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global health│PASC│immunology│emerging infections ☣️│NTDs│vaccines│🇮🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧 in 🇩🇪 📷 flic.kr/p/49HUpn ⚕ posts ≠ medical advice
Cruise medicine is becoming an important and specialised field of maritime healthcare. This webinar will examine the changing medical needs of passengers and crew, regulatory and industry expectations, and the gap between required competence and standardised specialist educ... https://bit.ly/4AOJTeh
this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished
Jacqueline Antonovich@jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 22h ago"After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system" @bachynski.bsky.social
Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December
It’s October and time to get vaccinated against the flu before influenza starts spreading widely. Updated COVID-19 vaccines are available now, plus vaccines for people especially vulnerable to RSV. abcnews.com/Lifestyle/wi...
Why experts say now is an ideal time to protect yourself from flu
Experts say now is an ideal time to get a flu shot, before influenza starts spreading widely
abcnews.com
DRC Ebola cases grow, deaths top 4,000 as officials struggle to ascertain numbers, trends An aid worker was evacuated to Europe after testing positive for the virus. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hpcz61 📷: UK Department for International Development / Flickr cc
γδ T cells don’t fit neatly into the immune system’s traditional categories. Crick and King’s researchers found that these cells use adaptive immune receptors to drive rapid, innate-like responses to tissue stress, inflammation, and cancer. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-09...
Immune cells defy textbook classifications
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, King’s College London and Complutense University of Madrid have shown that γδ T cells use adaptive immune receptors to drive rapid, innate-like responses to...
crick.ac.uk
🌍 But #dengue is not just a challenge for Bangladesh. Climate change, rainfall, & urbanization affect where & when outbreaks occur. There's still no specific treatment for dengue. With millions at risk worldwide, developing one is an urgent global health priority. straitstimes.com/asia/south-a...
“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.” — Dolly Parton
Altitude illness is potentially life threatening; however, it is preventable and manageable with adequate pre-travel planning and preparation. How should doctors advise patients?
Prevention of altitude illness in adults: preparing people for travel to high altitude
### What you need to know Altitude illness is a collective term for syndromes that can occur in unacclimatised people who travel to destinations higher than 2500 metres above sea level.1,2,3 Altitud...
bmj.com
There were about 16,000 heat-related deaths in Germany last summer, about double the mortality during the first Covid wave in early 2020. Extreme heat needs to be treated as an ongoing public health emergency.
Mass Heat Wave Deaths in Europe Show Climate Extremes Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts - Inside Climate News
As preparedness lags, many regions around the world could be overwhelmed by rising temperatures, climate experts warn.
insideclimatenews.org
For those rejoiners already on a victory lap, beware the former EU official who told me no action until 75% of the UK public support it happening. Suspect that might be a hard line not shared but don't count on that
😎 No 10 gathering evidence on public support for UK rejoining EU 🇪🇺 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
No 10 gathering evidence on public support for UK rejoining EU
Senior Downing Street officials reach out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test backing for reversing Brexit
theguardian.com
"A #PHEIC should be declared now, while coordinated global action can still reduce harm. @who.int and its member states must act before it is too late" 🌍 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Declare the climate crisis a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
Climate change is shaping health in the 21st century. In the past few weeks alone, Nepal has faced unprecedented flash floods, and multiple countries have experienced deadly heatwaves and catastrophic...
thelancet.com
Once symptoms of rabies set in, it is fatal. But, rabies deaths are preventable. And every minute matters. Here's what you need to know.
If, like me, you're prone to neurosis & over-thinking (!), you also might appreciate this meditative minimalist album by ELEH; it is 20 yrs old "Critics, fans & neurologists have praised the music of ELEH as aiding attention and focus while seeming to slow time" eleh.bandcamp.com/album/floati...
Floating Frequencies / Intuitive Synthesis 1 - 20th Anniversary Remaster, by ELEH
3 track album
eleh.bandcamp.com
There is no mystery about this condition. Human kidneys did not evolve to tolerate intense heat, dehydration, and prolonged physical labor that clogs kidney tubules with leaked muscle proteins
Kidney disease of unknown origin spreads in US. Who is at risk?
