🚨‼️Much gain-of-function research is necessary to fight #tuberculosis “Without clear definitions, scientific expertise & streamlined review processes, lifesaving research could be stopped. This would be an even bigger threat to public health than the broad, misinformed definition of “dangerous”

🐀🐁”APOPO’s scent detection animals, nicknamed ‘HeroRATs’ and ‘HeroDOGs’, help to rid the world of landmines and #tuberculosis – returning safe land back to communities for development, and freeing people from serious illness so they can get back on their feet”

⏳📽️🎬”Renée Adorée was already seriously ill with #tuberculosis during filming and, after she had finished all her scenes, she was rushed to a sanatorium, where she spent many months, hoping to recover... she passed away on the 5th of October 1933 in Tujunga, California.”

🧐””Se acercaron a mi (Elizabeth) en privado y me dijeron: algún día te casarás y tendrás una familia y no es importante que tu nombre esté en la patente” Así pues, no se llevó ni el Premio Nobel ni ningún reconocimiento por la investigación y descubrimiento de la estreptomicina.”🙄 #Tuberculosis

Happy #WorldAnimalDay 🌎🌍 🐶🐈‍⬛🐀🐿️🐐🐒🐢🦒🐆🦥 🦏🦫🦌🦓🦘🦍🐪🦨🦉🦧 🐖🐎🐘🐑🦆🐄🫏🦩🦦🦚 🦭🦢🐥🐺🫎🐬🐅🦬🐂🦙 🤎🤍🧡💛❤️💚🩷🖤💙💚 #ProtectAnimals 🧐✍🏻🔗⬇️ www.worldanimalprotection.org/our-campaign...

🆘🌊”Coral reefs require long-term care to survive, thrive and keep providing food,coastal protection and tourism opportunities for millions of people. Successful restoration depends not only on the interventions but also on sustained monitoring & responsible stewardship of the broader environment”

Happy #Caturday 😻 Simon’s 🐈‍⬛ working lunch or romantic dinner with his favorite one 🪞🐈‍⬛ 🙋🏻‍♀️💜😼 #adopt #petsarefamily #catsky #catlady #rescuecats #lovecats

🆘📖”Whether it's the health of our people or the health of our planet, we know we are on an unsustainable path. But our efforts to effectively tackle these existential crises are now hampered by a common threat: politically & ideologically motivated opposition to science” @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

“Novel health screening tool to diagnose #Tuberculosis gets a shot. Xiaoshan Zhu and team receive $5 million NSF award to develop a point-of-care sensor”

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✍🏼❗️”Tisis, mal del rey, peste blanca, plaga blanca… Son algunos de los nombres con los que se ha conocido a la #tuberculosis a través de la historia, la infección elegida por la médica irlandesa Margaret Dunlevy para, con su labor, salvar decenas de miles de vidas…”

Great job @sarasuliman.bsky.social on discussing the evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in human populations over time #TBSky #IDSky #MedSky 🧪 #genetics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧐”Single-gene transcripts for subclinical tuberculosis: an individual participant data meta-analysis”

For up to 60% of people cured of TB, treatment isn't the end of the journey. That's why we're thrilled to have @PIH.org's Dr. Carole Mitnick join us for a TB Ed Talk about post-TB lung disease and the pilot intervention she's part of! Learn more and submit questions here: tbfighters.org/tb-ed...

🦍🩶”Dr. Jane Goodall was a remarkable example of courage & conviction, working tirelessly throughout her life to raise awareness about threats to wildlife, promote conservation, and inspire a more harmonious, sustainable relationship between people, animals and the natural world.” janegoodall.org

👟📸🙎🏻‍♀️🩵”Blue Heron brings us the message of self-reflection as it has to feed alone. Alone we have to face our fears, look at our gifts, and be in harmony with our world.” Cherokee tradition

“Si les travaux doivent encore être approfondis avant de déboucher sur un médicament, ils offrent une perspective concrète : priver la bactérie de son carburant vital pour la rendre vulnérable, ce qui pourrait permettre, à terme, de sauver des millions de vie.” #Tuberculose #Tuberculosis

🤦🏻‍♀️ US government shutdown to furlough 41% of health agency workers

Interesting - small study but oral rinse looks more sensitive that facemasks to detect M tuberculosis in cases of symptomatic pulmonary TB #TBSky #IDSky www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...

