Can you list these for me? Starting a new bugs and drugs course in the coming academic year

Faculty at #UniversityofUtahPediatricID Drs. TW Jones and Marilyn Valentine present their posters at #IDWeek2025 “Salvage of the Infected Nuss Bar: A Protocol and Institutional Experience” and “Evaluation of Febrile Infants with Bronciolitis 29-60 days old” respectively. #pedsid

Taylor Boyd, 2nd year med student at #UniversityofUtah interested in #pedsid “Challenges of Microbiological Diagnoses and Targeted Treatment of Pediatric Sinogenic Intracranial Infections” working with Dr. Nicole Pershing at #IDweek. Congratulations to her!

Fellow, and Resident Posters at #IDWeek from #pediatricID at the #UniversityofUtah. Dr Brent Nelson “Evaluation for Syphilis at a single center in Utah from 2014-2023”. Dr Sirey Zhang “Trends in treatment of MRSA in hospitalized children” #pedsid Congratulations to both!

Dr. Brent Nelson, a third year fellow at the University of Utah, presenting at Pediatric Fellow Day his case “Oh by the way, her arm is swollen” at ID Week! #pedsid #Universityofutah #pediatricidfellowship #idweek

Marilyn (@docmarilyn) https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPj26aojgOX/?igsh=ZTl0Z2ozaHkzeGR4

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Fight The Trump Takeover Rally · Fight the Trump Takeover The Texas House Democrats are denying quorum to stop the Trump takeover of Texas and block his attempt to rig the 2026 midterm elections. But Trump isn’t stopping in Texas. He’s targeting Missouri, Oh...

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Antibiotic research at Harvard lab threatened by federal funding cuts Microbiologist Michael Baym studies antibiotic resistance at Harvard Medical School. He lost millions in federal funding this week.

"I'm still in shock. I know that there have been political issues around Harvard in recent weeks, but antibiotic resistance isn't one of them." My conversation with Harvard microbiologist @baym.lol, one of many researchers there who just lost millions in fed. grants. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

3 wonderful new global health books, all FREE to download!

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Study suggest dual COVID-19/flu shot is more effective than individual vaccines Moderna’s new combination vaccine triggers strong immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 and influenza, study in over 8,000 people suggests.

Study suggest dual COVID-19/flu shot is more effective than individual vaccines www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

An appalling yet plausible future: “The typical ailments of childhood—day-care colds, strep throat, winter norovirus waves—would be joined by less familiar and often far more terrifying problems: the painful, swollen necks of mumps; the parching diarrhea of rotavirus; the convulsions of tetanus.”

Vaccine Information Statements (VISs) Overview | Immunize.org| Immunize.org Find materials on legal requirements to give VISs to patients before vaccinating.

Vaccines and immunization fact sheets you can't find on CDC website anymore are archived at the link below. May be helpful to bookmark this for future reference.
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As someone who is very familiar with both the US and Canadian systems, I can confirm that PHAC is a great source of info, especially regarding guidance and easy to access facts. It doesn’t replace American data lost at CDC in the great purge but it does provide reliable health & medical information.

Vaccine Schedules For You and Your Family Stay up to date on getting recommended vaccines for you and your family.

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Here are vaccine schedules if needed. We need to preserve the data and not let science be corrupted. Other information can be found on archive.org

First U.S. bird flu death reported in Louisiana patient, officials say The patient, who was older than 65 and had underlying medical conditions, was hospitalized weeks ago in critical condition with severe respiratory illness.

Louisiana Patient Is First Individual In US To Die From Bird Flu

#IDSky
#BirdFlu

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Nice summary of another twist in the evolving story. Click thorough to CDC technical report for more detail. #IDSky #H5N1

Testing of retail cheese, butter, ice cream and other dairy products for highly pathogenic avian influenza in the US The recent outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in dairy cows has created public health concerns about the potential of consumers bein…

Good evidence supporting the benefits of pasteurization: Testing of retail dairy products showed that while viral H5N1 RNA was detected in some products, no live virus was found in any sample.
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5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.

5th person to be cured of HIV

“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”

Dengue cases set a new record in the Americas this year as deaths also surge Dengue fever is sweeping across the Caribbean and the Americas, with a record 12.6 million suspected cases of the mosquito-transmitted virus reported this year, nearly triple the number from last year...

Record number of Dengue cases identified in the western hemisphere.

#IDSky
#Dengue
#PublicHealth

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For those who remedy reading this paper and the firstMMWR reports in June it is stunning to think how ignorant we were of how this would rock the world and cost so many lives… #IDSky

Picture of two children exposed to same source of smallpox. One (unvaccinated) is covered in rash the other (vaccinated) has no rash. This is a genuine photograph that was taken in the early 1900s by Dr. Allan Warner of the Isolation Hospital at Leicester in the UK. Warner photographed a number of smallpox patients in order to study the disease.

Vaccines work and do not cause autism. I will die on this hill.
These two boys had been exposed to the same smallpox source. The boy without a rash had been vaccinated, the one covered in rash hadn't been vaccinated.
A global vaccination campaign led to eradication of smallpox globally by 1980.

Most Rural Hospitals Have Closed Their Maternity Wards, Study Finds (Gift Article) Labor and delivery units are losing money and struggling to find staff, in rural areas and large cities alike.

This is a five-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/h...

Bird flu confirmed in child for first time in US: CDC The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that bird flu was found in a child in California, according to a press release issued Friday. The case is the first reported such infe…

CDC Confirms Bird Flu In Child For First Time In US

#IDSky
#BirdFlu

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The US Is Loading Up on Bird Flu Vaccine As more farm workers get sick with avian influenza, the US federal government is putting $72 million toward strengthening its vaccine stockpile.

H5N1 Avian Bird Flu

The US Is Loading Up on Bird Flu Vaccine

As more farm workers get sick with avian influenza, the US federal government is putting $72 million toward strengthening its vaccine stockpile

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CDC produced table of immunizations recommended by timing from birth through 18 years of age. Each vaccine has a recommended window of delivery.

The CDC has released the 2025 schedule of recommended immunizations by vaccine/other agents and age group, from birth through 18 years of age. The resource is available at www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp...
#IDSky #vaccines #immunizations #pedsID

Less PICCs, more orals!

The coming crisis with reduction in heard immunity should be top of mind and processes to influence the collective mindset

Worldwide, 107,500 lives were lost to measles in 2023. Mostly children under 5.

#Measles is one of the leading causes of death among young children globally.
In 2023, an estimated 107 500 people died from measles, mostly children under age 5.
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