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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #epidemiology, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Reuters: Health officials turn to mobile-phone data to track Ebola spread in Congo. “Health officials battling the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are using anonymised mobile-phone data to map population movements and identify areas where the virus could ​spread next, according to the World Health Organisation and researchers working with it. The approach, which has not […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/10/reuters-health-officials-turn-to-mobile-phone-data-to-track-ebola-spread-in-congo/
  2. 📢 New R-Ladies Rome workshop!

    Introduction to Machine Learning in Epidemiology with R

    RSVP: luma.com/xmchetzk

    A practical session.

    No previous ML experience required. Everyone is welcome! 💜

  3. 📢 New R-Ladies Rome workshop!

    Introduction to Machine Learning in Epidemiology with R

    RSVP: luma.com/xmchetzk

    A practical session.

    No previous ML experience required. Everyone is welcome! 💜

    #RLadies #RLadiesRome #RStats #MachineLearning #Epidemiology

  4. 📢 New R-Ladies Rome workshop!

    Introduction to Machine Learning in Epidemiology with R

    RSVP: luma.com/xmchetzk

    A practical session.

    No previous ML experience required. Everyone is welcome! 💜

    #RLadies #RLadiesRome #RStats #MachineLearning #Epidemiology

  5. 📢 New R-Ladies Rome workshop!

    Introduction to Machine Learning in Epidemiology with R

    RSVP: luma.com/xmchetzk

    A practical session.

    No previous ML experience required. Everyone is welcome! 💜

    #RLadies #RLadiesRome #RStats #MachineLearning #Epidemiology

  6. 📢 New R-Ladies Rome workshop!

    Introduction to Machine Learning in Epidemiology with R

    RSVP: luma.com/xmchetzk

    A practical session.

    No previous ML experience required. Everyone is welcome! 💜

    #RLadies #RLadiesRome #RStats #MachineLearning #Epidemiology

  7. Avoiding areas thought to be disease hotspots may actually make outbreaks worse if local case reporting is incomplete. New research involving #WorldPop scientists reveals how travel behaviour can distort health data and hide disease risks, especially in rural areas. Better local reporting could save lives.

    worldpop.org/blog/why-staying-

    #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #GeoHealth #DiseaseSurveillance

  8. Avoiding areas thought to be disease hotspots may actually make outbreaks worse if local case reporting is incomplete. New research involving #WorldPop scientists reveals how travel behaviour can distort health data and hide disease risks, especially in rural areas. Better local reporting could save lives.

    worldpop.org/blog/why-staying-

    #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #GeoHealth #DiseaseSurveillance

  9. Avoiding areas thought to be disease hotspots may actually make outbreaks worse if local case reporting is incomplete. New research involving #WorldPop scientists reveals how travel behaviour can distort health data and hide disease risks, especially in rural areas. Better local reporting could save lives.

    worldpop.org/blog/why-staying-

    #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #GeoHealth #DiseaseSurveillance

  10. Avoiding areas thought to be disease hotspots may actually make outbreaks worse if local case reporting is incomplete. New research involving #WorldPop scientists reveals how travel behaviour can distort health data and hide disease risks, especially in rural areas. Better local reporting could save lives.

    worldpop.org/blog/why-staying-

    #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #GeoHealth #DiseaseSurveillance

  11. Avoiding areas thought to be disease hotspots may actually make outbreaks worse if local case reporting is incomplete. New research involving #WorldPop scientists reveals how travel behaviour can distort health data and hide disease risks, especially in rural areas. Better local reporting could save lives.

    worldpop.org/blog/why-staying-

    #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #GeoHealth #DiseaseSurveillance

  12. Case-control study shows trauma may raise zoster risk:
    🔥 Recent trauma increases zoster risk by 8x
    📈 Adjusted 12x risk with trauma at rash site
    🔍 Study conducted with 243 cases
    tnyp.me/XXCzc1WL/m #HerpesZoster #Epidemiology #PublicHealth

  13. Idyllic rural NSW is a hotspot for motor neurone disease

    "Our recent mortality paper shows that if you live in rural and regional Australia, you are 40 per cent more likely to die from motor neurone disease. This cannot be genetic."
    "Much attention will be focused on MND hotspots which include regional centres such as Griffith, Leeton, Wagga Wagga and Narrandera in the Riverina where rates of the degenerative illness are estimated to be five to seven times the national average. Other areas of concern include Tamworth, Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie." >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-01/mnd
    #environment #diseases #MDN #NSW #CoffsHarbour #PortMacquarie #RuralNSW #MidNorthCoast #water #pollution #ExtremeHeat #runoff #HABs #pesticides #epidemiology

  14. CIDRAP Op-Ed: "Most people in our comment sections during the pandemic weren't arguing in bad faith, though some clearly were, particularly the ones implying the deaths wouldn't have mattered if the people who died were old or immunocompromised. The rest were doing something more ordinary. They were trying to locate themselves relative to a threat, which is what all of us do when we hear about a death from an infectious disease. Asking who died is a way of asking whether this is about me. We've made it too easy to answer no. …

    "The risk factor staring us in the face isn't age. It’s vaccination status."
    cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cidrap-

    #PublicHealth #epidemiology #HealthReporting

  15. Editorial handover at Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric #Epidemiology. Outgoing Craig Morgan's editorial about "Time for Change"
    link.springer.com/article/10.1

    "[...] scientific journals are the products, and therefore the intellectual property, of scientific communities."

    "There are many calls for the concept of statistical significance to be retired. I regret not implementing this in SPPE."

    All the best to Uli Reininghaus and the new team!

    #AcademicPublishing #NightshiftEditor

  16. "In general, the number of measles cases is believed to be vastly underreported, in part because some communities experiencing the most severe outbreaks have less contact with public health agencies."
    cidrap.umn.edu/measles/conflic

    #measles #PublicHealth #epidemiology

  17. Took me a while to really get the important message of this paper
    journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11
    #SorrySlow 😅

    The team assumes that their register offers a TRUE estimate of the prevalence of #multimorbidity for everyone living in Stockholm since 2017.
    [plausible, but could have been clearer for me]

    Based on this, they separate different data sources and can show that without #PrimaryCare data, prevalence would be underestimated by around 20%.

    #Epidemiology #LongTermConditions #LTC

  18. Researchers evaluated two experimental Zika virus vaccines to understand the roles of antibodies and T cells, discovering that long-term viral protection requires a coordinated immune response from both components rather than relying on T cells alone.
    #Immunology #Virology #Epidemiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/imgy0826260

  19. It is a uniquely humbling experience to realize that the microscopic apex predators of epochs past are merely sleeping beneath the ice, wholly indifferent to the passage of human history. The concept of a "zombie virus" might initially sound like the sensationalized plot of a science fiction novel, but—
    #Paleovirology #StructuralMicrobiology #Biogeochemistry #Paleoecology #Epidemiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/wi08252601.

  20. Goddammit--*another* round of layoffs today. Not me, thank god, but still--5 good people who must now look for new jobs.

    F*ck this administration with a rusty chainsaw.

    #NIH #AmericanScience #Epidemiology

  21. Researchers have identified a new set of rapidly spreading genetic variants in malaria parasites that significantly reduce their susceptibility to the most common front-line antimalarial treatments.
    #Genetics #Genomics #Parasitology #Pharmacology #Epidemiology #InfectiousDiseases #PublicHealth #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/gen08172601

  22. @bettycjung.bsky.social

    Last time someone did virus function tests.
    The luddites got a real hardon.
    And fast tracking vaccines is now equal to literal genocide.

    Its almost as if someone is making counters to custom made viruses a no-go zone.

    #epidemiology

  23. Receiving the shingles vaccine to prevent the reactivation of the Varicella zoster virus is associated with a significantly reduced risk of developing dementia in older adults. An epidemiological study observed up to a 24% lower risk of dementia over four years among vaccinated nursing home residents.
    #Epidemiology #Immunology #Neurology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/epi08112601

  24. Zoonotic spillover is the successful transmission of a pathogenic entity—such as a virus, bacterium, or parasite—from a non-human animal reservoir into a human population. This rare but consequential event occurs when a pathogen successfully crosses the strict biological boundary between species.
    #WhatIs #Zoonotic #Epidemiology #Virology #Biology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/03/wi03162601.

  25. #Antibiotic treatments can alter the composition and diversity of the #bacterial community in the #gastrointestinal tract, known as the gut microbiome, with measurable disruptions persisting for four to eight years after a single course of treatment.
    #Epidemiology #Microbiology #Pharmaceutical #Medical #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/03/mcb03112601

  26. University of Central Florida: UCF Researcher Creates Novel Sensors for Smartphone-Based Health Monitoring . “Professor Debashis Chanda (right), working with researchers including physics doctoral student Mahdi Soudi (left), created a smartphone-based biosensor to improve infectious disease detection. The platform provides a faster, more affordable option for communities with limited access to […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/07/university-of-central-florida-ucf-researcher-creates-novel-sensors-for-smartphone-based-health-monitoring/

  27. This multinational study describes the development and validation of a diagnostic tool (EMERALD) -- a miRNA panel designed to differentiate persons with (or at risk of) #esophageal adenocarcinoma, from non-disease controls. The diagnostic potential of the panel was assessed using #machineLearning models. The findings suggest that it could serve as a #liquidBiopsy and facilitate screening in high-risk persons.
    #cancer #epidemiology #screening #cancerPrevention
    esocan.org/liquid-biopsy-to-di

  28. In acknowledgement of #WorldTBDay, I wanted to share this article I enjoyed:

    harvardpublichealth.org/diseas

    For those in more privileged parts of the world, tuberculosis (TB) might not be so visible, but TB remains one of the most deadly infectious diseases worldwide.

    Especially with drug resistant TB strains constantly evolving, mitigating further TB burden should be an urgent priority.

    #Epidemiology #InfectiousDiseases #PublicHealth