Aalisha Sahukhan
@aalisha.bsky.social
Public health medicine specialist, infectious disease epidemiologist, Head of Health Protection, Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical Services
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It's official: the #PandemicAccord is officially adopted by the World Health Assembly!
My warmest congratulations to @who.int Member States for their commitment to keeping their people and the world safer.
What a moment in global health history. Together!
My warmest congratulations to @who.int Member States for their commitment to keeping their people and the world safer.
What a moment in global health history. Together!
May 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
It's official: the #PandemicAccord is officially adopted by the World Health Assembly!
My warmest congratulations to @who.int Member States for their commitment to keeping their people and the world safer.
What a moment in global health history. Together!
My warmest congratulations to @who.int Member States for their commitment to keeping their people and the world safer.
What a moment in global health history. Together!
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A truly historic evening at the #WHA78: the #PandemicAccord resolution was approved in Committee A with 124 in favour, 0 against and 11 abstentions.
The final step: adoption in plenary tomorrow morning.
My thanks once again to @who.int Member States for choosing to keep the world safer. 🙏
The final step: adoption in plenary tomorrow morning.
My thanks once again to @who.int Member States for choosing to keep the world safer. 🙏
May 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A truly historic evening at the #WHA78: the #PandemicAccord resolution was approved in Committee A with 124 in favour, 0 against and 11 abstentions.
The final step: adoption in plenary tomorrow morning.
My thanks once again to @who.int Member States for choosing to keep the world safer. 🙏
The final step: adoption in plenary tomorrow morning.
My thanks once again to @who.int Member States for choosing to keep the world safer. 🙏
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How powerful the pandemic treaty will turn out to be depends on how seriously countries take it, says @nschwalbe.bsky.social.“This agreement definitely provides a recipe and all the ingredients for a world safer from pandemics,” she says. “Countries now need to make it happen.”
🧪 #IDsky
🧪 #IDsky
Global pandemic treaty finalized, without U.S., in ‘a victory for multilateralism’
Three years in the making, the accord aims to increase equity and avoid errors of the COVID-19 pandemic
www.science.org
April 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
How powerful the pandemic treaty will turn out to be depends on how seriously countries take it, says @nschwalbe.bsky.social.“This agreement definitely provides a recipe and all the ingredients for a world safer from pandemics,” she says. “Countries now need to make it happen.”
🧪 #IDsky
🧪 #IDsky
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A really cool study just published used metagenomic sequencing to uncover viral causes of unexplained fevers in Uganda. Of 230 patients who had tested negative for common infections, 19% had viral pathogens—ranging from respiratory and GI viruses to deadly viruses.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Uncovering the viral aetiology of undiagnosed acute febrile illness in Uganda using metagenomic sequencing - Nature Communications
Acute febrile illness is common in sub-Saharan Africa and causative agents are often unknown. Here, the authors perform metagenomic sequencing on samples from patients with acute febrile illness in Ug...
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A really cool study just published used metagenomic sequencing to uncover viral causes of unexplained fevers in Uganda. Of 230 patients who had tested negative for common infections, 19% had viral pathogens—ranging from respiratory and GI viruses to deadly viruses.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#WHO validated 21 countries to have eliminated #LymphaticFilariasis 🦠
In #Tonga, without #surveillance strategies, persistent LF transmission is seen 7 years post-validation, highlighting the need of community monitoring especially in the #SouthPacific ⚠️
🔗Full text #IDSky #NeglectedTropicalDisease
In #Tonga, without #surveillance strategies, persistent LF transmission is seen 7 years post-validation, highlighting the need of community monitoring especially in the #SouthPacific ⚠️
🔗Full text #IDSky #NeglectedTropicalDisease
Persistent lymphatic filariasis transmission seven years after validation of elimination as a public health problem: a cross-sectional study in Tonga
We found persistent LF transmission in Tonga seven years post-validation. Community
surveillance yielded the highest Ag and Mf prevalence. Efficiency of PVS could be
improved by integrating surveillan...
www.thelancet.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
#WHO validated 21 countries to have eliminated #LymphaticFilariasis 🦠
In #Tonga, without #surveillance strategies, persistent LF transmission is seen 7 years post-validation, highlighting the need of community monitoring especially in the #SouthPacific ⚠️
🔗Full text #IDSky #NeglectedTropicalDisease
In #Tonga, without #surveillance strategies, persistent LF transmission is seen 7 years post-validation, highlighting the need of community monitoring especially in the #SouthPacific ⚠️
🔗Full text #IDSky #NeglectedTropicalDisease
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Read the latest Disease Outbreak News: Trends of acute respiratory infection, including human metapneumovirus, in the Northern Hemisphere.
bit.ly/41Y8Ox4
bit.ly/41Y8Ox4
January 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Read the latest Disease Outbreak News: Trends of acute respiratory infection, including human metapneumovirus, in the Northern Hemisphere.
bit.ly/41Y8Ox4
bit.ly/41Y8Ox4
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Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is one of our colder month nasties. It's a cousin of RSV. It's also known to medicine and science as a cause of illness in the young and the elderly.
Is it causing havoc in China right now?
Probably not, for the reasons below...
🧪🦠
virologydownunder.com/not-the-chin...
Is it causing havoc in China right now?
Probably not, for the reasons below...
🧪🦠
virologydownunder.com/not-the-chin...
Not the "Chinese flu" label thing again...please
A few recent headlines have suggested something novel and infectious might be brewing among China's children. But is it really novel? The hard-to-source headlines imply that we should be concerned. Bu...
virologydownunder.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is one of our colder month nasties. It's a cousin of RSV. It's also known to medicine and science as a cause of illness in the young and the elderly.
Is it causing havoc in China right now?
Probably not, for the reasons below...
🧪🦠
virologydownunder.com/not-the-chin...
Is it causing havoc in China right now?
Probably not, for the reasons below...
🧪🦠
virologydownunder.com/not-the-chin...