Niall Conroy
@NICU_doc_salone
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Public Health Physician (Health Protection). Outbreak doctor. Adjunct Professor of Public Health @uccpublichealth Neonatology in Sierra Leone. My opinions 🛸
Dublin City, Ireland
Joined August 2017
In a fairly insane turn of events, the fantastic documentary that @MLiebreich and the @CleaningUpPod team made about our Neonatal Unit in Bo, Sierra Leone got shadowbanned by YouTube, as it was regarded as political advertising 🤣 Anyway the guys have re-edited it and there is a
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Here’s something the #Ivermectin fans can get excited about. It’s useless against #covid but mass administration seems to reduce the incidence of malaria in children over 5 years. Widespread use once per month reduced malaria infections by about a quarter. Possibly more-wide
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Does this bat’s bite victim require only the standard dose of rabies post exposure vaccine? 😬😬 I’m getting a sneaky double dose if it’s me 😂😂.
In 2018, a man in the Philippines strolled into his garage and was greeted by this “human” sized bat waiting for him. Flying Foxes have a wing span almost 6ft long.
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I’m no art scholar, but I’ve become obsessed with the fact that babies in Renaissance paintings look like middle aged men. Someone pointed this out to me today and I just keep looking at the pictures 😅 Apparently, one of the reasons is that they are often depicting Jesus, so
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RT @paulmurphy_TD: 90% of disabled children are not even being granted the legal minimum. What an utter shameful failure by this state. ht….
independent.ie
Almost nine out of 10 children accessing an assessment of need (AON) are not getting it within the six-month legal timeframe that is required under the Dis...
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I’ve always wondered why the thousands upon thousands of kidnapped children are not the absolute number 1 thing we talk about regarding the Ukraine conflict.
Senator Lindsey Graham is threatening to push a bill declaring Russia a state sponsor of terrorism if they don’t return all of the Ukrainian children they’ve kidnapped. We’ve been calling for this for years. But it’s never too late to do the right thing. #RussiaIsATerroristState.
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That DJ function on Spotify has gotten me into both Kneecap and The Wolfe Tones recently. I’m this close to subscribing to the Seanchaí function on Kindle audio 😁😁
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Anyone any experience with a range of AIs and their usefulness? I got a ChatGPT subscription last night and tried to use it to help me design some simple clinical algorithms, in which I fed it all the information. I just wanted it to organise the flow, but 24 hours later, and.
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RT @DrFino: Nirsevimab was pivotal in preventing RSV bronchiolitis last Winter. The immunisation scheme will be expanded this year to inclu….
irishtimes.com
Department of Health introduced new vaccination programme for babies last year
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Am I coming down with something or is it cold tonight? Thinking of putting the heating on 🥶.
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Yes, homework is crazy. Kids in school all day. Let them be with friends and family in the evening.
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So, standard pathway…. climate change and too many cattle/ruminants > flooding> faeces in surface soil washed into wells and other sources of drinking water > People get sick from drinking water > These sick people seed other infections, often in very vulnerable groups > 6.
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Then small children (the highest risk group) drank the contaminated water, got sick and spread to bug to other high risk small children in daycare (the highest risk environment for STEC transmission)
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There was an increase in STEC cases after the flooding. A sample were sequenced genetically, showing they were related. This was the O26 Stx2a strain, which is becoming just as strongly associated with HUS as the feared O157 type
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First came some extreme floods. The VTEC/STEC bug lives in animal faeces, so big rainfalls washes it into drinking water wells and other drinking water reservoirs….
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