Turner Prize winning Zanzibar-born British artist, curator, and writer Lubaina Himid has been an important voice on issues of race, feminism, identity, and representation in Britain for the past thirty years #WomensArt
Nicola Low
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Sexually transmitted infections epidemiologist @unibe.ch 🇨🇭, but Covid-19 changed everything. Now also emerging infections #mpox #pandemics @BEreadycohort.bsky.social https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4817-8986
Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933) US painter who worked in the American Impressionist style, and whose mentor was Claude Monet #womensart
Angèle Etoundi Essamba, Cameroonian photographer known for her photography in black and white particularly #WomensArt
Infections w/ the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus is intensifying w/ sustained transmission & continued increases in reported cases & deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The outbreak is the largest ever reported in the country w/ 3605 confirmed cases, including nearly 1600 deaths👇
Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus - Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is intensifying, with sustained transmission and continued increases in reported cases and deaths. Initially confine...
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New Review A review of Bundibugyo virus and the 2026 outbreak: lessons for epidemic preparedness www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
A review of Bundibugyo virus and the 2026 outbreak: lessons for epidemic preparedness
The ongoing 2026 outbreak of Ebola virus disease caused by Bundibugyo virus (BDBV) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has renewed attention to one of the least studied human-pathogenic...
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We're happy to share that several CAUSALab members have been promoted! ▪️Laura Cadavid - Research Coordinator ▪️Katherine Li - Research Associate ▪️Jing Li - Research Associate ▪️Jack MacDonald - Senior Program Coordinator ▪️Daniela van Santen - Research Scientist Congrats, all! 🎉
“After interviewing almost 100 people in and around Mongbwalu..the team concluded the epidemic ignited in January, and perhaps even earlier, in Mongbwalu’s outskirts. A patient seeking care may have brought it to the city from a rural area” www.science.org/content/arti...
EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected
A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says
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It's been two and a half months since the Ebola outbreak in the DRC was declared and it is now the biggest the country has ever experienced and the second largest the world has ever seen. Dozens of cases continue to be reported each day across three separate provinces. 🧪 insp.cd/sitrep-n077-...
Henrietta Lacks was born 106 years ago today. Though she died at the age of 31, in some ways she actually never died The world still owes her a great debt
Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 5mo agoHenrietta Lacks is the reason we dont get polio anymore. Henrietta Lacks is the reason in-vitro works Henrietta Lacks is the reason there's an HPV vaccine, gene mapping, we know how cancer cells divide, AIDs is no longer a death sentence. Henrietta Lacks cells were stolen from her
I absolutely detest London, but this is right.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 5d agoWhat if one of the best things about London was free? It is. Our museums and galleries welcome millions of people every year, proving that access to culture shouldn't depend on what's in your wallet. www.lbc.co.uk/article/lond...
🧪 #smallpox #serendipity ‚Constanza de la Fuente Castro, a biological anthropologist at the University of Chile… hoped they might find DNA from tuberculosis, which was present in South America long before the arrival of Europeans. “Smallpox was definitely not in our picture,” she said.‘
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 6d agoFor a disease as spectacularly scary as smallpox, its history is remarkably mysterious. Here is my look at what ancient DNA from the viruses is revealing. Gift link: nyti.ms/4vTU11D
For a disease as spectacularly scary as smallpox, its history is remarkably mysterious. Here is my look at what ancient DNA from the viruses is revealing. Gift link: nyti.ms/4vTU11D
‘This Is Very Strange’: Ancient Smallpox May Have Been Less Deadly (Gift Article)
Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus may have evolved into a global killer.
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The fastest growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is leaving thousands more people hungry in eastern Congo, a region engulfed in conflicts and a fight over precious minerals, the head of the U.N. food agency warned on Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/4fHnjdX
Fastest growing Ebola outbreak is worsening hunger in eastern Congo, UN agency chief warns
The long-running conflict in eastern Congo has driven nearly 10 million people into crisis or emergency levels of hunger, with Ituri — the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak — among the most affected wit...
