Jannik Helweg-Larsen
jhelweg.bsky.social
Jannik Helweg-Larsen
@jhelweg.bsky.social
Infectious diseases, invasive fungal diseases, endocarditis, secondary immunodeficiencies, inborn errors of immunity. Cross-country skiing. Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen
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Good to see @bsky.app has emerged as the social media platform of choice for science stuff
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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After doctors discovered Beverly Gage’s novel genetic mutation, she became a medical curiosity. “Doctors often blurt out that my situation is ‘fascinating’ before catching themselves,” she writes. “Nobody really wants to be fascinating in quite this way.”
Nobody Has My Condition But Me
Medical researchers find my genetic mutation endlessly fascinating. But being unique isn’t a plus when you’re a patient.
www.newyorker.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Very interesting speech by @president.ecb.europa.eu on currency internationalization of the €uro.

She concluded that „The ongoing changes create the opening for a “global euro moment”

Have you seen this @jvtk.bsky.social ?

www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/da...
Earning influence: lessons from the history of international currencies
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...
www.ecb.europa.eu
May 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Situationen i Gaza får nu Frankrig til at støtte kravet om en kritisk revision af EU's frihandelsaftale med Israel. Kravet er tidligere blevet fremsat af Irland, Spanien og Slovenien og for nyligt også af Nederlandene. Danmark er fortsat ikke blandt de lande, der presser på. rfi.fr/en/internati...
France urges EU to reassess Israel trade partnership over Gaza rights abuses
France has called for a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement amid growing concern over Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
rfi.fr
May 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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BREAKING: WHO Confirms Nine New MERS Cases Including Two Deaths in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
May 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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【Tigecycline: Important to know】
ID consult is needed, but please remember 5 important key points of tigecycline!

Level: Intermediate
Frequency: ★★☆☆☆

#IDMedEd #IDFellow #IMResident
February 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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【TB medications for CKD/HD patients】

EMB and PZA should be reduced to three times a week!

Level: Intermediate
Importance: ★★★

#IDMedEd #IDFellow #pulmonaryfellow #nephrologyfellow #IMResident #IDsky
March 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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State-of-the-Art Review: Modern Approach to Nocardiosis

⭐The duration of antibiotic treatment is understudied and based on few data ➡️ can be shortened if harms begin to outweigh potential benefits
⭐~5% develop recurrence ➡️ close monitoring needed

doi.org/10.1093/cid/...

#IDSky
May 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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One of the most challenging encounters in the outpatient practice of infectious diseases, summarized here wonderfully in @cidjournal.bsky.social by Drs. Advani and colleagues.
Have already used this algorithm several times!
doi.org/10.1093/cid/...
State-of-the-Art Review: Recurrent Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections in Women
Abstract. Over 50% of adult women experience at least 1 urinary tract infection (UTI) in their lifetime, and almost one-quarter of them will experience a r
doi.org
April 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct
Three books that take on the history of languages have something for everyone.
www.nature.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.

This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
“Putting America First” — Undermining Health for Populations at Home and Abroad | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
“Putting America First” — Undermining Health for Populations at Home and Abroad | NEJM
The dismantling of foreign-assistance efforts has already had, and will continue to have, severe effects on vulnerable populations globally. But it also has implications for people in the United St...
www.nejm.org
April 17, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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One of the great contemporary scientists and leaders in the immunology of infectious diseases and vaccine science has joined BlueSky!—Shane Crotty, PhD, Professor and Scientific Director of the La Jolla Institute of Immunology

A must follow: @profshanecrotty.bsky.social

www.lji.org/labs/crotty-...
Crotty Lab
Shane Crotty, Ph.D., and his team study immunity against infectious diseases. They investigate how the immune system remembers infections and vaccines.
www.lji.org
April 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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My Trade Secrets response to the tariffs.

Bad news: these tariffs cd be worse than the 1930s & the Republicans are inflicting their deep pathology on the world.

Good news: this is as yet a US trade war, not a world trade war. Others can resist following Trump's crazy road.

First 300 clicks free.
A US tariff pathology is unleashed upon the world
[FREE TO READ] The Republicans have allowed a destructive economic nationalist to lead America into chaos
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April 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Antifungal agents in clinical and preclinical development
Overview and analysis

@who.int

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April 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Congratulations to Greenland’s new government and Premier-elect Jens-Frederik Nielsen.

You deserve partners who respect you and treat you as equals.

And the European Union is proud to be such a partner for you.
March 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Really fascinating bit of work on #genetics of #Greenland - it really demonstrates why it's important to include people from diverse origins in genetic databases, but more importantly, it's also about HOW to include indigenous people in research + data sovreignty.
: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genetic architecture in Greenland is shaped by demography, structure and selection - Nature
We illustrate that including data from Greenlandic Inuit can greatly reduce inequity in genomic-based healthcare in Greenland and other indigenous Arctic populations.
www.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Estimated number of people who could die within a year without American foreign aid for:

H.I.V. prevention and treatment: 1,650,000

Vaccines: 500,000

Food aid: 550,000

Malaria prevention: 290,000

Tuberculosis prevention: 310,000
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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🚨 Misrepresentation in Scientific Research: The Case of Uspecific Vaccine Effects 🚨
A recent investigative article exposes troubling patterns in the research of Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn on the so-called "unspecific effects" of vaccines.
March 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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This is a letter I did not want to write.

There is a WWII-era saying: “If there’s a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis.”

If you voted for #Trump, you are a #Nazi.

brandy-schillace.medium.com/the-letter-b...
The Letter
This is a letter I did not want to write. I had hoped that the angels of our better natures would win out, would convince people that…
brandy-schillace.medium.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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HIV in Africa: a quick guide by prof Andrew Phillips, UCL. Bottom line: delicate situation that quickly can deteriorate again if ongoing problems are interrupted. Please share. Thanks

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Quick guide to effects HIV interventions have been having in Africa
YouTube video by Andrew Phillips
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February 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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After hearing from two of my colleagues in Africa who work with USAID/PEPFAR, and the consequences already of recent events, I had to write this.

So sad. And so pointless! #IDSky

blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Could This Be the End of PEPFAR?
Short email from a longtime colleague, working in Africa at a PEPFAR site: Without USAID, PEPFAR is essentially dead. I got chills reading this. PEPFAR, the abbreviation for the President’s Emergency ...
blogs.jwatch.org
February 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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ONE ANTIBIOTIC PK TABLE TO RULE THEM ALL

Absorption takes drug into blood from GI,
Vd spreads drug out to where bug calls home.
And after bacteria are doomed to die,
The drug’s eliminated on the porcelain throne

In the Land of Notion where this table doth lie…

#idSky #microsky #pharmsky #medsky
January 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Not good news: @WHO just announced a new Marburg outbreak in Tanzania.

“As of 11 January 2025, nine suspected cases were reported including eight deaths across two districts – Biharamulo and Muleba. …Results are pending official confirmation.”

www.who.int/emergencies/...
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#IDsky
World Health Organization (WHO)
The United Nations agency working to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable.
www.who.int
January 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM