#RespiratoryVirus situation update:
#Influenza activity is increasing in the EU/EEA, earlier than in recent seasons, while #RSV activity remains low.
#SARSCoV2 activity is stable or decreasing.
Read more here: erviss.org
#Flu #COVID19 #IDsky #EpiSky
There’s now an app for all things fungi 🦠🍄
Dr. Matthew Pullen, Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, helped launch Dr Fungus—a free app that brings the trusted resource to your phone.
Explore fungal infections, antifungal treatments, and case-based learning—all in one place.
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
Interested in a transplant recipient facing education tool about CMV? We developed this as a spinoff from the fourth international consensus CMV guidelines. Thank you to Kamada Pharmaceuticals and @lavyshai.bsky.social for support and development. cytogam.com/wp-content/u...
Jan Styczynski covers best methods for CMV prevention after HSCT per ECIL guidelines compared with ASTCT guidelines #CMVSymposium_2025
@elisaruiz.bsky.social Elisa Ruiz-Arabi discusses metaphors for best methods for CMV prevention in organ transplant recipients with Jose Maria Aguado chairing #CMVSymposium_2025
Honored to cochair the #CMVSymposium_2025 with @martinasester.bsky.social and Julian de la Torre Cisneros - defeating the troll of transplantation
Read this op-ed in the @bostonglobe.com by LDI Fellow @zekeemanuel.bsky.social. ⤵️
if you only share one of my posts today, let it be this one
@bradgardiner.bsky.social
Excited to have this recording available to all who want to listen/watch @BradGardiner.bsky.social talk about his very interesting work with CMV and lung transplant -TTS EdComm - Immune biomarkers for CMV infection @transplantation.bsky.social tts.org/join-tts/116...
Breaking news: Susan Monarez, the newly installed director of the CDC, is being ousted weeks after she was confirmed to lead the public health agency, according to multiple administration officials.
Dr Stephanie Pouch rocking her talk on strategies to tackle MDRO Gram negative infections
Dr Jay Fishman reviewing our xenotransplantation experience at #mgh and risk of infection here at the wonderful transplant ID symposium in Toronto
Dr Deepali Kumar talking about state of the art vaccines for transplant patients
Great summary slide by @jobadd.bsky.social
Dr John Baddley @jobadd.bsky.social talking about cutting edge antifungals at the Transplant ID symposium in Toronto organized by the Ajmera Transplant Centre events.myconferencesuite.com/Transplant_I...
Dr. Robert (Bob) Rubin Transplant ID Award Recipient for 2025 is the amazing @kottonnelson.bsky.social !!! #TxID #MedEd @astinfo.bsky.social
Full house at the ABCs of CMV session at #WTC2025 #TxID featuring a targeted review the new #Cmv guidelines @kottonnelson.bsky.social
CDC workers were terrified as gunman shot at the agency’s headquarters yesterday.
Today they are still reeling from shock, fear — and rage.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...
CDC employees told me the shooting at CDC was much worse than initial police reports suggested. More than 40 bullets hit buildings. “It’s a miracle more people weren’t hit,” said one staffer who was locked down in a building for hours last evening.
An absolutely extraordinary piece of writing about the shock and dread of living through something you would have considered unimaginable, and — somewhat — coming out the other side.
(This is not a spoiler, if the author had not survived there would be no story. Stop quibbling and read it.)
Pleased to join colleagues like @ericmeyerowitz.bsky.social in the @nejm.org rebutting the COVID vaccine policy of Prasad and Makary
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
ICYMI - on June 25, the CDC signed off on the ACIP recommendation that adults 50 years of age and over with risk factors for severe RSV get the RSV vaccine. Details here. This lowers the age from 60 to 50. Universal recommendation for everyone 75 and over. www.cdc.gov/acip/vaccine...
Looking forward to this webinar on July 7 – join us!
America must acknowledge how devastating this will be for now & future generations. There will be millions of shortened lives and unnecessary deaths here & abroad. We have been the leaders in science and medicine - this is truly crippling. It will affect of all of, our families, and our patients.
The deadline for this has been moved out to July 14. Send in your interesting CMV data or CMV cases!
Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Not just shingles vaccine, but also RSV vaccine reduces the risk of dementia, which highlights the benefit of revving up the immune system in older individuals
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Interesting that the CDC is reporting higher rates of parvovirus B19 last year - anecdotally I saw more in Transplant patients. Think about this diagnosis with significant anemia in immunocompromised patients.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
