The latest issue of Eurosurveillance is out, and features articles on: ➡ a note from the editors celebrating #WorldFieldEpidemiologyDay ➡ an investigation on a #STEC outbreak in 🇬🇧 using an innovative #OneHealth approach 🗞 Read it here: eurosurveillance.org/content/eurosu…

This is a fascinating paper in the current edition of Eurosurveillance carried out by public health colleagues in UK Health Security Agency It relates to the journey towards a large STEC\VTEC outbreak in the UK in 2022. It’s really relevant to the Irish experience because we have one of the highest

So this paper gives is really strong evidence to advocate for structural change. We have so much STEC/VTEC in Ireland. And we see so much illness from it. We have to keep infected children out of crèche for often very long periods if they become chronic carriers of this bug,

But it’s difficult because the solutions are difficult politically. 1) You see this bug in countries with high density sheep and cattle (Denmark recently overtook us as the STEC capital of Europe). We can’t just blame farmers, but we do need a serious discussion about farming and

2) There is no doubt that extreme weather events make the STEC situation worse, as the micro floods bring the contaminated topsoil into neighbouring fields and the chain of contamination speeds up from there. In Irish public health units, we always know that we’ll be really busy

Guy's and St Thomas' will begin flying pathology samples between its labs in London Bridge and Waterloo sites by drone. @Apianaero trail blazing the future of healthcare logistics Trip between Guys and Thomas’ cut down to 2min. Connecting the 2 labs by drone means samples analysed faster

Interesting read: Europe’s medical schools to give more training on diseases linked to climate crisis theguardian.com/global-develop…

Raw onions seem to be the culprit, even the safest food handling doesn’t protect from the risk from bacterial infection in food that isn’t cooked Wonder if there was any localised flooding in Colorado in the weeks preceding the onion harvest 🤔 cdc.gov/ecoli/outbreak…

Today's Lancet climate and health report presents 56 indicators of health and climate change across FIVE domains. (Download the report for free from the Lancet website). Here is a thread of some of the key findings. #Lancetclimate24 (1)

This is the validation I need every day at work - yes that’s right, I’m a super star 💫

PUBLISHED: The 2023-24 English surveillance programme for antimicrobial utilisation and resistance (ESPAUR) report gov.uk/government/pub… Register to find out more about the findings in the report at the webinar we are hosting on 20th November: antibioticguardian.com/Meetings/espau…

Neil Cunningham will be presenting at our Environmental Public Health & Housing Update on the 27 November. Dr Cunningham's presentation is titled "A One Health approach to the prediction and prevention of foodborne pathogen outbreaks".Don't miss out & book now rehis.com/events/public-…