To celebrate 100 years of insulin- one of my favourite venomous creature facts. The cone snail releases venom containing fast acting insulin into the water to catch its prey. It’s amazing. Take a look! bit.ly/32eV5lt
(1/7) Today I have published the 2025 CMO Annual Report, on infections.
It considers trends, successes, future challenges and opportunities in preventing and treating infectious diseases.
gov.uk/government/publicatio…
This #GivingTuesday we celebrate our amazing supporters who transform lives.
Clare Silverwood on why she cycled from London to Brighton in ’25.
“The scholarship fund supports talented students from less advantaged backgrounds to grow into public health leaders.”
ALT https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/supportus/community-fundraising-for-lshtm
Meet the HeroRATs — trained African giant pouched rats that detect tuberculosis in just 3 seconds using their powerful sense of smell. Fast, accurate, and life-saving.
I congratulate the government and people of #Kenya on the elimination of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness.
Kenya joins the growing rank of countries freeing their populations of sleeping sickness, and bringing Africa one step closer to being free from neglected tropical diseases!
📣 ID/HIV Job opportunity: ST3 Infectious Diseases Clinical Fellow at University College London Hospital/Hospital for Tropical Diseases from September 2025. Deadline 1/7/25 nhsjobs.com/job/UK/London/Lo…
We are currently working to identify contacts of an individual who travelled to England while they were unwell with Lassa fever. This individual returned to Nigeria, where they were diagnosed.
Full story news 🔗📰
gov.uk/government/news/lassa…
ALT Dr Meera Chand, Deputy Director at the UK Health Security Agency, said:
"Our Health Protection Teams are working at pace to get in touch with people who were in contact with this individual while they were in England, to ensure they seek appropriate medical care and testing should they develop any symptoms. The infection does not spread easily between people, and the overall risk to the UK population is very low."
Le #ClycloneChido🌀 a affecté environ 45 000 personnes dans le sud et le centre du #Malawi🇲🇼. Six centres de santé ont été endommagés, entraînant des pertes de fournitures médicales.
Pour soutenir les efforts des autorités sanitaires, @WHO a déployé des premiers intervenants au Centre national des opérations d'urgence à Blantyre et dans les districts touchés.
An extraordinarily strong lesson on the importance of good science, critical thinking, and being truly objective.
The damage done to trust and to patients by the hydroxycholoroquine debacle should never be repeated.
Would love to know the reasons for retraction.
Extraordinary: Raoult’s damaging paper on hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 finally retracted.
So grateful to all the people who helped with the RECOVERY trial, allowing us to debunk the myth of hydroxychloroquine for severe COVID-19
science.org/content/article/…
The 🇷🇼 Marburg team just published in @NatureMedicine work on genomic analysis revealing an outbreak characterized by limited genetic variation, consistent with single zoonotic (🦇) transmission event and limited human-to-human transmission.
Read here: rdcu.be/d3HxV
Super @RIPL_Porton session highlighting some important take home points for general physicians. Updates on diagnosing imported infections and a reminder of unusual/emerging endemic infections in the U.K. Masses of thanks to all who joined in.
Guidelines for management of severe malaria presented by WHO group updating guidelines. First line therapy remains #artsunate globally. If not available, artemether preferred. Quinine is NOT recommended #TropMed24
A 45-year-old man presents with a cough. He has severe hypereosinophilia, and his chest x-ray is shown below. Subsequent colonoscopy findings are shown below.
What is the diagnosis and syndrome?
#MEDHM#MedX@IhabFathiSulima
One of my absolutely favourite consults in ID is for eosinophilia....and the hunt for a cause
Here's our brand new @biainfection guideline on managing this challenge in migrants and returning travellers!
Kudos to @ClareWarrell for leading on this!!
journalofinfection.com/artic…
Good news stories in global health don’t get as much coverage as the failures.
We should all take a moment to congratulate Rwanda for how they’ve managed this outbreak to date.
This piece is a great summary of where things stand with Marburg in Rwanda 👇
npr.org/sections/goats-and-s…
New case of #FortShermanVirus infection in a febrile patient from northern coastal Peru in 2020: FSV infections spanning ≈35 years and a distance of 2,000 km warrant diagnostics, genomic surveillance, and investigation of transmission cycles.
bit.ly/3BCkhHe
Happy 125th birthday to LSHTM!🎉
The School opened on 2nd October 1899 with 27 students enrolled and one course: the Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Health.
Learn more about the origins of the School here: bit.ly/4dspvCS
ALT Manson lecturing a group of students in the original laboratory of the London School of Tropical Medicine
125 years on and thousands of doctors have completed their DTM&H @LSHTM & the course is going strong. It’s wonderful to see how the diploma has evolved over time, and continues to be shaped by the participants. Thanks to all who have contributed! Here is to the next 125 years 🥳
Happy 125th birthday to LSHTM!🎉
The School opened on 2nd October 1899 with 27 students enrolled and one course: the Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Health.
Learn more about the origins of the School here: bit.ly/4dspvCS
ALT Manson lecturing a group of students in the original laboratory of the London School of Tropical Medicine
🚨Hashyizweho Ingamba zo kwirinda no guhangana n'indwara y'umuriro mwinshi iterwa na virusi ya Marburg
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Enhanced preventive measures implemented for viral fever🚨