Deploying ICE at airports is to normalize their transition from being a special operation targeting immigrants to being an entity that polices all.
This is the production of the American Gestapo, one institution at a time.
VVC State-of-the-Art visual abstract
State-of-the-Art Review: Managing Vulvovaginal Candidiasis
Riina Rautemaa-Richardson, Jack Sobel, @drneilstone.bsky.social Francesco de Seta, et al, and Elena Roselletti
doi.org/10.1093/cid/...
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Reports of organ donor–derived Kaposi sarcoma–associated herpesvirus among transplant recipients (n = 46) and investigation of additional recipients* — United States, January 2021–September 2025. * Retrospective KSHV testing of the 46 donors whose organs were associated with posttransplant donor organ KSHV infection identified 25 (54%) who received positive results and four (9%) who received negative results; organs from 17 (37%) donors had not been tested.
Number of reports of suspected organ donor–derived Kaposi sarcoma–associated herpesvirus infections in transplant recipients (N = 57) — United States, January 2010–September 2025
Kaposi Sarcoma–Associated Herpesvirus Infection and Complications Among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients — United States, January 2021–September 2025
New in MMWR
-46 cases of susp donor-derived KS in SOT, vs 9 from 2016–2020
-2/3 donors had a hx of nonmedical drug use
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OFID is seeking research on expanding diagnostic, preventative, and therapeutic strategies to counter the impacts of AMR with a focus in low and middle income countries.
Learn more and submit a proposal by June 28: https://bit.ly/3OGh1l1
We are underway!
Welcome to the 2026 Winter Course in Infectious Disease. Our 52nd Annual Conference, can you believe it!
Log in to www.wintercourse.org for access to Dr Marrazzo and our other stellar presentation.
#Idsky
🔥Away we go!
52nd Annual Conference ready to get under way with Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) CEO Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, FIDSA kicking us off!
If you would like to join On-demand please register here:
www.wintercourse.org for access.
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Framework for pivoting to #DOOR in #mycology! Very excited about this publication from @msgerc.bsky.social #IDSky #MedSky academic.oup.com/ofid/article...
Browse the best of 2025! The Editors-in-Chief of cidjournal.bsky.social, jidjournal.bsky.social & ofidjournal.bsky.social have selected a collection of outstanding articles from 2025. Explore research on long COVID, AMR, HIV, influenza, vaccines & more: https://bit.ly/49Xgge6
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As a clinician educator who has struggled to feel accepted in academic medicine, this beautiful piece by my dear friend resonates strongly.
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How do environmental factors shape infectious disease patterns? Our newest collection investigates everything from AMR in agriculture to emerging zoonotic diseases.
↪️ https://bit.ly/3TDizek
Awesome!!!!!!
Friendship bracelet reading "vibrio". Note the accent colors are yellow.
Ooooh. Made one for @jobadd.bsky.social or is it @paulsaxmd.bsky.social ? #IDWeek2025
Take advantage of early-bird registration specials. 2026 agenda posting soon!
Discounted lodging is open via our group reservation hotline www.wintercourse.org
52nd Annual Remington Winter Course in Infectious Disease - Feb 8-12, 2026 in Copper Mountain, Colorado
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RFK Jr. has a less-than-zero understanding of how science works. "Make the proof" should be disturbing for anybody who cares about health, truth, or democracy.
Join our fight to impeach RFK Jr. here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-gram...
#impeachrfk #impeachthequack
There’s now an app for all things fungi 🦠🍄
Dr. Matthew Pullen, Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, helped launch Dr Fungus—a free app that brings the trusted resource to your phone.
Explore fungal infections, antifungal treatments, and case-based learning—all in one place.
Proud to see key antifungal advances featured in The Lancet Infectious Diseases highlights of #ESCMIDGlobal2025.
@rosannesprute.bsky.social presented global candidiasis guidelines; I shared FURI study results on ibrexafungerp efficacy.
👉 The Lancet article: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, MD, MS, ScD, PhD, FIDSA, will present this year’s Joseph E. Smadel Lecture, “Studying a Lethal Fungus: My 25 Year Journey in Mucormycosis Research.”
See Dr. Kontoyiannis present at #IDWeek2025. Register: https://idweek.org/registration
Do you focus on HSCT/Oncology ID? Want to be part of the editorial team of @thetxidjournal.bsky.social? Please apply by October 17 for an open position as outlined in this link!
Great news! @msgerc.bsky.social has just launched a new Dr Fungus App. All of the great information that is on the website is now on a (very) easy to use app put together by Matt Pullen. Apple (L) and Google (R) play store QR codes below.
Outstanding talk by @jobadd.bsky.social at the XXIV Brazilian Congress of Infectious Diseases on invasive fungal infections in solid organ transplantation!
#IDSky #TxID #InfectiousDiseases
Great day for an ID conference!
So blessed to have these speakers in town at the inaugural Pamela Tucker Transplant and Cancer ID symposium. See you next year!
This will happen
Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, until recently head of NIAID and Dr. Kathy Neuzil (incredible public servants and scientists!) document the extent of political interference with science at NIAID. Whistle-Blower Complaints Detail Tension Over Vaccines at N.I.H. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h...
Joint statement calling for Secretary Kennedy resignation
@idsainfo.bsky.social @apha.org @hivma.bsky.social @stoptbusa.bsky.social @avac.org @treatmentactiongroup.org @asm.org & many other professional organizations
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This is where we are?
Sadly, yes. We vilify that which protects our children. Truly dystopian.
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I just love the way physicians,nurses, public health experts, scientists, etc, are standing on business defending vaccines and calling out dangerous BS publicly. I see you, keep fighting the good fight. Keep making good trouble.
Don’t forget, dolphins get lobomycosis as well
Last chance to register for the first #MycoClinics of Season 5.
Dr Dionysios Neofytos will speak about PCP in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: What we need to know.
đź“… Thursday 4 September, đź•“ 16:00 (UK time), đź’» via Zoom.
Register here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
