Join us on Tues, May 5 for the 21st Freeman-Seage Symposium featuring presentations highlighting #IDEpi topics. This event honors two renowned faculty members, Drs. Freeman (left) and Seage (right) for their leadership and contributions to the field.
Today I'm at the Environmental Health Australia WA State Conference
Did you know that with every 1°C increase in temperature, there's an 8.8% increase in foodborne Salmonellosis cases?
#publichealth #IDEpi
Join us TODAY! 1PM ET for our #IDEpi Seminar presented by Dr. Nicolas Menzies! Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.
Join us on Tues, May 5 for the 21st Freeman-Seage Symposium featuring presentations highlighting #IDEpi topics. This event honors two renowned faculty members, Drs. Freeman (left) and Seage (right) for their leadership and contributions to the field.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Preliminary Outbreak Assessment #6 High pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in Great Britain and Europe 10 March 2026 Disease report In our previous outbreak assessment on 27 February 2026 we noted that the number of cases of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5 in wild birds was slowly falling from the peak in December although the wild bird risk level in Great Britain was still considered to be very high. Since then, there have been 24 more cases of HPAI H5 clade 2.3.4.4b events involving “found-dead” wild birds (number based on laboratory testing date) in Great Britain though the number of reports week-on-week has continued to decrease, albeit slowly, since the peak of over 100 per week in mid- December 2025. The total number of wild bird cases in Great Britain since the start of the HPAI season on 1 October 2025 is now 880. Of these 880, 863 have been confirmed as HPAI H5N1,13 as HPAI H5Nx and 4 as HPAI H5N5. Since our previous outbreak assessment on 27 February 2026, there has been 1 report of HPAI H5 clade 2.3.4.4b in domestic poultry (pheasants) in Great Britain with the report being in England. The confirmed infected premises (IP) was located in North Yorkshire. There have been no more IPs in Scotland and Wales. The report has been confirmed as HPAI H5N1. The average number of IPs per week in Great Britain is now less than 1 over the last few weeks. On this basis the risk level for poultry with sub-optimal biosecurity in Great Britain is lowered from high (medium uncertainty) to MEDIUM (occurs regularly) with high uncertainty.
1/ Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Great Britain & Europe - DEFRA outbreak assessment for 10 Mar 2026. #IDsky #IDEpi #OneHealth #H5N1 🧪
🗓️ Report period: 27 Feb 2026 – 10 Mar 2026
🔗 to report: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69bd28...
Join us THURS 3/26 at 1PM ET with Nicolas Menzies, Associate Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard Center for Health Decision Science and the Harvard CCDD for our #IDEpi Seminar Series. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.
My parents were anti-vax. I got all my vaccines when I started work in a lab in my early 20s. I wasn't anti-vax, I just didn't know my vaccine status before that
We should take this opportunity to get young adults to know their vaccination status & catch-up those who missed out
#IDEpi #PublicHealth
Join us TODAY! 1PM ET for our #IDEpi Seminar presented by Dr. Mauricio Santillana! Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.
Please join us on Tues, May 5 for our 21st Freeman-Seage Symposium featuring presentations highlighting #IDEpi topics. This event honors two renowned faculty members, Drs. Freeman (left) and Seage (right) for their leadership and contributions to the field.
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Preliminary Outbreak Assessment #5 High pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in Great Britain & Europe 27 February 2026 Disease report In our previous outbreak assessment on 19 December 2025 we noted that cases of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5 in wild birds were continuing at high levels both in Europe and Great Britain and the wild bird risk level in Great Britain was still considered to be VERY HIGH. Since then, wild bird cases in Great Britain have continued, albeit slowly falling from the peak in December, with 273 more cases of HPAI H5 clade 2.3.4.4b events involving ‘found-dead’ wild birds (number based on laboratory testing date). The total in Great Britain since the start of the HPAI season on 1 October 2025 is now 854. Of these 854, 839 have been confirmed as HPAI H5N1, 11 as HPAI H5Nx and 4 as HPAI H5N5. Wild bird cases since our previous outbreak assessment on 19 December 2025 extend across most of Great Britain with many inland cases. Wild bird cases have slowly fallen in the first 2 months of 2026 roughly halving from around 40 per week in January to 20 per week in February with just 11 cases in the last week of February. Most wild bird cases in Great Britain in 2026 have been in resident water birds namely mute swans, Canada geese and greylag geese, with some cases in migratory pink-footed geese. There were two cases in seabirds, namely a puffin in Tayside and a gannet in Suffolk. Also there was a case of the BB ‘gull strain’ (as opposed to the DI.2.1 genotype) in a herring gull in Wales in late January. Given the relatively high number of cases in wild bird ongoing in February, the wild bird risk level across Great Britain is maintained at VERY HIGH. The number of migratory waterbirds overwintering in Great Britain will have peaked in December and January and few birds are now expected to fly over to Great Britain from northern Europe, where positive reports of HPAI H5 have continued…
1/ Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Great Britain & Europe - DEFRA outbreak assessment for 27 Feb 2026. #IDsky #IDEpi #OneHealth #H5N1 🧪
🗓️ Report period: 19 Dec 2025 – 27 Feb 2026
🔗 to report: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69aef7...
