Jay Crandell

@jaycrandell.bsky.social

Studying antiviral immunity at Yale Immunobiology

Words matter. Scientific language shapes public perception and policy. Framing mpox as a disease of GBMSM may have reflected early patterns, but continuing this narrative misrepresents transmission risks and reinforces stigma. With Camila Coelho, Vries & Zucker 🌈 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A call to move beyond MSM-centric framing in mpox research

The resurgence of mpox poses urgent public health challenges, and the scientific community has mobilised admirably to understand its transmission, immunity, and therapeutics.1,2 However, the language ...

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