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Arthur Scott-Geddes

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Deputy Editor @telglobalhealth.bsky.social Contact: arthur.scottgeddes@telegraph.co.uk Previously in Germany and Pakistan Free to read 🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Why tens of millions face hunger and poverty in wake of Trump’s Iran war From Croydon to the Cote D’Ivoire, the world is facing an economic crisis that could be as bad as the 1970s ✍️ @liliasebouai.bsky.social @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social and Verity Bowman www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Exclusive: The British-made wearable tech poised to transform dengue treatment Low-cost, AI-powered device being trialled in Vietnam could help doctors spot severe dengue early @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social has the latest 👇 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Sarah Newey @sneweyy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
At least 3 soldiers from Akhmat Battalion, a unit better known for its staged combat videos than battlefield achievements, have fallen sick with hantavirus, a rodent-borne disease known as “mouse fever” www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Outbreaks of debilitating tropical diseases becoming Europe’s ‘new normal’, @ecdc.europa.eu‬ has warned Mosquito-borne diseases like chikungunya were once confined to the tropics but climate change is allowing them to spread in Europe Link here🔗 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Outbreaks of debilitating tropical diseases becoming Europe’s ‘new normal’
Mosquito-borne diseases like chikungunya were once confined to the tropics but climate change is allowing them to spread in Europe
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Sarah Newey @sneweyy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
A sobering account from Sierra Leone – and a clear warning that mpox should not be underestimated Important report by @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social, with photographs from @simontownsley.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Inside the Red Zone: Sierra Leone’s terrifying mpox outbreak
More than 5,000 have tested positive – including children – and at least 47 have died in Africa’s worst outbreak of the disease
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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Dispatch by @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social and @simontownsley.bsky.social Full story here - free to read 🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Inside the Red Zone: Sierra Leone’s terrifying mpox outbreak
More than 5,000 have tested positive – including children – and at least 47 have died in Africa’s worst outbreak of the disease
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Sarah Newey @sneweyy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I keep thinking about the poignant, devastating conclusion of @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social's latest piece on mpox in Sierra Leone. Make sure to read the full piece, with photos by @simontownsley.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Arthur Scott-Geddes @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Properly gruesome dispatch from @parrytom.bsky.social and @simontownsley.bsky.social on the horrific screw worm resurgence in Central America www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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‘Man-eating’ screw worm turns hospital into horror show
A long-forgotten parasite has made a comeback and is reasserting its dominance in Honduras
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Author Bill Sullivan @authorbillsullivan.com · 17/06/2025
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Arthur Scott-Geddes @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It turns out the world’s most successful parasite can ‘decapitate’ sperm. For @telglobalhealth.bsky.social I wrote about the implications of this discovery for our understanding of the male infertility crisis. With thanks to @zahadyv.bsky.social and Bill Sullivan www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Could the answer to the male fertility crisis be lurking in your cat’s litter tray?
Discovery that the world’s most successful parasite can ‘decapitate’ sperm offers a new path to understanding rising infertility among men
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Arthur Scott-Geddes @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Spent a week in Kazakhstan with @simontownsley.bsky.social meeting victims of Soviet nuclear testing. Mutations are being passed from one generation to the next in an ongoing health crisis. Dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social Free to read 🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Atomic bombs destroyed their lives – now they want Russia to pay
Amid calls to restart nuclear testing, families are still suffering from mutations passed down through the generations
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Ben Farmer @benfarmerdt.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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‘I saw many die with my own eyes’: Survivors describe an unfolding genocide in Darfur
As Sudan's civil war spirals, refugees recall witnessing pogroms, mass killings and barbarism
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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Flagship Gavi vaccine projects face axe if US funding stops, CEO warns. Exclusive: The decision to end funding for the partnership could have ramifications felt well beyond its frontline vaccine programmes. @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social reports. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Flagship Gavi vaccine projects face axe if US funding stops, CEO warns
Exclusive: The decision to end funding for the partnership could have ramifications felt well beyond its frontline vaccine programmes
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"We wanted to see Hayes electrical substation which is famous not just in Europe, but in the whole world"
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
And now the White House has killed the Corporate Transparency Act, which was itself a tiny first step in the marathon journey of stopping US companies from being the most egregiously opaque shell structures on the planet. God, this is grim.
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Lilia Sebouai @liliasebouai.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I travelled to Sudan's remote Nuba mountains with @simontownsley.bsky.social We found that millions are already on the brink of starvation, but the worst of the famine is yet to come. First in a series of dispatches for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Children reduced to skin and bones in war-torn Sudan’s forgotten famine
Every scrap of food counts for the millions on the brink of starvation in the remote Nuba mountains
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🚨 Ohio reports its first probable human case of influenza A(H5). An adult male farm worker, exposed to deceased poultry—but no details on clinical status or virus sequencing. With bird flu spreading, this is a terrible time to defund public health and halt research. odh.ohio.gov/media-center...
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Ohio Reports First Human Case of Bird Flu
The overall risk to Ohioans is low, but those in close contact with sick or dead poultry or wild birds should take precautions
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Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
A trial at Oxford is just one of the dozens across the world grinding to a halt after the USAID funding freeze. The study is testing a cutting-edge malaria vaccine - the RH5.2-VLP - for the first time. At least 40 people had been injected with the new jab before the freeze, it is understood.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 27/01/2025
"Around 90 percent of the SS who worked at Auschwitz during the war escaped all forms of prosecution." —Laurence Rees, author of 'Auschwitz: A New History,' in a 2005 interview www.npr.org/2020/01/24/7...
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UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 20/01/2025
In the wake of repeated incidents involving the sharing of classified military information on the War Thunder game forums, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed its commitment to preventing such leaks. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=56134
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MoD reinforces measures to prevent leaks in online gaming
In the wake of repeated incidents involving the sharing of classified military information on the War Thunder game forums, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed its commitment to preventing such leaks.
