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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Severe Covid leads to persistent viral reactivation, with >10 different viruses noted in the first 40 days after hospital admission. Long Covid was specifically associated with reactivation of latent Anelloviridae virus @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 - Nature
Chronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation and outcomes, revealing immune signatures with prog...
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This review by Carolina López, just published in Nature Immunology, discusses persistence of RNA viruses past acute infection stages www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Implications of RNA virus persistence for post-acute sequelae and chronic inflammatory syndromes - Nature Immunology
López and colleagues review recent evidence of RNA virus persistence and the associated consequences in terms of post-acute sequelae or chronic inflammatory syndromes.
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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Respiratory viral infections prime accelerated lung cancer growth
Severe COVID-19 is associated with an increased subsequent risk of lung cancer. Viral pneumonia induces durable lung epigenetic imprinting that promotes tumor-supportive neutrophils and impairs T cell...
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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Pfizer Lyme vaccine shows more than 70% efficacy but misses key statistical goal
There hasn't been an approved Lyme disease vaccine for more than 20 years, after GSK pulled its shot because of a lack of demand.
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
New huge (>800,000 people) study in Nature using genomic sequencing data finds association of EBV w/various diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, MS, IBD, hypothyroidism, and T2D. Detectable EBV viral DNA is associated with 54 HLA alleles and 27 other genomic loci www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Host control of persistent Epstein–Barr virus infection - Nature
Nature - Host control of persistent Epstein–Barr virus infection
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Ezra S @ezra.zone · 05/01/2026
Long COVID advocate Meighan Stone needs our help, please share and donate if you can. Thanks to @phillyphile215.bsky.social for organizing. www.gofundme.com/f/keep-long-...
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Donate to Keep LC Campaign Founder Housed and Medically Stable, organized by Melissa Mazur
Friends, Long COVID Campaign Founder Meighan Stone needs our help! … Melissa Mazur needs your support for Keep LC Campaign Founder Housed and Medically Stable
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
The sleep aid medication Ambien unfortunately reduced the frequency of norepinephrine pulses and therefore resulted in reduced clearance of waste in the brain
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
During deep sleep, norepinephrine oscillation every ~50 sec cause blood vessels to constrict and push CSF through the brain. The frequency of norepinephrine oscillation predicts glymphatic clearance better than duration of REM sleep, deep sleep, or total sleep
Diagram showing coordinated oscillation of norepinephrine, blood vessel constriction, and intracranial CSF and blood volume during NREM sleep
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Jonathan Wosen @jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
A @statnews.com exclusive from me: Walter Koroshetz, director of NIH's neurological disorders institute, has been ousted. Yet another example of NIH leadership churn. His departure means that 13 of the agency's 27 divisions will have interim leaders. www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...
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Director of NIH neurological disorders institute is ousted, adding to leadership churn
Walter Koroshetz, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, will soon be leaving his role, STAT has learned. His departure
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Magnus Johansson @pgmj.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
"40 percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"; "Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.” www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
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40 percent of MRI signals misinterpreted
Interpretation of numerous MRI data may be incorrect: blood flow is not a reliable indicator of brain activity.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025
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Seven Feel-Good Science Stories to Restore Your Faith in 2025
Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
So amazing to see Whitney Dafoe able to speak again www.facebook.com/reel/6513673...
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40K views · 2.2K reactions | Talking Again in 2025 I started eating again in 2024. After 11 years not eating a crumb of food or even drinking a drop of water. I got all fluids and nutrition from tu...
Talking Again in 2025 I started eating again in 2024. After 11 years not eating a crumb of food or even drinking a drop of water. I got all fluids and nutrition from tubes inserted into my body....
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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New study suggests a way to rejuvenate the immune system - Yang Tan Collective at MIT
Stimulating the liver to produce some of the signals of the thymus can reverse age-related declines in T-cell populations and enhance response to vaccination. Anne Trafton, MIT News As people age, the...
