Maggie Fox

Dengue in Brazil – Putting the heat on vaccine development and mosquito control - One Health Trust In this podcast, Dr. André Siqueira tells us why dengue is so bad in Brazil this year and what he and colleagues are doing to control it.

We spoke to researcher @andre-siqueira.bsky.social about the work a while back, before the data came out, for the @onehealthtrust.bsky.social One World, #OneHealth podcast #medsky #vaccine onehealthtrust.org/news-media/p...

Important news for #dengue today! We congratulate the Instituto Butantan in Brazil for the approval today of its single-dose dengue vaccine by the Brazilian regulatory authority ANVISA. Our take by @andre-siqueira.bsky.social #Treatment4Dengue #dengue

Long-term efficacy and safety of the single-dose tetravalent Butantan dengue vaccine - Nature Medicine This 5-year follow-up of the double-blinded, placebo-controlled phase 3 DEN-03-IB trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of the Butantan dengue vaccine in participants aged 2–59 years in Brazil foun...

Brazil's #dengue vaccine, designed to protect against all 4 strains, works safely against at least 2 of them for 5 years www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2/ So I thought this clip was the perfect excuse to look at some of the long term effects of the virus if left untreated.

Measles is one of the most contagious viruses on the planet. If you’re unvaccinated and exposed, there’s about a 90% chance you’ll get it.

So this guy got infected with measles in the US, flew to Europe, and then infected at least 15 people on his journey back to N Dakota via the Denver airport #medsky

Newsonomics: Will national news shrink even faster than local news did? "The sweep of changes we see has one main cause: the political effort to stifle robust national journalism."

Ken Doctor: "We’d better open our eyes to how quickly the losses in authoritative national news are growing. These losses come at a time when the need for checks and balances in our wobbly and threatened republic has never been greater." www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/news...

That would be if you were a journalist but a Faux host is not a journalist.

One traveler with measles infected at least 17 other people A story of how a virus spreads

These reports are gold mines. They help tell an actual story about how diseases spread, instead of burying people in confusing statistics. #measles open.substack.com/pub/maggiefo...

Book cover: MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press By A.J. BAUER

I love books, I love that people are still waking up and researching, writing, editing, and publishing books, and that I get to hold them in my hands! Congratulations @ajbauer.bsky.social it’s beautiful.

Moderna's combo flu/Covid vaccine on its way to Euro market. The European Commission now decides whether to grant EU authorization and then individual countries decide whether and how to make it available.

If people start sharing their pills, or taking pills every other day, or every two days, we could see the rise of new, drug-resistant strains of HIV and a whole new epidemic.

Well, no kidding. The way you ask the question matters. A lot.

OK everyone. Just read the headline on this story.

5 Logical fallacies in the era of RFK Jr. How do we address the firehose of inaccurate information that is flooding the internet right now? It’s tempting to try to play whack-a-mole, tackling one rumor after another, and there is certainly va...

Learn some of RFK Jr.’s most common rhetorical tricks here:

www.youcanknowthings.com/5-logical-fa...

A titan of vaccine development sees his field’s achievements slip away Stanley Plotkin, the 93-year-old "godfather of vaccines," is watching his field’s achievements slip away.

“In a pair of recent interviews with STAT, Plotkin expressed dismay at seeing the achievements of his career & his field slip away. He knows what lies ahead…
“All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long —because we’re going downhill,” Plotkin said” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Opinion | Casey Means' Cringey Senate Hearing Should Sink Her Surgeon General Bid The nominee revealed her fundamental confusion between individual healthcare and public health

“Before even getting to her views on public health issues, there is absolutely nothing in Means' background to suggest she would be qualified to serve as surgeon general. No clinical experience, no public health training - just a large social media presence with a sketchy business background”

At least 148 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says Iran has blamed the US and Israel for the strike; the US is looking into reports of the incident, while the IDF says it is

The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us.

Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

And if you don't understand that this will make people all over the world hate Americans, then you do not understand.

To everyone just logging on and seeing an image of a bloody child’s backpack, this time it isn’t from an American school.

Bombing is never the answer. If you have never been bombed or shelled or shot at, you need to shut up about what you think people or countries deserve. War is horrible. Remember that today a whole school full of little girls got bombed in Iran.

Killing a bunch of elementary school girls to distract from having raped a bunch of middle- and high-school girls is pretty fucking grim.

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

Remind me, when you slaughter 85 young school children, are you the Good Guys?

A new report found 129 journalists were killed in 2025, the deadliest year since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting these data in 1992. Israel was responsible for 2/3. I spoke with CPJ's CEO Jodie Ginsberg on the latest @onthemedia.bsky.social: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

‘Meatheads Are Hijacking America’: Vegans feel betrayed by RFK Jr.’s beef boosting | CNN Some vegans saw an unlikely ally in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thanks to his stance against vaccine mandates and animal testing, as well as his campaign against processed foods. But new nutritional guideli...

A beef in MAHA-land.

He eats beef twice daily.
Wife (and hostage?) Cheryl Hines gets up at 6 am to cook him steak.

At the beef industry convention, Kennedy urged cattle farmers to “increase the size of the herd to ramp up beef production".

www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/u...

The NIH Restructuring Congress Rejected Is Happening Anyway (I used Gemini Nano Banana 2 to create this fictional image.)

"What is being lost is not merely funding or staffing. It is the architecture that makes American biomedical research work at national scale."
#medsky #nih #congress #budget

open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...?

For those of you who don't know how TV works: Producers are FAR more important than many of the folks whose faces you actually see on air. They do most of the work and make the real decisions.

Indeed. New grants are not getting funded, already funded grants are not getting paid, and non-competitive renewals are being held up.

Focusing on the top line budget, instead of looking at what is really happening on “the ground” is deeply misguided.

Cover of The Lancet:

@thelancet.com
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