Arthur Scott-Geddes
@arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social
Deputy Editor @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
Contact: arthur.scottgeddes@telegraph.co.uk
Previously in Germany and Pakistan
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Previously in Germany and Pakistan
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At least 3 soldiers from Akhmat Battalion, a unit better known for its staged combat videos than battlefield achievements, have fallen sick with hantavirus, a rodent-borne disease known as “mouse fever” www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
At least 3 soldiers from Akhmat Battalion, a unit better known for its staged combat videos than battlefield achievements, have fallen sick with hantavirus, a rodent-borne disease known as “mouse fever” www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
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Outbreaks of debilitating tropical diseases becoming Europe’s ‘new normal’, @ecdc.europa.eu has warned
Mosquito-borne diseases like chikungunya were once confined to the tropics but climate change is allowing them to spread in Europe
Link here🔗
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Mosquito-borne diseases like chikungunya were once confined to the tropics but climate change is allowing them to spread in Europe
Link here🔗
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Outbreaks of debilitating tropical diseases becoming Europe’s ‘new normal’
Mosquito-borne diseases like chikungunya were once confined to the tropics but climate change is allowing them to spread in Europe
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August 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Outbreaks of debilitating tropical diseases becoming Europe’s ‘new normal’, @ecdc.europa.eu has warned
Mosquito-borne diseases like chikungunya were once confined to the tropics but climate change is allowing them to spread in Europe
Link here🔗
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Mosquito-borne diseases like chikungunya were once confined to the tropics but climate change is allowing them to spread in Europe
Link here🔗
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A sobering account from Sierra Leone – and a clear warning that mpox should not be underestimated
Important report by @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social, with photographs from @simontownsley.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Important report by @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social, with photographs from @simontownsley.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Inside the Red Zone: Sierra Leone’s terrifying mpox outbreak
More than 5,000 have tested positive – including children – and at least 47 have died in Africa’s worst outbreak of the disease
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August 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
A sobering account from Sierra Leone – and a clear warning that mpox should not be underestimated
Important report by @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social, with photographs from @simontownsley.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Important report by @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social, with photographs from @simontownsley.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Dispatch by @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social and @simontownsley.bsky.social
Full story here - free to read 🔓
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Full story here - free to read 🔓
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Inside the Red Zone: Sierra Leone’s terrifying mpox outbreak
More than 5,000 have tested positive – including children – and at least 47 have died in Africa’s worst outbreak of the disease
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August 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Dispatch by @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social and @simontownsley.bsky.social
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I keep thinking about the poignant, devastating conclusion of
@arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social's latest piece on mpox in Sierra Leone.
Make sure to read the full piece, with photos by @simontownsley.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
@arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social's latest piece on mpox in Sierra Leone.
Make sure to read the full piece, with photos by @simontownsley.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
August 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I keep thinking about the poignant, devastating conclusion of
@arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social's latest piece on mpox in Sierra Leone.
Make sure to read the full piece, with photos by @simontownsley.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
@arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social's latest piece on mpox in Sierra Leone.
Make sure to read the full piece, with photos by @simontownsley.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Properly gruesome dispatch from @parrytom.bsky.social and @simontownsley.bsky.social on the horrific screw worm resurgence in Central America
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‘Man-eating’ screw worm turns hospital into horror show
A long-forgotten parasite has made a comeback and is reasserting its dominance in Honduras
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June 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Properly gruesome dispatch from @parrytom.bsky.social and @simontownsley.bsky.social on the horrific screw worm resurgence in Central America
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It turns out the world’s most successful parasite can ‘decapitate’ sperm. For @telglobalhealth.bsky.social I wrote about the implications of this discovery for our understanding of the male infertility crisis. With thanks to @zahadyv.bsky.social and Bill Sullivan
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Could the answer to the male fertility crisis be lurking in your cat’s litter tray?
Discovery that the world’s most successful parasite can ‘decapitate’ sperm offers a new path to understanding rising infertility among men
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June 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It turns out the world’s most successful parasite can ‘decapitate’ sperm. For @telglobalhealth.bsky.social I wrote about the implications of this discovery for our understanding of the male infertility crisis. With thanks to @zahadyv.bsky.social and Bill Sullivan
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Spent a week in Kazakhstan with @simontownsley.bsky.social meeting victims of Soviet nuclear testing. Mutations are being passed from one generation to the next in an ongoing health crisis.
Dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
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Dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
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Atomic bombs destroyed their lives – now they want Russia to pay
Amid calls to restart nuclear testing, families are still suffering from mutations passed down through the generations
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May 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Spent a week in Kazakhstan with @simontownsley.bsky.social meeting victims of Soviet nuclear testing. Mutations are being passed from one generation to the next in an ongoing health crisis.
Dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
Free to read 🔓
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Dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
Free to read 🔓
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Flagship Gavi vaccine projects face axe if US funding stops, CEO warns.
Exclusive: The decision to end funding for the partnership could have ramifications felt well beyond its frontline vaccine programmes.
@arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social reports.
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Exclusive: The decision to end funding for the partnership could have ramifications felt well beyond its frontline vaccine programmes.
@arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social reports.
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Flagship Gavi vaccine projects face axe if US funding stops, CEO warns
Exclusive: The decision to end funding for the partnership could have ramifications felt well beyond its frontline vaccine programmes
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April 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Flagship Gavi vaccine projects face axe if US funding stops, CEO warns.
Exclusive: The decision to end funding for the partnership could have ramifications felt well beyond its frontline vaccine programmes.
@arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social reports.
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Exclusive: The decision to end funding for the partnership could have ramifications felt well beyond its frontline vaccine programmes.
@arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social reports.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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"We wanted to see Hayes electrical substation which is famous not just in Europe, but in the whole world"
March 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"We wanted to see Hayes electrical substation which is famous not just in Europe, but in the whole world"
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And now the White House has killed the Corporate Transparency Act, which was itself a tiny first step in the marathon journey of stopping US companies from being the most egregiously opaque shell structures on the planet. God, this is grim.
March 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
And now the White House has killed the Corporate Transparency Act, which was itself a tiny first step in the marathon journey of stopping US companies from being the most egregiously opaque shell structures on the planet. God, this is grim.
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I travelled to Sudan's remote Nuba mountains with @simontownsley.bsky.social
We found that millions are already on the brink of starvation, but the worst of the famine is yet to come.
First in a series of dispatches for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
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We found that millions are already on the brink of starvation, but the worst of the famine is yet to come.
First in a series of dispatches for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
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Children reduced to skin and bones in war-torn Sudan’s forgotten famine
Every scrap of food counts for the millions on the brink of starvation in the remote Nuba mountains
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February 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I travelled to Sudan's remote Nuba mountains with @simontownsley.bsky.social
We found that millions are already on the brink of starvation, but the worst of the famine is yet to come.
First in a series of dispatches for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
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We found that millions are already on the brink of starvation, but the worst of the famine is yet to come.
First in a series of dispatches for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
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🚨 Ohio reports its first probable human case of influenza A(H5).
An adult male farm worker, exposed to deceased poultry—but no details on clinical status or virus sequencing.
With bird flu spreading, this is a terrible time to defund public health and halt research.
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An adult male farm worker, exposed to deceased poultry—but no details on clinical status or virus sequencing.
With bird flu spreading, this is a terrible time to defund public health and halt research.
odh.ohio.gov/media-center...
Ohio Reports First Human Case of Bird Flu
The overall risk to Ohioans is low, but those in close contact with sick or dead poultry or wild birds should take precautions
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February 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
🚨 Ohio reports its first probable human case of influenza A(H5).
An adult male farm worker, exposed to deceased poultry—but no details on clinical status or virus sequencing.
With bird flu spreading, this is a terrible time to defund public health and halt research.
odh.ohio.gov/media-center...
An adult male farm worker, exposed to deceased poultry—but no details on clinical status or virus sequencing.
With bird flu spreading, this is a terrible time to defund public health and halt research.
odh.ohio.gov/media-center...
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A trial at Oxford is just one of the dozens across the world grinding to a halt after the USAID funding freeze.
The study is testing a cutting-edge malaria vaccine - the RH5.2-VLP - for the first time.
At least 40 people had been injected with the new jab before the freeze, it is understood.
The study is testing a cutting-edge malaria vaccine - the RH5.2-VLP - for the first time.
At least 40 people had been injected with the new jab before the freeze, it is understood.
🚨EXCL: Cutting edge Oxford malaria vaccine trial in jeopardy as USAID payments frozen.
Dozens of UK volunteers left in limbo by Trump cuts after taking the experimental drug in bid to help science.
@maevecullinan.bsky.social and @paulnuki.bsky.social report.
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Dozens of UK volunteers left in limbo by Trump cuts after taking the experimental drug in bid to help science.
@maevecullinan.bsky.social and @paulnuki.bsky.social report.
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Cutting edge Oxford malaria vaccine trial in jeopardy as USAID payments frozen
Dozens of UK volunteers left in limbo by Trump cuts after taking the experimental drug in bid to help science
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A trial at Oxford is just one of the dozens across the world grinding to a halt after the USAID funding freeze.
The study is testing a cutting-edge malaria vaccine - the RH5.2-VLP - for the first time.
At least 40 people had been injected with the new jab before the freeze, it is understood.
The study is testing a cutting-edge malaria vaccine - the RH5.2-VLP - for the first time.
At least 40 people had been injected with the new jab before the freeze, it is understood.
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"Around 90 percent of the SS who worked at Auschwitz during the war escaped all forms of prosecution."
—Laurence Rees, author of 'Auschwitz: A New History,' in a 2005 interview
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—Laurence Rees, author of 'Auschwitz: A New History,' in a 2005 interview
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January 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"Around 90 percent of the SS who worked at Auschwitz during the war escaped all forms of prosecution."
—Laurence Rees, author of 'Auschwitz: A New History,' in a 2005 interview
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—Laurence Rees, author of 'Auschwitz: A New History,' in a 2005 interview
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In the wake of repeated incidents involving the sharing of classified military information on the War Thunder game forums, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed its commitment to preventing such leaks.
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MoD reinforces measures to prevent leaks in online gaming
In the wake of repeated incidents involving the sharing of classified military information on the War Thunder game forums, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed its commitment to preventing such leaks.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk
January 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
In the wake of repeated incidents involving the sharing of classified military information on the War Thunder game forums, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed its commitment to preventing such leaks.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=56134
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=56134
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Excellent reporting here on the proliferation of wildfires and the increasing danger they pose.
Thanks for the help and inspiration
@johnvaillant.bsky.social
Fire weather: How extreme wildfires became the rule – not the exception
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Thanks for the help and inspiration
@johnvaillant.bsky.social
Fire weather: How extreme wildfires became the rule – not the exception
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Fire weather: How extreme wildfires became the rule – not the exception
Unusually intense fires have struck across the world almost every year for the last decade
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January 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Excellent reporting here on the proliferation of wildfires and the increasing danger they pose.
Thanks for the help and inspiration
@johnvaillant.bsky.social
Fire weather: How extreme wildfires became the rule – not the exception
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Thanks for the help and inspiration
@johnvaillant.bsky.social
Fire weather: How extreme wildfires became the rule – not the exception
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Large fires in urban areas are de facto CBRN/Hazmat incidents because of the materials involved in the fires.
January 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Large fires in urban areas are de facto CBRN/Hazmat incidents because of the materials involved in the fires.
Tried to get to the bottom of how unusual this year’s annual winter illness season really is. The short answer is that it’s not - for the most part!
HMPV, RSV, H5N1: Why the world is under attack from respiratory viruses.
A predictable winter illness season has caused alarm – but are we missing the real threat?
✍️ @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social and Samaan Lateef report.
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A predictable winter illness season has caused alarm – but are we missing the real threat?
✍️ @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social and Samaan Lateef report.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
HMPV, RSV, H5N1: Why the world is under attack from respiratory viruses
A predictable winter illness season has caused alarm – but are we missing the real threat?
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Tried to get to the bottom of how unusual this year’s annual winter illness season really is. The short answer is that it’s not - for the most part!
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Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls
January 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls
The Louisiana man who caught H5N1 has now died, health authorities have confirmed
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US reports first human H5N1 death
The man had underlying health conditions and is believed to have caught the virus directly from birds
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January 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The Louisiana man who caught H5N1 has now died, health authorities have confirmed
@maevecullinan.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
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@maevecullinan.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
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Extraordinary dispatch from @sneweyy.bsky.social on the Dickensian conditions in Pakistan’s coal mines and brick kilns
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The fight to rid Pakistan’s coal pits of diseases that plagued British miners a century ago
Ultra-portable, AI driven x-rays have been used to find undiagnosed TB, as miners inhaling soot in Victorian-era conditions are at high risk
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December 16, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Extraordinary dispatch from @sneweyy.bsky.social on the Dickensian conditions in Pakistan’s coal mines and brick kilns
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