Lance Turtle
@LanceTurtle
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Consultant in infectious diseases @LivHospitals, professor in infectious diseases @LivUni_IVES. I work on immunology/viral pathogenesis.
Liverpool, UK
Joined May 2011
Ned’s fabulous new song - featuring @WillowMayMusic and also @almurray Spread the word, people!! @WeHaveWaysPod @ww2headquarters
https://t.co/QkzjvT4H4J
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📢 A major collaboration between #ISARIC researchers at @KingsCollegeLon and the @OUCRU_Programme has created the first global Core Outcome Measurement Set for #dengue clinical trials.🏥 Read more 👉 https://t.co/lDzXdXy5F0
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Why don't you sleep well in a new place? Because of the First Night Effect. Not vaccines, but interesting. https://t.co/DbNlRfeZQn
@interestingfa
interestingfacts.com
If you've ever found yourself tossing and turning in a hotel bed or on a friend's futon, blame this natural evolutionary reaction.
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It’s the 80th anniversary of the official end of the war today. A significant anniversary of ever there was one. @WeHaveWaysPod @ww2headquarters @almurray
https://t.co/gYPNyawFhx
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Golly😬
My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.
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OTD 1945: US Forces drop a second atomic bomb, on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. It was this second bomb that arguably ended the war.
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Absolutely brilliant!
The Coldstream Guards Band performed Black Sabbath's masterpiece Paranoid outside of Buckingham Palace as a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne on the day of his funeral. Don't let anybody tell you this isn't a great country. https://t.co/bDPUnVkAKu
https://t.co/OUGp6GOvHt
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Clinical prediction models for diagnosing scrub typhus & doxycycline-treatable causes in children with acute #encephalitis syndrome in India. OUT NOW @LancetRH_SEAsia 👉 https://t.co/2b18Ut9Cpk
@encephalitis
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Clin fellow post with PhD opportunities in the @HPRUezi. Amazing opportunity to do cutting edge research in emerging infections with @LanceTurtle @UKHSA @OutbreakJake and others!
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Working in collaboration with: @UKHSA
@tommyrampling
@OutbreakJake
@RunningMadProf
@ProfCalumSemple and many others! Link to post:
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JOB OPPORTUNITY: Come and work with us in the @NIHRresearch Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections @HPRUezi. We have a post for a clinician to do a PhD in emerging infections and/or vector borne disease, working on national clinical studies.
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Have you or someone you know recently been diagnosed with/hospitalised for, an arboviral infection such as dengue, Zika, chikungunya, West Nile virus, or others after travelling abroad? The UK Prospective Observational Study of Imported Arboviral Infections is recruiting
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I am the co-Editor-in-Chief of @Els_Vaccine & I’ll be the first to say that a lot about academic publishing needs reform. But replacing peer review with ideologically-driven censorship or shutting journals down in the name of “free speech” is not reform.
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A good analogy!
"I'm unvaccinated and I'm fine" is like saying "I drove home steaming drunk and made it back OK" Both can be true Neither is a good idea
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Our intervention package improved #brain #infection diagnosis & management in Brazil India & Malawi Published in @TheLancet
https://t.co/bmI7Yx1BIh Short video: https://t.co/6mgQ1phBfg
@LivUni @cmcvelloreoff @NIMHANS_BLR @fiocruz @MLW_Programme @KUHeS_mw @encephalitis @LSTMnews
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https://t.co/APavFifwtG RFK Jr. counters complaints about his reaction to the Texas measles epidemic
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1/3 Thrilled to be able to share the findings of the @PREPARE_EUROPE MERMAIDS Arbovirus study (21 hospitals in 7 countries over 4 years) coordinated by @louise_sigfrid now in @TheLancetInfDis. Please think arbovirus this & summers to come wherever you are in Europe (or the world)
thelancet.com
Our data highlight the need to strengthen arbovirus surveillance systems for the early detection of emerging and re-emerging outbreaks, including investments to increase awareness of arbovirus...
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