👉The episode is live! Skeeters on a Plane follows the Frankfurt cluster and the strange science of airport malaria. Listen or read here or wherever you get #InfectiousDose: www.infectiousdose.com/post/skeeter...

Skeeters on a Plane: The Curious Tale of Airport Malaria

Eight malaria cases and three deaths near Frankfurt Airport raise a rare possibility: airport malaria. Learn how infected mosquitoes can cross continents.

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A new Outbreak Watch is live. 🦠 Ebola transmission moving in different directions across the DRC. Florida dengue. Rabies prevention under pressure. Pennsylvania measles. Anthrax in Zambia. & more What changed & what should we watch next? 🎧 Listen now: www.infectiousdose.com/post/outbrea...

Outbreak Watch: September 18, 2026

Outbreak Watch tracks Ebola in the DRC, U.S. screwworm and rabies, Florida dengue, Pennsylvania measles, Zambia anthrax and Frankfurt malaria.

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If this outbreak has you wondering how anthrax actually works... I have an episode for that. From spores that can persist in soil for decades and wildlife outbreaks like this, to human disease, vaccines, biological weapons & the 2001 letter attacks: 🎧 www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...

The Infectious Dose Podcast@pathogenscribe.bsky.social · 2w ago

An anthrax outbreak killing wildlife in Zambia has now infected people. They've recorded the deaths of: 46 hippos 8 elephants 5 buffalo 1 crocodile And 12 people developed anthrax after eating meat from infected wildlife carcasses. Here’s what’s happening. 🧵

An anthrax outbreak killing wildlife in Zambia has now infected people. They've recorded the deaths of: 46 hippos 8 elephants 5 buffalo 1 crocodile And 12 people developed anthrax after eating meat from infected wildlife carcasses. Here’s what’s happening. 🧵

🦟 New episode is live! Dengue reaches FL in travelers every year. But what has to happen for an imported infection to become a local outbreak? We go through the biology w/ the current Hillsborough outbreak as a case study. 🎧 Listen now: www.infectiousdose.com/post/dengue-...

Dengue Next Door: How an Imported Virus Becomes a Local Outbreak

Florida's local dengue outbreak shows how an imported virus becomes local transmission and why an outbreak doesn't necessarily mean endemic disease.

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👉Florida’s dengue situation has shifted again. 2 days ago, I wrote ~Hillsborough County reaching 59 locally acquired infections. That # is now 95 & FL is investigating if dengue was associated with a resident’s death. The death is not yet confirmed as dengue-related. 🦟🧵

Last night, WIDX Broadcasting Company went on the air. We recorded the main cast of The Devil of Hawthorn Mill last night, and I am ridiculously excited about how this is coming together. October 30. 📷 Until then, please stand by. #MonthoftheMacabre

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Ebola virus spreads to new Congolese health zone: WHO

Over 6,600 cases recorded, including 3,226 deaths, since outbreak in May, says World Health Organization | Anadolu

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1/ Last week I wrote about a locally acquired dengue case appearing in a new part of Florida, and why one case didn't mean dengue was suddenly spreading widely across the state. Now there's another part of Florida's dengue story worth watching. Tampa. 🦟🧵

New episode! 🍄 C. auris seemed to emerge in different parts of the world at roughly the same time, but its genetically distinct clades suggest this wasn’t just one isolate spreading globally. So what happened? 🎙️listen here or where you get your podcasts www.infectiousdose.com/post/every-c...

Every Clade, Everywhere, All at Once: The Strange Emergence of Candida auris

The strange emergence of Candida auris: how a drug-resistant fungus appeared across the world, spreads in healthcare settings, and remains difficult to control.

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I'm building an outbreak tracker with some cool features. But I'm coding a thing into it that's a little FU to him. No matter what the map source does w/ his renaming of things...my map will always keep the legit names. Gulf of Mexico. Lake Ontario... & anything else will be preemptively protected.

The newly redesigned #InfectiousDose website is live. 🦠 I’ve spent the last few weeks rebuilding it to make the growing archive easier to explore and to give all the different corners of Infectious Dose a proper home. A quick tour 🧵

A fungus appears in hospitals on different continents. You assume it started somewhere and spread. Then scientists sequence it. And discover that the story is much stranger. New #InfectiousDose drops Tuesday at midnight CT.

👉An outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease has just closed every primary and secondary school in one Nigerian state. Plateau State is fighting diphtheria and officials say shortages of antitoxin are complicating the response. 🧵

🎙️ NEW: Because Mom Said So: The Infection Myths We Grew Up With Put on a coat. Don’t go outside with wet hair. Green snot means antibiotics. Don’t sit on that toilet seat. And you have FIVE SECONDS to pick that up. But how much did Mom actually get right? www.infectiousdose.com/post/because...

Because Mom Said So: The Infection Myths We Grew Up With

Can cold weather make you sick? Does green mucus mean antibiotics? We bust common infection myths about fever, toilet seats, lice, the five-second rule, and more.

