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Onicio Leal
@onicio.bsky.social
Assist. Professor - University of Arizona
🦠Digital Epidemiology, 🚶🏻‍♂️Social Epidemiology, 👨🏻‍💻Digital Public Health
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I don’t remember in seeing digital disease detection protocols adopting Nextdoor as a data source. Actually it’s been a while I didn’t hear disease rumors detection using the plethora of social media available nowadays (e.g. Ring, Instagram, Quora, TikTok…).
December 31, 2024 at 3:24 AM
Reposted by Onicio Leal
CA governor Newsom declares state emergency related to H5N1. This is a measured & proactive step allowing greater coordination & resources to flow into an evolving situation affecting growing number of farms resulting in greater number of sporadic human infections.

www.gov.ca.gov/2024/12/18/g...
Governor Newsom takes proactive action to strengthen robust state response to Bird Flu | Governor of California
www.gov.ca.gov
December 18, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Reposted by Onicio Leal
Breaking News: California declared a state of emergency over a bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle. The virus has been detected in 645 herds.
California Declares an Emergency Over Bird Flu
Officials have discovered the virus in 645 herds of dairy cattle, more than in any other state so far.
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Ending Pandemics Academy is ramping up! Today at Salesforce Tower we hosted an event for donors that will be joining efforts for this upcoming journey.
December 7, 2024 at 3:48 AM
Reposted by Onicio Leal
A National Weather Service for disease?
Nice story on the Insight Net initiative on forecasting and outbreak analytics
harvardpublichealth.org/policy-pract...
A National Weather Service for disease?
Can Insight Net help the CDC predict the ebb and flow of infectious disease the way meteorologists predict the weather?
harvardpublichealth.org
December 5, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Reposted by Onicio Leal
California Department of Public Health investigating a possible bird flu case in a child who has had mild respiratory symptoms and is recovering at home. Children from a daycare setting also being tested as a preventive step, although no evidence of additional spread

www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA...
November 19, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Reposted by Onicio Leal
The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Reposted by Onicio Leal
Movano Health’s EvieMED Ring receives FDA clearance for SpO2 monitoring

Clinical-grade device tracking sleep, activity, temperature, calories, and respiration rate.

Used in Long COVID and Lyme disease trials.

More: www.mobihealthnews.com/news/movano-...
December 5, 2024 at 8:53 AM
can’t wait to see this maturity level of Bluesky memes as seen in the good old days of twitter.
December 5, 2024 at 5:29 AM
though I’m a bit late, it seems posts here are (still) more signal than noise.
December 3, 2024 at 5:02 AM