Ferric Fang, MD
@fangferric.bsky.social
Physician-scientist, microbiologist, infectious diseases specialist, medical school professor. Opinions expressed are my own.
Trump & Russ Vought proposed a rule to take every federal grant in America hostage. They don't care about making our tax dollars work better—they just want them to work for Trump. Well, Democrats BLOCKED their corrupt rule, and I'll be fighting to kill it permanently.
Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue fever
Virginia resident has state’s 1st locally acquired case of dengue fever - WTOP News
Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue, a viral disease usually associated with international travel.
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AI Detectors Are Out, New Approaches Are In
A growing number of universities have prohibited AI detectors, arguing they are ‘unreliable’ indicators of cheating. But where does that leave faculty, who know all too well that cheating is rampant i...
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1/ It looks like one of the largest Cyclospora outbreaks in U.S. history is slowing. The U.S. has now reported over 17,000 cases. And we are largely flying blind, but one of the only data points— percentage of tests that are positive—is declining, which is a cautiously optimistic sign.
The strongest available evidence supports a zoonotic origin for COVID-19. - The virus is genetically diverse in ways typical of natural viruses and atypical of gain-of-function (GoF) viruses. 🧵
Until July 1, 2025, CDC had a formal response team surveilling cyclosporiasis. Now we are stuck with the people who were stupid enough to break the thing trying to fix it.
HuffPost@huffpost.com · 9h agoThe CDC is planning to create a formal response team this week to deal with the outbreak, The New York Times reported.
Steven Quay, in line to be NIAID director, is not just any lab leaker. He is of the type of leakers who still talk about "HIV inserts". He has deleted his tweets from 2021-2025, so here are some screenshots to give you an idea of who Quay is: ▫️1/🧵 #covidorigin #quayniaid
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@quay_dr
My new analysis indicates these same inserts are responsible for long
COVID.
Designed into the virus.
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Quote-tweeting:
Dr David Cartland BMedSci MBChB MRCGP (201 v) @CartlandDavic • 11h
"It was the job of a professional [and] it's NOT Natural"
Nobel Prize winner for HIV research, Luc Montagnier (RIP), said someone
"inserted small sequences of HIV" into the original covid Pandemic virus. He died after he presented the findings aired here on a French
[photo of Montagnier on CNews]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yqxcc5ayxllwkvel4narbha4/bafkreib5nbsxgeyiycgbcrswtl4qgcx3suxbfunsnv2cjf3bf57xfavoya)
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 20h agoThis is just bat-shit crazy. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Severe Covid leads to persistent viral reactivation, with >10 different viruses noted in the first 40 days after hospital admission. Long Covid was specifically associated with reactivation of latent Anelloviridae virus @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 - Nature
Chronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation and outcomes, revealing immune signatures with prog...
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Ok this is great. Enjoying reading while I have my coffee.
Spencer McDaniel@spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 2w agoI have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...
An analysis finds that New Mexico's measles outbreak cost $5.4 million last year. NM had 100 cases. AZ outbreak is more than 3x larger; Utah's is more than 7x larger. TX and SC are each 10x larger. Welcoming back measles is going to be very expensive. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Economic Impact of the 2025 New Mexico Measles Outbreak: Highlighting the Cost of Efforts to Prevent Future Outbreaks | Annals of Internal Medicine
Background: In 2025, the United States experienced its highest measles case count since 1992. In New Mexico, 100 confirmed measles cases (99 outbreak-related cases), including 1 death, occurred across...
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The US National Science Foundation has kicked off a sweeping effort to deepen the ties between PhD students and industry go.nature.com/4hbpiJO
NSF rolls out ‘industry PhD’ programme — joining a global trend
The US pilot programme will provide financial support for four years to more than 250 students, who will gain industry experience.
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Samples—and a certain stink—are accumulating at Quest Diagnostics thanks to the cyclosporiasis outbreak. “You get used to it.” on.wsj.com/4fAqfu0
The Science Lab Where Technicians Are Drowning in Feces
Samples—and a certain stink—are accumulating at Quest Diagnostics thanks to the cyclosporiasis outbreak. “You get used to it.”
on.wsj.com
All of the evidence in the world centers on the same corner of the same market with the highest concentration of the Wuhan illegal wildlife trade.
