Hannah Sproch (she/her)
@mosquitosproch.bsky.social
Vector Biologist || PhD candidate in Microbiology & Immunology at Johns Hopkins || MPH in EMD at Yale || Sinnis Lab || Malaria Transmission Dynamics || Vectorial Capacity || Baltimore, MD #vectorbiology #malaria
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
Ian Carrillo@iansociologo.bsky.social · last yr.Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
This is still one of the most profoundly moving statements I have ever heard on HIV - from someone who was HIV+ and a Constitutional Court judge at the time (most recently Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch).
All NIDA F31 diversity scholars officially losing their funding... I barely have words. Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.
The first 100 days of a growing global health and humanitarian emergency: US cuts to foreign aid are hurting people caught in conflict and crisis. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/first... @doctorswithoutborders.org
The first 100 days of a growing global health and humanitarian emergency
US cuts to foreign aid are hurting people caught in conflict and crisis.
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It’s #WorldMalariaDay The good news: 2.2 billion #malaria cases and 12.7 million deaths have been averted since 2000. The bad news: after years of steady declines, progress has stalled. bit.ly/MalariaDay2025
Linked comment The foretold Oropouche fever epidemic www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The foretold Oropouche fever epidemic
Since October, 2023, Oropouche virus (OROV) has caused a large outbreak of Oropouche fever in the Americas, exposing yet again the vulnerabilities of infectious disease surveillance systems. These wea...
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Interesting news about a potential anti-malarial drug, thanks to Science. Anopheles mosquito survival and pharmacokinetic modeling show the mosquitocidal activity of nitisinone | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Anopheles mosquito survival and pharmacokinetic modeling show the mosquitocidal activity of nitisinone
Nitisinone reduces survival of the malaria-transmitting mosquito Anopheles gambiae by blocking tyrosine catabolism.
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Boom. Accepted for publication in Nature Communications. This paper has been a journey, but it is done. Here, we explore the use of constant temperature experiments to predict the thermal suitability for malaria transmission in a diurnally fluctuating environment. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mean daily temperatures can predict the thermal limits of malaria transmission better than rate summation
Temperature shapes the distribution, seasonality, and magnitude of mosquito-borne disease outbreaks. Mechanistic models predicting transmission often use mosquito and pathogen thermal responses from c...
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Happy to share our new ScienceTM paper from Yingjun Cui, Erol Fikrig and @aaronmring.bsky.social et al. We built a yeast display library of 3,000+ I. scapularis proteins to profile antigens recognized by tick-resistant hosts, and developed a new anti-tick vaccine. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tick feeding or vaccination with tick antigens elicits immunity to the Ixodes scapularis exoproteome in guinea pigs and humans
Comprehensive profiling of Ixodes scapularis antigens reveals that tick bites induce antivector immunity linked to acquired tick resistance.
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Happy World TB Day! 🙌 Today, we have EMD MPH student Cenyun Guan at @yalesph.bsky.social to discuss the current tuberculosis (TB) situation and the urgent need to raise public awareness and further invest to end TB. Read more here! ysph.yale.edu/news-article... #PublicHealth #WorldTBDay
The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica. www.propublica.org/article/nih-...
NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...
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Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them. There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Our paper is out, and it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century
Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of insect losses are dire. Butterflies are the most surveyed insect taxa, yet analyses have been limited in ...
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Spreading the word about 'From Data to Insight – A Practical Introduction to Interpreting Malaria Genetics for Surveillance', a free online course offered by PlasmoGenEpi. If you're interested in malaria genetic epidemiology, I recommend checking it out! #malaria www.plasmogenepi.org/OnlineCourse
Course Goal: to equip researchers, students, and public health officials with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use malaria genetic data in epidemiological research and public health decision-making.
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New Vector of the Month: #Culex #pipiens complex (common house #mosquitoes), vector of various #arboviral, #malarial & #filarial pathogens, authored by Drs Haoues Alout @maximeprat.bsky.social & Pierrick Labbé. #quinquefasciatus #Plasmodium @isemevol.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1kefV5Eb1x...
Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
