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Virologist - Influenza vaccines

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Microbetv @microbetv.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Vincent summarizes a recent New York Times guest essay by seven former CDC directors, entitled “We ran the CDC: Kennedy is endangering every Americans health.”
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A dire warning from former CDC Directors
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/08/2025
In an extraordinary turn, Susan Monarez, the CDC director, said she would not resign after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said she must quit or be fired.
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CDC Director Susan Monarez Resists Ouster as Other Officials Resign
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is said to have demanded that the director, Susan Monarez, either quit or be fired. Her lawyers say she won’t resign.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Dr. Demetre resigned as the director of the division of respiratory viruses at the CDC this evening. He posted his resignation letter on various social media channels. It is worth taking the time to read it. x.com/dr_demetre/s...
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DrDemetre on X: "My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business." / X
My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 28/08/2025
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis is one of the most respected LGBTQ+ public health officials in the U.S.
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BREAKING: Out CDC vaccine chief resigns, saying "enough is enough" with Trump and RFK Jr.
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis is one of the most respected LGBTQ+ public health officials in the U.S.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/08/2025
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
BREAKING: Texas Reports First Measles Death as Outbreak Worsens Unvaccinated Child Dies The victim, a school-aged child from Lubbock, was unvaccinated and hospitalized last week after testing positive for measles.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 19/02/2025
@newsweek.com interviewed me about AIR-BORNE. We talked about Covid, anthrax bombs, and the trillions of insects you don't see in the sky. www.newsweek.com/2025/03/07/c...
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Q&A: Carl Zimmer on airborne diseases: 'These are all big concerns'
Award-winning science journalist and author Carl Zimmer details the dangers of new viruses, air pollution and wildfires on public and planet health
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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
APHIS Mammals w/ #H5N1 table updated to show 2nd fatal infection domestic cats Multnomah Co OR matches WAHIS update Both cats euthanized after breathing difficulties and neurological issues after eating Wild Coast Raw Boneless Chicken Still no recall www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
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Paul Sax @paulsaxmd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Quite the flu season we're having. Here are some thoughts. I finish up by wondering why we'd reduce CDC workforce at a time like this -- just unfathomably short-sighted. blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
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This Year Influenza Came Back to Remind Us It's Not Messing Around
If it seems like pretty much everyone you know either has the flu or is recovering from it, it’s because we’re in the middle of the worst flu season in over a decade. Take a look at this figure, from ...
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
It’s almost like ignoring viruses makes the situation worse
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Missed this yesterday: Ohio reports a suspected human case of #H5N1 #birdflu in a farmworker exposed to infected poultry. Needs confirmation by #CDC. 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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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 12/02/2025
Only Ukrainians should be negotiating peace with Russia. The Russian assault on civilians and medical facilities, including the country’s largest Children’s Hospital, will not be forgotten. 🇺🇦
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Countering disinformation with facts - Russian invasion of Ukraine
The Kremlin has long spread disinformation and propaganda to achieve its objectives. It continues to disseminate lies to justify its illegal, unprovoked, unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine. Below, you ...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/02/2025
This flu season has been particularly brutal, and it isn’t showing signs of letting up. Since October, there have been at least 24 million cases in the U.S.
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Flu Cases Are Surging
At least 24 million cases have been reported so far this season — and the virus is still spreading widely.
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WHO @who.int · 11/02/2025
Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist.
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Dr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
✨We are hiring!✨🧪🏛️🧬 The @nhmdk.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen is seeking a permanent, full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager to help us establish and run our National Facility for #Museomics in the heart of one of Europe's most beautiful cities! Please reskeet!
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Full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager at Natural History Museum Denmark
Natural History Museum Denmark, Faculty of Science, the University of Copenhagen is looking for a full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager, to start 1st June 202
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Measles Outbreak | Texas DSHS www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
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Measles Outbreak | Texas DSHS
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Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
More bird flu news, from @reportergoodman.bsky.social: D1.1 strain in Nevada dairy cattle shows signs of adapting to better spread in mammals. Meanwhile a Nevada dairy worker has screened positive for H5N1, with symptoms of conjunctivitis (needs to be confirmed by CDC): www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/h...
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Bird flu variant found in Nevada cows shows signs of adaptation to mammals | CNN
The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to help the virus copy itself in mammals — including humans — more easily, accord...
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Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Here is a quick 1 minute video describing why it is important to continue to fund avian flu research and why H5N1 is a serious pandemic threat. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/avian-f...
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Avian flu: An explainer | Penn Today
In a video, Penn Medicine’s Scott Hensley gives an overview on what people should know about the avian flu virus and vaccine developments.
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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Avian flu strikes second biggest US egg producer www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
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Avian flu strikes second biggest US egg producer
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/01/2025
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
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Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Chikungunya moving into new regions, disabling millions and racking up billions in costs, data suggest www.cidrap.umn.edu/chikungunya/...
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Chikungunya moving into new regions, disabling millions and racking up billions in costs, data suggest
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
If you like dark chocolate, you'll like this finding that it reduces the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes (not seen with milk chocolate) [in 3 large prospective cohorts, with the usual caveats of epidemiological, observational nutrition studies]
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 02/12/2024
President Zelensky and Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz paid respects to fallen Ukrainian troops at the makeshift memorial on Kyiv’s central Maidan today. video via Zelensky’s Telegram. Scholz will "announce further military equipment worth 650 million euros, which are to be delivered in December."
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Another night of protests in Georgia Yesterday,people were in the streets all day in Tbilisi and across the country,but the protests intensified again late in the evening Once more,the police used water guns and tear gas against the crowd,and tried to disperse the protest,particularly around 5-6 am
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
H7N6...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Ukraine has returned six more children from the temporarily occupied territories as part of the Bring Kids Back UA initiative. The stories of these children are a vivid illustration of the fact that Russia is trying to wipe out the Ukrainian nation by all means
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Removing certain types of senescent cells from the body is being pursued as an anti-inflammation, anti-cancer, and anti-aging strategy. A new report highlights a peptide that revs up immune cells to bind and clear these cells www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Binding to u-PA enables immune cell recognition and clearance of senescent cells  (study in mice only)
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/12/2024
President-elect Donald Trump called on congressional Republicans to agree to recess appointments in the Senate if they seek a leadership position. Here's why this is dangerous for democracy.
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What are Recess Appointments? How Could Trump Use Them to Undermine Democracy?
Read more here.
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Sergiu P. Pasca @sergiuppasca.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Research funded by NIH generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023 [a total of $92.9 billion] www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...
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Report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns
Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023, a total of $92.9 billion, according to an
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Genetic sequencing of the #H5N1 #birdflu virus from the Canadian teenager shows worrying changes. It doesn't mean H5 is taking off — but it's a reminder that it might, says @scottehensley.bsky.social. "This is exactly the scenario that we fear.” www.statnews.com/2024/11/18/b...
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H5N1 bird flu virus in Canadian teenager displays mutations demonstrating virus’ risk
The H5N1 virus that infected a Canadian teen appears not to have spread, but it shows signs of mutation that makes flu virologists nervous.
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