Infectious Diseases doctor. Clinician-scientist. Officially the 1st person to use word COVID. Strictly my personal views only.
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Measles in 1960: something every child got
Measles in 2000: eliminated in the US
Measles in 2026: back
I'm an infectious diseases specialist doctor
When it comes to infections, I've pretty much seen it all
Nothing much scares me
Ebola scares me
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Reading this absolute classic again by @simonmontefiore
I urge anyone interested in the Middle East (and most of the world seems obsessed) to read this
Knowledge is everything
🔴Shamonda virus 🦠
Cattle virus
Spread by midges
1st seen in Nigeria 🇳🇬 in the 60s
arrived in Europe this summer
Now first known human case in France🇫🇷
Risk to the public: very low.
Risk of a "new plandemic" claim on social media : extremely high
🇫🇷 France has recorded the world’s first human case of Shamonda virus
The patient died.
Health authorities said the virus, which normally infects farm animals, was detected in a person for the first time. It was previously believed not to infect humans.
The patient is thought to have been infected in eastern France, where the virus circulated among animals in spring and summer 2026. Spread by midge bites and mainly affecting cattle, it was first identified in Nigeria in the mid-1960s and is now spreading in several European countries.
Authorities called the case “exceptional,” noting the patient had a severe immunodeficiency and was being treated in a Lyon hospital for a serious illness.
Bangladesh🇧🇩 has had nearly 170,000 suspected measles cases this year and has launched an emergency vaccination campaign for over a million children.
Countries that have seen what measles does don't debate the vaccine.
They line up for it.
HHS policy in 2026:
fewer vaccines, more vaccine-injury clinics, more measles, more hepatitis B projections, and a Health Secretary with a cooking show
HHS decided newborns "face little risk" of hepatitis B, so the birth dose isn't needed
A new study estimates that will 1.8 million unprotected by age 20
We are going to see more cases of liver cancer
The risk is low because of the vaccine.
That's....how vaccines work.
Neil Stone retweeted
The US eliminated measles in 2000.
It took scientists decades to do it, and influencers about ten years to undo it.
Neil Stone retweeted
Vaccines don't cause autism
2026
Still needs to be said because of a 28 year old fraud
