of Typhus is Texas. All infectious diseases seem to have sensed the abandonment of science and public health measures and are seizing the moment. This is not the type of job secure I want 🫠 www.npr.org/2025/09/12/n...

Charting in my office after my clinic this morning. This is the smile of a doc who got 100% uptake of flu vaccines offered today. Also handed out RSV and Menveo shots. We don't have the covid shots yet so I've been calling in scripts for my patients to their pharmacies. Happy Friday!

There are many public priorities in the US that need urgent attention, reverting to an old name of a disease is not one of them. "Monkeypox" was changed to "mpox" to reduce stigma from the old name. The DHHS choosing to revert to the old name is baffling and unnecessary. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Giving patients vaccines in the hospital is an underrated safety net, especially for people without primary care access. Tis the season offer and give that flu shot and covid shot to folks who are admitted. Come in for a trauma fracture? Leave vaccinated. We can walk and chew gum 😊.

What is SSPE? Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is one of the most feared complications of measles. It is rare, but always devastating: a progressive, fatal brain disorder that emerges years after a seemingly normal recovery from measles. 🧵 www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Rolling the dice on a vaccine preventable illness is never the better option. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is a rare and fatal complication of measles that can occur several years after the original infection. This is sad, this is avoidable. Vaccinate kids! www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Report of the 2024 #marburg outbreak in #rwanda. The response successfully treated two patients in the icu, simultaneously ran vaccine and treatment trials and effectively contained the outbreak. 15/66 cases died. They gave the world a lesson in outbreak response. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The thing about indiscriminately promoting violence and hate is that you cannot always direct where these vile sentiments ultimately go or who is influenced. HATE is dark and ugly and should be roundly condemned, always. Even those who promote it can fall victim to what they forment.

Epidemiological data of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DRC.

Before the HBV vaccine was introduced as part of childhood immunization in Cameroon it wasn't uncommon to see very young people with liver cancer secondary to chronic hepatitis B. The youngest case I saw was a 17yo boy with liver cancer 2/2 to perinatally acquired HBV www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

AI will be the one to end us all 🫠

Ivermectin is NOT an effective treatment for Chagas Disease. Just thought I should put that information out there. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Important and timely study Pregnant women face higher risks from Ebola: maternal mortality up to 89%, and nearly all pregnancies lost. Until now, they’ve been excluded from Ebola vaccine trials. A landmark phase 3 RCT in Rwanda changes [email protected] www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s my first ID #MythBustingTuesday Let’s tackle one that is seasonal and comes up every single year: 👉🏾 “The flu shot gave me the flu.” Spoiler: that’s not how science or vaccines work. 🧵

I am here to say vaccines are awesome because guess what Denmark is close to completely eliminating the two most dangerous HPV strains (serotype 16 and 18) and with the cervical cancer.I think that is bloody AMAZING!!!! bit.ly/4pbHxjT

I feel conflicted by xenotransplantation. On one hand it has the potential to expand access to organs for transplantation and give those in need a new lease on life. On the other hand the ethics of breeding animals to sacrifice for their organs is questionable. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

David Baltimore passed away this weekend. A pioneer of molecular virology who won the Nobel prize in medicine & physiology for his discovery of viral reverse transcriptase. This essay he wrote in 2018 reflecting of his 60yr career in science is a great read. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

This why accurate journalism and reporting matters so much . After @npr.org reported on these individuals who faced death without access to ART after the US pulled foreign funding, the Zambian government stepped up, got in contact and providing life saving meds. A win! www.npr.org/sections/goa...

It is absolutely wild that the person in charge of health in America has be roundly condemned and labeled as dangerous by: - Former CDC directors - Former Surgeons General - Multiple medical professional societies - Health professionals across multiple platforms And still holds his position.

I completely agree. Throw in low covid vaccine and flu vaccine rates given the ongoing misinformation and access barriers from the top, the threat of birdflu that never really went away and we are entering a very uncertain respiratory virus season in the US.

The department of health misinformation and data manipulation will publish a study linking the use of Tylenol in pregnancy to autism - there fixed it. www.forbes.com/sites/antoni... www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

Interestingly the #WHO has declared the #mpox PHEIC over today. This is contrast with the Africa CDC which yesterday decided to maintain its continental emergency alert because it felt the gains made in controlling #mpox were still too tenuous to declare victory. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

I think about this a lot! Medical professionals and their societies are sounding the highest level of alarm about the dangers of rejecting science and favoring conspiracy theories and it is hardly breaking through. That's how far down the rabbit hole the US is. This fight is hard.

Thankfully some governors recognize the importance of ensuring access to #covid vaccines are not restricted. May more follow suit.

W-I-L-D story. An innovative project that aimed to reduce the burden of malaria vectors in Burkina Faso suddenly thwarted after years of research pre planning work. All because misinformation took hold, polluted minds and turned public sentiment against scientific innovation. Worth a read.

In under 24h following the newly identified outbreak of #Ebola in the DRC, the virus has been isolated, sequenced and the virus sequence data made publicly available. virological.org/t/the-16th-e...

I’m deeply worried this fall/winter will bring one of the toughest respiratory virus seasons in years. Policy missteps, weakened access to vaccines, and rampant misinformation are setting us up for packed hospitals and preventable deaths. We are priming ourselves for failure.

We are living in two Americas. Blue states are forming alliances to uphold public health& science, while red states are rolling back access to vaccines & measures that prevent the spread of diseases. We will all suffer as a result because infectious pathogens do not care about politics or borders.

The WHO has confirmed and officially declared an Ebola outbreak is unfolding in the Kasai province of the DRC. Thankfully this time there is stockpile of 2000 vaccines readily available to be deployed to respond to this outbreak. Following this closely. www.afro.who.int/countries/de...