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The #Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in NE DRC was likely underway for months before it was formally detected in mid-May. That's often the way with Ebola outbreaks, but the scale of the missed cases seems ... extraordinary. Terrific reporting by @kakape.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...
EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected
A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says
science.org
A sad accounting of what happens when surveillance and reporting systems are absent in one of the most vulnerable communities in the world.
Kai Kupferschmidt@kakape.bsky.social · 6d agoEbola may have been spreading for months in the DRC before anyone recognized it. A new reconstruction suggests the outbreak was already widespread in the gold-mining town of Mongbwalu by January. It wasn’t officially declared until 15 May. Why did no-one raise the alarm? My story for @science.org 🧪
Ebola may have been spreading for months in the DRC before anyone recognized it. A new reconstruction suggests the outbreak was already widespread in the gold-mining town of Mongbwalu by January. It wasn’t officially declared until 15 May. Why did no-one raise the alarm? My story for @science.org 🧪
EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected
A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says
science.org
For decades, the global pipeline for developing and delivering new antibiotics has worked in reverse. In his latest @telegraph.co.uk op-ed, Peter Beyer explains how Thailand's fast-track approval of zoliflodacin could help turn that model on its head. 🔗 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
New drug for super-gonorrhoea points to better antibiotic development
It is possible to break the cycle that has left much of the world waiting years for new antibiotics
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Needed change to the #GlobalHealth architecture will not be achieved by organisational reform alone. Instead, social murder in the current political economy must be confronted. NEW in The BMJ: https://bit.ly/4vPYrGH Part of the Geopolitics of Global Health series: https://bit.ly/4gW3gut
"The U.S. failure on maternal mortality is particularly striking because around the world, maternal mortality has plunged by almost half since 1990" My Facebook memory from 2017 today via @nickkristof.bsky.social and Dr. Hollier, then @acog.org President Elect. www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/o...
Opinion | If Americans Love Moms, Why Do We Let Them Die? (Gift Article)
While maternal mortality rates have plunged around the world, they’ve climbed in the United States.
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🧪 #Ebola #Bundibugyo #epidemic International community must take this seriously *before sustained spread beyond DRC Free to read link archive.ph/59Lbf
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Amesh Adalja@ameshaa.bsky.social · 6d ago“It’s clear that at the pace that this is now spreading, it has been contained quite locally here for the moment, but there are clear risks, of course, for this epidemic to spread also beyond borders,” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“It’s clear that at the pace that this is now spreading, it has been contained quite locally here for the moment, but there are clear risks, of course, for this epidemic to spread also beyond borders,” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
UN Warns Ebola Response Must Triple as Congo Outbreak Threatens Wider Regional Spread
United Nations officials warned that the response to the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo needs to expand three- to five-fold as the risk of cross-border spread grows.
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Resultate der Pilostudie😍! Die Haushalten der BEready Kohorte können eine dezentrale Überwachung von Atemwegsviren durchgeführen. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @nicolamlow.bsky.social @unibe.ch @kantonbern.bsky.social @stadtbern.bsky.social @bag.admin.ch
![One of 13 viruses was detected in 82/131 (63%, [Standard Error 4%, 95% CI 54% - 71%]) samples from index cases, including rhinovirus (38/82, 46%), SARS-CoV-2 (21/82, 26%) and seasonal coronaviruses (7/82, 9%, Figure 2a).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ssp3nqp2dxnluvjbft6zrpvu/bafkreigauw22zbtoojgpfo5n4d5cihmtam5dygigr3xmgybdfihj7voufy)
TOTAL (blue dots) and confirmed case accumulation. Onwards and upwards, with an increase in daily case numbers (green bars) signalling worrying, uninterrupted levels of transmission.
Maria Franck Marc German, 1876–1955, German Expressionist painter (and another female artist often first referred to as "the wife of..." #WomensArt
A couple of graphs from the Democratic Republic of the Congo's public health data describing the Orthoebolavirus bundibugyoense disease epidemic. Cases and deaths have stepped up in the second half of July, with a particularly large case surge appearing on the 22nd.
