brecht ingelbeen
@ingelbeen.bsky.social
infectious disease epidemiologist into antimicrobial resistance and population based studies. also a bit of urban cycling #EpiSky #IDSky
Every year during #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek I'm surprised by the diversity of media, approaches, and key messages used to reach and mobilize the public or healthcare workers, and to promote better antibiotic use—driven each time by the tireless and unparalleled energy of so many AMR advocates
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Every year during #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek I'm surprised by the diversity of media, approaches, and key messages used to reach and mobilize the public or healthcare workers, and to promote better antibiotic use—driven each time by the tireless and unparalleled energy of so many AMR advocates
Nu het #WAAW is, schreef ik voor EOS een blog over ons onderzoek met CRUN in Burkina Faso.
Waarom zijn er zoveel ernstige resistente bacteriële infecties op een plek waar antibioticagebruik niet excessief is?
www.eoswetenschap.eu/gezondheid/w...
#AMR @itmantwerp.bsky.social
Waarom zijn er zoveel ernstige resistente bacteriële infecties op een plek waar antibioticagebruik niet excessief is?
www.eoswetenschap.eu/gezondheid/w...
#AMR @itmantwerp.bsky.social
Waarom jaarlijks nog 200.000 kinderen sterven door antibioticaresistentie
In Europa treft antibioticaresistentie vooral ouderen en ziekenhuispatiënten, terwijl in lage-inkomenslanden vooral kinderen sterven aan infecties die resist...
www.eoswetenschap.eu
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Nu het #WAAW is, schreef ik voor EOS een blog over ons onderzoek met CRUN in Burkina Faso.
Waarom zijn er zoveel ernstige resistente bacteriële infecties op een plek waar antibioticagebruik niet excessief is?
www.eoswetenschap.eu/gezondheid/w...
#AMR @itmantwerp.bsky.social
Waarom zijn er zoveel ernstige resistente bacteriële infecties op een plek waar antibioticagebruik niet excessief is?
www.eoswetenschap.eu/gezondheid/w...
#AMR @itmantwerp.bsky.social
a global health journal gives you a limit of 200 words for the abstract of an article you've been working on for years so you decide to use these words to provide historical context 😬 #AMR
October 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
a global health journal gives you a limit of 200 words for the abstract of an article you've been working on for years so you decide to use these words to provide historical context 😬 #AMR
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Renewables have taken the lead in Dutch electricity production
August 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Renewables have taken the lead in Dutch electricity production
Open position for an ID modeler @itmantwerp.bsky.social on community-level + healthcare transmission of resistant #AMR bacteria in LRS, working with Clinical Research Unit Nanoro, @esthervk.bsky.social, @bugwonk.bsky.social, KEMRI-wellcome Kilifi, myself,... #IDSky #EpiSky
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Epidemiologist
Epidemiologist for modelling AMR transmission in LMICMore than 500 staff members at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) contribute e...
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June 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Open position for an ID modeler @itmantwerp.bsky.social on community-level + healthcare transmission of resistant #AMR bacteria in LRS, working with Clinical Research Unit Nanoro, @esthervk.bsky.social, @bugwonk.bsky.social, KEMRI-wellcome Kilifi, myself,... #IDSky #EpiSky
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Belgian waste water tells the story: Alpha. Delta. Omicron. Then viral loads dropped 10×.
Not luck. Not just Omicron.
But population immunity — built by vaccines + infections. Vaccines helped to avoid millions of deaths in the process.
Graph: Raphael Janssens
🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/vanguc...
Not luck. Not just Omicron.
But population immunity — built by vaccines + infections. Vaccines helped to avoid millions of deaths in the process.
Graph: Raphael Janssens
🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/vanguc...
April 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Belgian waste water tells the story: Alpha. Delta. Omicron. Then viral loads dropped 10×.
Not luck. Not just Omicron.
But population immunity — built by vaccines + infections. Vaccines helped to avoid millions of deaths in the process.
Graph: Raphael Janssens
🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/vanguc...
Not luck. Not just Omicron.
But population immunity — built by vaccines + infections. Vaccines helped to avoid millions of deaths in the process.
Graph: Raphael Janssens
🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/vanguc...
