#pandemics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pandemics, aggregated by home.social.
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Hantan | Hondius distressedscientists.substack.com/p/hantan-hondi… #pandemics #preparedness (excellent piece, worth reading)
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With wars and military conflicts across the world, trade tensions and attacks against multilateralism, the world's capability to address existential threats like climate change is being reduced.
Humanity has strong ability to address climate change and take the necessary climate action. But this requires cooperation and ability to overcome divides and borders. We could make much more progress and make achievements by 2030 in these regards.
However, as the world is facing wars, trade tensions, more protectionism and nationalism, it is more prone to failure. This failure will come with economic, environmental and social costs as it will be affected by more extreme weather, more severe migration crises caused by climate change, and global pandemics.
No country can prevent this or slow it down alone. To do so, countries need to go back to building a global village of cooperating nations, put aside divides and work together to address global issues that are existential threats to humanity.
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #climate #GlobalCommunity #world #society #politics #international #humanity #people #pandemics #health #environment #migration #multilateralismn #trade
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#Marine #Pandemics Are Becoming a #Growing #Threat : Medium
#Songbirds reveal the #Dark side of making new #Brain #Cells as #Adults : Sci Am
Why Does This Newly #Discovered 2,000-Year-Old #Stone Slab Depict a #Roman #Emperor as an #Egyptian #Pharaoh? : Misc
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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#Marine #Pandemics Are Becoming a #Growing #Threat : Medium
#Songbirds reveal the #Dark side of making new #Brain #Cells as #Adults : Sci Am
Why Does This Newly #Discovered 2,000-Year-Old #Stone Slab Depict a #Roman #Emperor as an #Egyptian #Pharaoh? : Misc
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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#Marine #Pandemics Are Becoming a #Growing #Threat : Medium
#Songbirds reveal the #Dark side of making new #Brain #Cells as #Adults : Sci Am
Why Does This Newly #Discovered 2,000-Year-Old #Stone Slab Depict a #Roman #Emperor as an #Egyptian #Pharaoh? : Misc
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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#Marine #Pandemics Are Becoming a #Growing #Threat : Medium
#Songbirds reveal the #Dark side of making new #Brain #Cells as #Adults : Sci Am
Why Does This Newly #Discovered 2,000-Year-Old #Stone Slab Depict a #Roman #Emperor as an #Egyptian #Pharaoh? : Misc
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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#Marine #Pandemics Are Becoming a #Growing #Threat : Medium
#Songbirds reveal the #Dark side of making new #Brain #Cells as #Adults : Sci Am
Why Does This Newly #Discovered 2,000-Year-Old #Stone Slab Depict a #Roman #Emperor as an #Egyptian #Pharaoh? : Misc
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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#Archaeology is a driver of scientific innovation. Rather than being a perceived financial burden, it is actually a high-value investment that can improve human health and environmental sustainability.
We can use ancient #genomes to understand the genetic origins of diseases like MS or the evolution of the plague to develop new treatments.
Sequencing ancient plant #DNA to identify crop varieties that survived extreme heat or drought in the past, can help secure future food supplies.
Tracking how #diseases jump from animals to humans (zoonosis) to predict and prevent future #pandemics is critical to #publichealth.
Physical artifacts can be used to improve life satisfaction for hospital patients and those living with hashtag#dementia.
Archaeological #archives are a treasure-house of hashtag#biological and #environmental data that cannot be replicated in a lab. These materials provide a unique natural experiment that can play their part in solving modern global crises.See the recent article in issue 71
Barney Sloane 2026 'Legacy and Springboard: The Untapped Potential of Archaeological Archives for Scientific Innovation', Internet Archaeology 72. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.72.11 -
#Research paper 📜 highlights a critical link between #palmoil #agriculture and #pandemics that spread from animals to humans. Say no to eating #ecocide and extinction! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔🤮💩⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/07/06/why-peanut-butter-might-trigger-the-next-pandemic/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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Using an evolutionary epidemiological #model of #pandemics to estimate the #infection #fatality ratio for #humans infected with avian #influenza viruses, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/04/using-evolutionary-epidemiological.html
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Hello! It seems to be time for another intro post, a big move for me from med-mastodon.com. That server is closing on April Fools Day!
