@joelmossong.bsky.social
Epidemiologist in a small country.
What about Emerging infectious diseases. Are they also impacted?
11.10.2025 21:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.
Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.
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That's true. But the real question is how fast this happens, ie. timescale of waning vs genetic adaptation. Prior to 2023 we saw a whole array of distant variants emerge "randomly" (compared to say flu). Only since end of 2023 have we been in more antigenic drift scenario. Why? Still unpredictable.
11.10.2025 21:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Against severe disease yes, not against reinfection.
11.10.2025 20:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Big wave in 23 was due to little underlying immunity following emergence of BA.2.86 and subvariants (JN.1, ...) during summer of 2023 (>30 spike mutations compared to earlier variants). Current circulating variants (XFG) are still fairly similar descendents of what was circulating back then.
11.10.2025 20:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Isn't that just what politicians are doing to win votes?
11.10.2025 10:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Researchers: Live #H5N1 avian flu can survive in raw-milk cheese for up to 6 months
Infectious virus persisted throughout the cheese-making process and aging in cheeses made with raw milk at pH levels above 5.0.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Nice graph, but to gauge & compare recent dynamics in early autumn to previous seasons, it would make sense to show data as normal calendar year starting week 1.
08.10.2025 16:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Pas de quoi.
06.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Agreed. Pointless scaremongering.
06.10.2025 12:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The caption below the graph #1 is wrong. The graph does not show rates of confirmed Covid, but rates of ARI (acute respiratory infections ) which is much less specific. For example in January-February 2025, the peak of ARI is principally due to circulation of influenza viruses, not Covid.
06.10.2025 12:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I suggest to contact the editor to request a rebuttal letter. Not normal.
14.09.2025 16:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dream job this.
05.09.2025 13:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"...in many fields, productivity declines, in part because workers have to be deployed to double-check AI outputs, lest their mistakes or fabrications find their way into mission-critical applications..."
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
I am 7 to 10. I thought I was being non-confrontational 😲
21.08.2025 20:12 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0We are really happy to share Epidemiology & Infection's #keymetrics from 2024!
Thank you to all our #authors, #editors and #peerreviewers 🌟
🦟 West Nile virus in Europe
As summer progresses, IT, EL, RO, BG & FR have reported 163 locally acquired human cases of #WestNileVirus infection so far this year.
📊 This is above the 10-year average for this point in the season, but far below the same period in record years of 2024 & 2018.
There is a broad scientific consensus that significant challenges remain before reliable estimates of community prevalence of disease can be made from wastewater RNA monitoring.
It's a laudable goal, but the science is not there yet.
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29.07.2025 13:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0How might AS01 work? It contains MPL (a TLR4 agonist) and QS-21, which activate dendritic cells and trigger IFN-γ responses, factors implicated in reducing amyloid pathology and slowing cognitive decline in prior studies.
An intriguing immunologic pathway for neuro-protection worth exploring.
Nice!
15.07.2025 22:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s been a few weeks since posting, but delighted to share this updated preprint for anyone interested www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
15.07.2025 21:29 — 👍 31 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
📣Open call! ESCMID is creating a brand-new #Vaccines Subcommittee 💉and is looking for a director. Interested persons can review the call document & apply before 31 Aug! ow.ly/8Zpx50WjyUA
#IDSky #clinmicro #MedSky
📢 Nearly 600 heat-related deaths expected in UK #heatwave
LSHTM & @granthamicl.bsky.social real-time rapid analysis estimates impact of rising UK temperatures as researchers warn risks set to increase @gasparrini.bsky.social
#PublicHeath
👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
❗ Un premier cas autochtone de #chikungunya a été recensé en France hexagonale, dans le Var.
🦟 Démoustication à venir dans la commune de La Crau.
Sans surprise, du fait de la très forte épidémie à La Réunion et des centaines de cas importés déjà recensés en métropole...
Our health setup in these 'new' times
07.06.2025 13:43 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1I am really laser focused on getting all my adult patients updated on their vaccines. A few vaccine doses I gave out in clinic today:
- pneumococcal vaccine
- Td booster
- Covid booster
- MMR
- HPV
- Hep B vaccines
8/8 acceptances, zero refusals.
OFFER, COUNSEL, VACCINATE
I knew it….
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