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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Excellent news as RSV vaccine in pregnancy protects babies from developing RSV and massively reduces risk of getting seriously ill and needing Hospitalisation

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Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80%

A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

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Jonathan Groot @jgroot.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Big claims widely communicated require consistent reporting of all relevant results. Controversial Danish vaccine research group faces new allegations | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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Controversial Danish vaccine research group faces new allegations

Researchers say they couldn’t find complete data for 10 trials that together enrolled tens of thousands of children in Guinea-Bissau

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

"Whereas a small change in transmissibility conditions is enough to stop flu in summer, Sars-CoV-2 can basically evolve its way over this barrier" – I spoke to The Guardian about why COVID doesn't seem that constrained by season: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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What do we know about the Covid-19 virus five years on?

As the virus continues to evolve, experts assess its latest variants, seasonal prevalence and levels of vaccine uptake

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I thought it might be helpful to do a more general immunology explainer which I can then build on for example when I discuss specific papers or political actions. Do let me know if its useful and other topics if so. This first one is a general one about how we tackle infections... 🧪 #ImmunoSky

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Fundamental immunology 101: the basics of an immune response

Tackling infections

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Jonathan Groot @jgroot.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A good short summary. Imagine thinking that Robert FK Jr. would bring about a healthier America. Facts and myths about measles - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Facts and myths about measles

It seems ironic that Robert F Kennedy Jr, one of the most prominent antivaccine activists, has been made Secretary of Health and Human Services in the USA while one of the largest recent measles outbr...

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Stine Linnemann @handle.invalid · 26/03/2025

En stor dag for adopterede fra Sydkorea - og os der har dem kær: www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla... En Sydkoreansk kommission har nu anerkendt brud på menneskerettighederne og børnekonventionen, for økonomisk vinding. Danmark har været én af de største modtagere men ignorerer sit ansvar. Borgerforslag 👇

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Worrying to see whooping cough cases on the rise in Louisiana with two infant fatalities reported. Do vaccinate to protect yourself and loved ones- safe effective vaccine offered from as early as a few months of age

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Whooping Cough cases on the rise in Louisiana, two infant deaths reported

Louisiana is seeing an alarming rise in whooping cough cases, with the state’s Department of Health reporting two infant deaths within the last six months.

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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Do you remember BA.3—the weakling cousin of BA.1 & BA.2 that seemed to take the worst from each & had weaker ACE2 binding than even the ancestral Wuhan Virus? After three years, BA.3 is back. And it is transmitting. Who saw this coming? 1/13

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The Vaccinologist's Desk (Dr Helen Petousis-Harris) @helenp-h.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

📊 Key Findings:✔️ 3rd dose of mRNA reduced hosp risk by 50% compared to two doses.✔️ICU or death risk dropped by 53% for those with three doses.✔️Protection held across all ethnicities—with 👆strong results for Pacific (52% lower ICU/death risk).✔️ Older adults (50+) benefited most.👇

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The most fitting end to a day in which the regime just curbstomped our outbreak response capacity: an H5N1 patient in a hospital that’s also presumably full of seasonal flu patients. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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Wyoming identifies first human case of bird flu

The Wyoming Department of Health said on Friday it has identified its first human case of H5N1 bird flu in the region, making it the third confirmed instance of hospitalization related to the infection in the United States.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/02/2025

There's "being wrong in early in a pandemic" wrong and then there's "doubling down over and over again until you find yourself in bed with RFK Jr. and founding a whole-ass journal to discredit all of academic publishing along with all of medicine" wrong. publichealth.realclearjournals.org

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Journal of the Academy of Public Health

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Jonathan Groot @jgroot.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Outside my current research area: but a message that increased saturated fat in the diet doesn’t influence LDL levels and cardiovascular endpoints is likely harmful. Because it does (even though there are as always small caveats). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32827219/

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Reduction in saturated fat intake for cardiovascular disease - PubMed

The findings of this updated review suggest that reducing saturated fat intake for at least two years causes a potentially important reduction in combined cardiovascular events. Replacing the energy f...

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