Just out at NEJM - our report with Arnold S. Monto and other collaborators on the CENTERSTONE trial nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… provides the first robust evidence that an influenza antiviral treatment (baloxavir marboxil) can curb the spread of influenza within households. This

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The Australian Border Force won’t stop searching me and my personal devices when I visit Australia. Despite being an Australian citizen, under Australian law, I have zero recourse to this continued flagrant invasion of my privacy. After two years of harassment I am publicizing

RIP math

News report: “NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy” nature.com/articles/d4158…

This really interesting paper on SARS-CoV-2 viral emission dynamics in a hamster model has just been published. There’s lots to unpack, but thought I’d start on this expt that investigates characteristics of close range emission 1/n

I see your shocking and raise it to fucking outrageous. These are lies designed to keep American taxpayers from being able to access safe and effective vaccines. It weakens our ability to respond. In the long run, more people will die in a H5N1 pandemic.

Fantastic stuff here:

Update: pneumonia surveillance in South Africa has delivered another BA.3.2; same branch as the German one—collected Apr 4 (the most recent SA seq). BA.3.2 in SA: Mar—0/9 Apr—1/2 This is the 1st BA.3.2 from Western Cape. Previous BA.3.2 were from Gauteng & KwaZulu-Natal. 1/2

We tried to set up a simple demo/tutorial model for the protein design ecosystem we've been developing, and it turned out a bit more interesting than we expected. 🧵 This was a team effort from a few people in my lab, including Anton Oresten (｢・ω・)｢ｶﾞｵｰ Hedwig Nordlinder and others.

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As a consequence, people will die. And another consequence of the increase of infectious diseases in low income countries is, that more cases of these disease will be imported into the US. This is not ethical and its for sure not smart.

Threats to Vaccinations in the US jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

"RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel votes against preservative in flu shots in shock move." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

NSW Health is advising people to be alert for signs and symptoms of measles after being notified of a confirmed case who was infectious while visiting several locations in Sydney. The case recently returned from Vietnam, where there is an ongoing large outbreak of measles.

What a gem this paper is journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11… Healthy infants, breastfed, no travel, no daycare, shed enteric viruses *nearly every day* from ~100-400 days of life! Children catch enteric viruses ALL the time and often show no symptoms of infection. Hard to stop transmission.

Sharing a cool preprint that uses UK Biobank data. Almost everyone is infected with Epstein-Barr virus, but it's only easily detectable in a minority of people (also relavent to ancient DNA...). Well, environment and *human* genetics play a part medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

spent 4500 words trying to piece together exactly what went wrong at the Indian Panthers thespinoff.co.nz/business/23-07…

I’m sorry…… WHAT???????

Canada’s first human West Nile case of the year was just reported in Toronto. Most have no symptoms, some get a fever, and rarely it manifests as a serious neurological illness. Time for the bug spray. Link: tinyurl.com/yjf23nd6 by Nicole Ireland