“Do no harm - re-evaluating the risks of overtreatment in community-wide #tuberculosis screening” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

🧐”Tulane University researchers have developed an enhanced CRISPR-based #tuberculosis test that works with a simple tongue swab, a potential breakthrough that could allow easier, community-based screenings for the world’s deadliest infectious disease.”

👟📸🐶🐾😌🌤️ "There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth"-Tolstoy

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‼️🚨The Global TB Caucus library provides foundational briefings on key issues in the #Tuberculosis response.⬇️

Diagnosis and management of multidrug resistant #tuberculosis

🧐”Direct nanopore sequencing of M. #tuberculosis on sputa and rescue of suboptimal results to enhance transmission surveillance”

🤔”Quality of care is as important as duration of treatment. While the enthusiasm for shorter regimens is understandable, it should not override what people with #tuberculosis say they need most: holistic therapy that acknowledges their humanity at every step.”

Our 2nd Wednesday Speaker Series is BACK! Join us October 8 when Dr. Stefan Goldberg tells us about “Ending Neglect of Tuberculosis". RSVP & look for Zoom info in the confirmation email: www.hcfawa.org/hcfa_wa_zoom... #tb #tuberculosis #MedicareForAll #Medicare4All #UniversalHealthCare #WAleg

👟📸🙆🏻‍♀️🐶🍃🦌 Morning walk🤎 “It’s not what you look at that matters. It's what you see.”-Henry David Thoreau

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS Comment period ends September 29th www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 1/2

“Currently, over 30 per cent of medical residents in the US are international graduates, and around 10,000 of 43,000 residency spots are filled by H-1B visa holders.” www.business-standard.com/immigration/...

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🧐🐈”In any case, suspected or confirmed #tuberculosis cases in companion animals, in addition to an appropriate clinical case management, should also rapidly prompt prevention and control action within the household settings.”

📌🗓️ 15-16 October: 💻Modeling and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Generic Drug Development and Product Lifecycle Management: Regulatory Insights and Future Trends Education and Training Co-hosts: FDA & CRCG FREE for virtual attendees.

"In response to the systemic failure of governments to act on the scientific evidence, over the past 5 yrs a new wave of environmental social movements has been actively challenging the balance of power & elevating these crises up the public, media & political agenda." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

👟📸🍂🧡Colors are changing☺️

🧐Oral Rinse as an Alternative Diagnostic Specimen for Detection of #Tuberculosis

🧐Accelerating cough-based algorithms for pulmonary #tuberculosis screening: Results from the CODA TB DREAM Challenge

Viva #Mexico 🇲🇽❣️ 💚🤍❤️ 🎆🪅🌵💃🏻🎺🎻🪉

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Have a nice night 😘 💃🏽

😔💔”“Ces soldats porteront des brassards spéciaux. Leur mission est de tenir des positions de première ligne” …l’état-major russe prévoit de regrouper les soldats atteints du VIH, de l’hépatite ou de la #tuberculose dans des unités distinctes pour les envoyer au front ukrainien.” #tuberculosis #HIV

🆘🚨 "The loss of US funding endangers global #Tuberculosis control efforts…and potentially puts millions of lives at risk," the authors write. "Urgent alternative funding is needed to sustain critical TB intervention and treatment efforts."

La #tuberculosis sigue siendo la enfermedad infecciosa más letal del mundo: mata a más de 1.2 millones de personas cada año. Recortes en la ayuda internacional podrían provocar hasta 10 millones de casos adicionales y 2.2 millones de muertes para 2030. 📈 www.npr.org/sections/goa...

🚨‼️New Application Structure for NIH-Funded International Collaborations Notice Number: NOT-OD-25-155 Key Dates Release Date: September 12, 2025

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🔎”Potential impact, costs, and benefits of population-wide screening interventions for #tuberculosis in Viet Nam: A mathematical modelling study”