#epidemiology — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/ie/679618/ Rice, seafood and water may help explain striking differences in metal exposure across US communities #Arsenic #atherosclerosis #Biomarker #Biomonitoring #Chronic #Copper #Disability #Éire #Epidemiology #Health #Heart #IE #Ireland #manganese #Meat #Research #smoking #Zinc

https://www.europesays.com/ie/679538/ Hormone therapy during menopause transition associated with lower heart disease risk #BreastCancer #cancer #CardiovascularDisease #Éire #Epidemiology #Health #Healthcare #Heart #HeartFailure #Hormone #IE #Ireland #medicine #Menopause #pH #PublicHealth #Research #Stroke #therapy #Women'sHealth

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.

https://www.worldpop.org/blog/why-staying-away-from-infection-hotspots-can-backfire/

#GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #GeoHealth #DiseaseSurveillance

What is the future of nutritional epidemiology?

Open Access
doi.org/10.59717/j.x...

#Nutrition #Diet #Epidemiology #health #aging #food

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uqeu4u5bjwieganft5z42pkk/post/3muuetkyaas2m

Challenges, advances and futur...

Comparison of the gut microbiota of people in France and Saudi Arabia https://www.diningandcooking.com/2799185/comparison-of-the-gut-microbiota-of-people-in-france-and-saudi-arabia/ #bacteria #ClinicalNutrition #Diabetes #Epidemiology #francais #france #French #FrenchDiet #general #InternalMedicine #Medicine/PublicHealth #MetabolicDiseases #PolicyAndPublicHealthInMicrobiology

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
https://tnyp.me/XXCzc1WL/m #HerpesZoster #Epidemiology #PublicHealth

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." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-01/mnd-notifiable-disease-starts/107097432
#environment #diseases #MDN #NSW #CoffsHarbour #PortMacquarie #RuralNSW #MidNorthCoast #water #pollution #ExtremeHeat #runoff #HABs #pesticides #epidemiology

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."
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cidrap-op-ed-how-we-can-hear-high-risk-measles-and-write-it

#PublicHealth #epidemiology #HealthReporting

Editorial handover at Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric #Epidemiology. Outgoing Craig Morgan's editorial about "Time for Change"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00127-026-03166-5

"[...] 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

"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."
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/conflicting-information-continues-measles-associated-death-pennsylvania-newborn

#measles #PublicHealth #epidemiology

Took me a while to really get the important message of this paper
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26335565261477731
#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

New post in the Active Living Lab newsletter: What is the denominator problem, and what does it have to do with rope swings? https://activelivinglab.com/2026/08/31/what-is-the-denominator-problem-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-rope-swings/ #science #epidemiology #safety

Operational #epidemiology of the early phase of the 2026 #Bundibugyo virus disease #outbreak in the #DRC and #Uganda, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/08/operational-epidemiology-of-early-phase.html

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
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/imgy08262601.html

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
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/wi08252601.html

Dietary intake of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and the risk of obesity in the French E3N cohort

Study popul…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchdiet #Epidemiology #francais #france #French #frenchdiet #general #HealthPromotionandDiseasePrevention #InternalMedicine #Medicine/PublicHealth #MetabolicDiseases #obesity #publichealth #Riskfactors
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2783207/dietary-intake-of-polybrominated-diphenyl-ethers-pbdes-and-the-risk-of-obesity-in-the-french-e3n-cohort/

Dietary intake of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and the risk of obesity in the French E3N cohort https://www.diningandcooking.com/2783207/dietary-intake-of-polybrominated-diphenyl-ethers-pbdes-and-the-risk-of-obesity-in-the-french-e3n-cohort/ #Epidemiology #francais #france #French #FrenchDiet #general #HealthPromotionAndDiseasePrevention #InternalMedicine #Medicine/PublicHealth #MetabolicDiseases #obesity #PublicHealth #RiskFactors

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

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
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/gen08172601.html

@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

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
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/epi08112601.html

#Influenza #H3N2 #epidemiology in #England during the 2025 to 2026 season: a mathematical modelling study, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/08/influenza-h3n2-epidemiology-in-england.html

NEWS2 score may improve antibiotic decisions in suspected sepsis

A study of nearly 100,000 adults treated for suspected infection suggests that the National Early Warning Score (NEWS2),…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #antibiotic #AU #Australia #epidemiology #Healthcare #MedicalSchool #medicine #research #Respiratory #sepsis #septicshock
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/845307/

NEWS2 score may improve antibiotic decisions in suspected sepsis

A study of nearly 100,000 adults treated for suspected infection suggests that the National Early Warning Score (NEWS2),…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #antibiotic #AU #Australia #epidemiology #Healthcare #MedicalSchool #medicine #research #Respiratory #sepsis #septicshock
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/845307/

New study tracks rapid spread of drug-resistant Shigella across England

A nationwide genomic epidemiology study involving a researcher from Kingston University has revealed that sexually transmitted Shigella sonnei…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #antibiotic #AU #Australia #epidemiology #food #Genomic #infectiousdiseases #publichealth #Shigella
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/826984/

New study tracks rapid spread of drug-resistant Shigella across England

A nationwide genomic epidemiology study involving a researcher from Kingston University has revealed that sexually transmitted Shigella sonnei…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #antibiotic #AU #Australia #epidemiology #food #Genomic #infectiousdiseases #publichealth #Shigella
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/826984/

A really good explanation of cyclosporiasis, the current outbreak, and why pinning down the source is so hard.
Advise too.
"Yes, washing your produce takes care of most of it. But that is not likely to remove all #Cyclospora Cooking is what we need to do. Cook your food, people. I, for one, can do without fresh salads until this particular emergency is over. (This is just me being me, and not an official public health recommendation.)" -- By @deonandan

#epidemiology #PHmastodon #publichealth #medmastodon

Bir üniversite mülkünde menenjit çıkması, 1 can kaybına ve 2 akut hastalığa yol açtı. Sağlık ekipleri hızlı bir şekilde tanı koydu, tedavi devam ediyor. Risk düşüyor, güvenlik önlemleri devam ediyor. Resmi kanallar en yeni bilgiler için takip edilmeli. #Meningitis #HealthNews

🚩 #Meningitis #PublicHealth #DiseaseOutbreak #HealthNews #SchoolSafety #Epidemiology

HANTAVIRUS AND ANDES VIRUS 101

As a trained medical professional, I feel the need to inform and raise awareness of the latest MV Hondius (cruise ship) hantavirus outbreak in early May 2026.

Here is a quick rundown of facts about hantavirus in general...

View full note: https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0513-41843

#hantavirus #hantavirusOutbreak #AndesVirus #ANDV #Health #outbreak #virusOutbreak #publicHealth #science #InfectiousDisease #epidemiology #rodents #cruise #cruiseShip

Celiac disease is a chronic autoimmune disorder driven by gluten, and its development is not causally linked to prior antibiotic treatment. A comprehensive nationwide study demonstrates that while celiac patients may have a history of higher antibiotic use, the medication itself does not trigger the disease.
#Gastroenterology #Pediatrics #Epidemiology #Immunology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/med04282601.html

First European case of H9N2 bird flu reported in Italy – what you need to know
#BirdFlu #H9N2 #PublicHealth #HealthNews #Influenza #Virology #GlobalHealth #DiseaseOutbreak #HealthAwareness #MedicalNews #ScienceNews #Epidemiology #Prevention #Healthcare
https://the-14.com/first-european-case-of-h9n2-bird-flu-reported-in-italy-what-you-need-to-know/

All #active #tick #stages (including #Larvae !) feed on #deer , thus enabling #cofeeding #transmission of tick-borne #Diseases

#FREE #Full #text #PDF available at https://goo.gl/gEAbfN

#Ixodes #ricinus #Capreolus #capreolus

#EU #FP6 #EDEN #Project #Emerging #Diseases in a changing #European #eNvironment #Epidemiology #Ticks #Parasites #Pathogens #Science #Scientific #Research #Data #OpenAccess #DOI #Germany #Deutschland #Europe #Europa #TBD #Zoonoses #ZoonoticDiseases #TickBorneDiseases

My John Snow Society Tea Mug & Membership Card Arrived In The Post
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https://johnsnowsociety.org/ <-- society web page
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Nice to still see the Queen on the stamp… and the packaging is perfect considering the source…
#GIS #spatial #mapping #gischat #JohnSnowSociety #epidemiology #history #spatialanalysis #GIShistory #FatherOfGIS #swag
@JohnSnowSociety

#introduction

I'm an #epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University researching the prevention of #foodborne, #waterborne, and #zoonotic diseases. My group uses #mixedmethods, #epidemiology and #knowledgesynthesis methods.

Currently on sabbatical learning applied #bayesian stats 🤓📚