Dr. Taison Bell

It's approved for adults up to 45 but not broadly recommended for older adults. The benefits drop with folks who have had prior HPV exposure. For that reason it's more targeted to kids to be more cost-effective.

The potential links between vaccines and mortality in certain cancers are exciting!

There was a time when I told students/trainees they should avoid using nicknames if their name was difficult to pronounce. But many just don't want to teach pronunciation repeatedly and prefer to be called a nickname.

I think the most important thing is to respect whatever your colleague prefers.

thank you!

Why hasn’t the bird flu pandemic started? Some scientists examining mutations found in H5N1 viruses fear major outbreak is imminent but others says pathogen remains unpredictable

If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while.
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky

also true

While furiously posting about pandemics I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Taison Bell. I'm a critical care and infectious diseases doctor at UVA. I'm also an editor for CID and I founded a med-tech company. I try to make complex health topics more easy to understand. 🔬💊💉🏥

There's a lot going on right now...but an undiagnosed respiratory illness is worth paying attention to. One of the reasons a robust global/local public health infrastructure is so crucial.

Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer | WashU Medicine Clinical trial targeted recurrence of hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancer

Early days, but another exciting application of vaccine technology.

And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.

Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....

One of the reasons to aggressively monitor/contain H5N1 cases is to prevent it from acquiring a mutation that could make it take off. Especially if it's just one away

I'm still keeping close tabs on this. The USDA recently mandated milk supply monitoring in California, Colorado, Michigan, Mississippi, Oregon and Pennsylvania. This is a good move to try to stay ahead.

I just joined!