In ID we already treat patients who return from Florida with unknown infections somewhat as if they are returning from another country. Soon we will have to start recommending vaccinations and prophylaxis before travel to Florida (or avoiding the trip). #IDSky www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

Florida plans to drop 4 vaccine mandates, despite Trump support for some shots

As kids go back to school, Florida leaders hope to strip away vaccine mandates, clashing with some of President Donald Trump’s recommendations.

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Florida proposes that "children would no longer have to get shots for chickenpox, Hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib, and pneumococcal disease" to attend school. This has been expected for awhile. via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social #vaccines #pediatrics #IDSky #EpiSky #healthpolicy

Florida plans to drop 4 vaccine mandates, despite Trump support for some shots

As kids go back to school, Florida leaders hope to strip away vaccine mandates, clashing with some of President Donald Trump’s recommendations.

tampabay.com

Two Lancaster County, Pennsylvania residents have died from measles. The state is not giving further identifying information but both were unvaccinated. #IDSky #publichealth #pediatrics #vaccines #MMR #EpiSky

Pennsylvania Department of Health Confirms Two Measles-Associated Deaths

Pennsylvania Department of Health Confirms Two Measles-Associated Deaths

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We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

Clinical Impact of Rapid Molecular Diagnosis of Bloodstream Infections: A Randomized Controlled Trial ✅ Just Accepted ⭐ Editor's Choice 🔗 https://bit.ly/45ESMJb

I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

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No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem

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In a large study, #fluoroquinolone prescribing emerged as key driver of AMR in multiple pathogens in a 14-year study period at US Veterans Affairs medical centers. #IDsky #Medsky Learn more: www.contagionlive.com/view/identif...

File this under the weird and wild: Patient gets gladular tularemia (Francisella tularenesis subspecies holaratica) after car vs deer accident #IDSky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Tularaemia after deer exposure in a vehicular collision

A 39-year-old man sustained facial lacerations from the body of a roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and shattered glass after the animal, first struck by an oncoming vehicle, broke through his windshield...

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Please don’t waste time and money sending a test that tells you someone has bacteria in their urine. We know they do; it’s not sterile! #IDSky

Clinical Infectious Diseases@cidjournal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Quantitative PCR Bacterial Levels Cannot Distinguish Recurrent UTI from Other Non-infectious Urinary Symptoms ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 https://bit.ly/4bOIGsy

Quantitative PCR Bacterial Levels Cannot Distinguish Recurrent UTI from Other Non-infectious Urinary Symptoms ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 https://bit.ly/4bOIGsy

‘The impression of Scandinavia’s immense distance from Mediterranean Europe is a legacy of medieval parochialism and the shock of the Vikings. In reality, continental Denmark is only a four-week march from the Roman frontier.’ Michael Kulikowski on ancient Scandinavia. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Michael Kulikowski · Polar Bears in Rome: Roman Scandinavia

Over the past two generations, the boundaries of the classical world have been stretched to the steppe frontier of China...

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we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism

These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

Zero surprise that these are explicitly designed to cause pain without leaving a mark, not to incapacitate. Yes, we're spending $20M to buy ICE agents torture devices.

This is something I'd like to see vigorously investigated instead of endless 'is college woke!?' pieces in The Atlantic and the NYT - because my sense is this is correct, humanities courses subsidize more expensive fields. But that prompts further questions about decisions being made to cut them.

Gregory A. Hargreaves@bordergroves.bsky.social · 3w ago

Numbers update: The history class I’m about to teach this semester has a 10% larger enrollment and university tuition is also 10% higher than two years ago. My class will generate about $160,000 of revenue for the university. My pay will be under $7K or approximately 4%. Humanities fund uni sport

Numbers update: The history class I’m about to teach this semester has a 10% larger enrollment and university tuition is also 10% higher than two years ago. My class will generate about $160,000 of revenue for the university. My pay will be under $7K or approximately 4%. Humanities fund uni sport

Lyme-disease causing black-legged ticks are spreading in western North Carolina, per MMWR report on investigation in the Asheville area. #IDsky #EpiSky #arboviruses #virology #publichealth

Southward Expansion of Ixodes scapularis ...

This report describes identification of blacklegged ticks during community-based tick surveillance at a residential property in North Carolina.

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These are the actions of an authoritarian state. Instead of investigating the agent who killed Alex Pretti, Trump's DHS conducted sweeping surveillance of Minnesota organizations that were peacefully standing up to this Administration's lawlessness. Despicable.

Worth reading. @nickkristof.bsky.social gives voice to brutalized Palestinians in the WB (& Gaza) and strikes a balance between hope for a change Israeli leadership and realism that “even if that happens…, Gazans will still suffer unconscionably, and the West Bank will remain oppressed and unequal.”

Opinion | Israeli Settlers Are Out of Control (Gift Article)

If Netanyahu is ousted in October’s balloting, don’t expect peace to break out, but the worst violence might be reined in.

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Absolutely stunning dual RNAseq/imaging work by @andresfloto.bsky.social & colleagues: subpopulations of P. aeruginosa with different transcriptomes exist in different niches (airway lumen, glands, blood vessels) in explanted #CysticFibrosis lungs 🤯 #MicroSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New research article Effects of a community-based intervention bundle on household transmission of [ESBL]-producing Escherichia coli in rural Burkina Faso to target community-level drivers of [ #AMR] in sub-Saharan Africa www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA

Changing antibiotic dispensing of #AMR is one thing. But does it actually reduce the problem? Our new paper, part II of the CABU EICO study, is now out! #IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA @ndm.ox.ac.uk @itmantwerp.bsky.social @oxprimarycare.bsky.social

The Lancet Microbe@lancetmicrobe.bsky.social · 3w ago

New research article Effects of a community-based intervention bundle on household transmission of [ESBL]-producing Escherichia coli in rural Burkina Faso to target community-level drivers of [ #AMR] in sub-Saharan Africa www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA

We have concentration camps on U.S. soil. That’s the post. It’s too much for anything else.

So many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...

Hundreds rally at site were Haitians required to check-in, get monitors after end of TPS

Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal immigration office Sunday morning to show support for Haitian immigrants from Springfield who were called to report for immigration check-ins.

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It is *lunacy* for the ostensibly liberal opposition party to say we shouldn't limit any individual's wealth and power after watching a cadre of fascist billionaires systematically destroy this country. That's probably the single most important thing we *must* do!

Now out @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social led @elizagil.bsky.social Strep anginosus an increasingly important cause of pyogenic infections in adults & kids. Here we describe changing epidemiology within UK. Great collaboration @lshtm.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @greatormondst.bsky.social

Streptococcus anginosus group as a cause of serious streptococcal infection in the UK: a retrospective population-based surveillance study

SAG infections, predominantly deep pyogenic collections in SBSs, are increasing in both children and adults in the UK and represent a major cause of streptococcal SBS infections. This increase is unli...

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They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 3w ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

New RCT from @nejm.org Evidence: PO Vanc x10 d VS PO Vanc Taper/Pulse VS Fidaxomicin for 1st or 2nd Recurrence of CDiff (n=308) Day 59 sustained clinical response: Vanc TP: 58.6% vs Vanc x10: 44.1% vs Fidaxo: 44.1% (p>0.0255 = not significant) #IDSky #CDiff evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Does the Evidence Support High-Dose Liposomal Amphotericin B in the Treatment of Mucormycosis? Kontoyiannis & Lewis find routine dose escalation >5–6 mg/kg/day not evidence based; early dx, debridement, & reversal of immunosuppression more NB academic.oup.com/jid/advance-... #MedMycoSky #IDSky