Glad to be here at @hearme_social and thanks to @admin for already sending me a welcome note! Please bear with me as I figure out how to (hopefully successfully) migrate my account! I originally found Mastodon in the Great Twitter Migration of 2022. In the past few months as med-mastodon has had issues, I've taken bit of a break, but I miss it here and it's my favorite social media site! I promise to post more soon!
Please follow me if you're interested in #USPol #HealthPolicy #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #Pandemics and #CurrentEvents #MaskUp and I'll probably follow you back!
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"Big #Tech #billionaires have infiltrated the highest levels of government globally. They are lobbying to keep AI unregulated so they can profit off #war, #pandemics, and human #exploitation.
This is our one window of opportunity to rein them in before it's too late."
The People's #AI manifesto
Please sign and share. #boost
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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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#BrownUniversity’s #Pandemic Center studies #pandemics, and the #US resurgence of #measles is a grim sign of what’s coming
Low levels of #vaccination across the country mean measles #outbreaks will continue to occur, needlessly hospitalizing and killing the unvaccinated. But beyond these harms, the disease’s resurgence serves as a serious warning about the country’s capacity to manage #infectiousdisease threats of all kinds.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/we-study-pandemics-and-the-resurgence-of-measles-is-a-grim-sign-of-whats-coming/ -
We are back to a situation where passenger aircraft seem to be the only technology anybody wants to use? but this is very prone to catastrophic disruption, like #wars and #pandemics
Insisting on flying for a meeting also makes other disasters more likely by contributing to #ClimateChange
Other technology exists, but it's not being used. WHY?
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Viral #Outbreaks Take a Common Path from Animals to People, Study Finds How #Pandemics Are Made
Scientists compared seven viral outbreaks that occurred in recent decades, including epidemics of Covid, Ebola and influenza. The outbreaks were not preceded by any unusual genetic changes in the viruses. In all but one case, in 1977, the viruses circulated in animals and gained the ability to spread to and among people only by unfortunate coincidence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/science/covid-coronavirus-evolution.html
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"In the 78-page document, we determined that most of the peer-reviewed scientific evidence supports the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 has a zoonotic origin, meaning that it came from an animal. But until requests for additional information are met or more data become available, there can be no certainty about when, where and how SARS-CoV-2 entered the human population."
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Trump Administration Makes The Conscious Choice To Make America Less Prepared For The Next Pandemic
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Trump Administration Makes The Conscious Choice To Make America Less Prepared For The Next Pandemic
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Trump Administration Makes The Conscious Choice To Make America Less Prepared For The Next Pandemic
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Trump Administration Makes The Conscious Choice To Make America Less Prepared For The Next Pandemic
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Trump Administration Makes The Conscious Choice To Make America Less Prepared For The Next Pandemic
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Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Davide Rasella, ICREA Research Professor at ISGlobal, explains that cuts in overseas aid by the US and other western countries could have dramatic effects on the handling and prevention of new pandemics. Professor Rasella coordinated a study revealing that cuts in global aid could lead to 22.6 million additional deaths by 2030 across 93 low- and middle-income countries.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/27/trump-world-health-organization-security-risk/. "Key to the security of any country is the #scientific information needed to prepare for, prevent & respond to #pandemics & other global threats. Simply stated, the WHO possesses an enormous amount of such data that the US cannot replicate on its own." But #Trump & #JFKJr. aren't in the least bit interested in #science, are they?
