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Gerard Gallagher
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Editorial Director, Healio. I lead the ID and Pediatrics news teams. Past: Sports Network, CBS Sports. I've covered 5 Olympics and 10 IDWeeks. It's JEH-rid. he/him

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🦠 Ethiopia became the sixth country in the last 5 years to report an outbreak of Marburg virus.

💉 There are no licensed vaccines or treatments for Marburg virus disease, which is often fatal.

🚑 The country is folding its response into existing efforts against mpox.

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Ethiopia confirms deadly Marburg virus outbreak
Ethiopia has initiated an emergency response after confirming the first cases of Marburg virus in the country’s history. Health officials in the country said Monday that three people are confirmed to ...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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“This loss represents a setback, but it’s also reversible."

Endemic measles returns to the Americas ... again. 👇🏻

#IDSky #MedSky #PedSky #Measles

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Americas no longer considered measles-free
A commission in charge of monitoring efforts to eliminate measles from the Americas has decided that the region can no longer be considered free of the highly contagious disease.The decision not to re...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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🚨 PAHO: Americas can no longer be declared free of #measles based on a large outbreak in Canada that has lasted longer than a year, one of the ways a country and region can lose its measles elimination status.

Story soon, but here's the preview we wrote last week:

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Americas could lose measles-free status
A commission in charge of monitoring efforts to eliminate measles from the Americas is meeting this week and could vote to revoke the region’s measles-free status based on a large ongoing outbre...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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🍝 Six people have died and 25 have been hospitalized in a multistate Listeria outbreak linked to several pasta products, including frozen and refrigerated meals sold at popular grocery store chains.

Details of recall at link below 👇🏻

#IDSky #MedSky #GastroSky

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Death count doubles in Listeria outbreak linked to pasta meals
Six people have died in a multistate Listeria outbreak linked to several pasta products, including frozen and refrigerated meals sold at popular grocery store chains. The ongoing outbreak which was f...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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🐿️ An investigation of six cases of borealpox — previously called Alaskapox — revealed that the virus is likely being spread to people from small mammals in Alaska, including voles and shrews.

#IDSky #MedSky #VoleSky @gohealio.bsky.social

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Borealpox likely being spread by small mammals in Alaska
An investigation of borealpox cases in Alaska determined that the virus is likely being spread from small mammals like voles and shrews to people, researchers said. Borealpox virus — formerly called A...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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🌎 A commission in charge of monitoring efforts to eliminate measles from the Americas could vote this week to revoke the region’s measles-free status based on a large ongoing outbreak in Canada.

#IDSky #MedSky #PedSky @gohealio.bsky.social

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Americas could lose measles-free status
A commission in charge of monitoring efforts to eliminate measles from the Americas is meeting this week and could vote to revoke the region’s measles-free status based on a large ongoing outbre...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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🎧 NEW "PHYSICIANARY" EPISODE 🎧

🎙️ AAP President Susan Kressly, MD, joined our Hansa Bhargava, MD, for a discussion on tackling disinformation in medicine.

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#IDSky #MedSky #PedSky

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“Playing Telephone”: Strengthening Patient Communication and Trust Amid the Rise of Disinformation with Susan Kressly, MD
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November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Currently available medications could be enough to end the #HIV epidemic in the US, provided people can access and afford for them.

But the country needs more HIV docs. A lot more.

From #IDWeek2025 👇🏻

With a perspective from @aadiamd.bsky.social.

#IDSky #HIVSky

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HIV specialists in short supply, especially in the South
ATLANTA — Currently available medications could be enough to end the HIV epidemic in the United States, provided people can access and afford them, experts have said. Taken as directed, modern medicat...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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There is more evidence that #shingles vaccination significantly decreases the risk for heart disease, dementia and death among people aged 50 years or older with herpes zoster infection, according to data presented at #IDWeek2025.

💉 #IDSky

🥼 #MedSky

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Shingles vaccination lowers risk for heart disease, dementia, death
ATLANTA — There is more evidence that shingles vaccination significantly decreases the risk for heart disease, dementia and death among people aged 50 years or older with herpes zoster infection...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The plane trains stopped working for a while after I arrived at ATL for #IDWeek2025 around 9:45 this morning. No one could tell us why. Mystery solved.
October 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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🦟 A New York resident has tested positive for chikungunya in what health officials said is the first locally acquired case of the mosquito-borne disease in the state’s history — and first in the United States since 2019.
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New York reports rare case of chikungunya
A New York resident has tested positive for chikungunya in what health officials said is the first locally acquired case of the mosquito-borne disease in the state’s history — and first in the United ...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The Trump administration reinstated hundreds of CDC staffers who were mistakenly laid off last week due to what an HHS official confirmed was a “glitch in the system.”

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CDC staffers fired due to ‘glitch’ are reinstated
The Trump administration has reinstated hundreds of CDC staffers who were mistakenly laid off last week due to what an HHS official confirmed to Healio was a “glitch in the system.” Among the reinstat...
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October 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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“My termination, unfortunately, shows that the leaders of HHS and the National Institutes of Health do not share my commitment to scientific integrity and public health."

Details 👇🏻

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Kennedy fires NIH official weeks after whistleblower complaint
A top NIH official who filed a whistleblower complaint last month alleging she was removed from her job for political reasons has been fired by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to her at...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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🔐 More than 32,000 HHS staff will be furloughed during the #shutdown — or about 41% of the nation’s federal health care workforce.

#MedSky

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More than 40% of federal health workers furloughed during shutdown
The first government shutdown in almost 7 years began Wednesday after Congress was unable to come together on legislation to fund the federal government. The disagreement between Republicans and Democ...
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October 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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🧫 The CDC recently made major cuts to a program that for decades has monitored foodborne illnesses through a partnership between federal agencies and state health departments.

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Q&A: CDC makes major cuts to foodborne illness surveillance
The CDC recently made major cuts to a program that for decades has monitored foodborne illnesses through a partnership between federal agencies and state health departments, according to an expert who...
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September 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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"In a disorganized start to the second day of their meeting, members of the ACIP also reversed a vote they made the previous evening that preserved some children’s access to a vaccine that the panel had just voted not to recommend."

#IDSky #MedSky

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CDC advisors table vote to delay hepatitis B vaccination in newborns
CDC vaccine advisors voted Thursday to remove a longstanding federal recommendation that allowed young children to get a vaccine that combines protection against measles, mumps, rubella and varicella.
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September 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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💉 CDC advisors say COVID shots should require talk with doctor.

❓ But also: Details of a strange vote (which failed) that would have recommended COVID-19 vaccines require a prescription, something the ACIP does not control.

More coming soon:

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CDC advisors say COVID shots should require talk with doctor
CDC vaccine advisors voted Friday to weaken federal recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, even among older adults, saying vaccination should be based on shared clinical decision-making.The Advisory C...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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🏆 Emmy wins for ‘The Pitt’ feel personal for health care professionals

"Our emergency medicine group chats lit up like we had just won the Super Bowl."

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#MedTwitter

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Emmy wins for ‘The Pitt’ feel personal for health care professionals
Although The Pitt is fictional, health care professionals praise actors Noah Wyle, Fiona Dourif and the rest of its cast and crew for accurately portraying the dynamic chaos of a shift in the ER as we...
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September 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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"Robust scientific evidence and safety data have unequivocally shown that universal birth dose HBV vaccination saves lives and is safe to administer in newborns."

🗣️ New editorial up on the site ahead of this week's #ACIP meeting.

#IDSky #MedSky

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Universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth saves lives
Universal administration of a hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth is a safe, highly effective, evidence-based practice that has saved thousands of lives by preventing chronic hepatitis B infe...
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September 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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On the agenda for this week's 2-day ACIP meeting, which starts tomorrow:

💉 MMRV vaccination
💉 Hepatitis B birth dose
💉 COVID-19 vaccines

“I’m hoping that they listen to the experts, but I guess we’ll just have to see what happens.”

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More vaccine changes could be in store for US
On Thursday, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will begin a 2-day meeting in Atlanta that could impact the availability of a few vaccines. It is the second ACIP meeting since Robe...
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September 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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💉 The US is losing its only dengue vaccine. What now?

#IDSky #MedSky

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Q&A: The US is losing its only dengue vaccine
The only dengue vaccine ever approved in the United States is being discontinued, raising questions about control of the mosquito-borne virus amid a decades-long surge in cases. The vaccine, Dengvaxia...
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September 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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In addition to #Ebola, there are numerous other ongoing outbreaks in Africa competing for limited resources, especially in the wake of the United States’ gutting of foreign aid programs that funded outbreak responses.

#IDSky #MedSky

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Congo’s Ebola outbreak spreads as cases double
An Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has doubled in size and spread in the province where it started, raising fears of cross-border spillover into neighboring Angola, a heal...
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September 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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🦠 Latest #HookedOnID went up this morning: Sara K. Schultz, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FCPP, from @templeid.bsky.social.

#IDSky #MedSky #PotatoSalad

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Hooked on ID with Sara K. Schultz, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FCPP
When I attended Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, I was pre-med mainly for the fun of getting to say, “I’m pre-med,” with little understanding of the actual...
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August 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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🗣️ “It’s perplexing to me why President Trump is allowing Secretary Kennedy to undermine his legacy in leading a medical intervention that really did save millions of lives.”

#IDSky #MedSky

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US abandons mRNA vaccine development despite triumphs
The decision to cancel almost $500 million dollars in U.S. funding for the development of messenger RNA vaccines is dangerous, shortsighted and tarnishes the legacy of a scientific advancement that sa...
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August 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM