With minor adaptations this poem fits perfectly with almost every "Western" country now

Susan Adair Farrelly@itsnotsuzalright.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Incredible article where they manage to blame the *lockdowns* for the #meningitisB outbreak in the UK @elhopkins.bsky.social @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @peteuk7.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

Why is this meningitis outbreak so explosive?

There have been 20 cases since the weekend in one small area of Kent - but this isn't the normal pattern, so what could have happened?

bbc.com

Questo articolo, firmato da un anonimo "ex studente di infermieristica, è una specie di riassunto del peggio della mentalità italiana sulle professioni sanitarie/ torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2026...

La lettera ai futuri infermieri: “Vi aspettano turni duri e occhiaie ma è il lavoro più vero”

Un ex allievo scrive alle matricole: “Vi chiederete se state facendo la scelta giusta però non c’è lavoro più bello”

torino.repubblica.it

Check out our latest publication on how to deliver #oncolyticviruses to the #centralnervoussystem, by using cells that have a natural capability to move into the brain crossing the blood brain barrier 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Redirecting the route: Monocyte-mediated delivery of oHSV-1 across a human BBB-on-chip model

Oncolytic viruses (OVs) that selectively replicate within cancer cells represent a promising therapeutic strategy for refractory or difficult-to-treat…

sciencedirect.com

In hamsters, ##sarscov2 infects the brain stem chronically and triggers degenerative-like changes #longcovid @daniellebeckman.bsky.social @buonsenso.bsky.social @elisaperego78.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.com @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @winslowsp.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40695836/

Hamsters with long COVID present distinct transcriptomic profiles associated with neurodegenerative processes in brainstem - PubMed

Following infection with SARS-CoV-2, patients may experience with one or more symptoms that appear or persist over time. Neurological symptoms associated with long COVID include anxiety, depression, a...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Grandissimo #Sinner

For those who are interested in #LongCovid #MECFS I have seen that an anti-CD19 antibody (depleting B lymphocytes) showed promise in treating the condition. Then wouldn't it be time to test anti-CD19 #CAR-T cells? They work very well against autoimmune diseases

Again, on monitoring #covid in #Austria, viral load is rising again and has doubled in a couple of weeks, especially in Vienna. Interestingly, they also monitor variants, but the most recent data is from middle May so maybe too early to see the new variant

Update: it seems that the Austrian #covid honeymoon might be over as the RNA load increases not dramatically, but steadily. Things might be on track to repeat the constant increase that was seen last summer @winslowsp.bsky.social @ryanhisner.bsky.social @elisaperego78.bsky.social

Alberto Reale@albertoreale.bsky.social · last yr.

Genuine question for those actually interested in monitoring #covid.. I've been following wastewater data from Austria abwassermonitoring.at/dashboard/ . Why Austria? Well, because it's close to Italy and I can't find any data from Italy. Over the last 2 years it has been pretty standard

Genuine question for those actually interested in monitoring #covid.. I've been following wastewater data from Austria abwassermonitoring.at/dashboard/ . Why Austria? Well, because it's close to Italy and I can't find any data from Italy. Over the last 2 years it has been pretty standard

So many scientists are here on bluesky, so either you or someone you know could be interested in submitting a paper in this special issue of "Pharmaceutics" devoted to #oncolyticviruses as drug delivery platforms! (Where I serve as guest editor) 🧪 #medsky #sciencesky www.mdpi.com/journal/phar...

Se è vero (non ci si può mai fidare) si affacciano alcune domande: non era meglio semplicemente non cantarla? Più provocatoriamente se il "mood" del coro era questo, potevano cantare direttamente l'Horst-Wessel-Lied, che dava anche un tocco più internazionale.

La Repubblica@mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social · last yr.

Il coro cambia Fischia il vento: via le parole “rossa” e “fascista", la bandiera diventa “italica” https://genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/04/24/news/la_spezia_il_coro_cambia_fischia_il_vento_via_le_parole_rossa_e_fascista_la_bandiera_diventa_italica_resistenza_25_a-424146858/?rss

"It's a cold" /s

Chantzy@chantzy.bsky.social · last yr.

The number of American adults in the labour force with a disability since Covid

Very important considerations on the persistence of SARS-CoV2 and how it can be associated with neurological symptoms.

Danilo Buonsenso@buonsenso.bsky.social · last yr.

More important news on SARS-CoV-2 persistence danilobuonsenso.substack.com/p/more-impor...

Il paradosso di un paese che non ha gli occhi per piangere ma investe 25 miliardi in armi, e crea uno scudo aereo chiamato "lo scudo di Achille", scegliendo anche un eroe eponimo che notoriamente è finito ammazzato. E dire che ne avevano di possibilità mitologiche..

Le Monde@lemonde.fr · last yr.

La Grèce investit 25 milliards d’euros dans sa défense et lance un dôme de protection aérienne, le « bouclier d’Achille »

#sciencesky #science Has anyone else been wondering why some (very) outlandish stuff appears as trending articles on #pubmed? Is it the same for all? For example for me these days, the top trending article is a disturbing 1859 case report of rabies in a 10-yr old girl bitten by a polecat.

"Uno studio ha mostrato che la paura per l'AfD (estrema destra tedesca per chi non sapesse) è circa il doppio della paura dell'immigrazione. Nel documento preliminare Cdu-Spd per nuovo governo all'estremismo di destra non è dedicata neanche una parola, all'immigrazione due pagine"

Der Volksverpetzer@volksverpetzer.de · last yr.

Eine Studie hat gezeigt, dass die Angst vor der AfD fast doppelt so groß ist wie die vor Migration. Im Sondierungspapier von Union und SPD wurde Rechtsextremismus mit keinem Wort erwähnt, Migration bekam fast zwei Seiten.

