#epidemics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #epidemics, aggregated by home.social.
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On Aug 27, 1964, a magical nanny floated in from the sky & blasted into movie history: Mary Poppins, Disney's musical fantasy with Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke. Most people did not connect the film with the polio vaccine.
Check it out here
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https://medium.com/@weareji/virus-vaccine-and-song-0985ed8a7711?sk=9c959bfbee64145d543f1359df56846b
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#polio #history #epidemics #movies #cinema #nostalgia #diseases #vaccine #Disney -
#Taiwan, #Epidemics of Respiratory Viruses (#COVID19, #Influenza, #Enteroviruses) Weekly Update (CDC, August 25 '26): PQ.16.1.1 Variant Still Predominant, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/08/taiwan-epidemics-of-respiratory-viruses.html
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Children make up half of mpox cases in Guinea-Bissau as epidemic spreads
By Eromo Egbejule in CotonouWest African country reports 46 suspected cases in outbreak declared in July, amid fears virus may be spreading undetected
#Globaldevelopment #Mpox #GuineaBissau #Africa #Worldnews #Globalhealth #Epidemics #Infectiousdiseases #Childrenshealth #TheGuardian #EromoEgbejuleinCotonou
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Children make up half of mpox cases in Guinea-Bissau as epidemic spreads https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/24/children-half-mpox-disease-cases-guinea-bissau-epidemic-spreads-west-africa #GlobalDevelopment #Mpox #Guineabissau #Africa #WorldNews #GlobalHealth #Epidemics #InfectiousDiseases #ChildrensHealth
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Living in fear, and not being paid: the health workers on the frontline of DRC’s Ebola outbreak
By Prosper Heri Ngorora in Bunia and Rachel SavagePeople fighting to contain rapidly growing outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo describe the obstacles and dangers they face
#Ebola #DemocraticRepublicoftheCongo #Africa #Infectiousdiseases #Worldnews #Epidemics #Globalhealth #WorldHealthOrganization #TheGuardian #ProsperHeriNgororainBunia #RachelSavage
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With the abolition of vaccines in US, US people can just pray our Lord for their children and for their own health....unfortunately, #prayers are not expected ton give the same results of #Science...👀👀
#novax #trumpadministration #epidemics #childrenhealth #publichealth #nobrain
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What happens when you have a quantum epidemic, meaning you can be in a superposition state of both healthy and infected at the same time? While this sounds crazy for human diseases, this can actually happen in the atomic world.
Turns out that you can have situations where infections are suppressed because of destructive interference between different infection processes. Looks like atoms have found a way to wear tiny masks.
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Two #epidemics, one #genotype, different outcomes: evolutionary #changes of Avian #Influenza #H5N1, genotype EA-2024-DI, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/05/two-epidemics-one-genotype-different.html
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Panic in eastern DRC over return of Ebola
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/18/ituri-eastern-drc-ebola-outbreak-panic-fear?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_OtherFor #Epidemics, as well as @pandemia, the first address is of course @kakape
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Kandahar, Afghanistan
A worker sprays disinfectant to prevent the spread of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever.Photograph: Sanaullah Seiam/AFP/Getty Images
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"Quitting the WHO was foolish. #Epidemics don't start in Iowa cornfields; they start in faraway jungles and wet markets. To stop them, you need to move fast... Also, the WHO is the hub for global disease alerts. When passengers who might have #hantavirus disembark from a Dutch ship and then fly to the U.S., we want to be told -- and quickly." https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/parasites-and-plagues/121283
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📣 PhD and Postdoc call: Using data science to improve epidemic preparedness
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/03/18/phd-and-postdoc-call-using-data-science-to-improve-epidemic-preparedness/
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#infectiousdiseases #epidemics #pandemics #viralAdaptation #outbreak #virus #viruses #adaptation
Original open access article
Havens et al. 6 March 2026, Cell [InPress, Corrected Proof]
Dynamics of natural selection preceding human viral epidemics and pandemics
"Viral adaptation is not a necessary precursor to outbreaks of novel zoonotic viruses"
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The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own by Tom Frieden, 2025
The formula to stop invisible killers—an approach that can protect your health and prevent the next pandemic—from one of the most influential public health leaders in the US.
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#Antivaxers when #epidemics kill their #supporters and not the #vulnerable #people they wanted to kill:
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#FDA #healthcare #publichealth #vaccines #medicine #epidemics #pandemics #measles #publicschools U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines for #children and defer to #doctors. This approach, which is not finalized, would mark a fundamental shift in the #healthcare system that generally relies on federal health agencies to guide how children are protected against disease. It was not immediately clear which #shots would no longer be recommended. #insurance #medicine doctor visits - really!!
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🦠 Pandemics don’t spread randomly - they follow the paths we create through our social lives and movements.
📖 🔊 Read and listen about how networks shape outbreaks: https://www.worldpop.org/blog/how-our-social-connections-shape-the-spread-of-disease-what-new-research-reveals/
#InfectiousDisease #NetworkScience #HealthBehaviours #Epidemics #DataScience
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought second-hand copies of Fevered Planet: How #Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature by the late John Vidal and #Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens, and picked up a review copy of Uncommon Ground: Rethinking Our Relationship With the #Countryside by Patrick Galbraith.
#AtmosphericSciences #Pandemics #Epidemics #PublicHealth #Zoonoses #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon -
This #Trump attack on #PublicHealth has flown under the radar, but it means fewer people to keep us safe from #epidemics and other threats. https://aspph.org/department-of-education-proposal-excludes-public-health-degrees-from-professional-degree-definition/
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The Triumph of the Fungi: A Rotten History by Oxford Nicholas, 2006
This book is concerned with the most devastating fungal diseases in history. These are the plagues of trees and crop plants, caused by invisible spores that have reshaped entire landscapes and decimated human populations.
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US anti-vax stance to blame for continent-wide surge in measles, say experts https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/17/health-infectious-diseases-vaccination-measles-us-robert-kennedy-latin-america-antivax-blamed-cases-deaths-rise #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Trumpadministration #Infectiousdiseases #Globaldevelopment #RobertFKennedyJr #Globalhealth #USpolitics #Worldnews #Epidemics #Americas #Society #Bolivia #Health #USnews #Mexico #MMR
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"Japan’s health authorities have declared an influenza epidemic, with thousands of people infected with the respiratory virus. The number of infections is unusual for this time of year, researchers say, and could seed outbreaks in countries that are heading into winter in Asia and Europe — although it is unlikely to become a global pandemic."
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The Anthropology of Epidemics by Ann H. Kelly, 2019
Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a transformational impact on social life...
#OpenAccess
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102306/1/9780429868085.pdf -
#Mpox #Epidemics: A Call to Restore Humanity’s Lost Herd #Immunity to #Orthopoxviruses, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/09/mpox-epidemics-call-to-restore.html
