👏🏽👏🏽🇮🇳 India Administers 8M HPV Vaccine Doses, Marking Major Milestone in Cervical Cancer Prevention www.pib.gov.in/PressRelease...
Cynthia K Wallace MD, MSPH, etc
@patientdoc.bsky.social
Infectious disease, internal medicine and palliative care doc. Ethics consultant. News junkie (recovering). Opinions here are my own.
ICYMI the 2026 staph aureus bacteremia guidelines! Shout out to my awesome mentor, Catherine Liu, who was the IDSA panel chair for these guidelines. www.idsociety.org/practice-gui... #IDSky
Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
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I am excited to deliver the opening keynote at the Keystone Symposium on Tuberculosis in London, 1-4 March, 2027 www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
MMWR on Mpox surveillance in the US shows continuous local circulation during the last three years which suggests that it is transitioning towards endemic circulation in the United States www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Monkeypox Virus Surveillance
This report describes cases of monkeypox virus infection reported during 2024–2025.
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Join us in congratulating Dr. Lawrence Fong on his appointment as SVP & Director of Fred Hutch's Translational Science & Therapeutics Division, effective Dec. 1. In his new role, Fong will help accelerate the translation of scientific discoveries into new therapies for patients.
Important article by @pwhickey.bsky.social out today. There was no testing for Chagas’ disease in pregnant active duty service members between 2015-2023. An important gap that needs to be filled. doi.org/10.1093/milm... #IDSky
Chagas Screening Among Active-Duty Servicewomen with a History of Pregnancy
AbstractIntroduction. Approximately 1.0 to 1.7 million women of reproductive age worldwide are estimated to have a Trypanosoma cruzi infection, and fewer t
doi.org
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-... New in @cidjournal.bsky.social: an account of our Harborview Infection Prevention team's work in containing a C. auris outbreak from 2024-25, highlighting the role of expanded high-throughput PCR testing capacity for rapid patient identification and isolation - 👏👏👏
Containment of a Candidozyma auris Outbreak in an Acute Care Hospital using a Comprehensive Screening and Surveillance Program
We describe a 6-month hospital Candidozyma auris outbreak that was successfully contained using massive rapid PCR screening and rigorous infection control
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Fun! I have a new publication!! Truth be told, it’s my first ID publication :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An Unusual Perianal Lesion: Host Defenses Gone Awry
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Generative models can now make functional virus genomes – coherent, working sets of genetic instructions—from a text prompt and a training set. That is no longer science fiction.
AI Can Now Make Deepfake Biological Viruses. We Are Not Prepared
AI can now read and edit DNA. That has tremendous upside, medically. But it also has enormous dangers, including deepfaked biological viruses.
forbes.com
RIP Jackie 😢 apple.news/AiQNpYQGfQfi...
Jackie, the California bald eagle who became an internet sensation, dies after illness — The Associated Press
Jackie, the bald eagle who became an internet sensation and a symbol of the species’ recovery in California, has died after being treated for an illness at a veterinary facility.
apple.news
JAMA Pediatr: Impact of Removing the Universal Hepatitis B Birth-Dose Vaccination in the US Margaret L Lind et al @jamapediatrics.com bit.ly/4bWsoOk
History of Hendra… apple.news/AN2mW6eSaS0y...
A mystery virus started killing horses. Then humans. Was this the moment our coronavirus era began? — Guardian US
In the 1990s, scientists in Australia began searching for the origins of a new disease showing up in places hundreds of kilometres apart. They discovered the origin: bats. And found a way to reduce th...
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More fun with fungus - these videos are awesome #IDSky www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘I have an understanding housemate’: the student who makes videos of fungus on faeces
Alfred Drummond-Herdman’s extraordinary timelapses have been viewed by millions – and led him to identify new species
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Some good news for Sunday morning… 🎁👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/h...
U.S. Restores Some Vaccine and Health Aid to Unicef, Gavi and World Food Programme (Gift Article)
The amount is still far below what the U.S. spent previously on humanitarian and health aid, but resumes the flow of money for key efforts to fight malnutrition and disease.
nytimes.com
Great new article from my colleagues at @uwdeptmedicine.bsky.social infectious disease on how we move forward with the goal of revitalizing the NIH to advance science… academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...
Crisis as Catalyst: The future of the NIH driving scientific discovery
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has an unparalleled record of advancing biomedical science. Today, two critical challenges threaten its future impa
academic.oup.com
These headlines should be: “FIFA scraps plan to give Trump family 20% control after world finds out” www.wsj.com/sports/socce...
FIFA Scraps Controversial Plan to Sell Commercial Rights to Private Investors
Soccer chief Gianni Infantino reversed course mere days after the world learned of his proposal. The sport’s governing body for Europe hinted strongly that he should resign.
wsj.com
Big congratulations to second-year fellow Nico on this study out earlier this year— a thoughtful review of the real-world infectious complications associated with opioid use: @oedema.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41547770/
Infectious disease complications associated with opioid use disorder at a southern county hospital: a retrospective chart review - PubMed
SSTIs, which were often polymicrobial, comprised most IDU-associated infections among inpatients with OUD hospitalized in an urban Texas hospital. Individuals with IDU-associated infections had increa...
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“So, if there is a cyclospora outbreak next year, we still won't be able to trace it? ‘That's correct’” www.cbsnews.com/news/how-tru...
How Trump admin cuts have compromised food safety
Since May, more than 11,000 cases of illness caused by the parasite cyclospora have been reported in 41 states. This comes after the Trump administration drastically cut FDA and CDC staff, prompting o...
cbsnews.com
One immunization may protect newborns against 2 serious diseases Newborns immunized against RSV also had a 36% lower risk of infection with a life-threatening illness called invasive pneumococcal disease. Read more: https://bit.ly/4yTZY1s
The No Surprises Act has spared millions of Americans from big bills for out-of-network services provided during an ER visit. But the system created to settle payment disputes is not working as expected--and could eventually raise healthcare costs for all of us. My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com:
The No Surprises Act Could Be a Shock to the Healthcare System
When the No Surprises Act took effect in 2022, it was a rare feat of bipartisan problem-solving. The law was meant to prevent a once all-too-common scenario: An insured patient would seek emergency ca...
bloomberg.com
This popped up on my iPhone, was wild when I saw it driving through central California farm country a few years ago- a cumulonimbus flammagenitus from nearby wildfires…
About a year and a half ago I gave a talk in which I joked that the US had always been an aspirational country and we were trying to break into the top 10… :( It was supposed to be a joke 🎁👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...
Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane (Gift Article)
More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.
nytimes.com