Helen Price

A photo from the centre of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. There is a square shown with a sculpture of a lion and a large billboard in front showing the Ethiopian flag

Good morning from a different lion in a different continent #greysky

That's a whole extra cat

This is what we lose when we decimate the NSF and the NIH. For thousands of years, science progressed at a snail's pace. But in the post-WWII era scientific discovery boomed.

Folks, advice for anytime, not just now, if you're off ANYWHERE on holiday, create notification alerts here: www.gov.uk/foreign-trav...

Include places that are hubs if you're going further.

‘Viruses don’t know borders’: US anti-vaccine rhetoric could impact global measles crisis Experts say global measles vaccination rates are falling as Trump officials signal a deprioritization of the virus

The Trump administration’s global havoc is unending.

My latest story is about how the Trump admin is amplifying anti vaxx conspiracies just as measles outbreaks are spreading across the globe; many countries have just lost elimination status, and others are on the brink.

Dr Wilfried remembers treating sleeping sickness patients with the old medicine which was so toxic it killed 1 in 20 patients.

💊 Acoziborole is a revolution since those dark days: it cures the disease with one-day treatment course & is effective for both stages of the disease. #1Dose1Cure

This is amazing news!! Congratulations to all those involved in developing this new treatment 👏

@bspparasitology.bsky.social @who.int

The deadline for abstract submissions for the @bspparasitology.bsky.social Spring meeting in Glasgow is tomorrow!

🚨 A defining moment for global health data.

The termination of the #USAID-supported Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program has wide-ranging consequences. We reflect on the collapse and argue what should come next in a new PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

📊 9,000+ studies

Interesting debate and we had the little cakes! 🍰

Yes, so many cases! A couple of years ago there was only 1 centre in Tigray able to treat CL. This has now increased to about 8 (amazing) but the communities need peace and stability. So many challenges

-> 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 and 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 for BSP 2026 in Glasgow are open!
Deadline extension!
The deadline of abstracts for oral presentations has been extended from 17th to the 28th of February. lnkd.in/eJqXD3DY

He has been released on bail. Maybe hoping for a bad photo

She is extraordinary

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Tigray, Ethiopia: Clinical patterns, environmental drivers and public health implications - PubMed Cutaneous leishmaniasis is an underprioritized yet serious public health challenge in Tigray, driven by environmental and behavioral factors. Several forms of the disease (LCL, MCL and DCL) are prevalent in the region, with children and young adults being the most affected. Advocacy for regional rec …

Our new paper on cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Tigray Ethiopia. While the national numbers of CL cases reported to WHO remain low (~ 1,000 p.a.), the paper gives evidence that the disease is widespread in rural Tigray and needs to be higher priority for control pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41706764/

To understand what is happening in UK science policy you need to understand a bit of history.

Which also helps understand why people are making arguments in particular directions.

A little thread.

‘A safe space to come and just be’: the radical, utopian return of Britain’s youth clubs After a decade of austerity closed more than 1,000 centres, the government has promised £500m to renew youth services. We tour a glossy new venue in Preston – and a girls-only one in London

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... bit of good news

The other Sting

The BSP TrypsClub is back from its winter break!
Join us for a discussion about #NTDs with Dr. Sabine Specht, Global Clinical Program Excellence Lead at Bayer AG, Switzerland.

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It was a perfectly reasonable question and he was incredibly rude and patronising. This can't become the new norm. We need to expect better

Wow.

This is crazy

A conceptual model for healthcare-seeking research and interventions in cutaneous leishmaniasis - International Journal for Equity in Health International Journal for Equity in Health - Healthcare-seeking is not merely a biomedical response to illness but a socially and culturally embedded practice reflecting the dynamic interplay of...

Our new paper! A conceptual model for healthcare-seeking research and interventions in cutaneous leishmaniasis link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@number10cat.bsky.social has a political rival

Yes, parasites are fascinating but also horrifying. There's a big risk of cases escalating due to control programmes being cut

How to get away with mass murder: 4 tactics Ethiopia used to hide Tigray atrocities from the world The violence in Tigray was structured, targeted and sustained.

The Tigray conflict claimed 800,000 lives, yet the world barely noticed. Why does such suffering remain invisible? 🕯️

theconversation.com/how-to-get-a...

#Politics

!!! So awful

My bets are on the hand sanitiser

Yes the deadline for oral presentations is being extended. Email to be sent out shortly to membership 😊

The ivermectin stuff is *so stupid*. It’s a garden variety veterinary parasiticide that’s been in use about half a century in numerous species.

I guarantee if it had magical anti cancer properties *in any species at all* we would have noticed by now!