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Susan Butler-Wu

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Clinical microbiologist. Opinions expressed are my own.

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Susan Butler-Wu @sbtothedub.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Add this awesome T-shirt to the huge multitude of reasons that I love the @pascv.bsky.social meeting!! Excited to be kicking off our Clinical Microbiology Boards review - let’s go!! 🦠 🧫 🍄 🪱 🧬 🔬
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Susan Butler-Wu @sbtothedub.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Are you taking a clinical microbiology boards exam soon? Or did before and just fancy a refresher on clinical micro? If so, there’s still time to register for our review course at @pascv.bsky.social - come for the course, and stay for the meeting! #beachn’bugs 🏝️ 🧫 🦠 🪱 🍄
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Molecular Virology Workshop - Pan American Society for Clinical Virology
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
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Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 07/03/2025
if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Our call to to resistance, led by @angelahuttner.bsky.social and first published in @cmicomms.bsky.social, now published in @cmijournal.bsky.social too www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S119...
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From medical editors: a call to the global infectious diseases and clinical microbiology community
The views expressed by the authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) or Elsevier.
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I don't think there's precedent for this level of open corruption at the federal level, certainly not in the last 100+ years.
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Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation @egpaf.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What happens when HIV services are terminated? When mothers have access to treatment, their risk of transmitting HIV to their babies is less than 1%. Global health cannot wait!
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 28/02/2025
Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Update: Hours after Musk asserted that USAID had "restored" Ebola prevention, the agency informed several organizations working with USAID on Ebola prevention that their contracts were being cancelled, two people tell me + @johnphudson.bsky.social. One of those organizations was UNICEF.
Update: Hours after Musk asserted that USAID had "restored" Ebola prevention, the agency informed several organizations working with USAID on Ebola prevention that their contracts were being cancelled, two people tell me + @John_Hudson. 

