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ID doc, NYU Program Director, Travel and Tropical ID, Med Ed. Ex UCSD, LSTMH, Weill Cornell, Cal and more … All things NYC, from RPV
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So tragic: Alberta baby born with congenital #measles (mother contracted measles late in pregnancy) died shortly after birth.
The province, which has had a massive measles outbreak this year, says this is the 7th case of congenital measles in 2025. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The province, which has had a massive measles outbreak this year, says this is the 7th case of congenital measles in 2025. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Premature baby dies of measles in Alberta outbreak's 1st death | CBC News
Alberta is reporting its first measles death since outbreaks of the highly contagious illness began in March. The province says a baby, who was born prematurely after the mother became sick, died shor...
www.cbc.ca
October 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
So tragic: Alberta baby born with congenital #measles (mother contracted measles late in pregnancy) died shortly after birth.
The province, which has had a massive measles outbreak this year, says this is the 7th case of congenital measles in 2025. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The province, which has had a massive measles outbreak this year, says this is the 7th case of congenital measles in 2025. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Is there more to Bartonella than meets the eye? Subtle symptoms like headache are more common on those exposed (veterinarians in this). Serology will miss some. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25072986/
Detection of Bartonella species in the blood of veterinarians and veterinary technicians: a newly recognized occupational hazard? - PubMed
Our study supports an emerging body of evidence that cryptic Bartonella bloodstream infection may be more frequent in humans than previously recognized and may induce symptoms. Longitudinal studies ar...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Is there more to Bartonella than meets the eye? Subtle symptoms like headache are more common on those exposed (veterinarians in this). Serology will miss some. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25072986/
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Biased as a colleague and collaborator with @lambod50.bsky.social and the Moncla Lab... but I think this is really stellar work on reconstructing the complex nature of H5N1 introductions into NAmerica flyways from 2021-2023.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Intensive transmission in wild, migratory birds drove rapid geographic dissemination and repeated spillovers of H5N1 into agriculture in North America
Since late 2021, a panzootic of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus has driven significant morbidity and mortality in wild birds, domestic poultry, and mammals. In North America, infections i...
www.biorxiv.org
January 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Biased as a colleague and collaborator with @lambod50.bsky.social and the Moncla Lab... but I think this is really stellar work on reconstructing the complex nature of H5N1 introductions into NAmerica flyways from 2021-2023.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
If you think your patient could have Q Fever, don’t stop your work up just because they haven’t had direct animal contacts (being within a few km is enough) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22711640/
Epidemic Q fever in humans in the Netherlands - PubMed
In 2005, Q fever was diagnosed on two dairy goat farms and 2 years later it emerged in the human population in the south of the Netherlands. From 2007 to 2010, more than 4,000 human cases were notifie...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 23, 2024 at 1:07 AM
If you think your patient could have Q Fever, don’t stop your work up just because they haven’t had direct animal contacts (being within a few km is enough) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22711640/
If you think someone has infectious or noninfectious encephalitis, a CSF pleocytosis may be missing in a +/- quarter of cases including HSV academic.oup.com/cid/advance-... Disturbing …
Absence of Cerebrospinal Fluid Pleocytosis in Encephalitis
We describe the association between pleocytosis in initial CSF studies with clinical, etiological, and prognostic factors in 597 patients with encephalitis
academic.oup.com
November 23, 2024 at 12:40 AM
If you think someone has infectious or noninfectious encephalitis, a CSF pleocytosis may be missing in a +/- quarter of cases including HSV academic.oup.com/cid/advance-... Disturbing …