Huge congratulations to @maevecullinan.bsky.social, winner of the Newcomer of the Year award at the @absw.bsky.social Awards yesterday! 🏆 👏 ⭐ The award was presented by Jack Neill-Hall, Director of Media and Communications at the ABPI. We're proud to support high-quality science journalism.

🏆#ABSWawards 2025 👉Newcomer of the Year Thanks to @abpi.bsky.social 🎉Maeve Cullinan, Global Health Security reporter, The Daily Telegraph @maevecullinan.bsky.social @telegraphnews.bsky.social#ABSWawards 👏👏👏Congratulations!!!

How do you get into science journalism? This morning I was on a panel chatting about my career with @maevecullinan.bsky.social, @jasperjackson.bsky.social and @astrojonny.bsky.social. Exciting to see so many future science journalists in the audience. @absw.bsky.social

UK ‘not ready’ for major animal disease outbreak National Audit Office finds significant shortcomings in contingency planning for diseases like bird flu and foot and mouth @maeve_cullinan reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

RFK-backed ostrich farm fighting H5N1 cull boasted of turning birds into pet food The US Health Secretary has been seduced by claims of herd immunity and wants to bring the condemned animals to Florida @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

The agreement with Moderna was intended to strengthen America's pandemic preparedness, by diversifying its emergency H5N1 vaccine stocks: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... @maevecullinan.bsky.social @telglobalhealth.bsky.social

Rwanda-backed rebels accused of ‘war crimes’ in assault on eastern DRC M23 group killed, tortured and ‘disappeared’ civilians in the cities of Goma and Bukuva, according to Amnesty International investigators www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Thrilled to be nominated for Newcomer of the Year for the Association of British Science Writers 2025 awards. @absw.bsky.social thank you!! absw.org.uk/pages/meet-t...

TikTok brings ‘raw milk’ craze to Britain – despite it being 45 times more likely to put you in hospital Thousands of videos on social media are promoting unpasteurised milk as H5N1 bird flu spreads in British farms ✍️ @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Could a new malaria jab really finish off the disease? Researchers at GSK have high hopes Exclusive: Next-generation jab could be three times as effective as the best currently available @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

The latest iteration of the UK mpox strategy is out. It looks good and solid to me. www.gov.uk/government/p... But as with evolving pathogens, there is stuff we know we don't know:

Scientists think they know what animal carries mpox. It’s not a monkey A chance discovery led to the identification of a possible natural reservoir for the virus formerly known as monkeypox @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Children caught in crossfire of rebel assault overwhelm Goma hospital. City’s only functioning paediatric surgery unit inundated with patients wounded by gunfire and shrapnel, DRC doctors say. @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports - free to read🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Eyewitnesses told me about a previously undocumented mass-rape carried out by the RSF in Sudan’s Nuba mountains. Among the victims was a disabled four-year-old boy. Full story 🔗 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

M23 rebels 'execute' children in assault on major DRC city Rwanda-backed insurgent group seizes Bukavu, plunging country deeper into crisis Free to read www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Dan and Babs Izzett kept their diagnosis secret for decades before dedicating themselves to helping fellow sufferers. @maevecullinan.bsky.social met the couple fighting leprosy stigma from the West Country. Free to read 🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

A trial at Oxford is just one of the dozens across the world grinding to a halt after the USAID funding freeze. The study is testing a cutting-edge malaria vaccine - the RH5.2-VLP - for the first time. At least 40 people had been injected with the new jab before the freeze, it is understood.

Trump has reinstated the ‘global gag rule’ on abortion aid – this time, it’s different The expanded Mexico City Policy threatens billions of dollars in US funding as Africa reels from aid pause @maevecullinan.bsky.social and @benfarmerdt.bsky.social report www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

🚨Uganda confirms Ebola outbreak after death of nurse in capital The case marks the first since the outbreak of Ebola in Uganda three years ago @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Trump has reinstated the ‘global gag rule’ on abortion aid – this time, it’s different President’s far-reaching Mexico City Policy threatens billions of dollars in US humanitarian funding as Africa reels from aid pause @benfarmerdt.bsky.social and I report www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

The @telegraphnews.bsky.social does a terrific job of putting the #lafires in global context. Brava, @maevecullinan.bsky.social! www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... #wildfire

A programme of evacuation flights have quietly ferried more than 2,200 seriously injured Gazans and their relatives to safety in the Gulf. Fantastic photo essay by Paolo Pellegrin and @liliasebouai.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Follow the Global Health Security team here: go.bsky.app/5eQSTbx Covering everything from infectious diseases, viruses, bacteria, fungi, NCDs, climate change, conflict, reproductive rights, food security, terror and war.