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
If you’re not already familiar w/ @boltsmag.org, it does terrific journalism at the local level across the U.S. The quality is wonderful and the stories are critical—putting Bolts in your timeline will make you so much more informed. Highly recommend. And rn following can help fund their work!
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
New review from Akiko Iwasaki outlining the history of chronic illness in the wake of epidemics www.cell.com/trends/immun...
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The lingering shadow of epidemics: post-acute sequelae across history
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has drawn global attention to post-acute infection syndromes (PAIS), with millions affected by post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC, or Long COVID). While Long COVID is newly ...
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
FYI - personal laminar flow & regular air filtration devices from @adamwong.bsky.social are on sale right now! I just wore my Air Fanta Wear for the first time at the hospital to supplement my N99 mask, and it was invaluable when I needed to drink water or (sadly) toss my cookies air-fanta.com
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AirFanta air purifiers
Official website of AirFanta air purifiers.
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Though this has given us the gift of the term “medical fryrmblal” 💀
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Nice review from Tim Henrich et al laying out a framework for thinking about how the complex landscape of prior, concurrent, and subsequent microbial infection (viral, microbial, fungal) may interact w Covid infection and whether that might play a role in Long Covid elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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The role of co-infection in the pathogenesis of acute SARS-CoV-2 infection and development of post-acute sequelae: A perspective
Unraveling mechanisms underlying post-acute SARS-CoV-2 sequelae (long COVID) and finding therapeutic solutions require a full understanding of the causative role of SARS-CoV-2 persistence and/or infec...
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The journal doesn’t actually bear the moniker Nature, which is reserved for more prestigious journals. It’s just Scientific Reports, and it’s a journal I never bothered to read when I was a researcher 😅
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Scientific Reports is a crap journal. Impact factor isn’t everything (some good specialist journals score low bc the field is small, reviews journals score high bc of high citation rate, etc) but Scientific Reports’ IF is only 3.9 — compare to Nature Medicine=50, Nature=48.5, Science=45.8, Cell=42.5
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Infection Connections: How past microbial incursions can lead to neurodegenerative diseases stanmed.stanford.edu/infections-l...
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Why acute infections can lead to neurodegeneration
Researchers are uncovering the mysteries of why early-in-life acute infections can lead to neurodegenerative diseases in later years.
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
@polybiorf.bsky.social is holding their Fall Research symposium tomorrow (Fri Nov 14). Register here to attend virtually —https://polybio.org/fall-2025-symposium/
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
With the RECOVER-NEURO clinical trial study results published today, looking forward to these RECOVER pathology studies planned for publication in 2026-2027
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Unsurprisingly, none of the “brain training interventions” tested in the RECOVER-NEURO Long Covid trial showed efficacy jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Interventions for Cognitive Symptoms in Long COVID
This randomized clinical trial investigates if evidence-based rehabilitation strategies improve cognitive symptoms in persons with long COVID.
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Adam Wong @adamwong.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Hey everyone, I'm excited to share that AirFanta Wear is now live on air-fanta.com/products/air... You'll find a thorough product breakdown and a detailed video I made explaining a lot of things about it. (1/3)
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AirFanta Personal Wearable Laminar Air Purifier
The AirFanta Wear is a personal wearable air purifier. Worn around the neck, it delivers a stream of HEPA-filtered air directly to your breathing zone, creating a personal bubble of clean air. Third-p...
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
A nice article in Nature on how seemingly esoteric, basic science research has had an enormous impact on our lives… highlighting the importance of funding basic research whose practical applications are not yet readily apparent! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This is cool 🙂
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Massachusetts Rebuffs RFK Jr. With Northeast Vaccine Accord www.msn.com/en-us/health...
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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Eight states, including Mass., met this week in a step toward public health independence from the federal government - The Boston Globe
Northeast states are seeking closer collaboration amid Trump's public health policies.
