Even reminder dat district Antwerpen binnenkort, in volle klimaatcrisis, heel deze linkse bomenrij kapt voor een extra parkeerstrook.
Bravo, stewardship in communities. Often ignored as it's difficult to tackle and research inevitably ends up somewhat messy. Nice podcast to go with the paper 👇
The Lancet Infectious Diseases@thelancetinfdis.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew Research Effect of a community-based behavioural intervention bundle to improve antibiotic use and patient management in Burkina Faso and DR Congo (CABU-EICO): a cluster-randomised controlled trial www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🔥Just published 🔥NEJM SNAP RCT In patients with MSSA bacteremia, cefazolin was noninferior to flucloxacillin or cloxacillin with respect to 90-day mortality and was associated with a lower incidence of acute kidney injury. #idsky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Cefazolin for Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia | NEJM
Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia is associated with high mortality. Whether cefazolin or an antistaphylococcal penicillin should be preferred for the treatment of methicillin-susceptible S. aureus ...
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Community-based AMS interventions without biomarker tests can reduce antibiotic use by more than half - even more so for Watch antibiotics, with stable patient care scores. Results from CABU-EICO cluster RCT now published in @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social : authors.elsevier.com/a/1nHCg5E-Uo... #IDsky
🔬ARTICLE: MORTALITY AND BARRIERS TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS IN HOMELESS PEOPLE IN PARIS Work by @evelinec.bsky.social ➡️ Median age of death 54 years, 26 years (!!) below general population ➡️ Most deaths due to cancer and cardiovascular diseases - like in the general pop link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Mortality and barriers to healthcare among people experiencing homelessness in Paris: a mixed-methods study - International Journal for Equity in Health
International Journal for Equity in Health - Homelessness is a global problem with significant public health implications. Persons experiencing homelessness (PEH) face poorer health outcomes and...
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Denying medical assistance is unacceptable in any circumstances. Israel’s threat to withhold registration from MSF & other INGOs is a cynical and calculated attempt to prevent organizations from providing services in #Gaza and the #WestBank, #Palestine. https://ow.ly/XQwE50XR5OE
New PREPRINT! tinyurl.com/yynzevrh Thanks to a true transdisciplinary collaboration, we developed and evaluated a low-cost community #AMR intervention set in rural Burkina Faso and DRCongo. Combining #WHO #AWaRe–based feedback/training (medicine providers) and AMR awareness campaigns (community).
Every year during #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek I'm surprised by the diversity of media, approaches, and key messages used to reach and mobilize the public or healthcare workers, and to promote better antibiotic use—driven each time by the tireless and unparalleled energy of so many AMR advocates
Nu het #WAAW is, schreef ik voor EOS een blog over ons onderzoek met CRUN in Burkina Faso. Waarom zijn er zoveel ernstige resistente bacteriële infecties op een plek waar antibioticagebruik niet excessief is? www.eoswetenschap.eu/gezondheid/w... #AMR @itmantwerp.bsky.social
Waarom jaarlijks nog 200.000 kinderen sterven door antibioticaresistentie
In Europa treft antibioticaresistentie vooral ouderen en ziekenhuispatiënten, terwijl in lage-inkomenslanden vooral kinderen sterven aan infecties die resist...
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a global health journal gives you a limit of 200 words for the abstract of an article you've been working on for years so you decide to use these words to provide historical context 😬 #AMR
Renewables have taken the lead in Dutch electricity production
Open position for an ID modeler @itmantwerp.bsky.social on community-level + healthcare transmission of resistant #AMR bacteria in LRS, working with Clinical Research Unit Nanoro, @esthervk.bsky.social, @bugwonk.bsky.social, KEMRI-wellcome Kilifi, myself,... #IDSky #EpiSky www.itg.be/en/jobs-and-...
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Epidemiologist for modelling AMR transmission in LMICMore than 500 staff members at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) contribute e...
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Belgian waste water tells the story: Alpha. Delta. Omicron. Then viral loads dropped 10×. Not luck. Not just Omicron. But population immunity — built by vaccines + infections. Vaccines helped to avoid millions of deaths in the process. Graph: Raphael Janssens 🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/vanguc...
Great work at GLASS that @esthervk.bsky.social presented at #ESCMIDglobal, providing regional trends in AMR prevalence in bloodstream infections #AMR #IDSky
Esther van Kleef@esthervk.bsky.social · last yr.The first preview was also presented at ESCMID global see tinyurl.com/4sh5v3hf. Combined these reports provide valuable new insights to enhance country-level use of GLASS data to help inform local, national, and regional AMR strategies World Health Organization #UNGA.
GLASS report with 2022 AMU data is out #IDSky #AMR iris.who.int/bitstream/ha... It has per capita antibiotic use expressed in DDD per 1000 inhabitants per day, confirming DID is lower in most low-income than in most high-income countries Would be great to link population-wide AMU to AMR prevalence
If you love strong, pour-over coffee, a team of physicists has a tip: Pour from as high as you can without causing the stream to break apart. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
for 4,5 days of #ESCMIDGlobal with permanently 20 sessions in parallel and some #IDSky skeeters posting about sessions I wasn't in, more than once I had the feeling I have when picking a lane in a supermarket. Some bits I learned, mostly relevant for #AMR control intervention implementation in LMIC:
Day in day out, Israel is adding war crime to war crime, with the world looking for something 'new' to worry about. We are running the danger of becoming de-sensitised. Resistance now takes more than to condemn the genocide. We must also oppose the de-sensitisation of our souls!
New comment The cost of blood cultures: a barrier to diagnosis in low-income and middle-income countries www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? www.ft.com/content/a801...
Cholera in Angola: As of 11 March 2025, a total of 6,651 cholera cases have been reported in Angola, with 240 death (Case Fatality Rate of 3.6%) The outbreak creates a risk for spread Despite no cholera in Namibia for over a decade, 1 case has been confirmed in Namibia, just south of Angola border
Before the introduction of measles vaccine in 1963 and widespread vaccination, major epidemics occurred approximately every two to three years and caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths each year www.who.int/news-room/fa...
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Measles remains one of the leading causes of death among young children globally, despite the availability of a safe and effective vaccine.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.RFK Jr: "It used to be that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection. The vaccine doesn't do that ... it used to be that very young kids were protected by breast milk. Women who get vaccinated do not provide that level of immunity."
Nee (wat het artikel ook concludeert) Is dit nu misinformation of disinformation @de-standaard.bsky.social?
“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Opinion | A Day of American Infamy
A dreadful moment for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.
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Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
Why Wikipedia matters In June 2019, American anti-vaccination activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Samoa to meet with local anti-vaccination activists" The measles outbreak began in September 2019. Over 5,700 cases of measles and 83 deaths had been reported. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sa...
2019 Samoa measles outbreak - Wikipedia
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Rather than resistricting risk monitoring to reactive outbreak response, we highlight effective applications that enhance early detection and prevention of outbreaks. This aligns with #CollaborativeSurveillance @who.int and its advocacy for integrated/ cross-sectoral approaches to ID surveillance.
brecht ingelbeen@ingelbeen.bsky.social · last yr.NEW PAPER: When and how to embed risk data in infectious disease surveillance? Problem: Traditional infectious disease surveillance consisting of facility-based reporting of cases, often delays outbreak response due to disease progression, healthcare seeking, diagnostic and reporting lags. 1/5
NEW PAPER: When and how to embed risk data in infectious disease surveillance? Problem: Traditional infectious disease surveillance consisting of facility-based reporting of cases, often delays outbreak response due to disease progression, healthcare seeking, diagnostic and reporting lags. 1/5
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
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