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I'm paying attention to the NC rabies situation... 3 baby goats from a mobile petting zoo tested + for rabies. 4th is presumed infected. While not a human rabies outbreak so far, it's an unusually complicated exposure investigation. 🧵

August on #InfectiousDose followed the hidden infectious-disease stories of a single summer day...from the first swim of the morning to the long hours after dark. Three episodes. Three familiar summer moments. And a lot happening just out of sight. 🧵

New Outbreak Watch is live. 🦠 • What new genomic data reveal ~ Ebola outbreak’s hidden start • Screwworm spreads in Sonora • Summer COVID wave • Measles, H5N1, Vibrio & Cyclospora • & more Listen or read here or where you get your podcasts: www.infectiousdose.com/post/outbrea...

Outbreak Watch: August 28, 2026

Outbreak Watch updates on DRC Ebola, New World screwworm in Sonora, rising COVID-19, measles, H5 bird flu, Vibrio, Cyclospora and more.

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A little update to Field Notes: It's shorter You're welcome. Each week, I pull a thread from the latest episode & follow it wherever it leads. Plus a quick Outbreak Watch & postscript. This week somehow led to gorilla lice. It's free! Subscribe here: www.infectiousdose.com/field-notes

Field Notes | Infectious Dose

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🔥 NEW OUTBREAK AFTER DARK 🔥 A deadly soda can. Crabs from a toilet seat. A stranger’s sinister note. How much truth is hiding inside our favorite infectious-disease urban legends? Listen or read here, or wherever you get your podcasts: www.infectiousdose.com/post/campfir...

Campfire Curiosities: The Can, the Crabs, and the Note

Explore infectious-disease urban legends about HIV-infected needles, pubic lice from toilet seats, and leptospirosis from rat urine on soda cans.

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A contaminated needle. Crabs from a toilet seat. Rat urine on a soda can. The best infectious-disease urban legends contain just enough real biology to sound true. Tuesday at midnight CST, Outbreak After Dark separates microbiology from folklore. 🔥

🌙 New episode is live. As daylight disappears, the infectious-disease landscape changes. Tonight, we’re following mosquitoes, ticks, bats, wildlife—and microbes—beyond the flashlight beam. The finale of From Sunrise to Starlight. 🔦✨ www.infectiousdose.com/post/night-h...

Night Hike: Following Microbes Into the Dark

Explore mosquitoes, ticks, bats, wildlife, artificial light, and infectious-disease ecology on a summer night hike from dusk to starlight.

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🌙 New episode is live. As daylight disappears, the infectious-disease landscape changes. Tonight, we’re following mosquitoes, ticks, bats, wildlife—and microbes—beyond the flashlight beam. The finale of From Sunrise to Starlight. 🔦✨ www.infectiousdose.com/post/night-h...

Night Hike: Following Microbes Into the Dark

Explore mosquitoes, ticks, bats, wildlife, artificial light, and infectious-disease ecology on a summer night hike from dusk to starlight.

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🐴🦟 #Minnesota has reported its first equine #WestNileVirus case of the year, highlighting the #mosquito-borne virus’s impact on both animal and human #health. #WNV #Virology #Veterinary #disease #Pathogen #Microsky via am1100theflag .com www.am1100theflag.com/news/minneso...

Minnesota reports first West Nile Virus horse case

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Board of Animal Health has confirmed the state’s first West Nile virus (WNV) case of 2026 in an unvaccinated 3-year-old standardbred gelding located in Polk County.…

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Coming up on #InfectiousDose, we’re following the last light of a summer day into the woods. 🌙 The ecology on the trail, beyond the flashlight beam—and what changes when darkness falls. The final chapter of From Sunrise to Starlight drops midnight CST tomorrow night.

REMINDER: This starts in about 30 minutes. At 1:00 p.m. ET today, Thursday, August 13, a federal court hearing will be held in Katie Phang’s lawsuit against Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche over the Epstein files.

Doesn't take much. A hole in card and a piece of paper.

Dr Lucy Rogers@drlucyrogers.com · 2mo ago

If you don't have proper eclipse glasses / filters, try a pinhole camera ... When the sun is whole, images will be circles. When partially eclipsed they will be crescents. You can use a colander or even a Ritz Biscuit. Find out more in my book "Up - a scientist's guide to the magic above us"

An excellent story from Liz -- I've been wondering this very thing.

Liz Szabo@lizszabo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New CDC director faces first major test before she even begins work. Will she carry out Trump's order to slash the number of life-saving vaccines recommended for children? www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

New episode! 🧺 Our summer journey From Sunrise to Starlight has reached the afternoon. Coolers. Cross-contamination. Cyclospora. Norovirus. Ants. And the truth about that potato salad. Lunch is served. 🦠 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.infectiousdose.com/post/afterno...

Afternoon Picnic: How Microbes Move Through a Summer Meal

Follow the hidden microbes of a summer picnic, from Salmonella and Listeria to norovirus, food safety, coolers, cross-contamination, and picnic leftovers.

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