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Michael Cappello

@cappmic.bsky.social

Infectious disease clinician, epidemiologist and researcher (New Haven, CT)

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦@merz.bsky.social · 4h ago

There is a strong argument that no single person is more responsible for the decline shown on the graph below than Jimmy Carter. He was a true hero of global health.

World Records Fewest Guinea Worm Cases in History of Eradication Campaign

The Carter Center announced Wednesday the lowest annual case total ever recorded, and the cases occurred in just four countries. When The Carter Center assumed leadership of the global Guinea Worm Era...

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Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 4h ago

How close is the world to eradicating guinea worm disease? Guinea worm disease, also known as “dracunculiasis”, is a painful and debilitating parasitic infection. The guinea worm’s larvae can invade a person’s stomach and intestines when they drink contaminated water, such as from a stagnant pond.

Scott Cory@jscottcory.bsky.social · 4w ago

In the absence of robust and accurate federal public health and food safety programs, states need to consider establishing their own and then aggregating and sharing their data and analysis publicly through consortia.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦@merz.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is a person who has spent his entire academic career in the United States. From 2000-2010, he was the second most highly cited chemist in the world. And now he is going to the People's Republic of China. Tell me again that Trump's goal is not to hand global scientific supremacy to the PRC.

Nature@nature.com · 4w ago

Nobel-prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States for a full-time position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where he will lead a new AI-assisted materials discovery institute. go.nature.com/4pf2jQ3

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w ago

Progress against cancer not shared by poorer countries, WHO report finds

Progress against cancer not shared by poorer countries, WHO report finds

‘Persistent’ inequities found to exist in access to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care, annual global review says Remarkable scientific progress against cancer has changed very little for millions of patients globally, who face devastating physical, emotional and financial consequences after diagnosis, a new World Health Organization report has warned. One person in five will develop cancer, according to WHO estimates, and the disease will touch 92% of people, either through their own diagnosis or that of a close family member. Continue reading...

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Aris Katzourakis@ariskatzourakis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Truly impressive. Amazing what vaccines are already doing, and think about all the cancers that can be prevented in future by another generation of vaccines if we continue to fund this research appropriately.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

HPV vaccine means young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death

A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

bbc.co.uk

Jeremy Labrecque@jeremylabrecque.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Interested in doing a PhD with me in epidemiology on causal inference and triangulation? In beautiful Rotterdam no less. www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1... Pro tip: if you get to the interview stage, there WILL be a question about ice hockey

Vacature: PhD student in epidemiology to develop and apply causal triangulation

Many key questions in epidemiology are fundamentally causal. Yet, we often have to rely on assumptions that cannot be directly verified to judge whether an observed association truly reflects causalit...

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 2mo ago

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)

What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid

Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

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Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Exclusive: NSF puts new research grants to top universities on hold

US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.

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Alt CDC (they/them)@altcdc.altgov.info · 3mo ago

🧵 The US has 13 federally funded special pathogens unit designated to care for people with or exposed to Ebola. BUT the US is sending the American doctors to Germany and the Czech Republic. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

White House resisted letting doctor with Ebola return to U.S.

The administration’s reluctance to bring an infected American back to U.S. soil marked a sharp contrast with the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In 2025, HHS issued stop work order for federal research lab that studies Ebola virus and other deadly pathogens and fired its director. This lab was a world leader in accelerating development therapies and vaccines for Ebola and other viruses. 1/ www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s departm...

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The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo ago

Breaking News: The Justice Department accused the Yale School of Medicine of discriminating against white and Asian applicants. It's the second time in eight days that the Trump administration had targeted a major medical school over admissions policies.

Justice Dept. Accuses Yale Medical School of Discriminating Against White and Asian Applicants

The finding was the second time in eight days that the Trump administration had targeted a major medical school over admissions policies.

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 3mo ago

NEW: Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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