Community-acquired respiratory virus infections in patients with haematological malignancies or undergoing haematopoietic cell transplantation: updated recommendations from the 10th European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🔓 #TxID
Feeling like the world is spinning out of control? 🌍 There’s plenty to worry about…
BUT: even in the last 5 years, global poverty has continued to decline. 📉✨
Progress is possible—and it’s happening.
Real world effectiveness of maternal RSV vaccination looks pretty awesome: 77% against RSV-associated severe LRTD leading to hospitalisation from birth to age 6 www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/...
A clinical practice guideline for tuberculous meningitis
Tuberculous Meningitis International Research Consortium
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🔒
Measles cases in Canada. Don’t know what to say…
https://health-infobase.canada.ca/measles-rubella/
How some well-known universities are trying to sabotage the tenure system...
in Europe, Lyme is moving northward and presumably linked to climate change, see e.g. iris.who.int/handle/10665...
Fascinating example of the link between ecosystem stability and human well-being 👇🏻
Congrats Alasdair!
This is a scary article by Carl Zimmer about the how scientists have found a second species of the fungus that causes white nose syndrome in bats. A potentially devastating development 🧪🦇
Agree. And independent of the actual recommendations: you don’t change these things by posting a video on social media. You need to have an expert committee reevaluate the data (and maybe weigh the pro and cons differently)
To express it in a consciously neutral way:
Most (if not all) 🇪🇺 countries stopped vaccinating healthy children against SARS-CoV-2
BUT
all 🇪🇺 countries recommend these vaccines for pregnant women!
Quite incomprehensible from an international perspective. I feel sorry for our colleagues in the US.
Azithromycin can no longer be used for acne, stomach ulcers, or asthma prevention per EMA’s new recommendation. A key move against #antimicrobialresistance.
Details 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/chan...
Disastrous, but unfortunately not surprising given the attitude of the current US leadership towards mRNA vaccines…
Words matter.
It’s time to retire the term oral “step-down.”
It implies inferiority of the oral route—and doesn’t align with stewardship principles.
Terms like IV to oral switch or oral transition better promote optimal antimicrobial stewardship.
What terms do you use—and why? #idsky
“children vaccinated before 8.5 months of age exhibited a markedly faster antibody decay and lost their protective neutralizing antibody levels over 6 years.”
So, in times of outbreaks, when infants get an early💉dose to get protection ASAP, they’ll likely still need their 2 scheduled doses later
This is such an important shift. For many years the catholic church withheld support for HPV vaccination which prevents cervical cancer.
119,000 women die from this cancer in Africa every year.
This full throated support of the HPV vaxx by the church will help uptake.
nation.africa/kenya/health...
It's been a long journey...but I finally got my board certification for Microbiology, Virology and Infection Epidemiology!
What a fun ride - thanks to all my great mentors at @healthsciences.mcgill.ca 🇨🇦 & @lmumuenchen.bsky.social 🇩🇪!
Second case of Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis in a few weeks. Hard to bear…
New Canadian #flu paper @stephaniedavey.bsky.social
"It is notable that over 1/4 of deaths occurred in children without a medical condition deemed high risk for #influenza complications, highlighting importance of preventative measures for all children."
#vaccines #vaccineswork #publichealth 🧪
She could be the next US Surgeon General?
“The future of medicine will be about light. I don’t exactly know how.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Are we ever going to get RCTs to test whether metagenomics improves clinical outcomes, or will it remain a whole load of 'evaluations' that are really just clinical services? What would a trial look like? Tricky given the technology is advancing quickly
#IDSky #MicroSky @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social
Which kids are at risk of severe influenza? Our work on pediatric influenza associated mortality was just published - it was an honor to contribute. 👇 www.jpeds.com/article/S002...
Not surprisingly, we conclude "Vaccination efforts should be enhanced to reduce influenza mortality."
🤣
Just did a consult on a toddler who developed a terrible hemolytic uraemic syndrome after drinking raw milk.
It’s real, don’t do it
New hope for LYME DISEASE, right under our eyes?
Unbiased screen surprisingly shows PIPERACILLIN can wipe out 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪 in mice at tiny doses — 100 times lower than doxycycline — while leaving gut bacteria intact
Jutras Lab Northwestern Sci Transl Med
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I have practiced in 🇨🇦&🇩🇪, not in 🇺🇸. Brucellosis you mainly see in immigrants form the Middle East and I remember a nasty M. bovis encephalitis in a refugee from Africa who grew up drinking unpasteurized milk. Admittedly, these two infections are not common here. But they are a real risk…
👶🏼 Many #vaccines are not effective in newborns. So how do we protect them from infectious disease?
🤰🏽 By vaccination in #pregnancy!
Here we review…
💉 Established campaigns vs whooping cough, flu, COVID
💡 New approaches to RSV, GBS
🌈 Future challenges, opportunities
#ReproSky #ImmunoSky #IDSky
