The HPV vaccine has prevented more cancer than any medical intervention in history after tobacco control. It's been studied in 70+ randomized trials. Now a reconstituted ACIP wants to reexamine whether it works. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social breaks it down. www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

¡Saludos desde España! Regresaremos el 16th…

America is ailing because its citizens are losing the ability to take collective action on behalf of the common good.

apple.news/A3aWtWRo-QF2... #IDSky

Yippee!!! Seahawks Super Bowl champions after Patriots shut down by defense www.seattletimes.com/sports/seaha...

Explore the science shaping the fight against antimicrobial resistance. jidjournal.bsky.social's new AMR collection, led by Neil Clancy, MD, FIDSA, highlights cutting-edge research on resistance, genomics, new drug development and more: https://bit.ly/4qfYDfN

What’s the diagnosis? www.nejm.org/image-challe... #IDSky

UW/FHCC’s Dr Emily Ford is co-author on this evaluation of healthcare facility-associated NTM infections… academic.oup.com/cid/article-... #IDSky

UW/FHCC’s Dr Helen Chu is co-author on this editorial discussing critical gaps in HIV understanding that directly constrain the durability, equity, and scalability of prevention, treatment, and cure strategies… academic.oup.com/jid/advance-... #IDSky

UW ID’s Drs Noelle Benzekri and Peter Rabinowitz are lead and senior authors on: www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub... #IDSky #onehealth

Congratulations to UW/FHCC Dr Helen Chu for her election to the American Society for Clinical Investigation! The society is an honor society of physician-scientists, who translate findings in the laboratory to the advancement of clinical practice. #IDSky

www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i... #IDSky

Happy Duke v Carolina (for those who celebrate)…

Pediatrics published the Vaccine Integrity Project’s hepatitis B birth dose vaccine evidence review online. The review looked at: 400+ studies/reports, 40 years of data—and the conclusion was unmistakable. There is no evidence supporting a delay in the hepatitis B birth dose. tinyurl.com/4kbsm49f

Experts warned against drinking raw milk before it killed this baby, too.

Great list! #IDSky

Everything is a zoonosis! Drawing/listing challenge. #30- Hammerhead shark Seems they are more in the “vector” category and mostly due to what they can harbor in their gut, but what ends up in their microbiome is influenced by human spillages into their environment. So who’s infecting who?… #IDSky

What weekend is this again? www.wsj.com/sports/footb...

Drift and shift driving the intensity of this year’s influenza season… www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

PAHO issues call to action on measles… www.reuters.com/business/hea... #IDSky

Great read :) academic.oup.com/cid/advance-... #IDSky

While we are all talking about measles, let’s not forget another MMR preventable disease - Rubella! shmpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #IDSky

Cocirculation of emerging bat virus Pteropine orthoreovirus (PRV) with Nipah virus… Transmission appears related to consumption of raw date palm sap. www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin... #IDSky

Current measles situation… One month into 2026 (left column) we are at 26% of total cases. Cases continue to be overwhelmingly in un- or under- vaccinated children (who are reliant on adults to protect them with vaccination). #IDSky

Contrary to current assumptions of repeat importations, the major burden of MDR-TB in Bhutan appears to be due to recent local transmission resulting in a large endemic cluster… academic.oup.com/ofid/article... #IDSky

Put young people under stress in close quarters and they will get sick… 40% got an acute resp infxn for which they sought medical care, 83% of these spent at least one day sick-in-quarters (SIQ). Rhinovirus, enterovirus and COVID were most frequent. academic.oup.com/ofid/advance... #IDSky

Risk of incident-persistent infection among MSM was high regardless of baseline prevalent 9vHPV infection status, highlighting the importance of vaccinating men against HPV infection. academic.oup.com/ofid/advance... #IDSky

8 measles cases so far this year in WA state, only 12 cases reported all year for 2025. doh.wa.gov/you-and-your... #IDSky

I worry about the immigrants prior access to healthcare - MMR is 97% effective if you’ve had two doses. Updating people’s vaccines is one of the first things you should do if they are going to be held in close quarters, but doubt that is happening.

Measles outbreak at ICE detention center housing families in TX… www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil... #IDSky

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #IDSky

abc7news.com/post/tubercu... #IDSky

UW’s Dr Heidi Crane is lead author on this look at gender disparities among statin adherence and discontinuation in PWH… women less likely to continue statins in this group of privately insured PWH. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41578101/ #IDSky

UW/FHCC Dr Josh Hill is senior author on this new paper on Transplant ID discussing research networks for immunocompromised populations… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #IDSky

Great opportunities below! #IDSky

Action/reaction… www.nature.com/articles/s44... #IDSky

www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-m... #IDSky

The Erosion of a Pillar of Public Health: ACIP’s Role and the Future of U.S. Vaccine Policy Post–June 2025 ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 https://bit.ly/4qRxjpk

AI for outbreak surveillance… academic.oup.com/jid/advance-... #IDSky

In this study, immunization during pregnancy decreased primary vaccination-induced antibody responses disproportionately against different PT epitopes in infants… academic.oup.com/jid/advance-... #IDSky

Interesting study on influenza vax response with annual vax. Initial attenuation (even accounting for ceiling effect) compared to lower prior vax uptake, but Ab similar to at 6 months. Curious b/c isn’t it the early bump we rely on for seasonal virus? academic.oup.com/jid/advance-... #IDSky

You can ignore science, but science will never ignore you. Measles incidence in the United States.

📸 Snaps from the ribbon cutting for the new Outpatient Medical Center Digestive Health Clinic & Endoscopy Center, now open at UWMC–Northwest @uwmedicine.bsky.social. This new space offers more accessible, efficient screenings and expanded digestive health care for our community.

#idboardreview 20 F cough, F, fatigue didnt improve w/azithro, no travel,+gardening: wbc 17k 90%pmn, Ct patchy nodules biopsy necrotizing granulomas stain+Aspergillus. Growing up, pt &her brother had several episodes of cervical lymphadenitis. How to make dx of possible genetic dz? #idsky #idmeded

"Shuffling, Writing, and Augmenting Mammalian Genomes" @sudpinglay.bsky.social is joining us from @uwgenome.bsky.social to speak at today’s Current Biology Seminar and we couldn’t be more excited! For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don’t miss a great talk at noon in Pelton!

We wouldn’t mind a little east coast snow for a change of pace ❄️🎿🏂☃️

Until recently, getting a cervical screening required a provider visit. You may be able to collect your own sample for HPV testing in a private setting, like home. Self-collection offers more flexibility and can help catch cancer early, when treatment's most effective. medium.com/wadepthealth...

ID physicians see the devastating consequences of vaccine-preventable diseases every day, & now more than ever, families & clinicians need accurate information & evidence-based recommendations they can trust. IDSA endorses AAP's 2026 childhood immunization schedule. @ameracadpeds.bsky.social

UW/FHCC Drs. Emily Ford and David Koelle are co-authors of this look at how their open source tool, TCR2HLA, can be used to infer HLA genotype, and discover novel HLA and exposure-related T cell receptors… journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... #IDSky