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🚨BREAKING: #America heroically #quits #WHO, proving once again that #global #pandemics are best handled by ignoring experts. 🤦♂️ Don't worry, we're now relying on the "advanced" medical advice of Facebook groups. 💡✨
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/united-states-withdraws-world-health-organization.html #expertadvice #socialmedia #news #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨BREAKING: #America heroically #quits #WHO, proving once again that #global #pandemics are best handled by ignoring experts. 🤦♂️ Don't worry, we're now relying on the "advanced" medical advice of Facebook groups. 💡✨
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/united-states-withdraws-world-health-organization.html #expertadvice #socialmedia #news #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨BREAKING: #America heroically #quits #WHO, proving once again that #global #pandemics are best handled by ignoring experts. 🤦♂️ Don't worry, we're now relying on the "advanced" medical advice of Facebook groups. 💡✨
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/united-states-withdraws-world-health-organization.html #expertadvice #socialmedia #news #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨BREAKING: #America heroically #quits #WHO, proving once again that #global #pandemics are best handled by ignoring experts. 🤦♂️ Don't worry, we're now relying on the "advanced" medical advice of Facebook groups. 💡✨
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/united-states-withdraws-world-health-organization.html #expertadvice #socialmedia #news #HackerNews #ngated -
Using an evolutionary #epidemiological #model of #pandemics to estimate the #infection #fatality ratio for #humans infected with avian #influenza viruses, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/01/using-evolutionary-epidemiological.html
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@UQ_News research published in @TheLancetPlanet finds that #pandemics are linked to #ecosystem and #biodiversity declines, with viruses jumping from animals to humans. Urgent #publichealth and #conservation policies needed #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-77u?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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Preventing Pandemics: Cheaper Than Controlling Them – Palm Oil Detectives
“It turns out prevention of #pandemics really is the best medicine. We estimate we could greatly reduce the likelihood of another pandemic occuring by investing as little as 1/20th of the losses incurred so far from COVID into [#wildlife and #rainforest] conservation measures designed to help stop the spread of these viruses from wildlife to humans… — Read on…
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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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Tomorrow, 16 December, #IN2PAST is promoting the meeting ‘The Crises of the Human’, aims to explore how the idea of ‘humanity’ is being unsettled, fragmented, and displaced across multiple domains.
It will take place at Edições do Saguão (Lisbon) from 2 pm.
Please do come along!
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/crises-human/
#Histodons #Humanity #Humanities #Authoritarianism #AI #ClimateChange #Pandemics #Biotechnology #Earth #History #Anthropology #Arts #Heritage
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"Together with recent estimates of increasing rates of disease emergence from animal reservoirs associated with environmental change, this finding suggests a high probability of observing #pandemics similar to COVID-19 (probability of experiencing it in one’s lifetime currently about 38%), which may double in coming decades." https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2105482118
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@paulbeckwith/115664767532851449
#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review
#volcano #VolcanicEruption #famine #agriculture #foodsecurity #trade #YersiniaPestis #pandemicBeckwith, Paul Beckwith, on a detective mission to understand the origins of the #BubonicPlague
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #pandemics #ClimateDisruption #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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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 -
Monitoring #zoonoses to prevent future #outbreaks and #pandemics, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/11/monitoring-zoonoses-to-prevent-future.html
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So, my buddy #DJShaxx rocks! He's going to help me finish my DJ training so I can be on the air! Maybe I will end up being #RaeFlowers / #RayFlowers after all. Hmmmmm...
#StephenKing #TheStand #Pandemics #IndependentRadio #CommunityRadio
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They Fought #Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.