Join us THURS 3/12 at 1PM ET with Mauricio Santillana, Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for our #IDEpi Seminar Series. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.
Join us TODAY! 1PM ET for our #IDEpi Seminar presented by Dr. Kenneth Mayer. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26
Authors note that by limiting cohort to community-onset only the values may be underestimates of true SAB economic burden.
Lack of difference b/w MRSA and MSSA impart importance of #IPC for all bacteraemia rather than focusing efforts just on #AMS.
#healthecon #AMR #IDEpi
Ten patients had MRSA. Median LoS was 11 days, with mean costs of A$56 984.
Whilst 46 patients had MSSA. Median LoS was 8 days, with mean costs of A$52 180.
No statistical significance in difference of costs between MRSA and MSSA
#healthecon #AMR #IDEpi
Join us March 5 at 1PM ET for our #IDEPI Seminar presented by Kenneth Mayer, Professor of Medicine, HMS; Professor of Global Health and Population, HSPH; Co-Director, The Fenway Institute and Medical Research Director, Fenway Health; Attending Physicians, BIDMC. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.
Our new study looks at evidence for indirect protection against flu, exclusively from RCTs. ⬇️ 1/3
Indirect Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Under Randomized Conditions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: academic.oup.com/cid/article-...
@medschool.umaryland.edu #EpiSky #IDEpi
Not only the Australian NAP, but the vast majority of plans globally do not provide paediatric targets.
Additionally, most healthcare infection surveillance systems are not capturing paediatric indicators
#IDEpi #AMR #PaedSky
Join us TODAY! 1PM ET for our #IDEpi Seminar presented by Molly Franke, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School for our #IDEpi Seminar Series. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.
Join us THURS 2/26 at 1PM ET with Molly Franke, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School for our #IDEpi Seminar Series. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.
Data integration needs to have an endpoint: moving the discussion from a data point to knowledge.
Integrating lab data with socio-demographic information moves a %R from a solitary data point to providing context for the WHY it is
#IDEpi #AMR
#AMR2026
The latest Australian report on antimicrobial use and resistance in human health (AURA) is now available.
This report provides a snapshot of the breadth and depth of the #AMR problem across Australia.
This year there's even a snapshot about AMR in kids!
#MedSky #IDSky #IDEpi
Join us TODAY at 1PM ET for our #IDEpi Seminar presented by Rachel Baker, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, and Environment and Society at Brown University. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26
The Journal of Infectious Diseases has just released a special collection of papers devoted to "Contemporary Research on #AMR", covering mechanisms of resistance and virulence, pharmacokinetics, drug development, and wastewater surveillance
@jidjournal.bsky.social
#IDEpi #MedSky #IDSky #AMS
Join us THURS 2/12 at 1PM ET with Rachel Baker, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, and Environment and Society at Brown University for our #IDEpi Seminar Series. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.
Join us TODAY at 1PM ET for our #IDEpi Seminar presented by Robbie Goldstein, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health . Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26
Will you be at the #AMR2026Summit in Sydney Feb 18-20?
Am planning a bluesky meetup for us #AMR people during the Wednesday lunch break, more details to come.
#MedSky #IDEpi
Join us THURS 2/5 at 1PM ET with Robbie Goldstein, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for our #IDEpi Seminar Series. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.
