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Dr. Vikrant Udutha 🩺 retweeted
#France has reported the first documented case of a human infection with #Shamonda virus, a virus only previously detected in animals.
The patient was immunocompromised, which made them more vulnerable to infection and severe disease, and unfortunately died. My heartfelt condolences to their loved ones.
Shamonda virus primarily affects animals such as cattle, sheep, goats and horses. The virus is thought to spread between animals by the bites of a midge, which is a small fly-like insect. Further studies are needed to fully understand transmission.
The French patient was in an area where the Shamonda virus was circulating in animals and where Culicoides midges were also present.
@WHO is in contact with French authorities who are collecting information to better understand the source of infection in the first human patient, possible routes of transmission and any potential risk to public health.
Dr. Vikrant Udutha 🩺 retweeted
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
Dr. Vikrant Udutha 🩺 retweeted
As part of the 11th #AyurvedaDay2026, Dr. Saylee Deshmukh, Research Officer, delivered a lecture on “Role of Dincharya in Maintaining Health & Wellbeing” at CARI-Mumbai OPD. Dr. Vikrant Udhata, SRF (Ay.), actively participated.
@CCRAS_MoAyush @rnacharya1967 @secymoayush
Rapido which was popularised to be convenient and cost-friendly bike taxi app appears to be becoming too costly.
Kindly rearrange and reduce your price schedule and make it convenient for customers.
@rapidobikeapp
Hey @toi , you just interchanged the icons of these two respective cities on the weather update webpage.
Kindly correct it.
Dr. Vikrant Udutha 🩺 retweeted
A new study (ICMR-NICPR & TISS) finds ~10.6% of Indian households (~20.5 million) could move up an economic class by quitting tobacco.
Poor households spend up to 6.4% of income on it. Tobacco causes ~1.35M deaths/year; cessation could cut poverty and improve health.
Dr. Vikrant Udutha 🩺 retweeted
3 years ago, the obesity drug market was basically Ozempic.
Today, it's 9 drugs deep in late-stage. Here's what each one actually adds:
1. Foundayo: latest oral GLP-1. @US_FDA approved April 1, 2026. Injections become optional.
2. Retatrutide: 24% weight loss at 48 weeks (Phase 2). Triple agonist.
3. CagriSema: less nausea than semaglutide. NDA filed December 2025.
4. Survodutide: GLP-1 + glucagon. Cuts liver fat alongside weight.
5. Amycretin: oral weekly. GLP-1 + amylin. Phase 2.
6. Petrelintide: amylin only. Phase 2 posted March 2026.
7. Mazdutide: China approved 2026. US Phase 3 ongoing.
8. Pemvidutide: obesity + MASH dual indication.
9. Monlunabant: CB1 inverse agonist. Phase 2.
The next pharma cycle may not be Novo vs Lilly. It's shaping up as mechanism vs mechanism.
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Dr. Vikrant Udutha 🩺 retweeted
GLP-1 receptor agonists are increasingly used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, and trials have shown reductions in cardiovascular risk and slowing of kidney failure. Adverse events are mostly gastrointestinal.
Read the Review Article “GLP-1 Receptor Agonists” by Clifford J. Rosen, MD, and Julie R. Ingelfinger, MD, from @tuftsmedschool and the Maine Medical Center Institute for Research: nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
ALT Review Article GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Figure 1. Physiologic Effects of the Incretin Family of Drugs.
Dr. Vikrant Udutha 🩺 retweeted
A tiny crab displaying both male and female biological traits on the same body has been discovered in the Western Ghats. Discovered from the forests of the Silent Valley National Park, this freshwater crab belongs to the species Vela carli and is both male and female at the same time, writes @aathiraharidas
thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy…
Dr. Vikrant Udutha 🩺 retweeted
In 10,000 years, your country won’t exist. The borders will be dissolved, and your language will be extinct or unrecognizable.
Your digital footprint will be gone, and data will rot faster than stone. Most of what defined us today, money, politics, status and online lives, will vanish without context.
What survives will be fragments: misread, mythologized, guessed at, and wrong.
The uncomfortable truth is this: human certainty is an illusion built on missing data. We don’t know where we truly came from. We don’t know how many civilizations rose, advanced, and quietly reset before us.
As history shows us, it isn’t a straight line of progress, it’s a series of collapses, with survivors writing the story. And we don’t know if we’re evolving… or just approaching another reset.
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Dr. Vikrant Udutha 🩺 retweeted
.@NASA astronaut Suni Williams retires after 27 years, effective Dec. 27, 2025. Williams completed three missions aboard the International Space Station, setting numerous human spaceflight records. More... go.nasa.gov/49R1cPi
