PhD Virologist turned science writer. Fighting misinformation w/ fully sourced episodes on infectious diseases. Public health is inherently political.
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Dr. Helen Seward came to investigate a virus. But something else is waiting in the Carpathian Mountains.
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Homicide is the leading cause of death among pregnant people. New research shows women’s risk of being murdered in states w/ abortion bans increased after Dobbs. This builds on a growing, devastating catalog of data showing bans’ impact on domestic violence. Link below:
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Our latest preprint from this fantastic team. Here, we assessed antibody reactivity against filoviruses including BDBV, EBOV, SUDV, and MARV, across eleven cohorts and seven provinces in DRC between 2015-2023 (n=5,852).
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France reported the 1st documented human infection w/ Shamonda virus. Patient was severely immunocompromised & died.
I keep seeing framing that bothers me, so let’s talk about it.
#1: The first documented human infection is not necessarily the first human infection.
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