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Victor

Wastewater is more than just a waste product – it is becoming a source of epidemiological insights. With the new EU directive, health-related monitoring in wastewater will become a European reality starting in 2027. The webinar on July 2, 2025, will demonstrate how wastewater-based epidemiology works, which parameters are relevant, and how they are implemented – practical, evidence-based, and future-oriented. #wastewater #epidemiology #wastewatermonitoring #EU #webinar vermicon.com/company/newslette

www.vermicon.comvermicon News: Wastewater-Based Epidemiology
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Charlie McHenry

The US should step up efforts to combat its year-long bird #H5N1 flu outbreak and control the #pandemic risk to people, an international group of virologists has warned. The high historical human mortality rate from H5N1 suggests “the terrible consequences of underreacting to current threats”, say human and animal virologists from the Global Virus Network spanning more than 40 countries...Their intervention on Tuesday highlights alarm at the proliferation of the H5N1 avian pathogen now detected in #poultry in all 50 US states, infecting scores of people and causing at least one confirmed death…The US outbreak has spread nationwide since March 2024, affecting more than 1,000 dairy herds and killing or triggering the culling of tens of millions of poultry. At least 70 human cases have been identified, with one person dying in Louisiana, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. —The Economist #Virology #Epidemiology #BirdFlu #CDC #HHS #PublicHealth

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Charlie McHenry

Measles by itself is not highly lethal, but the danger it poses is serious for three reasons.

First, it is the most contagious disease known to humankind. The Spanish Flu had an infection rate of 1.5-2. Measles has an infection rate of 12-18.

Second, Measles can hide in the body for years, cross the blood-brain barrier, and cause death long after you forgot about it.

Third, the extreme danger of measles is what it does to your immune system. Throughout your life, as your body contracts and fights off diseases, it keeps a record of how to fight those diseases. Measles comes in and burns 20-70% of those records, so that the next time you catch a sniffle it might turn into a life-threatening lung infection. —summation of the linked podcast by u/animorphsgeek #Measles #MeaslesOutbreak #Epidemiology #PublicHealth #HHS #RFKjr #epidemic #Childhood

docs.google.com/document/d/e/2

docs.google.comMeasles: How Worried Should We Be? - Public Transcript (Science Vs podcast)
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Project Gutenberg

You’ve Been Lied to About Rats and the Black Death

Recent research suggests that rats may not have played a critical role in the spread of plague. What can that tell us about outbreak narratives and their importance?

By David Popa

mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-

The Plague at PG:
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The State Health Department rat gang were a valuable asset in the fight against the Plague in Queensland from 1900 to 1909. The image captures a group of around a dozen men standing in a line, each dressed in period attire—suits, vests, and wide-brimmed hats—while holding leashes of alert and active terriers, a breed commonly used for their prowess in rat hunting. The dogs and their handlers were vital assets in the fight against plague-carrying rats in urban centers like Brisbane.
#pandemic#epidemiology#infectious_disease
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Arli A P

Menghadiri seminar hasil an. Hotma Hutapea di prodi S3 Epidemiologi FKM University of Indonesia dengan topik penelitian mengenai long COVID. Berfoto dengan Prof Mako, Dekan FKM UI, dengan jajarannya. Juga ada prof Sunarno , dari BRIN & Pak Adi Yulandi dari Universitas Atmajaya Jakarta😊
Sebagai ko-promotor, saya sangat puas dengan upaya Bu Hotma untuk mengintegrasikan Epidemiologi dengan Biologi molekuler dan Bioinformatika. 🙏
#COVID19 #epidemiology #bioinformatics #biomedicine

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Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle

@hfalcke, this call for an interdisciplinary study!

doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f7198

The BMJ · The survival time of chocolates on hospital wards: covert observational studyObjective To quantify the consumption of chocolates in a hospital ward environment. Design Multicentre, prospective, covert observational study. Setting Four wards at three hospitals (where the authors worked) within the United Kingdom. Participants Boxes of Quality Street (Nestlé) and Roses (Cadbury) on the ward and anyone eating these chocolates. Intervention Observers covertly placed two 350 g boxes of Quality Street and Roses chocolates on each ward (eight boxes were used in the study containing a total of 258 individual chocolates). These boxes were kept under continuous covert surveillance, with the time recorded when each chocolate was eaten. Main outcome measure Median survival time of a chocolate. Results 191 out of 258 (74%) chocolates were observed being eaten. The mean total observation period was 254 minutes (95% confidence interval 179 to 329). The median survival time of a chocolate was 51 minutes (39 to 63). The model of chocolate consumption was non-linear, with an initial rapid rate of consumption that slowed with time. An exponential decay model best fitted these findings (model R2=0.844, P<0.001), with a survival half life (time taken for 50% of the chocolates to be eaten) of 99 minutes. The mean time taken to open a box of chocolates from first appearance on the ward was 12 minutes (95% confidence interval 0 to 24). Quality Street chocolates survived longer than Roses chocolates (hazard ratio for survival of Roses v Quality Street 0.70, 95% confidence interval 0.53 to 0.93, P=0.014). The highest percentages of chocolates were consumed by healthcare assistants (28%) and nurses (28%), followed by doctors (15%). Conclusions From our observational study, chocolate survival in a hospital ward was relatively short, and was modelled well by an exponential decay model. Roses chocolates were preferentially consumed to Quality Street chocolates in a ward setting. Chocolates were consumed primarily by healthcare assistants and nurses, followed by doctors. Further practical studies are needed.
#chocolate#epidemiology
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Doug Bostrom

"Model simulations demonstrate that initiating self-isolation shortly after smartwatch-based disease detection could lower the reproduction number of these diseases to below 1, across diverse epidemiological conditions, various smartwatch detection accuracies, and realistic self-isolation rates... findings suggest a potential revolution in... control of seasonal diseases and future pandemics through the utilization of smartwatch-based detection systems."

#epidemiology

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art

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Stéphane Tuffier

Hi, I am Stéphane!

I'm a researcher in epidemiology and a medical doctor. My research areas include #AirPollution health effect, epidemiology and hopefully more on climate change in the coming years.

Occasionally talking about #FOSS, #RStats, #BigData, #PublicHealth and #teaching

Working at the University of Copenhagen.

Cycling in my free time.

#Introduction
#Research
#Epidemiology

This is a new introduction post after migrating from another mastodon instance (@ste_tuf@mastodon.zaclys.com)

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Ricardo Segurado

In February when things started to really look bad for US science, I took the very practical step of going through all my slides.

I replaced PubMed links with EuropePMC. (thankfully)

I checked all the National Library of Medicine links and made a list of reading materials to replace (reports, eBooks).

One thing I haven't done (and this might be harder) is swap out NCBI resources

I can't in good conscience give students materials that might vanish!

#Academia#Epidemiology#pubmed
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