The fact that in the absence of high vaccination rates measles makes a comeback, has nothing surprising at all. Here, multiple social factors are at work. Not all viruses are the same, for some viruses the immunity induced by current vaccines doesn't prevent infection but reduces severity/

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · last yr.

An unvaccinated NJ traveler who returned to the US infected with #measles went to 3 health facilities earlier this month seeking care before being diagnosed. Not surprisingly, additional cases are now being detected. Measles will spread if we give it the chance. www.nj.com/healthfit/20...

@volksverpetzer.de Daraus habe ich jetzt erfahren, dass es nach @derstandard.at eine islamistische Terrorwelle in Österreich gibt.. Was denken Sie darüber?

DER STANDARD@derstandard.at · last yr.

Wie die Terrorwelle Österreich trifft: @janmichaelmarchart.bsky.social erklärt, wieso die neue Welle an islamistischen Anschlägen so schwer zu stoppen ist und, was der Staat tun kann. Das ganze Video findet ihr hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW0_Pbv8Gkc

If you want to sound cool and get general praise in international politics, just blame Europe. "Europe is shit" - almost nobody's going to be angry and you'll get a lot of nodding from Europeans themselves. The problem is that usually in the headlines they don't specify WHY Europe is so bad

"Negli ultimi giorni ci sono state aggressioni col coltello a Brema, Lubecca (...) diverse a Dortmund e a Berlino. In parte con morti, sparatorie con la polizia, vittime casuali. Probabilmente non hai sentito parlare di nessuno di questi casi" (gli aggressori erano tedeschi)

Der Volksverpetzer@volksverpetzer.de · last yr.

In den vergangenen Tagen gab es Messerangriffe in Bremen, Lübeck, Ratingen, Erfurt, mehrere in Dortmund und in Berlin. Teilweise mit Toten, mit Schusswechsel mit der Polizei, willkürliche Opfer. Von keinem hast du wahrscheinlich gehört. Rate mal, warum. www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/mani...

Un aspetto poco ricordato è che faceva parte dell'ideologia nazista l'oppressione a tutti i costi, l'idea che chi avesse abbandonato qualsiasi scrupolo, morale, diplomatico, politico, avrebbe vinto e dominato il mondo. L'esito è stata non solo la distruzione ma anche la auto-distruzione

Roberto Reale@scenari.bsky.social · 2y ago

#27gennaio 1945 avanguardie sovietiche liberano Auschwitz. È l'unica ricorrenza civile che unisce l'Europa ricorda la storica Anna Foa. Occasione per battersi contro razzismo, antisemitismo, guerra. Una #giornatadellamemoria contro le atrocità, dice al Corriere. Per stare dalla parte dell'umanità

I agree, it is becoming a great place to find scholars from different disciplines. I guess we'll have to cope with the reduced amount of anti-vaxx anti-science accounts.. We can make it 🧪

Johanna Joyce@johannajoyce.bsky.social · 2y ago

Personally, I love it here 🦋 - and for science 🧪 its wonderful! And its also increasingly getting better & better for other diverse and interesting random posts (non-science) as more and more join - lets hope the overall engagement and positivity remains! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Lo dico? Che brutta fine che ha fatto la Svezia. La revoca della cittadinanza a me evoca sempre una parola tedesca: Ausbürgerung. Cercatela se volete ilpost.link/XgoZMz82VE

La Svezia vorrebbe revocare la cittadinanza a chi considera una minaccia per lo Stato - Il Post

È una proposta su cui sono d'accordo diversi partiti, anche se il governo di destra vorrebbe criteri più ampi che comprendano i membri delle gang criminali

ilpost.link

Just (re)sharing our latest work on #oncolyticviruses for #glioblastoma, in which we show a powerful immunogenic response to oncolytic HSV1 in an immunocompetent, orthotopic mouse model pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39334370/. Feel free to ask if you want to know more 🧪

An oncolytic HSV-1 vector induces a therapeutic adaptive immune response against glioblastoma - PubMed

EGFP-oHSV1 demonstrates potent antitumoral activity in an immunocompetent GBM model as a monotherapy, resulting from direct cell killing combined with the stimulation of a protective adaptive immune r...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The main issue with the current understanding of #sarscov2 is that everyone focused only on the acute infection. Both people and authorities became used to thinking that we have a problem with the virus when a lot of people end up in ICU with pneumonia./

A man who came back to Italy after travelling to #Congo has died of "fever with haemorrhage". Diagnostic investigations are ongoing www.quotidianosanita.it/m/regioni-e-...

Segnalato in Veneto un decesso di una persona rientrata recentemente dal Congo. In corso accertamenti. Attivate misure di sanità pubblica

Sono in corso gli accertamenti diagnostici, che consentiranno di fare luce sull’eziologia della malattia, in collaborazione con l’Istituto “Lazzaro Spallanzani”. In attesa delle verifiche sono state a...

quotidianosanita.it

This is the journal #science reminding us that #sarscov2 induces endothelial dysfunction, which can lead to problems in virtually any organ. Unfortunately, this can happen even if the primary infection is "mild", with an increased risk of vascular diseases like stroke, infarction/

Science Magazine@science.org · 2y ago

Infection with #SARSCoV2 has highlighted how altered endothelial functions contribute to multiorgan health effects during the acute phase of #COVID19 and potentially to the longer-term consequences associated with #LongCovid. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective:

I read that many people in the #US are (righteously) worried about a possible attempt of anti-vaxxers in the incoming administration to attack the #polio vaccine. Such phenomena require not just a scientific understanding, but also a lot of help from humanities

Now, suppose this had happened in another country, I have the feeling this piece of news would be more visible and there would be much more outrage..

Conor Browne@brownecfm.bsky.social · 2y ago

Absolutely shocking breach of biosecurity. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...