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Depends on what flavor
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Oh yes, the traditional delivery method of the potato chip bag, that goes all the way back to the Qing dynasty. Not to mention the OPEN top flap of the red envelope so she could see the cash, that’s totally normal
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Well who among us hasn’t tried buying a friend with a hundred something dollars in an open red envelope in a potato chip bag? Come on!
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Dr. med. Hank Schiffers @leanhealth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
UK: What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has the answer: "Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has an answer
Modelling study based on almost 250,000 positive COVID-19 tests in the United Kingdom shows that universal masking could have cut transmission markedly.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...
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A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr.
CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedy’s rhetoric specifically.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/08/2025
At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has: Removed COVID vaccine recommendations Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee Replaced scientists with antivaxxers Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research
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Science Magazine @science.org · 26/06/2025
Breaking news: The NIH yesterday moved to reinstate about 900 grants that a judge last week ruled had been canceled illegally because their topics, ranging from vaccine hesitancy or promoting diversity in the scientific workforce, had been blacklisted by the Trump administration. scim.ag/4lq9UrQ
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NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order
Projects touching on sensitive topics such as DEI had been illegally terminated, judge found
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
More resistance from within the NIH Gift article www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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An Uproar at the NIH
Jay Bhattacharya, the the agency’s director, has made a point of welcoming dissent. A letter from his officials will test that.
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Lower Decks is the best! It even got me to finally watch TAS (The Animated Series), thereby completing my watch of all of Star Trek 😊
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Oh I think Voyager can stand up to a bit of affectionate teasing… if you haven’t seen it yet, Twovix (Lower Decks S4 E1) is a really fun romp through some of the wilder aspects of the show — one of my favorite episodes!
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Cindy L @cuboidalhug.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I really like Voyager, but two words — salamander babies 😄
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The FDA has approved Novavax COVID19 shots for those aged 65 and older or those 12-64 with medical conditions that put them at higher risk for severe COVID19. It doesn’t make sense to restrict it to ages 65 and up, but this is what happens when Congress confirms an anti-vaxxer to lead HHS.
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
PolyBio @polybiorf.bsky.social Spring Symposium: Zoom seminar with 10 minute research updates from 33 researchers. Friday, May 16, 1100 ET / 1500 UTC polybio.org/spring-2025-... Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #longcovid #chronicillness #mecfs #lyme #cci
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Spring 2025 Symposium Schedule - PolyBio Research Foundation
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 02/05/2025
Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Akiko Iwasaki and Harlan Krumholz call for Long COVID and chronic disease research funding in the WSJ: “Advancing this research is one of the most effective ways to improve the lives of the tens of millions of Americans with chronic diseases.” www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...
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Opinion | How to Lead a Chronic Disease Revolution
Washington has an opportunity to help tens of millions.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency. Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
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The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 11/04/2025
Kidney outcomes following COVID in children - from the NIH RECOVER initiative in @jama.com Network Open Usual caveats jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #pedneph #NephSky
Figure 2.  Adjusted Hazard Ratios (HRs) for Kidney Outcomes in COVID-19–Positive vs –Negative Patients by Phase
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Another $2.6 billion in cuts to NIH are coming by next Tuesday www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/n... The shredded image fits
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Trump administration orders NIH to eliminate $2.6 billion in federal contracts
At a chaotic time, the NIH is given a deadline of April 8 to make a 35% cut in services that may include specimen storage, genetic counseling, and administration.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...
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A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature
Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...
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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“A positive test for COVID-19 was associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Rates of infection with other pathogens after a positive COVID-19 test versus a negative test in US veterans (November, 2021, to December, 2023): a retrospective cohort study
Our results suggest that a positive test for COVID-19 (vs a negative test) was associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infecti...
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Paul Nuki @paulnuki.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Some very bad news: New modelling predicts up to 10 million additional HIV infections following aid cuts www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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