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Un brot de xarampió en una família antivacunes posa en alerta un centenar de persones al Garraf Hi ha vuit contagis detectats i Salut avisa que el risc de disseminació de la malaltia és alt tot i les bones cobertures vacunals

Almenys vuit casos confirmats i un centenar de persones en estudi per un brot actiu de xarampió al Garraf. Segons ha pogut saber l'ARA, el brot s'ha originat en ...

🚨📰 Check out our new publication in @elife.bsky.social:
"Estimating probabilities of malaria importation in southern Mozambique through P. falciparum genomics and mobility patterns" doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

📰👀 You can now access the final version of this article in Scientific Reports @nature.com rdcu.be/eAcNL

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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel.

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🔴 Riyad Mansour, representante permanente de Palestina ante la ONU, rompe a llorar durante su discurso en el Consejo de Seguridad: "Es insoportable. ¿Cómo puede alguien tolerar este horror?"

#Canal24Horas dozz.es/8d0og12

🔬African-led research is reshaping the fight against malaria. Hear from experts like Halidou Tinto in our podcast Transmission.
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Post-doc offer at LPHI - Laboratory of Pathogens and Host Immunity Post-doc in malaria genomics open to individuals from Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC) 2025 PostDoc_Montpellier_MalariOmicsDownload

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Health facility surveys for malaria genomic surveillance have started in 5 provinces! (remaining 5 to start in April).
During the first days, CISM staff conducts refreshment training for all participating nurses and HF workers on enrollment and sample collection
(📷Inchope, Manica, Mozambique)

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

No doctors for sick children. This is the reality of Trump’s aid freeze in remote northern Thailand | CNN Aid workers in northern Thailand described widespread confusion following the US aid freeze, especially among those whose work provides life-saving services to some of the world’s most vulnerable and ...

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🔬👩‍🔬 En el marc del Dia Internacional de la Nena i la Dona en la Ciència, diverses investigadores d'ISGlobal han visitat escoles de Catalunya per compartir la seva experiència i inspirar futures vocacions científiques!

#11F #DiaNenaiDonaCiència

On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and everyday, we acknowledge the fundamental role that women play in science and technology.

At CISM we are lucky to have excellent professionals like Aura Hunguana, GenMoz Data Manager. Know more about Aura below:

"This is not how it works". [..]
"It is absurd that the scientific record be treated with such disregard. It is egregious that a country’s public health agency, or any government authority, should demand the erasure of any terminology, particularly medically relevant terminology."

I cannot get over this. I'll never get over this. 2/3 of PMI let go?

“You could open the funding floodgates again tomorrow and you will still have children dying months from now because of this pause,” the scientist said.

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

Molecular surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2/3 gene deletions in Mozambique, 2023 - Malaria Journal Background Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) based on the detection of Plasmodium falciparum histidine rich protein 2 (PfHRP2) are widely used for the diagnostic of P. falciparum in Africa. However, delet...

🚨🍾New year, new paper!

"Molecular surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2/3 gene deletions in Mozambique, 2023"

malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.....

Researching #malaria in pregnancy? Check out the malaria in pregnancy library, an online resource to search published and unpublished literature @wwarnnews.bsky.social
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🚨📰 Earlier this year, we launched phase 2 of GenMoz project with the aim of consolidating genomic surveillance of malaria in Mozambique and integrating it into the NMCP 2030 strategy.

Check out the study protocol now published in BMJOpen! bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...

Safety and efficacy of the blood-stage malaria vaccine RH5.1/Matrix-M in Burkina Faso: interim results of a double-blind, randomised, controlled, phase 2b trial in children RH5.1/Matrix-M appears safe and highly immunogenic in African children and shows promising efficacy against clinical malaria when given in a delayed third-dose regimen. This trial is ongoing to further monitor efficacy over time.

RTS/S, R21 and now hopefully RH5 not too far behind. Promising results of Phase 2b trial in Burkina Faso especially in high density infections. But unknown longevity www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Here's the malaria starter pack! Lots of room to add more people, so please reply below or DM me if you want to be added go.bsky.app/HDEu2ux

👋🏼Hello Bluesky, here we come!
👋🏿Hola, Bluesky, ¡allá vamos!
👋Hola, Bluesky, ¡som-hi!

H5N1 bird flu virus in Canadian teenager displays mutations demonstrating virus’ risk The H5N1 virus that infected a Canadian teen appears not to have spread, but it shows signs of mutation that makes flu virologists nervous.

Genetic sequencing of the #H5N1 #birdflu virus from the Canadian teenager shows worrying changes. It doesn't mean H5 is taking off — but it's a reminder that it might, says @scottehensley.bsky.social. "This is exactly the scenario that we fear.” www.statnews.com/2024/11/18/b...

Last week, a teenager in British Columbia contracted H5N1, the first human case acquired in Canada. The BC CDC and and Canadian Food Inspection Agency have released sequences from this infected person and domestic and wild birds sampled in BC, which we've just added to Nextstrain. A thread: