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Virologist ☣ | Trying to understand why viruses tick the way they do - then, now and in future | 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇳 @themeyerlab.bsky.social
Ging also nie eigentlich um Integration
www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
Ridiculous how the Dark Ages look like
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...
Befürchte sehr, dass man so die 40% Umfragewerte der AFD bestätigt oder weiter ausbaut.
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Or one could vaccinate their child
05.02.2026 22:26 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Wonder what all these NIH research groups do all day, if not doing research, which also includes a thing that is literally called "Clinical Center Research Hospital"
04.02.2026 10:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Together with colleague and friend Carl Herrmann @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, we are looking for a motivated postdoc with experience in organoid culture and data analysis (#bioinformatics), for a project in the @hlsalliance.bsky.social Joint Postdoc call.
www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...
Eine AfD-Landesregierung wäre das endgültige Aus für Sachsen-Anhalts Hochschulen, Lehre und Forschung und alle damit verbundenen Stellen. Somit ist man nicht mehr wettbewerbsfähig.
Auch das sollte und muss klar im Vorfeld so deutlich benannt werden.
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ID physicians see the devastating consequences of vaccine-preventable diseases every day, & now more than ever, families & clinicians need accurate information & evidence-based recommendations they can trust.
IDSA endorses AAP's 2026 childhood immunization schedule.
@ameracadpeds.bsky.social
Dr Vanessa Saliba, Consultant Epidemiologist at UKHSA, said: 'Infections can return quickly when childhood vaccine uptake falls; elimination is only possible if all children receive two MMRV doses before school. Older children and adults who missed vaccination must be caught up. The NHS is making vaccination easier, including offering the second MMRV dose earlier at a new 18-month appointment to boost uptake and support elimination goals.'
UKHSA responds to the confirmation from @WHO that the UK has lost its measles elimination status.
Read more from WHO here: https://bit.ly/3YZuOFa
And as usual, a good vaccine is available
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The number of confirmed #measles cases in South Carolina has hit an astonishing 558 in an outbreak that started in October. For context: that is more cases in 4 months than the entire US racked up most years in the past 30+ years. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Good news though: there is an excellent vaccine available
17.01.2026 18:34 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A good reminder that measles is one of the most contagious viruses known with an R(0) of around 14
17.01.2026 18:32 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Them Mercedes, BMW and Audis for rich Americans will become expensive
17.01.2026 18:21 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Come join us for a newly funded @horizoneu.bsky.social @globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social project on CHIKV vaccine responses in vulnerable populations in Africa. We seek a highly motivated and skilled #postdoc and #projectmanager. Please find details here: virologie.i-med.ac.at/career/ #lovevirology
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Update: An HHS official told me after publication that the protocol is still being updated. “This study is going to proceed as planned,” the official said. But major changes would mean the trial would not proceed as it has been described so far. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol.
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
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The American Society for Virology (ASV) is dedicated to advancing knowledge of viruses and the diseases they cause. ASV does not support the scaling back of the childhood vaccine schedule recently announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. See our statement attached.
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Physicians in the Trump administration are aligning themselves with anti-public health interests and policies.
High profile physicians should be resisting Trump and RFK Jr’s damaging policies, not collaborating with them, @gavinyamey.bsky.social @jonshaffer.bsky.social
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Jan. 5, 2026 The rationale for the recent updates to the U.S. childhood immunization schedule is, at best, uncertain and sets a potentially dangerous precedent for public health. Whatever improvements may be needed to the process the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has followed in the past to update vaccine recommendations, it is unclear what scientific evidence led to these new guidelines. Protecting a country’s public health presents unique challenges that are specific to that country’s population. The prevalence of diseases in the U.S. is not the same as it is in other countries, and public health recommendations should be made based on the public health challenges faced by the American people. The changes by the CDC will reduce the number of recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11. This includes narrowing the recommendation for the flu, which has already contributed to the deaths of at least 9 children this season and a near record number of pediatric flu deaths last season. Vaccines are a safe and effective tool to prevent the spread of infectious disease and infection-related deaths, and they have saved and continue to save lives. While we concur with National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya that “science demands continuous evaluation,” that must occur with full transparency and input from the scientific community. The schedule changes weaken vaccine recommendations at a particularly critical time. It is crucial that expert consultation and a review of scientific evidence be included in the decisions that impact the health and safety of the country.
The @asm.org statement in response to the changes in the childhood immunization schedule:
asm.org/press-releas...
Bleak
05.01.2026 20:32 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0Scientific evidence shows, once again, there is no causal link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines cause adults. - @drtedros.who.int
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COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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A report published in a CDC journal reaffirms the effectiveness of COVID vaccines at preventing severe disease in children
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New analysis from a WHO global expert committee on vaccine safety has found that, based on available evidence, no causal link exists between vaccines and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The conclusion reaffirms WHO’s position that childhood vaccines do not cause autism. www.who.int/news/item/11...
11.12.2025 15:56 — 👍 165 🔁 88 💬 4 📌 3Just imagine each EU member country had imposed a fine of 120M each, instead of the cheap EU bundle
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In favour of qualitative evaluation The use of impact factors in the evaluation of researchers has contributed to the distortion of scientific publishing practices and, in turn, of research practices. Alain Schuhl, the CNRS's Deputy CEO for Science (DGDS), explains that "for too long now, research has been trapped by indicators that actually have nothing to do with the intrinsic quality of the scientific advances set out in a publication". The DGDS considers that dictating the rules of the game for the assessment of researchers by defining the prestige and attractiveness of journals is "a reductive view of science that we should no longer be condoning. This means we have to take action now to guarantee the quality and the ethics of the research assessment system".
The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science
www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...
