Some pictures

I have not been really against using AI, but first time I thought of it, when I read someone's comment on another comment published in the journal. Especially, when the opening of the letter looks "familiar":
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Indeed, checking with Grammarly gave a score of 42%

Here is a map of transportation from the affected farm in Taichung showing a route even to Yunlin

Following the first report of African Swine Fever (#ASF) in Taiwan, here is a reminder of our paper on the 2018-2019 ASF outbreak in China. It took about 6 months to for ASF to get reported in every province of China. Long-distance tranmissions were driving the outbreak: doi.org/10.1017/S095...

A nice subsection, "Let us consider the following framework". My student said, it is cute

Does Copilot really help? I have been struggling with coding recently, let's see...

Oh, it's appeared - I received the first invitation to review for Discover journal. See details the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

However, the genetic testing for FMF was perform anyway XD

This NEJM episode about angioedema is quite interesting. youtu.be/8Ds16fscqKQ?...

The patient had reoccuring of abdominal pain, and it was a mystery. One of the explanations was Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), which was unlikely because the patient didn't report any fever.

An interesting title with "China and its provinces" doi.org/10.1016/S221... Although it assumes some external provinces, they are not part of the study: all analysis is about PRC and two SARs.

I don't understand this kind of reviews. Are people kind of not ashamed to submit just one paragraph of a summary for the review?

When I received the automatic reply that the person was out of office for some time, but then they wrote "Your message will not be processed". Is it kind of a new fashion [in Europe]? :/

Oh, the news in Independent about the largest outbreak of TB in Kanzas, but the article states that TB has two different strains: active TB and latent TB. But they are definitely not two strains, and latent TB may progress to active TB... :/
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Wow, so the cumulative excess mortality due to COVID-19 is at highest in Russia, Belarus, and Balkan republics as of July 2024 according to Cowling and Wong (doi.org/10.1007/978-...)

Another example when Taiwan with its 23-million population is simply excluded from the statistical data

However, the serial interval (SI) was significantly different between historical data and the 2022 global outbreak. A shorter SI for latter was likely due to interventions, a different transmission route, and other factors.

For the source please see Ponce et al EID 2024 (doi.org/10.3201/eid3...)

In our recent paper, we showed that the incubation period of mpox infections for the 2022 global outbreak and historical data were quite close to each other (8.1 vs. 8.2 days). However, the incubation period for clade I was relatively shorter than for clade II (7.3 vs 8.9 days).

My first post in ProMED :)