Heather McSharry, PhD

Excellent read and such a bad move if this happens.

Booster Dose: A Guided Tour Through the Infectious Dose Vaccine Safety Files A curated “booster” episode of Infectious Dose that guides listeners through vaccine safety, misinformation, and science—perfect for Immunization Awareness Month.

If you’re looking for a place to start, my newest episode—Booster Dose—is your guided tour through my vaccine safety series.
It’s the map you need in a disinfo hellscape.
🎧 Listen here: www.infectiousdose.com/post/booster...
Share this with someone who’s vaccine hesitant, curious, or confused.

Why do I fight vaccine disinformation?
Why spend hours researching, writing, and fact-checking?
This quote is why. 👇

If We Want to Save Public Health, We Need to Get Out of Our Bubble The struggle to save public health and biomedical research in the US must be seen as part of a global battle against antidemocratic forces.

“The struggle to save public health and biomedical research in the US must be seen as part of a global battle against antidemocratic forces.” By our own @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

Federal Grantmaking Gets a Christofascist Glow-Up Read my zero star review of the new Executive Order

This Executive Order is a gross overreach of Presidential power and undermines democracy. It steals from taxpayers, will destroy science and the economy, and ultimately, America.

Congress must act now.
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Democrats refuse to flinch. August 6, 2025

"Today, President Trump said that he was entitled to five more seats in Texas, five more Republican seats. And we're here to say nobody's entitled. The people of those districts are entitled to those seats."

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Welcome to the disinfo hellscape.
You can cry. You can scream.
Or you can write vaccine poetry and drop it in your podcast.

Check out the newest episode of #InfectiousDose with a fresh rhyme to help us all cope. 🤣
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#VaccinesWork #InfectiousVerse

She's right but it's not just kids who are vulnerable. We're going to see what happens in an aging population that lived their lives in an elimination setting and are without boosters when elimination fails.

Home | Infectious Dose Infectious Dose is a science-forward podcast by virologist-turned-science-writer Heather McSharry, PhD, breaking down vaccine myths, viral threats, and public health headlines — one episode at a time.

What pathogen should I unleash next week on Infectious Dose?

🦟 Chikungunya
🧠 Nipah
🧫 Flesh-eating bacteria
🧬 Mpox

Drop your vote in the replies 👇
Convince me!
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Booster Dose: A Guided Tour Through the Infectious Dose Vaccine Safety Files SummaryWhat do vaccines really contain? Why do people still believe they cause autism? And who keeps spreading these lies?In honor of Immunization Awareness Month, this special episode of Infectious D...

💉 New episode is live!
It's A Guided Tour Through the Infectious Dose Vaccine Safety Files
This is your map through my episodes on vaccine safety. Share w/ someone who needs a place to start!
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#ImmunizationAwarenessMonth

Science and health shouldn’t be wrapped up into politics. This leaves the US woefully unprepared for the next pandemic.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This party needs to wake up. These guys aren't screwing around... They're assassins when it comes to the way they weaponize grievance and the way they play politics. Enough! What more goddamn evidence do we need? They have rolled back the last half century in real time!"

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Chikungunya virus: China reports 7,000 cases The uptick in cases have prompted measures that are being compared to those taken during the pandemic.

Move over “break‑bone fever”, Dengue's nickname is getting upstaged by chikungunya.😒
>7,000 cases in Guangdong Province & the joint pain is next level. They're fighting back w/ quarantine wards, drones, & “cannibal mosquitoes”.
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#Chikungunya #GlobalHealth

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Thank you!

Thank you!!

I don't even know what to say anymore. People are going to get sick, suffer, and die because of this decision and so many others -- all because we handed the keys of the health department over to anti-vax zealots.

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Air, wastewater may play roles in H5N1 transmission on dairy farms

The group conducted extensive air, farm wastewater, and milk sampling from 14 of California’s outbreak farms across two different farming regions.

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HHS bars liaison members from ACIP work groups

Eight of the liaison groups issued a joint statement warning that removing expertise from the working groups is dangerous to the nation's health and will further erode confidence in vaccines.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...

Back from Kenya, where I had the privilege of co-leading an Outbreak Data Science workshop with @jamesazam.bsky.social at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust. I'm proud to see open, reproducible tools like #EpiverseTRACE @epiverse-trace.bsky.social making a difference.

🚨 Cholera can kill in hours.
💧 But survival is as simple as sugar, salt, and water.

Dying of Thirst: Listen or read now!
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#InfectiousDose #Cholera #ORS

🚨 New episode drops midnight Tues!
August is #ImmunizationAwarenessMonth —and to kick that off, Infectious Dose is giving you a...

Booster Dose! 💉
A curated guide through my vaccine safety series.
Whether you’re new or catching up, this one’s for you.
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Got this from a (Ken Milne MD) post at the other place.

Dying of Thirst: Cholera in the Age of Abundance SummaryDying of Thirst: Cholera in the Age of Abundance dives into one of the most underreported but devastating public health emergencies of our time. In 2025, cholera—a disease we know how to preven...

NEW Episode:
Dying of Thirst: Cholera in the Age of Abundance 💧

Cholera is back w/ a vengeance. Not because we can’t stop it, but because we haven’t. I dive into the crisis, the science, & the fight to end it.

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#Cholera #PublicHealth #Podcast #InfectiousDose

Statement from ACIP Medical Association Liaisons on ouster from vaccine review Deeply disappointed and alarmed by medical association liaisons being barred from reviewing evidence, informing vaccine recommendations to help ensure safety of U.S. vaccine program.

For decades, our medical experts have provided ACIP unbiased, evidence-based input on vaccine safety & effectiveness. Excluding physicians from this process is dangerous & erodes trust in vaccines. We urge the Administration to reconsider. Patients deserve better. spr.ly/63320fkIQs

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So in addition the fact that CPB shuttering is tragedy that will rob millions of good public programming, to me it is also a part of the choking off of avenues for people to afford education.

An illustration of the cholera bacteria, vibrio cholerae. Showing the tube shaped bacteria with pili around the outside, the genetic material inside the capsule, and a single flagellum.

How did cholera become so deadly?

It wasn’t born that way.
A virus gave it the gene for its brutal toxin—turning a harmless microbe into a killer.
🎧 Dive into the science in Dying of Thirst
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#Cholera #Microbiology #Podcast #InfectiousDose