🚨 Mild H5N1 cases have been perplexing scientists – now they might have an answer The variant circulating in America appears to be less lethal and could be triggering different responses from the immune system @maevecullinan.bsky.social has more www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Mongolian horses are contracting H5N1 under the radar, the first time the virus has been detected in equines - worrying for the US, where horses regularly interact with cattle on farms, etc... www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

First death from H5N1 recorded in the US. The man, from Louisiana, was hospitalised in mid December. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

A patient has been hospitalised with the first 'severe' case of H5N1 in the US. Important to note this is a different strain from the one circulating in cattle, the same that put a Canadian teenager in the ICU two months ago... www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Are cats the new pigs? New evidence suggests cats could act as 'mixing vessels' for avian & human flus and create novel, more dangerous strains. Ramifications in a time of H5N1 is worrying... Read below, no paywall www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

The mystery outbreak in Panzi, DRC has finally been identified as a severe form of malaria, made worse by severe malnutrition in the area. A WHO team was dispatched just over a week ago to try and identify the source. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

⚠️ BREAKING: The "mystery outbreak" in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been identified as caused by severe malaria, according to Reuters.

Why farms, not wet markets, are the pandemic threat you should be worrying about. Many modern-day outbreaks have originated from factory farming. From the virus’s perspective, it’s a numbers game. ✍️ @maevecullinan.bsky.social and @sneweyy.bsky.social report. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Why farms, not wet markets, will cause the next pandemic @sneweyy.bsky.social and I look at 9 disease outbreaks from the last 100 years - from the Spanish Flu to H5N1 - and how they can all be attributed back to industrial farming practices.... Free to read 🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Birds, foxes, mink, seals, cats, cattle - and now a cheetah and mountain lion - H5N1 is continuing to spread like wildfire amongst animals, and increasingly humans. Read below

Into the unknown: Crack WHO team journeys deep into the Congo to identify mystery killer. Their urgent mission is to find out what is killing swathes of people in one of the most remote parts of the world. Free to read 🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

While we don't yet know the cause of the possible Disease X outbreak in DRC, I have to commend DRC and Africa CDC for making these epidemiological details publicly available. Note, US health authorities have not released this level of demographic information on H5N1 cases...

Highly concerning. The WHO will have boots on the ground over the weekend to collect samples & carry out analysis. Any theories? DMs are open www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

A family travelled from London to Birmingham for school half term. They unknowingly brought an unwelcome guest - the highly contagious measles - and soon it spread around the city like wildfire. Read how public health authorities got the outbreak under control: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

UKHSA has procured 5 million doses of H5 influenza vax, which they said they will use if H5N1 begins to spread between humans… www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Oxitec, a UK biotech company, has rolled out their 'friendly' genetically modified mozzies across Brazil, and through trials in places like the US, India, and Panama to fight dengue fever. Free to read! www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

RFK accused the FDA of “suppressing” raw milk on X last month. “FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” he said. All this as H5N1 continues to boom in California (402 herds infected) - the US's largest dairy producer... www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Live H5N1 has now been detected in raw milk sold in Fresno, California. In May, I interviewed the owner of a small raw milk business in the same area. He'd received multiple calls from people requesting samples of H5N1-infected milk, believing it would provide immunity against the virus, worrying...

Great piece in nature this week www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There is a laboratory in Tanzania testing mosquito repellent sandals… www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Reported from ESCAIDE, Stockholm this past week. Great convo with Dr Angeliki Melidou, principal expert in respiratory viruses at ECDC on Europe’s new winter measures to stay vigilant on #H5N1 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

The UK is considering a ring vaccination strategy if more cases of Clade 1b mpox emerge, a well placed government source told The Telegraph this week Read below www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Death by stigma: The HIV patients in Malawi refusing life-saving medication. It took decades to make HIV drugs readily available in Africa – but now they are being left in the street... Free to read www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...