Usama Irshad 🍉
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Usama Irshad 🍉
@uirshadmd.bsky.social
Infectious Diseases Fellow | LGBTQ+ Health, Intersectionality & Social Justice | IMG | 🇵🇰🏳️‍🌈| They/He | Opinions: mine alone
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Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.

When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
April 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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“An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States”
Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history
Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.
www.cjonline.com
January 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Hi 🦋! Long time lurker, first time poster! I am a social medicine trained physician currently doing a fellowship in infectious diseases. I get excited about intersectionality, stigma around chronic infections & and queer health advocacy!
December 25, 2024 at 2:21 AM