Astrid Iversen

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

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How the yellow fever mosquito conquered the world Aedes aegypti further adapted to life around humans when it arrived in the Americas, study of hundreds of mosquito genomes reveals

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Regionsbilledet - OBS Nordjylland, men højt alle steder

I sidste uge blev der målt den højeste konc. af corona i spildevand siden juni 2024 - dvs de sidste 15 mdr. (det tager 1 uge at analyse data)
Vi er kun i september- & vaccinationerne starter først i oktober- husk at udluftning, ventilation, HEPA-filtre- & masker mindsker smitten

Learning the natural history of human disease with generative transformers - Nature Delphi-2M forecasts a person’s future health, covering more than 1,000 diseases, provides insights into co-morbidity dynamics and generates synthetic data for the training of AI models that have never...

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New AI tool can predict a person’s risk of more than 1,000 diseases, say experts Delphi-2M uses diagnoses, ‘medical events’ and lifestyle factors to create forecasts for next decade and beyond

Built from data from 0.4 million UK Biobank participants and 1.9 million Danes.

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Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome

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Why Covid Is Spreading Again This Summer

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Corona konc. i spildevand fortsætter med at vokse- hvilket er forventeligt når folk kommer hjem fra ferie, samfundet starter op igen & nye(re) varianter vokser op -& vi ikke minder om vigtigheden af udluftning, ventilation, HEPA filtre, bliv hjemme v. sygdom- & masker til sårbare

Corona koncentrationen i spildevand ser ud til at fortsætte sin stigning- det passer med mønstret fra tidligere år når sommerferien slutter & folk er tilbage på arbejdet & børnene i skole osv
En af varianterne giver (ud over alle de andre kendte corona symptomer og risici) hæshed

With Drones and ‘Elephant Mosquitoes,’ China Wages All-Out War on a Virus

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Here's the latest variant picture for the "Global - Other" countries, to mid-July.

The NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" variant remained dominant, but fell to finish at 49%.

XFG.* "Stratus" grew strongly to 36%.

#COVID19 #GlobalOther #NB_1_8_1 #Nimbus #XFG #Stratus
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Corona koncentrationen i spildevand er desværre i stigning.

Full-body scans of 100,000 people could change way diseases are detected and treated UK Biobank project to share 1bn images of organs, blood vessels and bones to help study ageing and ill health

Full-body scans of 100,000 people could change way diseases are detected and treated

Medical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S. Over Vaccine Advice

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The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia Nature - Screening shotgun-sequencing data from ancient humans covering 37,000 years of Eurasian history uncovers the widespread presence of ancient bacterial, viral and parasite DNA and...

I am very grateful for this exciting and inspiring collaboration, and delighted to share our paper, describing the infectious challenges humans have encountered over the last 12,000+ years in Eurasia, the interplay between lifestyle & pathogenic exposures, & the rise of zoonoses

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Measles Cases Hit Record High, 25 Years After U.S. Eliminated the Disease

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Top F.D.A. Official Overrode Scientists on Covid Shots

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RFK Jr’s vaccine panel recommends new RSV treatment for infants Move comes after health secretary replaced advisory board with ideological allies and several vaccine skeptics

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New drug offers potential cure for ultra rare inherited condition A teenage patient who helped discover a rare condition is the first to benefit from a new treatment.

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New approach enables body to engineer its own cells to fight cancer or autoimmunity Injections of mRNA may offer a simpler, cheaper way to build powerful CAR-T cells

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Opinion | I’m a Vaccine Expert. Here’s What Keeps Me Up at Night About Kennedy’s Policies.

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Ja, men sekventeringsaktiviteten er virkelig lav - jeg håber det er rigtigt, men det er svært at sige baseret på så få sekvenser.

Great work by Josette documenting the NB.1.8.1 vs XFG. Huge differences by country, likely reflecting different immune histories, namely, a longer history of infection in Europe, North America, & South-Central Asia (favoring XFG) than in East Asia, New Zealand, & Australia (favoring NB.1.8.1).

Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 NB.1.8.1 variant After the spread of SARS-CoV-2 JN.1, its subvariants, such as KP.3 (JN.1.11.1.3)1 and KP.3.1.1 (JN.1.11.1.3.1.1),2 and XEC (a recombinant lineage of two JN.1 subvariants),3 emerged and rapidly spread ...

BREAKING🔔 The 53th paper from G2P-Japan🇯🇵 is out at Lancet Infectious Diseases @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social. We elucidated the virological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 NB.1.8.1. Please repost🔥
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Corona variant NB.1.8.1 ( aka Nimbus) er den nyeste variant der spreder sig - og vil sandsynligvis snart komme til Danmark (er her nok allerede).

Whooping Cough Is Surging. Do You Need Another Shot?

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https://www.acog.org/news/news-releases/2025/05/acog-statement-on-hhs-recommendations-regarding-the-covid-vaccine-during-pregnancy

https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/covid-19/

Det ville være bekymrende hvis vaccinations grupperne blev ændret. At gravide er en vigtig målgruppe understreges af en erklæring fra The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Mht. vaccination af børn er dette stadig anbefalet af The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Evolutionary tree of SARS-CoV-2 variants showing the extraordinary diversity of "Omicron" compared to everything else.

"NB.1.8.1 is a mutated Omicron variant" shows you how misleading the Greek letter names have become.

Reminder that all Greek letters were given between May and November 2021 and none since.

Here's reality:

Explosive mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone overwhelms health systems Rapid transmission through sexual networks raises fears of wider spread in the region

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