People with CKDu don’t have the classic risk factors of kidney disease, like hypertension or diabetes.
thehill.com
To see measles spread so wildly—so much so that congenital measles has now returned—has long been a dream of RFK Jr, arguably the world’s most extreme & dangerous anti-vaxx activist & eugenicist Now that he runs the US federal health system, RFK is able to make his longstanding dreams come true 😢
Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · last wk."At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
One of the most depressing things you’ll read today—on how RFK Jr & Jay Bhattacharya dismantled the CDC & pushed the agency to spend time investigating kooky anti-vaxx anti-science theories It’s tragic: they took the world’s premier public health agency & zombified it; the impacts have been awful
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · last wk.“As of May 2026, the C.D.C. had 30 percent fewer employees than it did before the layoffs…Interviews with more than 30 current & former employees reveal the agency is now tightly controlled by Mr. Kennedy and his associates, and its scientists are finding it increasingly difficult to do their jobs”
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If you were one of the people who ever thought, this greedy grifting liar was ever not 100% anti-vaccine then you were not paying attention at all.
Dorit Reiss@doritreiss.bsky.social · 3w agoKennedy to deliver keynote for anti-vaccine group he once led: .@SecKennedy is done pretending he's not anti-vaccine. www.statnews.com/2026/09/14/r... via @statnews.com @isabellacueto.bsky.social
T follicular regulatory cell differentiation and functional states #immunology
T follicular regulatory cell differentiation and functional states
Follicular regulatory T (Tfr) cells enter the B-cell follicle and germinal center, where they control the magnitude, specificity, and duration of the antibody response. However, the temporal and spatial determinants of Tfr differentiation are incompletely understood. Recent advances in fate-mapping, single-cell transcriptomics, and human tissue analyses have revealed that Tfr cells differentiate progressively through distinct differentiation states, a process directed by follicular helper T cells. Tfr differentiation states have unique transcriptional identities, functional roles, and stabilities revealing intricate feedback loops controlling humoral immunity. Here, we review recent findings on the origins and functions of Tfr cells in mice and humans, how these subsets are intrinsically and extrinsically controlled, and how targeting these pathways may treat human disease.
dlvr.it
Vaccination information should speak your language. 🌍 For #EuropeanDayofLanguages, explore the European Vaccination Information Portal: clear, evidence-based information on vaccines and vaccination in all 26 EU/EEA languages. ➡️ vaccination-info.europa.eu #EVIP #UnitedInProtection
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
theguardian.com
What is the #Nuvaxovid COVID vaccine and how is it different? @paulseaman.bsky.social and I have put together a comprehensive document summarizing the available information regarding the main differences between Nuvaxovid and the more common mRNA based #COVID vaccines. 🧪🧵1/ #Novavax #Vaccine
Scientists discover why Kent #meningococcus B outbreak was so severe #Medsky #IDSky 🩺💉 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scientists discover why Kent meningitis outbreak was so severe
The bacteria responsible picked up some new genetic material, say experts.
bbc.com
The updated #JCVI #dengue guideline is out. They still recommend vaccination primarily for travellers with previous dengue infection. It's an improvement but I still prefer @who.int guidance. As I've left the UK, it's "not my circus, not my monkeys" 🙈 🦟🩺💉 travelhealthpro.org.uk/news/updated...
NaTHNaC - Updated dengue 'green book' chapter published
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Sharaine works at Porton Down, in what is sometimes called our 'top secret lab'. 🔬 🧪 Go behind the scenes and find out about her work on phages - a possible alternative treatment for antibiotics. 🧫
So excited for this episode, as we head into the northern hemisphere flu season... the first few cases now coming into our hospital... what do we do... 🤔 🤷 #IDsky #clinmicro
CMI Communications@cmicomms.bsky.social · 2w ago📣 New #Communicable / #Breakpoints drops Mon 21 Sep! Erin McCreary, PharmD & Josh Davis are joined by Steve Webb & Steven Tong to discuss REMAP-CAP results suggesting that oseltamivir may harm critically ill patients, while also highlighting the importance and impact of RCTs. #IDSky #ViroSky #flu
