MSC has published its findings on the 2023 clinical academic survey, revealing an ageing workforce and continuing gender and ethnic imbalances in clinical academia. Press release: bit.ly/3vGqZJU Interactive tool: bit.ly/3JsxwMM

LAST CHANCE!📢 We are looking for healthy volunteers to take part in our COVID-19 Human Challenge study. If you are 18-30yrs, have been vaccinated against COVID-19 and in good health, visit: imperial.ac.uk/infectious-dis…. You will be paid up to £4,500 for your time and inconvenience.

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To further protect the U.S. livestock industry from the threat posed by highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, Dept. of Agriculture is sharing a number of actions that we are taking with our federal partners to help us get ahead of this disease and limit its spread. usda.gov/media/press-re…

Agree with all of this - great article in Nature Medicine - "Why diversity is needed at every level of clinical trials, from participants to leaders" nature.com/articles/s4159…

3rd US #H5N1 #birdflu case, this one with respiratory symptoms. Farm worker in Michigan who wasn't wearing PPE. Said to be recovering. statnews.com/2024/05/30/bir…

Clinicians detail H5N1 infections in 2 Michigan farm workers One patient had conjunctivitis in one eye, and the other had longer lasting flulike symptoms. ow.ly/laZi50SUc1Y

Why are some people volunteering to be infected with diseases? Dr Anika Singanayagam from Imperial Department of Infectious Disease shares preliminary insights and findings on the SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study with BBC News (UK) #COVID19 bbc.com/future/article…

Picked up via routine national influenza surveillance 💪

Amazing, quick work! Would like to hear what is happening in NA/2SBS also. A160T restores a glycosylation site that could affect HA:NA balance e.g. doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Nice article

An important study by F. Eun-Hyung Lee's team shows that long lived plasma cells (the source of long-term circulating antibodies) fail to establish after mRNA vaccination (even combined with SARS-CoV-2 infection). 🧵 (1/) nature.com/articles/s4159…

Do we need more women in #pathology mentoring and leadership? Ann Gronowski believes we do, and here’s why 💭 bit.ly/3vuIJYr

Maria Van Kerkhove of World Health Organization (WHO) urging for evidence driven policy, equitable access to safe and effective vaccines, building Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) strategy, and platforms to facilitate sharing of key reagents

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Doses of an experimental #Marburg vaccine — designed at the NIH's Vaccine Research Center & being developed by Sabin Vaccine Institute — arrived in Rwanda on Saturday where a clinical trial will soon get underway. Photo: Sabin Institute statnews.com/2024/10/04/mar…

US - California: CDPH statement - 3rd #H5N1 confirmed human case confirmed by the CDC. + 2 more possible cases identified with CDC tests pending. All are animal contact, mild symptoms. flutrackers.com/forum/forum/un… h/t Commonground