Maeve Cullinan

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

👏👏👏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.

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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

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
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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

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
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Trump administration cancels multi-million dollar bird flu vaccine contract with Moderna Pharmaceutical giant announces termination of the $766m contract originally awarded by the Biden administration

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

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

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🆕Newcomer of the Year
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Thanks to @abpi.bsky.social

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Likewise to you Sophie! Loved your pieces and looking forward to meeting you July 9th!

Meet the Finalists 2025 | Association of British Science Writers Find out who has made it to the finals in this year's ABSW Awards

Thrilled to be nominated for Newcomer of the Year for the Association of British Science Writers 2025 awards.

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thank you!!

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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 the consumption of unpasteurised milk as H5N1 bird flu spreads in British farms

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
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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

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
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The latest iteration of the UK mpox strategy is out. It looks good and solid to me.
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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

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

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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

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🔓
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Children as young as four among victims of gang-rape and ethnic cleansing in war-torn Sudan At least 19 people raped in previously undocumented war crime, eye witnesses tell The Telegraph

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 🔗
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M23 rebels ‘execute’ children in assault on major DRC city Rwanda-backed insurgent group seizes Bukavu, plunging country deeper into crisis

M23 rebels 'execute' children in assault on major DRC city

Rwanda-backed insurgent group seizes Bukavu, plunging country deeper into crisis

Free to read

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Meet the ‘lepers’ of Somerset - battling stigma from the West Country Dan and Babs Izzett kept their diagnosis secret for decades before dedicating themselves to helping fellow sufferers

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 🔓
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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 President’s far-reaching Mexico City Policy threatens billions of dollars in US humanitarian funding as Africa reels from aid pause

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

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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

🚨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

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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

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

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Fire weather: How extreme wildfires became the rule – not the exception Unusually intense fires have struck across the world almost every year for the last decade

The @telegraphnews.bsky.social does a terrific job of putting the #lafires in global context.
Brava, @maevecullinan.bsky.social!
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Paolo Pellegrin photographs: Inside the rescue mission plucking Gaza’s wounded from a war zone A programme of evacuation flights have quietly ferried more than 2,200 seriously injured Gazans and their relatives to safety in the Gulf

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

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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

🚨 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

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Mongolian horses are contracting H5N1 under the radar, says new study Scientists find ‘conclusive’ evidence of spillover infections from wild birds in the east Asian country – home to five million horses

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...

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US reports first human H5N1 death The man had underlying health conditions and is believed to have caught the virus directly from birds

First death from H5N1 recorded in the US. The man, from Louisiana, was hospitalised in mid December.

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Patient hospitalised with H5N1 in US as outbreak continues to grow Person is the second in North America to require hospital treatment with ‘severe’ symptoms in recent months

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...

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