Warrior or not flu, anthrax, smallpox and meningitis can still prove lethal. All are vaccine preventable or attenuated significantly by vaccination. Only, Idiots will not understand these facts.
Flu spreads efficiently especially in close quarters like military troop lodging facilities. If you are in the military you are required to get several vaccines because of how devastating outbreaks can be to troops and also because they are more likely be targeted by agents of biological warfare.
I just finished watching Gorilla Story on Netflix. David Attenborough's latest documentary and it's splendid. Hard to believe he turns 100 years old in just three weeks. What a magnificent gift to conservation and humanity he continues to be. I highly recommend 10/10.
www.cnn.com/science/netf...
Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz: both open and closed.
At a time when anxiety is high and the state of global politics seems dire it can be hard to keep hope alive. But we must especially in the younger generation. Brilliant essay by @madhupai.bsky.social . Worth a read.
These classic designs are hand embroidered and in my biased view among the most beautiful traditional dress on the African continent. For added context a 📸 of my bro in the toghu design he wore for his wedding. See that gorgeous design!
Pope wearing a robe with "toghu" design of NW cameroon
Elaborate velvet male gown with "toghu" design embroidery
The Pope had the gorgeous and unique "toghu" design embroidered on the robe he wore for his mass in Bamenda. Ot is the traditional dress pattern of the NW region of #Cameroon.
Lol have you read the Atlantic opinion pieces?
We have a new nominee for CDC Director. On paper Dr. Schwartz seems well qualified for the position. the bigger question is would she be allowed to do her job without political interference? What is her stance on vaccines and other key public health policy issues?
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Every HIV cure case is a natural experiment.
They tell us where the virus hides, what it takes to eliminate it
and which pathways are worth targeting. HSCT is not the answer for the millions living with HIV but the biology behind these cures might be.
This case highlights other critical clues:
1. Full donor chimerism (including the gut,the main HIV reservoir)
2. Severe graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) → may help eliminate infected cells
2.Treatment with ruxolitinib (a JAK1/2 inhibitor) → may suppress HIV replication and reservoir reseeding.
Why did this work?
The donor had a CCR5Δ32/Δ32 mutation, which prevents most HIV strains from entering cells. After transplant, the patient’s immune system was essentially replaced with donor cells resistant to HIV. But here’s where it gets interesting, CCR5 alone may not explain everything.
The patient underwent an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) for cancer (not HIV), a high-risk procedure with significant mortality. But after HIV treatment was stopped, no virus rebounded and no intact virus could be found in blood or gut.
A new HIV cure case has just been reported. A patient in Oslo has achieved long-term HIV remission after a stem cell transplant from a sibling donor with a rare genetic mutation (CCR5Δ32/Δ32).
This is now one of only a handful of documented cases worldwide.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
All this being uncovered with the back drop of the lack of any measure of justice for the many victims of the Epstein files and multiple US congress men being under active investigation for either rape or other forms of sexual abuse of women.
I am grateful I know many good men who will be equally horrified by this as I am but the scale of the problem seems just so insurmountable and pervasive. Where does one even begin?
This probably the most horrifying thing I have read in a while. An online platform where men posted tips on how to drug and rape their female partners. The site recorded 62 million visits a month!
The epidemic of sexual violence against women in very real and scary.
www.cnn.com/interactive/...
Refusing lifesaving blood products from vaccinated donors must the peak of choosing self harm because you drank the disinformation kool-aid. In this case I say:
"Let them"
www.newscientist.com/article/2523...
In a new study, the HPV vaccine resulted in a 46% reduction in HPV-related cancers in vaccinated males. Including head and neck, esophageal, anal, and penile cancers. Vaccinate your boys and girls against HPV.
The vaccine prevents cancer.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...
One thing nobody tells you about an academic career is the sheer volume of reading, writing and editing that is involved. I like my job...most days, but it literally never stops🤓.
I am from the NW region of Cameroon and Bamenda is my hometown. I have so many family member s and friends who have been directly affected by the war . Some have lost their lives. War is bad . War solves nothing. All it does is destroy.
Bamenda is not just a city. It is the epicenter of this crisis. For a global figure to go there on a 1st visit signals recognition of a population that has been largely invisible. The Pope is giving a neglected conflict a voice and I hope this will re-energize the push for a peaceful.
This is one of the most underreported conflicts globally. Thousands killed. Hundreds of thousands displaced. Entire communities destabilized. And yet minimal sustained international attention.
What followed was escalation. Armed separatist groups emerged. The state responded with overwhelming force. Civilians have borne the brunt -killings, village burnings, kidnappings, school shutdowns.
For those unfamiliar this conflict didn’t start as a war. It began in 2016 with peaceful protests by lawyers and teachers in Anglophone regions over marginalization. The response by the government was arrests, violence, and shutdowns.
6000 people have been killed in this conflict and there are over 600,000 people internally displaced. A whole generation of young people have lost out on education and opportunity as a direct result. Many are hopeful that this visit will galvanize the government to pursue peace.
I am not catholic but it is meaningful that in his first visit to Cameroon, Pope Leo is visiting Bamenda, capital of the NW region. This is an act of defiance to a brutal regime that has oppressed Anglophone Cameroon in a silent war with separatists for the last 10 years.
www.npr.org/2026/04/15/g...
Would credit the original creator of I knew who they were. Much needed humor in these times 😁😂
This is a fundamentally different strategy
➡️ targeted antigen selection
➡️ optimized adjuvant
➡️ designed for durable, high-quality T cell responses
If anything, this latest failure strengthens the case that next-gen, non-BCG–like approaches may be the path forward to an effective TB vaccine.
