Trump to Nominate Doctor Who Has Publicly Supported Vaccines as C.D.C. Director

Breaking: The Trump administration has selected Dr. Erica Schwartz, a physician and vaccine supporter who served as a deputy surgeon general during President Trump’s first term, to become the director of the CDC.

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Am J Trop Med Hyg: West Nile Morbidity and Mortality in a Mid-Atlantic Health Care System, 2013-2024

Seth D Judson et al

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Mpox continues to spread in many communities. Tecovirimat has activity against orthopoxviruses in vitro. In a phase 3 trial involving patients with acute mpox, tecovirimat showed no evidence of clinical activity.

Full STOMP/A5418 trial results and Research Summary: nej.md/4rdlMA9

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State-of-the-Art Review: Chagas Disease—an Enduring Challenge Chagas disease remains the most significant neglected tropical disease in the Western Hemisphere. In this review, we examine critical aspects of patient ca

The most comprehensive Chagas’ disease review I have read in @cidjournal.bsky.social

Congratulations and thank you to @andhen25.bsky.social and team on such a useful paper!

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Circulation of clade Ib mpox outside of Africa—are we prepared? Mpox is a spectrum of disease caused by monkeypox virus, which is divided into clades I (with subclades Ia and Ib) and II (with subclades IIa and IIb).1 In 2022, simultaneous detection of non-travel-a...

Recent locally acquired clade Ib mpox cases in multiple countries signal a shift in transmission and spread. Here we highlight key questions and gaps in our preparedness
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This OpEd, by the inspirational @drdemetre.bsky.social in today’s @washingtonpost.com, is one of the best pieces of science writing of 2025

I’ll be assigning it to my students next semester in my class on ‘policy writing—turning evidence into public health action’

Thx Ed, for the free access link👇

Timeliness of yellow fever specimen collection and transport in Ghana, 2018–2022 Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne viral hemorrhagic fever, and recent outbreaks of yellow fever have occurred in multiple African countries, including Ghana (2021–2022). Delayed diagnosis of yellow fev...

How we improve early detection of yellow fever outbreaks? Our study in Ghana analyses the diagnostic pathway for over 6000 patients and highlights ways of improving timely diagnosis
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Older age, kidney disease, stroke tied to higher risk for potentially deadly illness after West Nile infection

“Risk factors for WNND were older age, male sex (29%), CKD (21%), cerebrovascular disease (CEVD; 22%), blood cancer (38%), immune suppressant use (43%), high blood pressure (18%), alcohol-related disorders (54%), and multiple sclerosis” www.cidrap.umn.edu/west-nile/ol...

Who is at greatest risk for severe West Nile disease and mortality? Using a large national cohort, we identified multiple risk factors
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Welcome to all the incoming infectious disease fellows who matched today!

With more outbreaks and threats to evidence-based medicine and public health, we need ID docs more than ever, especially at a time when fewer are entering our field

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Opinion | We Can’t Diet and Exercise Our Way Out of the Next Pandemic

Imagine sitting in the NIH, contemplating the arrival of a disease like HIV, which has killed 700,000 Americans, and advising the country that “the best pandemic preparedness playbook for the United States is making America healthy again.”

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Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time Stunning hunting behaviour captured in German cave

Rats catching bats—a new pathway for zoonotic disease? Happy Halloween!
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Postdoctoral Position in Infectious Diseases - Judson (PI) 2025-2026 University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

Job alert! We are hiring a postdoc focused on Arbovirus epidemiology and modeling to join our group at UCLA. Please share and apply below
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Hiring: Senior Research Data Analyst | Seth Judson, MD, MHS We’re hiring! We have a unique opportunity to join our team, the Translational Infectious Disease Eco-epidemiology (TIDE) lab at UCLA, as our Senior Research Data Analyst. Our mission is to improve t...

We’re hiring a Senior Research Data Analyst for our group—the Translational Infectious Disease Eco-epidemiology (TIDE) lab. This will be a foundational role to help improve detection and mitigation of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Inside the C.D.C., a Growing Sense of Despair

After six months of turmoil, the loss of the new director and a round of high-profile resignations marks a new low at the CDC

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These letters of resignation from CDC officials are VERY MUCH worth your time.

PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.

⚠️ “We are flying blind, and there is nothing organized at the White House to protect us. We can’t detect, we can’t protect, and we would certainly respond later than other countries” should a pandemic occur.

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.

4,000 NASA workers are leaving through deferred resignation. "The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA's workforce" www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...

Thank you! Hope you are doing well!

I'm thrilled that today I returned to UCLA as an Assistant Professor-in-Residence in the Division of Infectious Diseases.

I’m building an interdisciplinary team focused on globally emerging zoonotic and vector-borne diseases. More info soon!
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West Nile morbidity and mortality in a Mid-Atlantic healthcare system, 2013-2024 We investigated West Nile cases in a Mid-Atlantic healthcare system, finding significant morbidity and mortality from neuroinvasive disease, notably among immunocompromised patients. Encephalitis was ...

As we head into West Nile season it is key to remember that there are still no treatments or vaccines for humans, so prevention is key.

We found significant impact of West Nile on our patient population over the last decade, highlighting this issue

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Research done at Rocky Mountain Labs has played a pivotal role in responding to infectious disease threats, including vector-borne diseases, Ebola, and COVID-19. It is a special place and has a major impact on the local community. Thinking of colleagues and community members there
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Exclusive: NIH to end billions of dollars in foreign research grants Move by US biomedical agency jeopardizes thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

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New NIH Guide Notice about foreign subawards

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What is the yellow fever vaccine stockpile? Yellow fever can spread quickly and kill between 30% and 60% of its severely-afflicted victims. However, an emergency stockpile of vaccine doses has been helping halt epidemics for a quarter of a…

Yellow fever kills 30-60% of severely affected patients and an outbreak can double in size every 5-7 days. That's why the global emergency stockpile of 6 million #yellowfever vaccine doses is so crucial ➡️ bit.ly/42CaOLs

Day by day, how Trump is roiling science and health STAT is tracking, day by day, what's happened in the words of science and health during the first months of the Trump administration.

I made a timeline of all the actions in Trump's (almost) first 100 days that have upended science and health. It was staggering to me to see it all in one place, even though I reported on many on these events. www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t...

I still remember vividly the relief and celebrations among healthcare workers on the first day that COVID-19 vaccines arrived in our hospital.
To see the process that led to those vaccines and other medical advancements being actively dismantled is devastating

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Joining fellow concerned citizens in our nation’s capitol today because science saves lives, and in the words of speaker @itaiyanai.bsky.social, science delivers

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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

My experiences as a NIH postbac were critical to my growth as a physician-scientist—that program is now in jeopardy.

The incredible NIH scientists I worked with made discoveries to fight Ebola and COVID-19—they are now losing their jobs

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