Björn Meyer

Summer 2025: early emergence of chikungunya in mainland France An unprecedented situation has arisen this summer, with the first locally acquired cases of chikungunya detected as early as June, notably affecting the Grand Est region for the very first time. Chiku...

France faces unprecedented chikungunya outbreak with first locally acquired cases detected in June - earliest on record. #chikungunya ↘️

From left to right, Dr. Albert Mulenga, William Tae Heung Kim, Dr. Thu Thuy Nguyen, Dr. Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Dr Hassan Hakimi and Emily Bencosme Cuevas. Kim is a Texas A&M researcher who was detained in San Francisco last Monday despite being a permanent resident of the United States and a green card holder. COURTESY OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim.

He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease.

He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States.

And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

#MartyMakary is a peddler of misinformation. A study came out on Monday saying: "In this nationwide cohort study, no increased risk of 29 adverse events was observed after vaccination with the updated COVID-19 mRNA vaccine [...] in approximately 1 million adults." Trust the data, not this fool. 1/

Vaccination with mRNA-encoded membrane-anchored HIV envelope trimers elicited tier 2 neutralizing antibodies in a phase 1 clinical trial Membrane-anchored HIV envelope trimer mRNA vaccines elicited high response rates of serum autologous tier 2 neutralizing antibodies in humans.

Vaccination with mRNA-encoded membrane-anchored HIV envelope trimers elicited tier 2 neutralizing antibodies in a phase 1 clinical trial
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...

Respiratory infections reactivate dormant metastatic breast cancer cells in mouse lungs, correlating with evidence in humans that #SARS-CoV-2 infection increases the risk of cancer-related mortality & lung metastasis

😎 biology but double whammy for cancer patients

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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can only hope for you this is an indoor thing in that suit

📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠
🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025

Text reads: "Of the 304 million people living with hepatitis B and C, only... 7 million are treated for hepatitis B 12.5 million people for hepatitis C"

#Hepatitis facts you should know:

Hepatitis B
👉 Only 13% of people with hep B had been diagnosed
👉 Just 3% had received treatment at the end of 2022

Hepatitis C
👉 Only 36% had been diagnosed
👉 20% had received curative treatment

We have the tools. Let’s use them 🔗bit.ly/hepatitis2025

All the ways your access to vaccines has changed under RFK Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership at Health and Human Services has led to changes in vaccine recommendations and access, sparking concerns among medical experts.

💉Our rundown of the changes in access to different vaccines under RFK Jr’s HHS:

From @lenasun.bsky.social @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @rachelroubein.bsky.social

gift link: wapo.st/4mau4q4

Hoping to Visit the U.S.? It Might Cost You an Extra $250.

Please don't organise international meetings in the US:

"The $250 fee will be levied in addition to the $185 cost of the nonimmigrant visa itself."
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/t...

Why Feeling Like a Victim Makes You Susceptible to Conspiracy Theories Our research reveals that a tendency to feel personally wronged makes people more vulnerable to conspiracy beliefs.

A new international study shows that people who feel like victims of injustice are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories — both general and specific ones.
matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/why-feelin...

denke dies zielt dann in 2 unterschiedliche Richtungen ab - man muss neue Ansätze gehen / neue Wirkstoffe entwickeln, damit Ärzte wieder bessere Optionen haben und
Was man gibt muss ggf sensitiver gegeben werden - mehr ABS, mehr Infektiva Leitfäden befolgen. Testung am Ende der Therapie etc.

To get everybody's attention: it'll get expensive

WHO Scientific advisory group issues report on origins of COVID-19 The WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a panel of 27 independent, international, multidisciplinary experts, today published its report on the origins of SARS-CoV-...

In a new report, the World Health Organization Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens concludes that the evidence points to SARS-CoV-2 being zoonotic in origin “either directly from bats or through an intermediate host”

www.who.int/news/item/27...

Abstract from research paper in Annals of Internal Med, July 15, 2025. Conclusion: "This nationwide cohort study did not find evidence supporting an increased risk for autoimmune, atopic or allergic, or neurodevelopmental disorders associated with early childhood exposure to aluminum-adsorbed vaccines..."

New Danish cohort study with over 1 million kids confirms safety of aluminum in childhood vax. They looked at 50 different conditions, including autoimmune, allergic & neurodevelopmental (eg autism).

This should end further debate on this topic (but probably won't).

Annals Intern Med 15 July 2025

Germany's STIKO has this general Info:
www.rki.de/SharedDocs/F...

if in doubt, then a consultation with the GP is probably the best start

are salaries of such jobs available info as well? sounds like a sweet gig for opinionated people

By that standard, people reporting Alien abductions are data.
Golden Standard data and science in the US going well it seems.

for the upteenth time - get vaccinated. it's 2025, not the dark ages

Vaccines work: Cohort data from Denmark show real-world evidence of stable protection against HPV-related cervical cancer In 2008, Denmark started to offer free vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) with the 4-valent HPV vaccine to teenage girls around the age of 14. New data from a cohort study presenting resul...

👧🏽 Since 2008, vaccination against human papillomavirus #HPV is free for girls in Denmark

🔎 Researchers looked at 16,955 cervical cell samples from 8,659 women over a 7-year study period

📉 #vaccination has effectively reduced infections with cancerogenic HPV 16/18 types

#IDSky #MedSky #STISky 🧪🩺

Verfassungsgericht kippt Entfristungsregel für Berliner Hochschulen Nachwuchswissenschaftler in Berlin sollten entfristet werden, wenn bestimmte Voraussetzungen vorliegen. Doch das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat nun die Regelung im Berliner Hochschulrecht aufgehoben. Vo...

Immer wieder schön zu sehen, wie sehr man die prekäre Lage in der Wissenschaft and deutschen Hochschulen versucht zu verbessern. Warum nur so viele ins Ausland gehen und ausländische Wissenschaftler nicht wirklich nach Deutschland wollen, bleibt mit ein Rätsel
www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesel...

was already hovering over it :))

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.

Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

"Wie lange dauert eine Sommergrippe?
Da es sich bei einer Sommergrippe normalerweise um eine Erkältung handelt, ist man meist nach etwa sieben bis zehn Tagen wieder fit."
- dem ist meist auch so bei einer echten Grippe. und nun?
Leider sind einige Infektionen dennoch schwerer für manche

und nein, gegen Infektionskrankheiten funktioniert auch nicht "ausreichend Schlaf, eine ausgewogene Ernährung und Stress vermeiden".

Infektionen, insbesondere Virusinfektionen zeigen sich immer mit einem Spektrum an Symptomen und Verläufe.
Einige sehr generelle Sypmtome zu beschreiben und es dann versuchen von "der echten Grippe" oder anderen nicht "einfache Erkältung" abzugrenzen funktioniert nicht.

Was ist die Sommergrippe - und was hilft dagegen? Im Sommer sind weniger Viren unterwegs als im Winter. Trotzdem kann man auch dann krank werden. Was es mit der Sommergrippe auf sich hat und was dagegen hilft - ein Überblick. Von Franziska Ehrenfeld.

Liebe Frau Ehrenfeld, ihr Artikel über die "Sommergrippe" ist Murks www.tagesschau.de/wissen/gesun...

Usually Nazi comparisons are never appropriate, but....

CDC vaccine advisory committee to review long-approved immunizations A leader of the CDC's reconstituted vaccine advisory committee said the panel would start a review of long-approved shots.

Anti-Science ideology has consequences.

at this rate from US-AID will turn a AID for US soon
www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...

not based in facts