Tilmann Schober

Measles cases in Canada. Don’t know what to say…
https://health-infobase.canada.ca/measles-rubella/

How some well-known universities are trying to sabotage the tenure system...

in Europe, Lyme is moving northward and presumably linked to climate change, see e.g. iris.who.int/handle/10665...

Fascinating example of the link between ecosystem stability and human well-being 👇🏻

Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in Europe: new maps published New maps published by ECDC show that hotspots for tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in the EU are mainly concentrated in Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe, based on 2023 notification rates of locally-...

Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in Europe: new maps published www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...

The Bleach Community Is Ready for RFK Jr. to Make Their Dreams Come True Online communities dedicated to the use of a toxic bleach solution to treat everything from cancer to autism believe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is interested in their cause.

Out with vaccines

In with bleach??

WTAF!?

www.wired.com/story/chlori...

Congrats Alasdair!

A Fungus Devastated North American Bats. A New Species Could Deliver a Killer Blow.

This is a scary article by Carl Zimmer about the how scientists have found a second species of the fungus that causes white nose syndrome in bats. A potentially devastating development 🧪🦇

Agree. And independent of the actual recommendations: you don’t change these things by posting a video on social media. You need to have an expert committee reevaluate the data (and maybe weigh the pro and cons differently)

To express it in a consciously neutral way:
Most (if not all) 🇪🇺 countries stopped vaccinating healthy children against SARS-CoV-2
BUT
all 🇪🇺 countries recommend these vaccines for pregnant women!
Quite incomprehensible from an international perspective. I feel sorry for our colleagues in the US.

Azithromycin can no longer be used for acne, stomach ulcers, or asthma prevention per EMA’s new recommendation. A key move against #antimicrobialresistance.

Details 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/chan...

Disastrous, but unfortunately not surprising given the attitude of the current US leadership towards mRNA vaccines…

Words matter.
It’s time to retire the term oral “step-down.”
It implies inferiority of the oral route—and doesn’t align with stewardship principles.
Terms like IV to oral switch or oral transition better promote optimal antimicrobial stewardship.
What terms do you use—and why? #idsky

“children vaccinated before 8.5 months of age exhibited a markedly faster antibody decay and lost their protective neutralizing antibody levels over 6 years.”

So, in times of outbreaks, when infants get an early💉dose to get protection ASAP, they’ll likely still need their 2 scheduled doses later

We can't remain indifferent to suffering: Catholic Church now champions HPV vaccination From opposition to advocacy: After dismissing vaccine over promiscuity fears, church now tells faithful early intervention saves lives

This is such an important shift. For many years the catholic church withheld support for HPV vaccination which prevents cervical cancer.
119,000 women die from this cancer in Africa every year.
This full throated support of the HPV vaxx by the church will help uptake.
nation.africa/kenya/health...

It's been a long journey...but I finally got my board certification for Microbiology, Virology and Infection Epidemiology!
What a fun ride - thanks to all my great mentors at @healthsciences.mcgill.ca 🇨🇦 & @lmumuenchen.bsky.social 🇩🇪!

Second case of Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis in a few weeks. Hard to bear…

New Canadian #flu paper @stephaniedavey.bsky.social

"It is notable that over 1/4 of deaths occurred in children without a medical condition deemed high risk for #influenza complications, highlighting importance of preventative measures for all children."

#vaccines #vaccineswork #publichealth 🧪

Trump’s new surgeon general pick wants to “raise the vibration of humanity” “The future of medicine will be about light," said Casey Means. "I don’t exactly know how.”

She could be the next US Surgeon General?

“The future of medicine will be about light. I don’t exactly know how.”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Are we ever going to get RCTs to test whether metagenomics improves clinical outcomes, or will it remain a whole load of 'evaluations' that are really just clinical services? What would a trial look like? Tricky given the technology is advancing quickly

#IDSky #MicroSky @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social

Which kids are at risk of severe influenza? Our work on pediatric influenza associated mortality was just published - it was an honor to contribute. 👇 www.jpeds.com/article/S002...
Not surprisingly, we conclude "Vaccination efforts should be enhanced to reduce influenza mortality."

🤣

a boy with his eyes closed and the words bad idea written below him ALT: a boy with his eyes closed and the words bad idea written below him

Just did a consult on a toddler who developed a terrible hemolytic uraemic syndrome after drinking raw milk.
It’s real, don’t do it

New hope for LYME DISEASE, right under our eyes?

Unbiased screen surprisingly shows PIPERACILLIN can wipe out 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪 in mice at tiny doses — 100 times lower than doxycycline — while leaving gut bacteria intact

Jutras Lab Northwestern Sci Transl Med

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I have practiced in 🇨🇦&🇩🇪, not in 🇺🇸. Brucellosis you mainly see in immigrants form the Middle East and I remember a nasty M. bovis encephalitis in a refugee from Africa who grew up drinking unpasteurized milk. Admittedly, these two infections are not common here. But they are a real risk…

Vaccination in pregnancy to protect the newborn - Nature Reviews Immunology In this Review, Male and Jones provide an overview of the current vaccines that are offered during pregnancy and to newborns, explaining the rationale behind the different vaccination programmes and t...

👶🏼 Many #vaccines are not effective in newborns. So how do we protect them from infectious disease?

🤰🏽 By vaccination in #pregnancy!

Here we review…

💉 Established campaigns vs whooping cough, flu, COVID

💡 New approaches to RSV, GBS

🌈 Future challenges, opportunities

#ReproSky #ImmunoSky #IDSky

And it’s not just a theoretical risk. As an ID doc you see these diseases regularly. In fact, I have seen all of them except H5N1 (but this seems to be a matter of time given the recent outbreak in both birds and mammals 😳)

Some good news to brighten your day. 😎
Only caveat: this progress cannot be taken for granted, see vaccine hesitancy etc.

I first heard about the WHI study in med school. The finding that hormone therapy did not prevent heart disease in women after menopause was a leading example of evidence–based medicine. 20 years later… 😞
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-cancels-its-first-and-largest-study-centered-women

24 h of crowd power ➡️ live table of every placebo-controlled vaccine RCT

- 27 trials logged so far (>2 M participants)
- Control-type tag = saline vs active comparator

Contribute / explore 👇
bit.ly/3EuYzqI

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