Chill science. Chill dissent. Chill reason. Doubtmonger. These are the goals. Fauci's legal woes could deter scientists from government service www.axios.com/2026/08/05/f... via @axios.com
Fauci's legal woes could deter scientists from government service
It's part of a broader erosion of the federal health workforce.
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“This does not sound like power-mad self-aggrandizement, whatever Fauci’s Senate antagonists might say” www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Our Fauci Diaries, Ourselves
Anthony Fauci became a symbol of truth and integrity during the pandemic. In his diaries, he’s mostly talking about how he “butt called” Barbra Streisand.
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My Latest: I am not a gambler. But if I were, I would always bet against congressional Republicans acting with integrity or demonstrating political courage. newsletters.democracydocket.com/tillis-and-c...
Tillis and Cornyn had nothing to lose — and still folded
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“The tragic implication of Plümper and Neumayer’s analysis is not that individual scientists are unusually dishonest, but that a system designed to incentivise truth-seeking has been incrementally transformed into one that often rewards its distortion” blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
Is publication, not truth, now the driving pursuit of science? - LSE Review of Books
The Credibility Crisis in Science by Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer explores how researcher incentives and publication bias distort scientific knowledge
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">900 people in Washtenaw County, MI, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called >100 of them. Almost everyone has said the same thing: It’s excruciating, and one of the worst illnesses they’ve experienced." kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
Nurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the Messy Details - KFF Health News
Yes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to p...
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This warrants reposting now that Quay is RFK Jr's pick to head the NIAID. "It should be obvious that Quay has no relevant expertise and is not reliable."
Flo Débarre@flodebarre.eurosky.social · last mo.In a new blog post, I review the first chapter of a new book on #covidorigin, Steven Quay's "The Code as Witness". The book opens with an impossible anecdote, and I also show that its claim of an early cluster at an Army hospital in Wuhan is unsupported.
"I can't get employed. How am I supposed to survive?" www.npr.org/2026/08/04/n...
Medicaid work rule leaves homeless people in the cold
Conservatives who have long pushed for Medicaid work requirements often said vulnerable people would get a pass. But the federal government's list of exemptions left off homeless people.
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"The majority of papers most cited in patents are the product of publicly funded research."
Nature@nature.com · 8h agoPatent citations are one way to examine how academic research flows into commercial innovation. Which scholarly papers have patents cited the most? go.nature.com/4w45J9Z
Retrospective cohort of 2.5 million US kids found NO association between measles vaccination and autism, with an adjusted hazard ratio of 0.97 (99% confidence interval 0.91–1.03). Another negative study to add to the mountain of negative studies that we already have.
Association Between First MMR Vaccination Before... : Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
Background:Concerns about potential associations between measles–mumps–rubella (MMR) vaccination and autism persist despite extensive prior research....
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“Kaseya pointed out that some 60-70% of the new cases were recorded from spreading within a community, not from contact tracing… “Contact tracing is not working,” said Kaseya, “we don’t like the trajectory of this outbreak, and it’s already the second largest outbreak (ever) in the world.”
Ebola kills 1,700 in eastern Congo as the fastest-growing outbreak surges
Ebola has killed more than 1,700 people in eastern Congo in what has become the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease.
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“Diseases don’t stop at borders. Pandemics, climate change and conflicts demand a collective approach” @drtedros.who.int www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why the need for the WHO has never been greater
Diseases don’t stop at borders. Pandemics, climate change and conflicts demand a collective approach.
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If this is accurate, this is truly distressing news. Terrible process and outcome.
Peter Daszak@peterdaszak.bsky.social · 14h agoBreaking: The dumbing down of America's scientific infrastructure continues. Dr. Quay, a conspiracist w/ zero training in infectious disease is in "final vetting" to lead NIAID, Tony Fauci's former institute. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
SCOOP: The CDC has linked six additional states to a large outbreak of cyclosporiasis associated with iceberg lettuce — Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Carolina — bringing the total tally to 15. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/w...
C.D.C. Expands Cyclospora Outbreak to More States (Gift Article)
Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Carolina are now among the states linked to the outbreak associated with iceberg lettuce.
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