Dr. Taison Bell
@taisonbell.bsky.social
Critical Care and Infectious Disease doc at UVA. Owl Peak Technologies co-founder. Associate Editor for CID. Here to discuss health topics and career development in academic medicine. Opinion are my own. Pronounced "TY-
The potential links between vaccines and mortality in certain cancers are exciting!
Vaccines are a triumph of medical science. Look at the trendline for deaths from cervical cancer just a few years after Gardasil, a vaccine against high-risk HPV, went into widespread use in 2009.
December 8, 2024 at 1:59 PM
The potential links between vaccines and mortality in certain cancers are exciting!
There was a time when I told students/trainees they should avoid using nicknames if their name was difficult to pronounce. But many just don't want to teach pronunciation repeatedly and prefer to be called a nickname.
I think the most important thing is to respect whatever your colleague prefers.
I think the most important thing is to respect whatever your colleague prefers.
December 8, 2024 at 1:56 PM
There was a time when I told students/trainees they should avoid using nicknames if their name was difficult to pronounce. But many just don't want to teach pronunciation repeatedly and prefer to be called a nickname.
I think the most important thing is to respect whatever your colleague prefers.
I think the most important thing is to respect whatever your colleague prefers.
Reposted by Dr. Taison Bell
If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while.
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky
Why hasn’t the bird flu pandemic started?
Some scientists examining mutations found in H5N1 viruses fear major outbreak is imminent but others says pathogen remains unpredictable
www.science.org
December 6, 2024 at 12:54 PM
If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while.
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky
While furiously posting about pandemics I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Taison Bell. I'm a critical care and infectious diseases doctor at UVA. I'm also an editor for CID and I founded a med-tech company. I try to make complex health topics more easy to understand. 🔬💊💉🏥
December 7, 2024 at 1:14 AM
While furiously posting about pandemics I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Taison Bell. I'm a critical care and infectious diseases doctor at UVA. I'm also an editor for CID and I founded a med-tech company. I try to make complex health topics more easy to understand. 🔬💊💉🏥
There's a lot going on right now...but an undiagnosed respiratory illness is worth paying attention to. One of the reasons a robust global/local public health infrastructure is so crucial.
December 7, 2024 at 1:04 AM
There's a lot going on right now...but an undiagnosed respiratory illness is worth paying attention to. One of the reasons a robust global/local public health infrastructure is so crucial.
Reposted by Dr. Taison Bell
Early days, but another exciting application of vaccine technology.
And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....
And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer | WashU Medicine
Clinical trial targeted recurrence of hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancer
medicine.washu.edu
December 6, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Early days, but another exciting application of vaccine technology.
And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....
And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....
One of the reasons to aggressively monitor/contain H5N1 cases is to prevent it from acquiring a mutation that could make it take off. Especially if it's just one away
“A single mutation in the hemagglutinin, the main protein on H5N1’s exterior, could turn a virus that is currently not well equipped to infect people into one that is much more capable of doing so.” www.statnews.com/2024/12/05/h...
Single mutation in H5N1 bird flu virus may make it more infectious to humans, study finds
Study published in Science says a single hemagglutinin mutation, similar to one seen in a Canadian case, could make H5N1 better suited to infect people.
www.statnews.com
December 7, 2024 at 12:56 AM
One of the reasons to aggressively monitor/contain H5N1 cases is to prevent it from acquiring a mutation that could make it take off. Especially if it's just one away
I'm still keeping close tabs on this. The USDA recently mandated milk supply monitoring in California, Colorado, Michigan, Mississippi, Oregon and Pennsylvania. This is a good move to try to stay ahead.
#USDA confirms 2 more #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds in California. CA's total is 506 herds, some of which will soon come out of quarantine, per the state's dept of food and agriculture.
Cumulative national total: 720 herds in 15 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
Cumulative national total: 720 herds in 15 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
December 7, 2024 at 12:51 AM
I'm still keeping close tabs on this. The USDA recently mandated milk supply monitoring in California, Colorado, Michigan, Mississippi, Oregon and Pennsylvania. This is a good move to try to stay ahead.