Seasonal influenza summary from latest @ukhsa.bsky.social surveillance report. #IDSky #EpiSky 🧪

🗓️ Based on data up to week 38 2026 (14-20 Sep 2026)

📊 Seasonal influenza circulating at baseline levels in England. Activity increasing.

Report 🔗: www.gov.uk/government/s...

The province I live in has decided to end semi-annual time changes, so apologies in advance if I am late... or early... for everything starting in November.

#AcademicSky #MedSky #EpiSky

What role do socioeconomic disparities play when it comes to dissemination of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens?

Authors from the @rki.de explored this question across cities & rural areas in #Germany

Their work now received a prize for excellent research by @zi.de

#IDSky #EpiSky #AMR 🛟🧪 #MedSky

#IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky #MicroSky 🛟🧪

Help us shape #Europe's #PublicHealth response & setting the #scientific direction of our publisher @ecdc.europa.eu as the new ECDC Chief Scientist

In this role, you will also host the Eurosurveillance editorial office in your Unit

Apply by 30 Sept 2026 ⤵️

Me, every day for past few weeks.

#AcademicSky #ScienceSky #MedSky #EpiSky

📅 Reminder: The deadline to submit your abstract for this year's call for late breakers is tonight at 23:59 CET.

We look forward to reviewing your submissions!

#EpiSky #IDSky

Interesting work tracing the measles virus involved in the West Texas outbreak.

"Measles virus genomes from Texas clustered closely with other D8 measles genotypes from North America, including those from Arizona, Utah, and South Carolina."

#CDC #IDsky #EpiSky #MMR #pediatrics

Our 40th Annual Meeting is June 14-15, 2027 in Detroit, MI. sper.org/annual-meeti...

Deadlines:
​Symposium submissions: September 23 – October 28
​Abstract submissions: November 23 – January 28
​Award nominations: December 2 – February 3

Registration will open on January 13

#EpiSky

RFK Jr.’s tricks for hiding the outbreak are even stranger than you think
#episky #medsky #measles #cdc
drbobmorris.substack.com/p/the-magic-...

2/ We find that growing smoking-mortality associations can largely be explained by the age composition of smokers shifting older, where mortality is higher.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... #demography #episky #publichealth @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social

Per Florida DOH: 152 cases of locally acquired dengue have been reported in 2026 in Hillsborough (134), Miami-Dade (7), Orange, Palm Beach, Pasco (2), and Pinellas (7), with onset in July (21), August (124), and September (7).

#mosquitos #arbovirus #EpiSky #IDSky

Overall cancer incidence decreases for men, slight increase for women, per annual CDC, ACS, NCI report. Good news is that lung cancer incidence and deaths have decreased.

#EpiSky #publichealth #pulmonary #oncology

Another day, another peer review full of LLM-generated "reviews". (Full of nonsense, and also violates the norms of the journal)
There's no reason to submit a manuscript for publication anymore...
#academicsky #episky

📹 The recording of the GSIDD Latin America Outreach event is available on the GSIDD YouTube channel! #IDsky #EpiSky 🧪

ℹ️ Session in Spanish, slides in English.

🔗: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI1H...

How can prisons eliminate #ViralHepatitis?

Join us for a webinar that will introduce you to the European Toolkit for the Elimination of Viral Hepatitis in Prisons, and provide you with examples from prisons in IT & FR.

🗓️ 23 September - 15:00-16:00 CEST
bit.ly/4xd60YN
#IDsky #EpiSky