Heiman Wertheim

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Premature baby dies of measles in Alberta outbreak's 1st death | CBC News Alberta is reporting its first measles death since outbreaks of the highly contagious illness began in March. The province says a baby, who was born prematurely after the mother became sick, died shor...

So tragic: Alberta baby born with congenital #measles (mother contracted measles late in pregnancy) died shortly after birth.
The province, which has had a massive measles outbreak this year, says this is the 7th case of congenital measles in 2025. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The pernicious infections infiltrating Ukraine’s front lines Doctors and scientists are waging a shadow war in the besieged nation: bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. The deadly bugs are now knocking on western Europe’s door.

On amr in Ukraine knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

The Changing Paradigm in Infectious Diseases - Host-Directed Medicine: Implications for the Next Generation of ID Physicians

Host-directed therapies for infectious disease are here & coming!

Simple equation proposed to consider best interventions:
⭐ Microorganism + immune response = clinical presentation/status ⭐

Will require futuristic-sounding real-time diagnostics = exciting!

#IDSky #MedSky #ImmunoSky #TBSky

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Join the 25th Annual Congress of LSIDCM online for FREE – Oct 2–4

LSIDCM & ISAC President Souha Kanj invites you to join in person or online
Theme: Multidisciplinary Approach to ID
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Zijn er nog vragen over antibioticaresistentie? Antibioticaresistentie wordt wereldwijd gezien als een van de grootste bedreigingen voor de volksgezondheid. Wat betekent dat? En wat zijn de gevolgen? Heiman Wertheim, hoogleraar klinische microbiolo...

Levendige discussie vandaag op @npo radio over antibiotica en resistentie met luisteraars www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/s...

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For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions. Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...

Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations.

Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.

By @emcahan.bsky.social

Diagnostic characteristics of the Rapid ESBL NP® test and ResistanceFinder 2SMART multiplex PCR for the detection of ESBL directly on urine samples - European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - To determine the diagnostic characteristics of the phenotypic Rapid ESBL NP® test and a prototype version of the molecular...

“The Rapid ESBL NP® test could be a suitable screening tool for ESBL-producing bacteria in clinical urine samples, ensuring more accurate prescription of antibiotics, though prospective validation is necessary first. “ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In the latest Hoof GP video he talks about the the "Fake Hooves" videos I mention in this presentation that are attempting to capture the algorithmic recommendations of people watching the Hoof GP channel, and he also talks about AI generated Hoof GP videos:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=slR3...

🚨 AbxGuide Update🚨
Clinicians now have even better access to evidence-based, pathogen-directed antimicrobial treatment—especially for resource-limited settings.
🧠 Developed by ISAC, Radboudumc & AUBMC
🌍 Free. Open-access.
www.isac-abxguide.world
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Use of paracetamol during pregnancy unchanged in the EU | European Medicines Agency (EMA) Paracetamol medicines can be used in pregnancy, in accordance with official recommendations

Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women.

Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children.

Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...

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📢 Tomorrow | ISAC / ESCMID webinar
📅22 Sept 2025 |
Discover findings from a global survey of 86 societies on their role in tackling AMR
Register: tinyurl.com/4eaycj2k
#InfectiousDiseases #GlobalHealth
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Heb je ook een link naar het wetenschappelijke artikel?

🌟 Keynote Highlight – #ICPIC2025
ISAC Past President Prof. Andreas Voss delivered a bold, thought-provoking keynote: “The End of IPC?”

The session ended in a standing ovation 👏

A well-deserved tribute to Andreas’ global impact and dedication to IPC.

#InfectionControl @souhakanj.bsky.social

Happy to be speaking on the role of professional societies across the globe to enhance healthcare.

Unproven Lyme disease tests and treatments are proliferating The complexity of diagnosing Lyme disease has given rise to an entire industry of unapproved tests and alternative treatments, including lasers, herbal remedies and electromagnets.

Tick-borne disease has given rise to an entire industry of unapproved tests and unproven alternative treatments that experts say should be avoided, including lasers, herbal remedies and electromagnets. “It really is a buyer-beware situation."
apnews.com/article/lyme...

🌍 Global Insights on ID Societies & #AMR

Medical societies are key players in advocacy — but are they fully leveraged in the fight against #AMR?
🔍 Study by ISAC & ESCMID explores this question
Read in @jgar-isac.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mp7ken7b
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Willem Halffman 🟥 posted on LinkedIn Willem Halffman 🟥 posted images on LinkedIn

I will be in the Netherlands mid-October, and participating in this upcoming colloquium, 14 October, Radboud University (NL), organized by @willemhalffman.bsky.social, with @stanvanpelt.bsky.social, Maud Bernisson, and myself.
linkedin.com/posts/willem...
halffman.org/rrosa/proble...
See you there?

Drug-resistant fungus Candidozyma auris confirmed to spread rapidly in European hospitals: ECDC calls for urgent action The latest survey from ECDC, the fourth of its kind, confirms that Candidozyma auris (formerly Candida auris) continues to spread quickly across European hospitals.

#JustPublished!
Drug-resistant fungus #CandidozymaAuris is spreading rapidly in European hospitals. #ECDC calls for urgent action.

📈 Cases are rising, outbreaks are larger, and several countries now report local transmission.

Press release: bit.ly/46uR1iK
#CandidaAuris #HAI #IDsky #EpiSky #AMR

Marburg Virus Disease in Rwanda, 2024 — Public Health and Clinical Responses | NEJM On September 27, 2024, Rwanda reported an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD), after a cluster of cases of viral hemorrhagic fever was detected at two urban hospitals. We report key aspects of ...

Report of the 2024 #marburg outbreak in #rwanda. The response successfully treated two patients in the icu, simultaneously ran vaccine and treatment trials and effectively contained the outbreak. 15/66 cases died. They gave the world a lesson in outbreak response.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

How should the new Independent Panel on Evidence for Action on #AMR be set up? We gathered scientists and stakeholders - mainly from Africa - to think this through in Lagos, Nigeria. Pre-print now available:

verixiv.org/articles/2-2...

David Baltimore passed away this weekend. A pioneer of molecular virology who won the Nobel prize in medicine & physiology for his discovery of viral reverse transcriptase. This essay he wrote in 2018 reflecting of his 60yr career in science is a great read.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Related to this is the upcoming webinar on the results of the global society survey @isacworld.bsky.social did together with @escmid.bsky.social . See here the link for details: bsky.app/profile/isac...

It was wonderful to join and look forward to kickstart the enhanced engagement with infection related societies across the globe as part of the strategy

It requires a different communication strategy to the general public by the societies. Which is hard and costly

I think about this a lot!
Medical professionals and their societies are sounding the highest level of alarm about the dangers of rejecting science and favoring conspiracy theories and it is hardly breaking through.
That's how far down the rabbit hole the US is.
This fight is hard.

Florida plans to nix vaccine mandates. How well do they work? Abandoning long-standing vaccine requirements for schoolchildren could prompt bigger outbreaks, researchers warn

www.science.org/content/arti...

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

How quick we forget.