One of those groups was UNICEF.
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Infectious Diseases @infectiousdz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Ebola prevention doesn't mean that you go and buy an Ebola prevention kit. Ebola doesn't arrive shouting it's name and saying it's me, it's Ebola. What you support are healthcare systems with infection prevention and control that are open day in and day out, triaging and caring for patients.
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Craig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Updated: It is in a child. "The Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting the first death from measles in the ongoing outbreak in the South Plains and Panhandle regions. The school-aged child who was not vaccinated was hospitalized in Lubbock last week and tested positive for measles."
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Duncan MacCannell @drm.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
As you drive up Clifton Road towards CDC’s Roybal campus, there are often signs by the side of the road. This past month, they have been focused on the importance of public health and the commitment of its staff. I thought I would share a few of them here. #publichealth
Sign by the side of the road, with CDC in the background.
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D’Epitomee of 92% @epitomee.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
cc: @Gavin Newsome It’s time to build a CDC & NIH in California with the folks who were fired from the feds. In fact, I think each blue state governor needs to scoop up these scientists, healthcare workers and laboratory workers asap. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Who tracks surgical infections and sets guidelines for how to prevent your shiny new hip replacement from getting infected? Who funds studies to determine the most cost-effective way to prevent your hip replacement from getting infected? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “The CDC”
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pascv.bsky.social @pascv.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
In light of recent events, PASCV would like to reaffirm that we remain dedicated to maintaining a professional society that is open and inclusive, transparent in our decision-making, and resolute in the support of our members.
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
"The professors are the enemy" - Chairman Mao Zedong <Checks notes> Ooops, scratch that, it was JD Vance
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/02/2025
SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/02/2025
It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
From USAID colleague, with permission to share. It's not just chaos it is devastation and tearing apart of families and communities. Not to talk of systems that kept us safe. This is just one story, multiple this by 10,000. Is this really making America great?
Letter from colleague fired from USAID,  sharing devastating impact and chaos that this has wrought on her life and family.
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
They are scrubbing critical information about zoonotic transmission of a potentially deadly virus with pandemic potential. Cool, cool. (If only there was a US-based professional society representing >13k infectious diseases experts brave enough to speak out about this)
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 29/12/2024
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, was reportedly arrested for refusing to abandon patients.
Photo of Dr. Safiya walking through rubble toward tanks, wearing his white coat
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Susan Butler-Wu @sbtothedub.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Per CA PH, this most likely reflects detection of genomic material from consumption of milk, but they are continuing to investigate #H5N1
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Erica @erohealthcomms.com · 09/12/2024
✅Please contact your senators to share your views.
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How measles, whooping cough, and worse could roar back on RFK Jr.’s watch | CNN
The availability of safe, effective covid vaccines less than a year into the pandemic marked a high point in the 300-year history of vaccination, seemingly heralding an age of protection against infec...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Updates on disease X outbreak in DRC "The unknown illness, has claimed 79 lives and infected 376 people in the Panzi district, appears airborne per health director, a rural area with high vulnerability due to 40% malnutrition and a recent typhoid outbreak. healthpolicy-watch.news/drc-expects-...
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Susan Butler-Wu @sbtothedub.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Wise words from Dr Riina Richardson on clinical lab testing #ISHAM24
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Susan Butler-Wu @sbtothedub.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Dr John Perfect’s lecture on opportunistic fungal infections is 🔥 #ISHAM24
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Susan Butler-Wu @sbtothedub.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Fantastic presentation from the legendary Dr John Bennett on fungal epidemiology - 🐈 🌹 #ISHAM24
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Susan Butler-Wu @sbtothedub.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Yass! ISHAM Fungal Dx course is a go - VERY excited about this course 😃
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I’m old enough to remember the catastrophic toll of HIV/AIDS denial by South African President Thabo Mbeki, which led to >300,000 AIDS deaths. I never thought that 20 years later, an HIV/AIDS denialist would be tapped for the helm of health policy in the US. RFK Jr MUST be rejected #WorldAIDSDay
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Susan Butler-Wu @sbtothedub.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
As a young kid, I grew up drinking well water (no fluoride). By the time I was 6 yo, I had had had 4 dental abscesses & extractions, rakes of fillings. I then moved to the city, water had fluoride - these issues stopped.🤯 that the former scenario might be where we’re headed with new HHS secretary
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When They Took Fluoride Out of the Water Like RFK Jr. Wants to Do Everywhere, People's Teeth Started Rotting Out of Their Heads
Our next potential leader of US health policy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, wants to ban adding fluoride to public drinking water — a practice that experts agree has remarkably elevated teeth health for mill...
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
What do bacteriophage and James Bond have in common? Answer: LYSINS TO KILL
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Saskia Popescu @saskiapopescu.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Yup. And none of this is shocking. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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RFK Jr. Said His Organization Funded Viral Covid Conspiracy Film 'Plandemic'
RFK Jr. said his anti-vax nonprofit Children's Health Defense financed 'Plandemic,' a viral conspiracy-theory film about Covid-19.
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
And on the 7th day, the lord rested… But the pathogens didn’t, so here are 7️⃣ IDSky starter packs 1 go.bsky.app/LnAQjdq 2 go.bsky.app/JNfSvQT 3 go.bsky.app/FeogT7o 4 go.bsky.app/D1zxj4E 5 go.bsky.app/NgGSPeF 6 go.bsky.app/22VBL8z 7 go.bsky.app/Bf7denw Bonus: TxID go.bsky.app/95rzmLi
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a cartoon of a hand saying thanks god okilly dokilly
Alt: Ned Flanders from the Simpsons says “Thanks God”. A hand drops from above the cloud in an ok sign and says “okilly dokilly”
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
An H5N1 pandemic under RFK Jr.’s DHHS could be catastrophic. Here’s what it might look like a 🧵👇
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Susan Butler-Wu @sbtothedub.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Between this and H5N1 it’s all happening in California 😱
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United States’ first known case of more severe strain of mpox confirmed in California | CNN
The United States’ first known case of a more severe strain of mpox was confirmed in California, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday. The risk of clade I mpox to the public...
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
#USDA has confirmed 3 more #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds in California, bringing the state's total to 294, nearly 27% of herds in the state. All those herds were recorded in the past 2.5 months. The cumulative national total is 508 herds across 15 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
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Antibiotic Steward 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @absteward.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
✨️19✨️ Just because a culture is positive, doesn't mean the patient has an infection. #idsky
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Good news: Our community is growing! The IDSky Starter Pack has exceeded the max 150 accounts, so I’ve started on another (pls share here and the other place, and LMK if I missed you) IDSky starter pack 1 go.bsky.app/LnAQjdq IDSky starter pack 2 go.bsky.app/JNfSvQT
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a man in a white shirt is standing in a corn field at sunset .
Alt: Kevin Costner from field of dreams is standing in a corn field at sunset . Text says “if you build it, they will come”
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