Francesca Latronico

#USDA confirmed 1 more #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herd in California today, bringing the state's total to 733 & the cumulative national total to 950 in 16 states. CA's Dept of Food & Ag says 193 of its herds have recovered/cleared quarantine.
www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

30.01.2025 15:13 — 👍 65    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 0

Official statement from the Ugandan ministry of health confirming a case of Ebola Sudan virus infection in a 29 year old female nurse who presented to mulago hospital in Kampala.

30.01.2025 15:27 — 👍 49    🔁 10    💬 4    📌 0

📢 ECDC Webinar ➡️ Behavioural Science in Action: Using Behavioural Science to Counteract #AntibioticResistance

What can social and #BehaviouralScience teach us about tackling #AMR?

🗓️ Monday 27 January 2025
🕕 15.30-16.30 CET
💻 Online

Register here: bit.ly/3C1hAQp

#IDsky #EpiSky #SciComm

16.01.2025 17:47 — 👍 10    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

Challenges and applications of artificial intelligence in infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Challenges and applications of artificial intelligence in infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance

Check out our latest npj, Antimicrobials and Resistance @natureportfolio.bsky.social! With AI, we can now discover antibiotics faster than ever. Congrats Angelica Cesaro and our fantastic collaborators at IBMResearch, Sam Hoffman, and Payel Das.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

16.01.2025 15:01 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Applications to join the #KnockingOutAMR Scientific Advisory Group are now open.

13.01.2025 13:00 — 👍 7    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

Bird flu in cattle ‘not an increased threat to humans’ study shows A study of bird flu viruses in cows shows the H5N1 strain does not pose an increased threat to humans.

🆕 Study shows bird flu in cattle ‘not an increased threat to humans’.

Pirbright researchers analysed viruses from cattle and goats alongside avian-origin H5N1 and found no human receptor binding and low airborne transmissibility.

Read the story ➡️ www.pirbright.ac.uk/news/bird-fl...

14.01.2025 14:23 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

The Emerging Threat of H5N1 to Human Health | NEJM Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) emerged in 1997.1 Since then, it has spread globally by migratory birds, resulting in infections in animals on every continent. HPAI A(H5N1) clade 2...

The Emerging Threat of H5N1 to Human Health

03.01.2025 15:38 — 👍 99    🔁 43    💬 2    📌 8

A plasmid-chromosome crosstalk in multidrug resistant enterobacteria - Nature Communications The authors describe a new crosstalk between a globally disseminated carbapenem resistance plasmid and clinical enterobacteria clones. This crosstalk provides a fitness advantage to the plasmid-carryi...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper out!!

30.12.2024 18:33 — 👍 93    🔁 44    💬 1    📌 1

Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...

14.12.2024 21:10 — 👍 10092    🔁 3743    💬 230    📌 155

It is World AMR Awareness Week! #WAAW

Do you know what is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)?
Do you know that you can play a pivotal role to avert this global crisis and help to keep #antimicrobials working so you and your beloved can be cured when having infections?
#AMR #OneHealh

20.11.2024 18:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Today kicks off World AMR Awareness Week #WAAW2024!
#AntimicrobialResistance is a major global health concern and one of the key pillars in ESCMID's strategy moving forward. This week we invite you to explore how #AMR affects the world and to "Educate. Advocate. Act now."

18.11.2024 10:45 — 👍 27    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Glad to see that more and more #OneHealth approach is chosen and advocate for addressing many challenges that we are facing especially on #infectiousdiseases and #AMR

20.11.2024 18:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0