Great work at GLASS that @esthervk.bsky.social presented at #ESCMIDglobal, providing regional trends in AMR prevalence in bloodstream infections #AMR #IDSky
April 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Great work at GLASS that @esthervk.bsky.social presented at #ESCMIDglobal, providing regional trends in AMR prevalence in bloodstream infections #AMR #IDSky
GLASS report with 2022 AMU data is out #IDSky #AMR
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It has per capita antibiotic use expressed in DDD per 1000 inhabitants per day, confirming DID is lower in most low-income than in most high-income countries
Would be great to link population-wide AMU to AMR prevalence
iris.who.int/bitstream/ha...
It has per capita antibiotic use expressed in DDD per 1000 inhabitants per day, confirming DID is lower in most low-income than in most high-income countries
Would be great to link population-wide AMU to AMR prevalence
April 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
GLASS report with 2022 AMU data is out #IDSky #AMR
iris.who.int/bitstream/ha...
It has per capita antibiotic use expressed in DDD per 1000 inhabitants per day, confirming DID is lower in most low-income than in most high-income countries
Would be great to link population-wide AMU to AMR prevalence
iris.who.int/bitstream/ha...
It has per capita antibiotic use expressed in DDD per 1000 inhabitants per day, confirming DID is lower in most low-income than in most high-income countries
Would be great to link population-wide AMU to AMR prevalence
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If you love strong, pour-over coffee, a team of physicists has a tip: Pour from as high as you can without causing the stream to break apart. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
April 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If you love strong, pour-over coffee, a team of physicists has a tip: Pour from as high as you can without causing the stream to break apart. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
for 4,5 days of #ESCMIDGlobal with permanently 20 sessions in parallel and some #IDSky skeeters posting about sessions I wasn't in, more than once I had the feeling I have when picking a lane in a supermarket. Some bits I learned, mostly relevant for #AMR control intervention implementation in LMIC:
April 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
for 4,5 days of #ESCMIDGlobal with permanently 20 sessions in parallel and some #IDSky skeeters posting about sessions I wasn't in, more than once I had the feeling I have when picking a lane in a supermarket. Some bits I learned, mostly relevant for #AMR control intervention implementation in LMIC:
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Day in day out, Israel is adding war crime to war crime, with the world looking for something 'new' to worry about. We are running the danger of becoming de-sensitised. Resistance now takes more than to condemn the genocide. We must also oppose the de-sensitisation of our souls!
March 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Day in day out, Israel is adding war crime to war crime, with the world looking for something 'new' to worry about. We are running the danger of becoming de-sensitised. Resistance now takes more than to condemn the genocide. We must also oppose the de-sensitisation of our souls!
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The cost of blood cultures: a barrier to diagnosis in low-income and middle-income countries
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA
The cost of blood cultures: a barrier to diagnosis in low-income and middle-income countries
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA
March 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The cost of blood cultures: a barrier to diagnosis in low-income and middle-income countries
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA
The cost of blood cultures: a barrier to diagnosis in low-income and middle-income countries
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA
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NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
March 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
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Cholera in Angola:
As of 11 March 2025, a total of 6,651 cholera cases have been reported in Angola, with 240 death (Case Fatality Rate of 3.6%)
The outbreak creates a risk for spread
Despite no cholera in Namibia for over a decade, 1 case has been confirmed in Namibia, just south of Angola border
As of 11 March 2025, a total of 6,651 cholera cases have been reported in Angola, with 240 death (Case Fatality Rate of 3.6%)
The outbreak creates a risk for spread
Despite no cholera in Namibia for over a decade, 1 case has been confirmed in Namibia, just south of Angola border
March 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Cholera in Angola:
As of 11 March 2025, a total of 6,651 cholera cases have been reported in Angola, with 240 death (Case Fatality Rate of 3.6%)
The outbreak creates a risk for spread
Despite no cholera in Namibia for over a decade, 1 case has been confirmed in Namibia, just south of Angola border
As of 11 March 2025, a total of 6,651 cholera cases have been reported in Angola, with 240 death (Case Fatality Rate of 3.6%)
The outbreak creates a risk for spread
Despite no cholera in Namibia for over a decade, 1 case has been confirmed in Namibia, just south of Angola border
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Before the introduction of measles vaccine in 1963 and widespread vaccination, major epidemics occurred approximately every two to three years and caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths each year
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
March 12, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Before the introduction of measles vaccine in 1963 and widespread vaccination, major epidemics occurred approximately every two to three years and caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths each year
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
Nee (wat het artikel ook concludeert)
Is dit nu misinformation of disinformation @de-standaard.bsky.social?
Is dit nu misinformation of disinformation @de-standaard.bsky.social?
March 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Nee (wat het artikel ook concludeert)
Is dit nu misinformation of disinformation @de-standaard.bsky.social?
Is dit nu misinformation of disinformation @de-standaard.bsky.social?
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“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Opinion | A Day of American Infamy
A dreadful moment for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
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Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
February 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
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Why Wikipedia matters
In June 2019, American anti-vaccination activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Samoa to meet with local anti-vaccination activists"
The measles outbreak began in September 2019. Over 5,700 cases of measles and 83 deaths had been reported.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sa...
In June 2019, American anti-vaccination activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Samoa to meet with local anti-vaccination activists"
The measles outbreak began in September 2019. Over 5,700 cases of measles and 83 deaths had been reported.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sa...
2019 Samoa measles outbreak - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Why Wikipedia matters
In June 2019, American anti-vaccination activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Samoa to meet with local anti-vaccination activists"
The measles outbreak began in September 2019. Over 5,700 cases of measles and 83 deaths had been reported.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sa...
In June 2019, American anti-vaccination activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Samoa to meet with local anti-vaccination activists"
The measles outbreak began in September 2019. Over 5,700 cases of measles and 83 deaths had been reported.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sa...
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Rather than resistricting risk monitoring to reactive outbreak response, we highlight effective applications that enhance early detection and prevention of outbreaks. This aligns with #CollaborativeSurveillance @who.int and its advocacy for integrated/ cross-sectoral approaches to ID surveillance.
NEW PAPER: When and how to embed risk data in infectious disease surveillance?
Problem: Traditional infectious disease surveillance consisting of facility-based reporting of cases, often delays outbreak response due to disease progression, healthcare seeking, diagnostic and reporting lags. 1/5
Problem: Traditional infectious disease surveillance consisting of facility-based reporting of cases, often delays outbreak response due to disease progression, healthcare seeking, diagnostic and reporting lags. 1/5
February 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Rather than resistricting risk monitoring to reactive outbreak response, we highlight effective applications that enhance early detection and prevention of outbreaks. This aligns with #CollaborativeSurveillance @who.int and its advocacy for integrated/ cross-sectoral approaches to ID surveillance.
NEW PAPER: When and how to embed risk data in infectious disease surveillance?
Problem: Traditional infectious disease surveillance consisting of facility-based reporting of cases, often delays outbreak response due to disease progression, healthcare seeking, diagnostic and reporting lags. 1/5
Problem: Traditional infectious disease surveillance consisting of facility-based reporting of cases, often delays outbreak response due to disease progression, healthcare seeking, diagnostic and reporting lags. 1/5
February 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
NEW PAPER: When and how to embed risk data in infectious disease surveillance?
Problem: Traditional infectious disease surveillance consisting of facility-based reporting of cases, often delays outbreak response due to disease progression, healthcare seeking, diagnostic and reporting lags. 1/5
Problem: Traditional infectious disease surveillance consisting of facility-based reporting of cases, often delays outbreak response due to disease progression, healthcare seeking, diagnostic and reporting lags. 1/5
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“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
www.latimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:55 AM
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
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🎥On demand
Prof. Timothy Walsh (@ineosoxford.bsky.social) presented his excellent lecture on "#Antimicrobialresistance in the 21st century: Communication About ID with Public and Politicians – pre and post UNGA" at the 33rd ICC.
Watch⬇️
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Prof. Timothy Walsh (@ineosoxford.bsky.social) presented his excellent lecture on "#Antimicrobialresistance in the 21st century: Communication About ID with Public and Politicians – pre and post UNGA" at the 33rd ICC.
Watch⬇️
youtu.be/lu3gib3Mra0
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ICC 2024 | Antimicrobial resistance in the 21st century
YouTube video by ISAC / APUA
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January 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
🎥On demand
Prof. Timothy Walsh (@ineosoxford.bsky.social) presented his excellent lecture on "#Antimicrobialresistance in the 21st century: Communication About ID with Public and Politicians – pre and post UNGA" at the 33rd ICC.
Watch⬇️
youtu.be/lu3gib3Mra0
@souhakanj.bsky.social
Prof. Timothy Walsh (@ineosoxford.bsky.social) presented his excellent lecture on "#Antimicrobialresistance in the 21st century: Communication About ID with Public and Politicians – pre and post UNGA" at the 33rd ICC.
Watch⬇️
youtu.be/lu3gib3Mra0
@souhakanj.bsky.social