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Maeve Cullinan
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Global Health Security journalist at The Telegraph. Contact: maeve.cullinan@telegraph.co.uk

Covering infectious diseases, viruses, bacteria, parasites, AMR, vaccines, climate change, conflict, human rights, reproductive rights, etc.
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Huge congratulations to @maevecullinan.bsky.social, winner of the Newcomer of the Year award at the @absw.bsky.social Awards yesterday! 🏆 👏 ⭐

The award was presented by Jack Neill-Hall, Director of Media and Communications at the ABPI. We're proud to support high-quality science journalism.
July 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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🏆#ABSWawards 2025

👉Newcomer of the Year
Thanks to @abpi.bsky.social

🎉Maeve Cullinan, Global Health Security reporter, The Daily Telegraph
@maevecullinan.bsky.social @telegraphnews.bsky.social

👏👏👏Congratulations!!!
July 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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How do you get into science journalism?

This morning I was on a panel chatting about my career with @maevecullinan.bsky.social, @jasperjackson.bsky.social and @astrojonny.bsky.social.

Exciting to see so many future science journalists in the audience.

@absw.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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UK ‘not ready’ for major animal disease outbreak

National Audit Office finds significant shortcomings in contingency planning for diseases like bird flu and foot and mouth

@maeve_cullinan reports
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UK ‘not ready’ for major animal disease outbreak
National Audit Office finds significant shortcomings in contingency planning for diseases like bird flu and foot and mouth
www.telegraph.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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RFK-backed ostrich farm fighting H5N1 cull boasted of turning birds into pet food

The US Health Secretary has been seduced by claims of herd immunity and wants to bring the condemned animals to Florida

@maevecullinan.bsky.social reports
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RFK-backed ostrich farm fighting H5N1 cull boasted of turning birds into pet food
The US Health Secretary has been seduced by claims of herd immunity and wants to bring the condemned animals to Florida
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June 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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The agreement with Moderna was intended to strengthen America's pandemic preparedness, by diversifying its emergency H5N1 vaccine stocks: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... @maevecullinan.bsky.social @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
Trump administration cancels multi-million dollar bird flu vaccine contract with Moderna
Pharmaceutical giant announces termination of the $766m contract originally awarded by the Biden administration
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Rwanda-backed rebels accused of ‘war crimes’ in assault on eastern DRC

M23 group killed, tortured and ‘disappeared’ civilians in the cities of Goma and Bukuva, according to Amnesty International investigators

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Rwanda-backed rebels accused of ‘war crimes’ in assault on eastern DRC
M23 group killed, tortured and ‘disappeared’ civilians in the cities of Goma and Bukuva, according to Amnesty International investigators
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May 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Thrilled to be nominated for Newcomer of the Year for the Association of British Science Writers 2025 awards.

@absw.bsky.social
thank you!!

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Meet the Finalists 2025 | Association of British Science Writers
Find out who has made it to the finals in this year's ABSW Awards
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May 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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TikTok brings ‘raw milk’ craze to Britain – despite it being 45 times more likely to put you in hospital

Thousands of videos on social media are promoting unpasteurised milk as H5N1 bird flu spreads in British farms

✍️ @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports
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TikTok brings ‘raw milk’ craze to Britain – despite it being 45 times more likely to put you in hospital
Thousands of videos on social media are promoting the consumption of unpasteurised milk as H5N1 bird flu spreads in British farms
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May 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Could a new malaria jab really finish off the disease? Researchers at GSK have high hopes

Exclusive: Next-generation jab could be three times as effective as the best currently available

@maevecullinan.bsky.social reports
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Could a new malaria jab really finish off the disease? Researchers at GSK have high hopes
Exclusive: Next-generation jab could be three times as effective as the best currently available
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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The latest iteration of the UK mpox strategy is out. It looks good and solid to me.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
But as with evolving pathogens, there is stuff we know we don't know:
April 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Scientists think they know what animal carries mpox. It’s not a monkey

A chance discovery led to the identification of a possible natural reservoir for the virus formerly known as monkeypox

@maevecullinan.bsky.social reports

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Scientists think they know what animal carries mpox. It’s not a monkey
A chance discovery led to the identification of a possible natural reservoir for the virus formerly known as monkeypox
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April 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Children caught in crossfire of rebel assault overwhelm Goma hospital.

City’s only functioning paediatric surgery unit inundated with patients wounded by gunfire and shrapnel, DRC doctors say.

@maevecullinan.bsky.social reports - free to read🔓
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Children caught in crossfire of rebel assault overwhelm Goma hospital
City’s only functioning paediatric surgery unit inundated with patients wounded by gunfire and shrapnel, DRC doctors say
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March 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Eyewitnesses told me about a previously undocumented mass-rape carried out by the RSF in Sudan’s Nuba mountains.

Among the victims was a disabled four-year-old boy.

Full story 🔗
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Children as young as four among victims of gang-rape and ethnic cleansing in war-torn Sudan
At least 19 people raped in previously undocumented war crime, eye witnesses tell The Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
M23 rebels 'execute' children in assault on major DRC city

Rwanda-backed insurgent group seizes Bukavu, plunging country deeper into crisis

Free to read

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M23 rebels ‘execute’ children in assault on major DRC city
Rwanda-backed insurgent group seizes Bukavu, plunging country deeper into crisis
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Dan and Babs Izzett kept their diagnosis secret for decades before dedicating themselves to helping fellow sufferers.

@maevecullinan.bsky.social met the couple fighting leprosy stigma from the West Country.

Free to read 🔓
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Meet the ‘lepers’ of Somerset - battling stigma from the West Country
Dan and Babs Izzett kept their diagnosis secret for decades before dedicating themselves to helping fellow sufferers
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 10:51 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.
February 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Trump has reinstated the ‘global gag rule’ on abortion aid – this time, it’s different

The expanded Mexico City Policy threatens billions of dollars in US funding as Africa reels from aid pause

@maevecullinan.bsky.social and @benfarmerdt.bsky.social report

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Trump has reinstated the ‘global gag rule’ on abortion aid – this time, it’s different
President’s far-reaching Mexico City Policy threatens billions of dollars in US humanitarian funding as Africa reels from aid pause
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January 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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🚨Uganda confirms Ebola outbreak after death of nurse in capital

The case marks the first since the outbreak of Ebola in Uganda three years ago

@maevecullinan.bsky.social reports

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Uganda confirms Ebola outbreak after death of nurse in capital
The case marks the first since the outbreak of Ebola in Uganda three years ago
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January 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Trump has reinstated the ‘global gag rule’ on abortion aid – this time, it’s different

President’s far-reaching Mexico City Policy threatens billions of dollars in US humanitarian funding as Africa reels from aid pause

@benfarmerdt.bsky.social and I report

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Trump has reinstated the ‘global gag rule’ on abortion aid – this time, it’s different
President’s far-reaching Mexico City Policy threatens billions of dollars in US humanitarian funding as Africa reels from aid pause
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
A programme of evacuation flights have quietly ferried more than 2,200 seriously injured Gazans and their relatives to safety in the Gulf.

Fantastic photo essay by Paolo Pellegrin and @liliasebouai.bsky.social

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Paolo Pellegrin photographs: Inside the rescue mission plucking Gaza’s wounded from a war zone
A programme of evacuation flights have quietly ferried more than 2,200 seriously injured Gazans and their relatives to safety in the Gulf
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January 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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January 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM