#Pathogen

Brian Hjelle, virologist

hjelle_brian

In the 50s, Australia unleashed a bioweapon against a hated enemy.Thread... Their enemy was the European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus, which had proliferated beyond all expectations. Their weapon, an insect-borne poxvirus

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update December 2: There’s only so long you can be indifferent to people dying before people figure out you’re an asshole. 1/ In a public health emergency, you don’t

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Thank you for sending me this paper in Science Immunology (one of many now) showing strong immunity developing in health care workers even after asymptomatic or mild infection. Wanted to

David Fisman

DFisman

I think this is an unfortunate and inaccurate headline. Pandemics have a beginning, middle and end. We are on the 1918-19 timeline now. A March surge is likely as is

Katie Mack

AstroKatie

Vaccines are combat training for your immune system. They show it what to expect from a virus/bacteria so your cells can build a better defense when the actual pathogen arrives.

Josh Wallace

caudatajosh

Intertidal Healing A constellation of Ochre Sea Stars (Pisaster ochraceus) doing their duty as the keystone species in the intertidal zone off the northwest coast of North America. A keystone

Rebecca Shapiro

ShapiroRebecca

Excited today to get started on the first of three awesome guest lectures for third year Mycology #MICR3090First up: Historian @stuartmccook from @UGuelphHist on the history and societal implications of

Dr. Coleen Murphy, flaunting my PhD

ctmurphy1

As promised, a thread explaining our newest BioRxiv paper, where we’ve discovered that C. elegans can transfer memories of pathogen avoidance to naïve individuals.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.424563v1 What if one wo

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE) is a complex and poorly understood phenomenon, likely underpinned by different mechanisms, where binding of a virus to suboptimal antibodies enhances severity of the disease, rather than

⚕《Kira Powers》⚕

Earthlingz963

It's not a vaccine.It's gene therapy/genetic modification via a synthetic device (mRNA encased in a lipid which can cross BBB). No part of the actual pathogen (sarscov2) is used as

Dr. Urso

richardursomd

Treating patients is not that hard. Treat early, that’s a mainstay. Especially the at risk. Treat all phases at the appropriate time. The virus is replicating only at the beginning

Virginia Heffernan

page88

This is a minority view but I’m increasingly convinced that Trumpism will disintegrate when Trump leaves office. As enlightened as it seems to see Trumpism as “systemic”—as inextricable from America

Natasha 🚜🌾 🌈 ‏ نتاشا

nuts2406

The word ‘only’ is highly problematic, but it is a word that is now used quite commonly to underplay the effect of COVID.‘The fatality rate in India is ONLY 1.x%,

Dr Andrew Digby

takapodigs

Bella the #kakapo is still undergoing treatment for the #disease cloacitis, and is responding well. Hers was a severe case: one of the worst we’ve recorded. She’s fortunate we found

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

Let’s talk virus mutations as in UK & South Africa that can transmit more rapidlyAttached is a simple model of hosts (green) and virus (red). The virus mutates, brighter shades

Jeffrey Mold

Jeff_Mold

Given the surge in interest by the media in humoral (antibody) immunity - I felt it would be nice to give a brief overview of how it works in laymen

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