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CBS 60 Minutes || Bird flu, feared as a possible pandemic, poses growing risk to people as pathogen spreads h5n1: Dr. Kay Russo: "we're given a stick, and they put a blindfold on us, and we're sent into a gunfight and we're losing. We are losing." www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-fl...

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

Veterinarian Dr. Kay Russo told 60 Minutes that the U.S. is running out of time to stop bird flu. https://cbsn.ws/4cKau0s

submitted 52 days ago • 7 comments

BREAKING: Top Virologists Warn World to Prepare for Deadly H5N1 Bird Flu Pandemic Top virologists from 40 countries warn of growing H5N1 bird flu pandemic risk; urge stronger global defences as virus could kill 1 in every 2 people it infects.

submitted 34 days ago • 38 comments

🧵1/ RFK Jr. says childhood vaccines weren’t tested and that COVID boosters need full trials every year. That’s not how vaccines—or science—work. Time for a #FactCheckFriday! Let’s talk about how vaccines are tested, and how this kind of talk puts real people at risk. www.cdc.gov/vaccines/bas...

submitted 33 days ago • 17 comments

A total bald-faced lie. There is NO fetal tissue in the MMR vaccine. Period. This man is unfit to lead HHS.

submitted 42 days ago • 38 comments

@catgyoung.bsky.social

submitted 41 days ago • 10 comments

You can't have it both ways by stating that autism is an epidemic AND simultaneously cut funding for it. time.com/7279068/trum...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

An antibiotic that's used to treat pneumonia has shown promise against Lyme disease at a dose 100 times lower than the standard antibiotic therapy - and it doesn't seem to harm the gut microbiome. Read @newscientist.com. www.newscientist.com/article/2477...

submitted 49 days ago • 12 comments

Autism is not a disease and these kids are not damaged, despite what HHS Secretary Kennedy says.

submitted 56 days ago • 1535 comments

Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....

submitted 56 days ago • 6 comments

All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.

submitted 56 days ago • 610 comments

Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

submitted 58 days ago • 55 comments

⚠️ BREAKING: U.S. 🇺🇲 Sees 2.24 Million COVID-19 Cases in a Week as COVID-19 Transmission Surges to 28.3% Currently 1 in 149 Americans Infected.

submitted 58 days ago • 34 comments

“In one video… a voice claiming to be Zuckerberg says that “it’s normal to feel uncomfortable or even violated as we forcefully insert AI into every facet of your conscious experience. And I just want to assure you, you don’t need to worry because there’s absolutely nothing you can do to stop it.””

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

I get concerns about disincentive to disclose climate risks here, but frankly, disclosures have always struck me as more useful for assessing the technical chops of the risk team (ie how sophisticated are they in creatively considering how climate affects business) than as an absolute risk measure.

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

More evidence that viruses are bad. If you haven't been following @polybiorf.bsky.social you should. There are no good viruses. While infections for many may be "mild", the life long implications are huge. Want to live longer? Avoid viral infections. Many are airborne! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

As an infectious diseases specialist I beg to defer. Simply encounter as a healthy individual an N meningitidis and you might die, doesn’t matter how healthy you are.

submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

WHAT?! Dr. Ben Edwards, who RFK Jr tweeted is an "extraordinary healer", admits that he is "treating" unvaccinated children & families WHILE HE IS ACTIVELY INFECTIOUS WITH THE MEASLES. buff.ly/cu3QqpK "I am doing what any doctor should be doing." Dangerous on so many levels. #medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪

submitted 59 days ago • 14 comments

@greenhousemd.bsky.social #medsky www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

submitted 61 days ago • 63 comments

youtube.com/watch?v=Q9_n... And 60 years later the times are a changin again

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

1/ Another child has died from #measles in the U.S.—an 8-year-old girl. Unvaccinated. No underlying health conditions. This is tragic. And entirely preventable. It’s also not normal—for three key reasons. 🧵

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Fact Checked: The Measles Vaccine is Safe and Effective 'Extensive research demonstrates that the MMR vaccine is safe and significantly reduces the risk of contracting measles, a disease that can lead to severe complications and death.' The American Academy of Pediatrics www.aap.org/en/news-room...

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

New measles death in TX - a child. C/w last week: CURRENT CASE COUNT: 569 Texas: 481 (+59) New Mexico: 54 (+6) Oklahoma: 10 Kansas: 24 (+1) HOSPITALIZATIONS: 58 (+14) Texas: 56 (+14) have been hospitalized, 11.6%. New Mexico: 2 (No change). This is 4.5% of NM cases. DEATHS: 3 (+1)

submitted 67 days ago • 22 comments

Tragically, another child died of measles in Texas In 2 months of RFK Jr’s ‘leadership’ we’ve had more measles deaths than over the last 2 decades. This isn’t a coincidence. We will regret this.

submitted 67 days ago • 45 comments

Measles likely came from cows (via rinderpest) around the 6th century BCE. For 2,500 years, we didn’t evolve superhuman resistance—children just died. Real protection only came in the 1960s, with vaccines. Our superpower isn’t evolving into superhumans. It’s outthinking pathogens.

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

In medical school I saw a case of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. This is a terrifying disease because the patient has measles, and then develops SSPE years later. The child progressively loses all neurological function until they become a shell of their former selves and die. Vaccines work.

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

San Francisco gets an A+ for presentation and form.

submitted 67 days ago • 295 comments

Saw this post and chills ran down my spine. Let's not let history repeat itself.

submitted 66 days ago • 4 comments

I’m finding it really difficult to publish pieces critical of large language models or AI in medical journals. Some of our papers show hard evidence of why the models are not ready for prime time. But journals seem to prefer the “AI is a doctor!” papers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...