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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 05/02/2025

This image shows cultured human cells called fibroblasts in purple, infected with a kind of parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. #microscopy 🧪🔬 Image credit: @simon-butterworth.bsky.social

Thin, wispy purple tendrils cover the image, with a few small green blobs scattered in the foreground.

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Dave West @ HSJ @davewwest.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Breaking from UKHSA -

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Professor Azeem Majeed @azeem-majeed.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Eight additional infectious diseases will be added to the list of notifiable diseases in England once new legislation comes into force on 6 April 2025. Most with the exception of chickenpox will be rare. For more details, see link. www.gov.uk/government/c...

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David Hodgson @dchodge.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

1/ 🎉 Thrilled to share our new study: Quantifying the impact of pre-vaccination titre and vaccination history on influenza vaccine immunogenicity 🦠💉 Published in Vaccine! link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kD7x,60n7... with @adamjkucharski.bsky.social

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

HIV-1 has, for decades, been called, well, HIV-1. But no, according to the ICTV, that will no longer do, so the new name for this virus is "Lentivirus humimdef1". Yup, you read that right. Somebody needs to take away whatever drugs the committee is on. All viruses renamed - it's insane.

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Infectious Disease Tracker @hmpxvt.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The DRC 🇨🇩 is reporting an epidemic caused by an "unknown disease" with people exhibiting flu-like symptoms, first reported by local media, now spread by Reuters, AP etc. There are reports of 143 deaths, with an anonymous source stating that WHO is involved in the investigation.

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