To all aspiring young #WomenInSTEM: Mentee: Should I avoid being pregnant while trying to secure a faculty position? Me: Be pregnant & go on interviews. If they don’t welcome you with open arms and offer childcare options, they don’t deserve you. #KnowYourWorth

A Long COVID Autoimmune Subset Coming into View? (and Why ME/CFS May be Next) #longcovid #MECFS

“Long COVID is associated with dysregulation of both innate and adaptive immunity.” “Despite being well described in the literature, PAIS remain understudied relative to their high disease burden. Patients often face stigma and psychologization from medical professionals when

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A new review by @VirusesImmunity reminds us that epidemics don’t end when infections fall. ➡️ Across history, major outbreaks have left survivors with long-lasting post-infection illnesses — a pattern now seen again with #LongCOVID. ➡️ From the 1918 flu to SARS-1, Ebola, Zika,

Erfreulich, wie wissenschaftliche Forschung zu den Spätfolgen von Infektionen voranschreitet – auch dank der exzellenten Arbeiten von @VirusesImmunity! Wer weiter das tote Pferd der Psychosomatik reitet, tut das aus Gründen jenseits wissenschaftlicher Evidenz. #MECFS

This is true not only in science, but in advocacy as well. ME/CFS doesn’t suffer from a relative lack of ideas, it suffers from an absolute lack of people working on them. Far too few people are pushing ideas forward, whether paid or unpaid. The most effective advocacy is finding

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🧵Our most powerful podcast yet. Akiko Iwasaki talks w/ The Butterfly Pavilion Podcast about long Covid; how to address doubters, why one might get LC, ties to cancer, and promising trials. @VirusesImmunity https://t.co/ZGGDOXe5Kv #cancer @ApplePodcasts #LongCovid #dadanddaughter

En este artículo se hacen eco de un trabajo realizado en la Universidad de Yale en el que ha estudiado varias epidemias a lo largo de los siglos para sacar conclusiones en el abordaje de la Long Covid. @ChristineMiller @jannamoen @VirusesImmunity https://t.co/WQXGCcVHv2

Thank you for this review @VirusesImmunity and @jannamoen! What are we going to do about the millions of people who are not recovering nor dying after an acute infection event? Will we continue to pretend they don't exist? #LongCovid #MECFS #LymeDisease #PANS etc, etc 🙄

Thread: 🚨 Long Covid and ME voices are being quietly hidden on X. Let’s talk about what’s happening - and what we can do together to push back. 🧵

Yale scientists reviewed 100 years of records and found that Long COVID is part of a larger pattern. Viruses like polio, SARS, and EBV have long caused lasting illness in some people, often through immune dysfunction https://t.co/NSHe8OKipV

Check out our new review, "The lingering shadow of epidemics: post-acute sequelae across history" by Drs. Christine Miller and @jannamoen. We highlight historical accounts of post-acute infection syndromes (PAIS) through the centuries 👇🏼 #LongCOVID https://t.co/gCS7nmVKUW

A new review of post-infection syndromes, including #LongCovid and its diverse immunologic manifestations https://t.co/CmYWNVwKRt by @VirusesImmunity and colleagues

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Excellent podcast interview this week with recent Keio award recipient and SBM long Covid Hero. Podcast has been sent to the "Man in The Robe Productions" department. Stay tuned for release date in Dec. @VirusesImmunity

The closer we look, the more harmful long -term infections with pathogenic viruses turn out to be. This, together with the proven connection between EBV and MS, should prompt a Project Warp Speed for an EBV vaccine.

EBV is implicated in other autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren’s syndrome, as well as post-acute infection syndromes (Long COVID, ME/CFS) and malignancies. Vaccines and antivirals to block EBV are urgently needed. (end)

Third, EBV+ B cells loaded with chromatin antigens can activate T helper cells and drive expansion of autoreactive B cell clones (even the EBV-uninfected ones) that produce anti-nuclear antibodies - effectively serving as the "disease driver" cells. (5/)

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Second, the authors found that the viral protein EBNA2 binds to the regulatory regions of key genes (CD27, ZEB2, TBX21) that reprogram infected B cells into efficient antigen-presenting cells. (4/)

First, the authors found that EBV infects autoreactive B cells that express anti-nuclear antibodies in lupus patients, but not in healthy people or in patients with multiple sclerosis. (3/)

The authors developed a new method called EBV-seq, enabling them to overcome the barrier of studying rare cells (~25 per 10,000 B cells in lupus patients) that are infected by EBV. Note that in healthy people, only 1/10,000 B cells are EBV-infected. (2/)

A groundbreaking paper by @younis_sh1 et al. @stanfordimmuno provides an answer to the long-standing question about how EBV infections are linked to lupus. A short thread to explain the key findings. (1/) https://t.co/dUpz19IjEv