What to Know About the Latest Ebola Outbreak www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/w...
What to Know About the Latest Ebola Outbreak
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Julie Leask AO
@julieleask.bsky.social
Professor of Public Health | Social scientist | Vaccination | Risk communication. School of Public Health, University of Sydney https://sabii.sydney.edu.au/
On hantavirus vaccine development: "Right now, we are pushing from the research side, but there is no strong external pull, so progress is slower than it could be. It is frustrating — like pushing a rock up a hill for years." That hill just changed its gradient. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The Astounding Discovery That Could Link Eastern and Western Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Inside the Interstitium, the Human Body’s Hidden Pathways (Gift Article)
The detection of another circulatory system in the human body could have enormous scientific implications.
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🆕 What motivates Aussie adults to get their flu vax? Most want to be vaccinated and trust in healthcare professionals has risen, but cost and appointment access remain barriers. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.an... @julieleask.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @publichealthaus.bsky.social
The incredible efforts in PNG to address type 2 polio. www.smh.com.au/world/oceani...
Inside the fight to stamp out polio in one of Australia’s closest neighbours
As Australia’s childhood vaccination rates continue to fall, Papua New Guinea’s outbreak shows what can happen when herd immunity is lost.
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How social media channels figure out your algorithm. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Long Read | How social media algorithms decide who you are - ABC listen
This week, Prianka Srinivasan arms herself with a burner phone and a fake name, and sets out to learn how Instagram’s algorithm really works.
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I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
RFK Jr accused of ‘dangerous conspiracy theories’ at heated budget hearing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
RFK Jr accused of ‘dangerous conspiracy theories’ at heated budget hearing
Trump ally grilled by lawmakers over ‘terrible decisions’ on vaccines, public health and funding cuts to key programs
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Academics - how do you go through an inbox with three weeks of messages that have piled up? Looking for tips to manage the expected volume in an efficient and effective way.
It’s so hard for me to imagine anybody with expertise in public health, or history, or technology, equating the public health impact of AI with VACCINES and SANITATION.
OMG: “The integration of AI into our systems, from predictive modeling to community health engagement, is as significant as the development of modern sanitation or the expansion of vaccinations in the previous century.” I can’t… I just can’t. @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
When hospitals are destroyed in conflict, people don’t just lose buildings—they lose access to lifesaving care. Sudan’s crisis is escalating fast. ✍️ @fargonaut.bsky.social @msf.ca @who.int 📖⬇️ and 🔁🙏
Devastating Sudan Hospital Attack Disrupts Medical Care, Deepens Humanitarian Crisis - Health Policy Watch
Millions of civilians in East Darfur have lost their primary access to medical care following a hospital attack.
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Already more than 5,000 Australians have joined our campaign to release more funding for medical research in the 2026 Federal Budget. If you can spare 30 seconds of your time to join our campaign, you’ll help fund life-saving cures in Australia. www.moniqueryan.com.au/medical_rese...
The newly released WHO Full Value of Improved Influenza Vaccines Assessment (FVIVA) examines how next‑generation flu shots - offering broader, longer‑lasting protection - could affect health outcomes, economics, and policy. tn21.org/FVIVA
Full Value of Improved Influenza Vaccine Assessment (FVIVA)
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Some news stores just get under your skin. Very sad to see the outcome of the Chris Baghsarian kidnapping today with his likely remains being found in Sydney. Appreciate all the efforts to try to find him, including SES (son searching yesterday buzzed by news helicopter).
As I’m, always, harping on. You owe no one your attention. You, particularly, don’t owe parasocial contacts your attention. There are ways to lessen your stress on social media and in online interactions, but, you must be proactive. Mute, block, move on, let it go. Your overall health will improve.
Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 6mo agoYet another good reason to mute or block the trolls in your life These negative social ties--known as 'hasslers"--are chronic stressors and are linked to impaired physical health and faster aging. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Just submitted my Research Handbook on Immunisation and Society to the publisher. A year in the making, this will be nice volume of contributions from leading authors when it comes out later this year. 😌 🎉
Where Are We At With Vaccinations? Why people don't vaccinate - from the time of Jenner to now. My podcast interview with David Curnow. www.wawawpod.com/vaccinations/
Julie Leask on Vaccination Insights
Discover insights from Julie Leask on how to tackle vaccine hesitancy.
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✏️ How can we improve social media health communication with young people in the next big emergency? Co-create messages for young people, with young people. 🤝 Study here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Using Social Media for Public Health Communication to Young People: A Qualitative Study to Inform Emergency Preparedness
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the role of social media for official health communication, especially for young people who rarely engage with other public health agency channels. This study expl...
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Here’s the summer uptick in flu and COVID-19 in NSW from this weeks surveillance report. Quite unusual for influenza. www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/c...
Agree - calling it a CDC action is false.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 7mo agoOnce again, I implore media outlets to stop saying these are CDC decisions. These are changes being made unilaterally by RFK Jr. against the expert advice of CDC scientists. I note that RFK Jr. no longer recommends flu vaccine for kids in the midst of a horrible influenza year.
The current US government is providing a Masterclass in how to lower vaccination coverage. Here’s another example - stop collecting useful data and sanctimoniously dog whistle anti-vax tropes. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
CMS to stop requiring states to report childhood vaccination levels
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Cabinet papers 2005: John Howard’s government was warned in 2005 that schools and borders might need to be shut under a pandemic
Cabinet papers 2005: John Howard’s government was warned in 2005 that schools and borders might need to be shut under a pandemic
Alexander Downer told senior colleagues the H5N1 strain of bird flu could mutate into a pandemic ‘with potentially devastating consequences’ for Australia and the world * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Health officials warned the Howard government that Australia might need to close schools and shut international borders in the event of a global influenza pandemic, nearly 15 years before the arrival of Covid-19. Previously unreleased cabinet papers made public by the National Archives of Australia on Thursday show planning for an influenza pandemic reached all the way to the national security committee of federal cabinet in October 2005. The discussions, two years after the Sars viral respiratory disease spread across Asia, presaged much of the response as Covid-19 spread around the world. Continue reading...
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Breaking News: Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and child of Caroline Kennedy, died at 35. She recently wrote of her battle with leukemia in The New Yorker. nyti.ms/4pjDWiz
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The Trump administration had adopted policies condemning a sizable group of its core MAGA supporters — miners, firemen, manufacturing workers — to slow deaths from diseases that cut off their ability to breath,” Thomas B. Edsall writes.
Opinion | Trump’s War on Public Health Is a Battle to the Death
The war on public health is a battle to the death.
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This is what hepatitis B vaccination is about.
Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 8mo agoWhen I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.