I’ve reported on infectious diseases for 15 years, but during the covid-19 pandemic and even more during the global outbreak of mpox clade IIb, I was shocked by the amount of misinformation I was seeing. Misinfo had always been part of any outbreak, but this felt different.

Of course, while scientists are developing new tools to protect people around the world from diseases like malaria, global health funds to deploy these are shrinking dramatically. Countries “will have to choose carefully", how to use the funds they have, says @Fredros_Inc.

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In the good news category: After years of research and trials, the WHO this year recommended the first new tool to fight malaria in decades: spatial repellents. They last up to a year and they could help fight malaria as well as dengue and other diseases - and protect refugees.

The deadly fever in Ethiopia has been identified as #Marburg disease. It’s the first time a Marburg outbreak has been identified in Ethiopia. https://t.co/I7e9TdixWT

“This is a very important development,” says Dyann Wirth, a malaria researcher at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health who was not involved in the work. “We’ve been looking for this for a long time.” https://t.co/kZEtPTcFUP

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Exciting to see a new compound showing promise against malaria. As drug resistance grows, mosquito ranges expand & public health resources remain limited, the need for new treatments has never been greater. https://t.co/2Hz5qFR7MA by @kakape.

I’ve learnt a lot of new things about the differences between Europe and the US in the past two years, but honestly the biggest surprise has been realizing that tuna pizza is not a thing in the US.

@pandemiapodcast Für unsere Unterstützer bei Apple oder Steady geht es am Freitag schon weiter. In der zweiten Folge blicken wir dann nach Europa. Es geht es um einen Laborunfall in Wien, um Mikroben, Meerschweinchen und Märtyrer. Wer uns noch bei unserer Arbeit unterstützen und früher Zugang zu

Die Geschichte dieser ersten “modernen” Pandemie ist erstaunlicherweise kaum noch präsent. Darum widmen wir uns bei @pandemiapodcast in einer kleinen Serie dieser dritten Pestpandemie. 🎧 Ihr könnt die erste Folge jetzt hier hören: https://t.co/YWq0a2QjON

1894 bricht in Hongkong die Pest aus und geht von dort um den Globus. Die Seuche wird die Welt verändern: Millionen Menschen töten, Politik und Gesellschaft erschüttern - mit Nachwirkungen bis heute. Zugleich wird die Krankheit erforscht, das Bakterium entdeckt, ein Impfstoff

.@ScienceInsider : Will long-lasting #HIV preventive be a game changer—or a missed opportunity? FDA’s approval of lenacapavir comes at a time when global health cuts could stall its rollout by @kakape https://t.co/kQxUsm5k99

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@JeremyKonyndyk Full episode is here: https://t.co/0xkmzNDcSG

@JeremyKonyndyk And that is the long and the short of it: Whatever disinfo Musk spreads on X or tonight during the Super Bowl, the richest man on earth, ensconced in his cocoon of privilege, is taking away livelihoods and access to life saving medications from some of the poorest, most

@JeremyKonyndyk “Just from the HIV programs alone, that's potentially a death toll in the millions and and it's just happening because of a bullshit disinformation campaign by Elon Musk and and the cover that that gives to a very small group of people in the State Department to destroy this

@JeremyKonyndyk As @JeremyKonyndyk told us: “This is going to kill a lot of people. It's going to kill a lot of people for whom US humanitarian aid keeps them alive. … It is going to kill, - literally, no hyperbole, no exaggeration - it's going to kill many, many people.”

@JeremyKonyndyk The reason we named the episode “People will die” is that every single person we talked to for this episode made it very clear that this will happen, indeed that it is happening already.

We also talked to @JeremyKonyndyk, who immediately mentioned Sudan as well: “If there is anywhere on Earth where you would want to keep the humanitarian presence, it's there. It's all being pulled down and pulled back. So this is just pure destruction.”

Every one of these people had families dependent on their income, says Plate. And some projects intended to build resilience and ensure food for the next year are now in peril. If these don’t go ahead that would have dramatic consequences not just this year but in the coming

We talked to Johannes Plate in Sudan, where people are in the midst of a genocide and a famine. He told us that at his organization, which receives USAID funds, 57 out of 73 people had to be put on unpaid leave immediately. They couldn’t even pay them for the month of January

Sibongile Tshabalala, an HIV activist in S Africa, told us about her fear that this would erase progress: “our fear is that we are going to lose more people again because of HIV-related illnesses. My fear is that we will have more HIV infections if PrEP is not available and there

Franklin also worked at the clinic educating about HIV prevention and combatting stigma, one of thousands of locals whose jobs depend on US foreign aid. He told us about the shock of suddenly losing his livelihood. “It just happened abruptly. At the end of the day, it has