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Paul Nuki @paulnuki.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Excellent reporting here on the proliferation of wildfires and the increasing danger they pose. Thanks for the help and inspiration @johnvaillant.bsky.social Fire weather: How extreme wildfires became the rule – not the exception www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Fire weather: How extreme wildfires became the rule – not the exception
Unusually intense fires have struck across the world almost every year for the last decade
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Large fires in urban areas are de facto CBRN/Hazmat incidents because of the materials involved in the fires.
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Arthur Scott-Geddes @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Tried to get to the bottom of how unusual this year’s annual winter illness season really is. The short answer is that it’s not - for the most part!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls
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Arthur Scott-Geddes @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The Louisiana man who caught H5N1 has now died, health authorities have confirmed @maevecullinan.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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US reports first human H5N1 death
The man had underlying health conditions and is believed to have caught the virus directly from birds
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Arthur Scott-Geddes @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Extraordinary dispatch from @sneweyy.bsky.social on the Dickensian conditions in Pakistan’s coal mines and brick kilns www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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The fight to rid Pakistan’s coal pits of diseases that plagued British miners a century ago
Ultra-portable, AI driven x-rays have been used to find undiagnosed TB, as miners inhaling soot in Victorian-era conditions are at high risk
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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Rats, pigeons and water buffaloes massacred in world’s largest animal sacrifice. At least 200,000 animals were sacrificed at Gadhimai, dubbed the ‘world’s bloodiest festival.’ ✍️ Gaurav Pokharel and @sneweyy.bsky.social report. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Rats, pigeons and water buffaloes massacred in world’s largest animal sacrifice
At least 200,000 animals were sacrificed at Gadhimai, dubbed the ‘world’s bloodiest festival’
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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Into the unknown: Crack WHO team journeys deep into the Congo to identify mystery killer. Their urgent mission is to find out what is killing swathes of people in one of the most remote parts of the world. Free to read 🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Into the unknown: Crack WHO team journeys deep into the Congo to identify mystery killer
Their urgent mission is to find out what is killing swathes of people in one of the most remote parts of the world
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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
(1/2) UK may be unable to produce enough vaccines in next pandemic, government told. Britain is falling behind other countries that are better prepared for future threats, Baroness Brown has warned. @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social - free to read 🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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UK may be unable to produce enough vaccines in next pandemic, government told
Britain is falling behind other countries that are better prepared for future threats, Baroness Brown has warned
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Arthur Scott-Geddes @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Follow the Telegraph's Global Health Security team on Bluesky! go.bsky.app/HPdzMjh
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Arthur Scott-Geddes @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The UK has begun stockpiling bird flu vaccines to prepare for a possible H5N1 pandemic @maevecullinan.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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UK buys 5 million bird flu vaccine shots to prepare for H5N1 pandemic
The jabs are being stockpiled in case avian flu begins to spread between humans
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Arthur Scott-Geddes @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Great visual investigation of Russia's aviation buildup in North Africa from @sophiayan.bsky.social
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Poppie Platt @poppieplatt.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Went to Idles at Ally Pally on Friday night and it’s safe to say my review rubbed (some of) the Telegraph readers up the wrong way… www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concer...
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Idles: ignore the Tory-bashing – this is Britain’s most riotously exciting band
At times, the Bristolian punks’ gig felt like a centrist-dad convention. But behind the Corbynite posturing is viscerally thrilling music
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Arthur Scott-Geddes @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Simeon and I looked at how the horrifying new world screw worm is making a comeback in Central America. I have to say, I find the arguments for wiping it out altogether quite compelling! My latest for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Scientists built a great wall to keep out the ‘man devourer’ – but now it’s fighting back
The new world screw worm, a species of fly that lays its eggs in the open wounds of warm-blooded animals, is making a comeback
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Arthur Scott-Geddes @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
One of the first things that I noticed when I arrived in Pakistan in the middle of the pollution season a few years ago was the acrid tang in the air. Now it’s even worse - and children under five are most at risk
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Marcel Plichta @marcelplichta.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Notably, there are several drone manufacturers listed. It's clear what kind of support bothers Moscow.
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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Trump has vowed to crack down on universities involved in misinformation research, or what he dubs the "censorship cartel" - e.g. by curbing funds to those that have "flagged content for removal”, or legal threats “I'm pretty fucking scared," one professor tells me. www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
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Donald Trump’s return sends shivers through the anti-misinformation world
Vow to crack down on the ‘censorship cartel’ has researchers worried — and Big Tech is on notice
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Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
RFK accused the FDA of “suppressing” raw milk on X last month. “FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” he said. All this as H5N1 continues to boom in California (402 herds infected) - the US's largest dairy producer... www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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H5N1 found in raw milk – the same drink promoted by America’s next health chief
Robert Kennedy Junior and Gwyneth Paltrow are big fans of unpasteurised milk and have continued to promote it despite the health risks
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Arthur Scott-Geddes @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It is amazing how regularly this happens now, especially in the US
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Kerry McQueeney @kerrymcqueeney.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Let’s kick off with @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social’s attempt to assassinate our boss with a drone: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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How I assassinated my boss with an AI drone
We have entered a new drone age – one in which machines can acquire targets and kill of their own accord.
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Arthur Scott-Geddes @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
* Successful attempt!
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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Ukraine needs more help to beat ‘superbugs’, says chief doctor. Soaring cases of drug-resistant bacterial infections in Ukraine have caused alarm among public health officials. @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social has the latest. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Ukraine needs more help to beat ‘superbugs’, says chief doctor
Soaring cases of drug-resistant bacterial infections in Ukraine have caused alarm among public health officials
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