100s of infectious disease specialists have been let go by Trump administration. Here are four who focused on keeping #pandemics at bay
Citing “waste, fraud and abuse” at federal agencies, administration laid off thousands of #scientists, including many who worked on preventing and containing #infectiousdisease
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/health/trump-layoffs-scientists-public-health.html
https://archive.ph/Dif6S
#HIV #AIDS #ebola #birdflu #vaccines #HHS #CDC #USAID #PublicHealth -
One step closer to manufacturing #pandemics. The first successful AI-design of E. coli #phages with new properties. Applied by zealots to human pathogenic viruses ... and we have a solution to Fermi's paradox. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03055-y
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Ousted #CDC Director Susan Monarez revealed she was pressured to preapprove #vaccine recommendations from #RFKJr. hand-picked advisory panel, which replaced 17 #fired #experts with vaccine skeptics. Monarez refused, saying #science, not #ideology, must guide decisions, and was #purged after resisting #political interference.#publichealth #vaccines #medicine #pandemics #healthcare https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/ousted-cdc-head-says-she-was-pressured-preapprove-vaccine-panel-recommendations-2025-09-04/ #science #medicine #publichealth #covid19
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The persistence of #famines is attributable to mismanagement of triggers of human vulnerability: Extreme #poverty, violent #conflicts, economic shocks, #climatechange, governmental negligence, famine crimes & #pandemics require a comprehensive development strategy: doi.org/10.1111/joes...
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New review: A real-world thriller of hubris, pandemics, and biological weapons, Air-Borne brilliantly tells the complex and multifaceted history of aerobiology.
#Aerobiology #Microbiology #Virology #Disease #Pandemics #PublicHealth #BiologicalWeapons #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Scicomm @Carl_Zimmer @bookstodon
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"Despite... surplus literature, long-standing key gaps persist in scientific knowledge regarding environmental and social drivers of pandemic risk, how these drivers are changing over time, and the effectiveness of mitigation measures to reduce spillover rates or pandemic spread." #planetarycrisis #pandemics #bringsciencetodecisionmaking
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(25)00106-5/fulltext -
Zimmer delivers again! Review out soon on https://inquisitivebiologist.com
#Aerobiology #Microbiology #Virology #Disease #Pandemics #PublicHealth #BiologicalWeapons #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Scicomm @Carl_Zimmer
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Ancient DNA reveals farming led to more human diseases
"Humans' close cohabitation with domesticated animals—and large-scale migrations of pastoralists from the Pontic Steppe—played a decisive role in the spread of these diseases...We've long suspected that the transition to farming and animal husbandry opened the door to a new era of disease—now DNA shows us that it happened at least 6,500 years ago. These infections didn't just cause illness—they may have contributed to population collapse, migration, and genetic adaptation."
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https://phys.org/news/2025-07-large-scale-dna-years-disease.html"Today, zoonoses account for more than 60% of newly emerging infectious diseases."
Martin Sikora, The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia, Nature (2025).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09192-8
#pastoralism #farming #diseases #zoonosis #pathogens #livestock #cattle #domestication #civilisation #animal #husbandry #SettlerSociety #meat #pandemics #IndigenousPeoples -
The World Health Organization has been thrown into crisis by Trump’s order directing the US to withdraw from the agency https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/05/14/dr-mike-ryan-is-dropped-from-who-executive-team-amid-painful-cost-cuts/ Dr Mike Ryan is dropped from WHO executive team amid ‘painful’ cost cuts. Dr Ryan has been managing health emergencies in WHO for the past 27 years, and most recently led WHO’s emergency response to the Covid-19 pandemic. #health #access2meds #WHO #pandemics
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New paper just published.
When a pandemic occurs, a hard lockdown is an obvious and effective way to stop it. However, lockdowns come with serious societal issues. For example, during COVID-19, a critical mass of people opposing lockdowns coalesced in Britain. This was mainly due to two demographic groups, namely self-employed people, who were concerned about their own economic losses, and parents, who dreaded the prospect of having to be closed in the same home with their own kids. Seeking validation and trying to promote their own personal interests, these people became main spreaders of disinformation, eventually falling prey of state-sponsored populistic and anti-science propaganda machines.
In this study, we show that one can use optimization and control theory to introduce only light travel restrictions between macroareas, such as states or regions within a country, yielding better final results in terms of infections and economic damage than those that were actually obtained at the time.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960077925002243
#mathematics #physics #optimization #control #epidemics #pandemics #covid #covid19 #lockdown #NPI #restrictions
