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1/ Imagine being a kid, just vibing at school, when boom—a tapeworm decides to set up camp in your brain. 🧠🏕️ Welcome to the wildest, most unexpected outbreak Belgium has seen. And no, this isn’t an episode of House MD but it reads like it. I love ID #IDSky #MedSky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Where in the world does the press give you maps like this for? Oh, right, Africa. Continuing with a very old tradition, rendering it as terra incognita. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/w...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

As part of its 100th anniversary celebrations, the Institut Pasteur de Dakar inaugurates the new diaTROPIX diagnostic manufacturing site in Mbao. Financially and technically supported by FIND & Unitaid, this aims to improve access to high-quality #diagnostics4all. 🔗 unitaid.org/news-blog/fi...

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If researchers ask communities “what do you want us to research?”, they should expect that communities may say we do not want research. We want other interventions. In my experience, that is often the case.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Congratulations to my dear friend & colleague Placide Mbala at INRB in Kinshasa! 🎉 He is one of Nature's 10 people who shaped science this year He is an incredible scientist and person who has dedicated his career to fighting diseases like Ebola, COVID, and #mpox. 🙌 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Despite the failure of international plans to cut plastics pollution, the Gambia is redoubling its efforts. A new bold roadmap hopes to eliminate plastic over the next decade. As experts believe the world will soon be “unable to cope” with the volume of plastic waste. My latest @theguardian.com ⬇️

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1/17 [Why] is furosemide susceptible to malabsorption from "gut edema"? When a patient with heart failure is hospitalized with congestion I often hear "let's use IV furosemide; they're probably not absorbing the PO." It's a comment unique to furosemide. But is it accurate?

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'To me, innovations mean little if they cannot save lives (...) Yes, mRNA vaccines are great, Nobel-prize-winning innovations, but they never reached most Global South countries. To date, they continue to remain a monopoly of Big Pharma and rich nations that hoarded vaccines.' @madhupai.bsky.social

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A 40% dose of the PCV13 vaccine proved noninferior to full doses, enhancing immunization sustainability for infants. by Gallagher KE, Lucinde R (...) Scott JAG et 18 al. in @nejm.org #MedSky 📖 read the article:

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Institutions reverting to in-person-only events are reinstating pre-COVID exclusion. Knowledge-sharing events must include an online option, at the very least, to allow people in the Global South to hear and contest what is being said about them. Do better. #AcademicSky

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Sierra Leone will this week become the 1st country to launch a nationwide preventive #Ebola vaccination campaign for people at the highest risk. Over 3 weeks, will deliver 20k doses of Merck’s Ervebo vaccine in a drive that will be repeated every 2-3 years. #IDSKY www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 92 days ago • 7 comments

Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID. #AcademicSky

submitted 99 days ago • 28 comments

WHERE does the ascites actually come from? The weeping liver! Check this 1955 paper out: Method: clamped IVC in dogs Result: Ascites beaded on the liver surface. Covering the liver with a bag collects all the ascites, keeps the gut dry

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

1/ Back to the basics today: let's talk about common pitfalls in obtaining cardiac #POCUS images ❤️ Here are some very common image acquisition errors in basic views, as well as the simple moves to correct them ✅ 🧵 #emimcc #POCUSky #echosky #MedSky

submitted 94 days ago • 8 comments

When I’m picky with which airlines I fly for international events it’s not because I’m being difficult. It’s because I’ve been doing this for more than a decade and I know how to get the minimum pain out of Western airlines and airports when travelling with an African passport.

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

“Unfair knowledge practices easily beset our efforts to achieve health equity within & between countries. Enacted by people from a distance & from a position of power…” Please read our realist synthesis using pose & gaze to make sense of epistemic injustice. Here: academic.oup.com/heapol/artic...

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

So here is a starter pack of African scientists and researchers across disciplines. It will continue to grow as I find more people and more migrate to this platform but gotta start somewhere 😊. go.bsky.app/GixA4xP

submitted 99 days ago • 34 comments

Oh - and if it’s not too much trouble, if you don’t mind Rt this so people can find me here, I’d be very grateful. Thank you

submitted 104 days ago • 11 comments

Good day to remind everyone Around the globe the measles vaccine has saved nearly 94 million lives over the past 50 years www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

submitted 106 days ago • 16 comments

1/📢 In our new PREPRINT - tinyurl.com/yc6kbay9 - we estimate that 156 million people globally carry a recent, viable M. tuberculosis (Mtb) infection and are at high risk of progressing to TB disease.

submitted 106 days ago • 6 comments

Parachute research remains a major problem in global health research. This piece builds on our experience of implementation of authorship reflexivity statements in what has turned out to be a major thread of work over the last few years 🧪 #medsky #globalhealth gh.bmj.com/content/9/1/...

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

A thread of books I’m reading or have recently read. The Dragonfly Sea. First novel for a Kenyan writer, which would have benefited from some editing. But still a good read and warmly recommended.

submitted 110 days ago • 3 comments

I don't normally share pre-prints but this one is important anda major thread of activity for me (any many others) over the last two years. Increased medical complexity in sub Saharan African hospitals requires urgent interventions to address population needs. 🧪🩺 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 116 days ago • 2 comments

Another #MedSky #Skeetorial Iron deficiency is relatively frequent and seen by all types of physicians. For years, iron supplements were given multiple times a day. Now we know that should never happen. So why the change? 1/n

submitted 111 days ago • 34 comments

Pleased to have worked with the team at NIH who used their ingenuity to save the life of one of our patients. www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...

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