José Ramón Paño

EIS (@escmid.bsky.social)/ AMC Epi Alert (Sept 2, 2025)

- Cholera (Nepal & Chad)
- Chikungunya (Americas, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh Europe local transmission)
- Dengue (Europe, Florida)
- WNV (Italy > 400)
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#ESCMID Emerging Infections Subcommittee & Amsterdam Medical Center
#EpiAlert

- Measles (Americas, Global)
- Chikungunya (Global)
- Oropuche (Americas)
- Listeria (Europe)
- Cholera (Sudan)

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I found another fun Veo 3 prompt: "Realistic footage of the moon landing, but it took place in [year]"

Here is 1883 AD, 1255 AD, 44 AD, 2300 BC, 30,000 BC, and 65 million years ago

Yes, there was apparently wind on the moon back then, you are just going to have suspend disbelief a bit.

Swiss study finds a threefold increase in macrolide use among children during global Mycoplasma pneumoniae outbreak in late 2023:
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#IDSky #JACAMRNews

Update – Sandoz Inc. Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall Expansion of One Additional Lot of Cefazolin for Injection Due to Vials Being Potentially Mislabeled as Penicillin G Potassium for Injection Sandoz, Inc. (“Sandoz”) is initiating a voluntary nationwide recall expansion of one additional lot of Cefazolin for Injection, USP, 1 gram per vial. The lot is being recalled due to a customer compla...

Sandoz has expanded its voluntary recall for vials incorrectly labelled as "Penicillin G Potassium for Injection" that may contain "Cefazolin for Injection"

www.fda.gov/safety/recal...

Help save 2 million lives: close the vaccine funding gap Gavi, the vaccine provider for the world’s poorest people, needs an extra US$3 billion to protect infants and other vulnerable groups. More donors must step up.

"But because only 3% of Gavi’s budget goes to administrative costs, a relatively low figure compared with other charities, that leaves little to cut before important programmes are under threat."

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cambodian boy in ICU with H5N1 avian flu infection

The case marks the eighth since early June and is part of a steady rise since late 2023.

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AHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHH alignment.anthropic.com/2025/sublimi...

La viremia VIH no suprimible es un desafío clínico. Excelente revisión de los infectólogos de La Paz en Lancet.

Los inhibidores de los puntos de control inmunitario revierten la latencia del VIH y potencian la respuesta citotóxica frente a este virus. Esta acción dual hace de estos fármacos una atractiva estrategia en la investigación de la curación de las personas con VIH.

I think a lot of non-US based researchers have little interest in traveling to the US (can’t blame them). Wish getting to ESCMID on VA funds wasn’t so hard

A relevant update from the SNAP trial on adjunctive clindamycin, and some thoughtful insights in the thread below!
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"The four major tetM-carrying lineages circulating since 2020 together account for 83% of tetM-carrying isolates".
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"Of the four major lineages, two carry variants in penA (encoding penicillin-binding protein 2 [PBP2], the main target of ceftriaxone) that increase ceftriaxone resistance"

Expansion of tetM-Carrying Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the United States, 2018–2024 | NEJM During 2018–2024, the percentage of N. gonorrhoeae isolates carrying tetM, which confers tetracycline resistance, increased from less than 10% to more than 30% across the United States.

"These results suggest that widespread use of doxycycline for the treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted infections may be contributing to reshaping of the gonococcal population in the United States" www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

One More Cup Of Coffee Frazey Ford · Obadiah (Bonus Version) · Song · 2010

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Sweet Child O' Mine - Acoustic Slash, Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators · Spotify Sessions · Song · 2014

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SNAP Trial Helps Resolve Long-Running Controversies Over Management of Staph Bacteremia For those who do hospital-based patient care, the significance of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) cannot be overstated. It’s one of the most frequent reasons for infectious disease consultation...

The SNAP trial may finally resolve some of the longest-running debates in SAB management (cefazolin vs semi-synthetic PCN? Is PCN really active vs PSSA?).
Huge congrats to Drs. Joshua Davis, Steven Tong, & the global team who made this ambitious trial happen. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.

".... many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years."

On a scale of from 0 to 10, how likely do you think that there will be fair elections in 28?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When folks tell me I should prototype in a type safe language:

Roma Fade Andrew Bird · Spotify Singles · Song · 2016

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‘We joke about who’s getting their knees done’: the rock veterans still touring into their late 70s Yoga and ice baths have replaced all-nighters, but musicians such as Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, Rick Wakeman and Elkie Brooks aren’t planning to retire any time soon

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

The gift of the gab: did an iron age brain drain bring Celtic to Ireland? The rise of the precursor to the Irish language remains a historical mystery that linguists, geneticists and archaeologists continue to debate

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Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? | Sonia Sodha Failing to redress the issues facing young men will push them further towards the far right

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Unions on alert as Labour prepares to unveil ‘Trumpian’ plan for civil service Performance-related pay, exit process for poor performers and more digitalisation among proposed measures intended to revolutionise Whitehall

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Unions on alert as Labour prepares to unveil ‘Trumpian’ plan for civil service

Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys?

Go outside, ditch the phone, get humble: my top 10 Scandi life lessons after a decade in Denmark After 12 years, we’ve said goodbye to one of the happiest countries on Earth. From friluftsliv (the joy of the open air) to janteloven (realising you’re no better than others) here’s what I’ve learned

Go outside, ditch the phone, get humble: my top 10 Scandi life lessons after a decade in Denmark

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The gift of the gab: did an iron age brain drain bring Celtic to Ireland?

‘We joke about who’s getting their knees done’: the rock veterans still touring into their late 70s

NHS faces £5.7bn bill for patching up hospitals before demolishing them