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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

“On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST).

For USAID personnel currently posted outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the Department of State, is currently preparing a plan, in accordance with all applicable requirements and laws, under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days and provide for the termination of PSC and ISC contracts that are not determined to be essential. The Agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and return travel extensions based on personal or family hardship, mobility or safety concerns, or other reasons. For example, the Agency will consider exceptions based on the timing of dependents’ school term, personal or familial medical needs, pregnancy, and other reasons. Further guidance on how to request an exception will be forthcoming.

Thank you for your service”

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

What happens when scientists are censored? People die. New Substack post on the status of censorship of United States Scientists "February 1st Has Come and Gone, US Science Remains Censored"

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February 1st Has Come and Gone, US Science Remains Censored

Remember what happened last time we tried to ignore Scientists? The problems don't disappear, they kill Americans.

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Infectious Disease Roundup: 2/2/2025. Probable human case of H5N1 in Delaware. Egg prices high forever? More deadly, highly contageous Clade Ib MPOX continues to spread (14% pediatric patients in recent outbreak), and more fun topics.

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Infectious Disease Roundup: 2/2/2025

Second Largest US Egg producer hit with H5N1, Probable Human H5N1 case in Delaware, Clade Ib MPOX spreading in DRC and a new case in the UK, Polio Detected in wastewater of several EU countries...

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

"California attorney Mark Lemley dropped Meta Platforms Inc. as a client in a high-profile copyright case because of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,” the Stanford University professor said on LinkedIn."

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Meta Lawyer Lemley Quits AI Case Citing Zuckerberg 'Descent' (1)

California attorney Mark Lemley dropped Meta Platforms Inc. as a client in a high-profile copyright case because of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,” the Sta...

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

As an Immunologist who has studied Influenza I was worried about H5N1, I am horrified re: H5N9. Our population has no pre-existing immunity. I repeat, we have NO PRE-EXISTING immunity to H5N9. (we have a little with H5N1 via H1N1 vaccines & infections) www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

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Tests identify H5N9 avian flu at California duck farm

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Vaccines are life saving. The individual & public health benefit outweighs the risk more than nearly any other approved drug/med procedure. Example: Tylenol is responsible for more deaths & hospitalizations than all vaccines combined. #RFKJr made $Ms off of telling people otherwise.

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I left Twitter years ago. I don't think much of it will exist by this time next year. Reminder No one in history has blown $44B faster than Elon Musk while seemingly trying not to. Trump put him in charge of US Gov Efficiency. 😅

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EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It's farcical that #RFKJr was nominated at all. Someone who has directly profited for decades attacking sound science with pseudoscience and is directly linked causing a deadly measles outbreak should never be in charge of HHS, this is a waste of everyone's time.

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Please call and write to your senators and remind them that it doesn't matter what #RFKJr says in his hearings. Relying on "his word" against a multi-decade track record of attacking life-saving vaccines among other atrocities is utter nonsense. You don't take people like that "at their word"

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Would someone in the #Biotech or #Medtech community like to explain to Alexa Lardieri and the Daily Mail that this would not be the "Worlds First Cancer Vaccine" and perhaps remind them that the current nominee to oversee HHS has made millions being radically against all vaccines?

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This is correct. Infectious disease is just a plane flight away. Stopping widespread destruction to human life (and yes economies if that's your number one) is now a global team effort. The #WHO is the organization that contains, isolates, and identifies pathogens.

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The UK has reported it's first human case of H5N1. The person had extensive contact with a large number of infected birds on a farm. Threat to the general public remains low. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Human case of avian flu detected in England

UKHSA confirms rare case of bird flu (H5N1) in the West Midlands region.

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The United States Health and Human Services remains in a communications embargo. We are in the middle of a 'quad-demic'. There have been intermittent instances of highly pathogenic H5N1 infecting people (gaining mutations that would enable person to person spread). I will keep posting updates here:

lilscience.substack.com

Infectious Disease Roundup: 1/26/2025

An overview of infectious disease outbreaks in the United States and globally. January 26th, 2025: Tuberculosis, Norovirus, Chronic Wasting Disease, H5N1, Marburg Virus, et al.

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

While I deeply appreciate the concern & agree with the authors, the entire US Health & Human Services, which includes the agencies that would spearhead the effort is currently shutdown. Please write more about the devastating consequences of that @financialtimes.com

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‘Grossly irresponsible’: health experts urge US to control bird flu

Call for stronger action comes on warning of growing risk the virus will evolve to spread more easily between humans

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Lest anyone question where I stand. There's a Nazi with an office in the White House. He was just moved him across the street after speaking to far right Nazi-sypathetic party in Germany called the AfD. Thread⬇️: A Real Silicon Valley story from someone born here. www.adl.org/resources/ba...

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Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party: What You Need To Know

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Thanks for stepping in to fill this role.

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Today I started to build a library of interesting and brilliant accounts to follow. I would like to direct my followers to one of the most important and perhaps underrated people I have found on BlueSky: @sherifink.bsky.social

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

As a 'quad-demic' rages & we have the highest wastewater readings for Influenza, RSV, & Norovirus in the last 2 years, I would like to revisit the attempt to tell people that increased infection rates were due to 'Immunity Debt'. The evidence never supported it. lilscience.substack.com/cp/155699252

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Immunity Debt: The Conspiracy Theory Elevated to Popular Pseudoscience That Is Making Children Sick

It is time to retire this dangerous and misleading concept and focus on the real science

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Infectious disease roundup for the week just posted on Substack. Link is in my bio.

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Viruses can cause cancer, and the SARS-CoV-2 virus demonstrates many of the same properties and activities of cancer causing viruses. Will we find a link between increased rates of #cancer and #COVID? Here I provide a brief review of what we know so far: lilscience.substack.com/p/long-covid...

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Long COVID Series Part 4.3: Is there evidence for a link between Cancer and COVID-19?

Because SARS-CoV-2 disrupts immune system function, which is important for fighting off cancer this review is under the umbrella of SARS-CoV-2 and the immune system (Part 4).

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Melanie Matheu, PhD @lilscience.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I remember my first tweet in 2007. It was a good idea then and BlueSky is a good idea now. Looking forward to engaging in the public square again.

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