PhD Virologist turned science writer. Fighting misinformation w/ fully sourced episodes on infectious diseases. Public health is inherently political.
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🎉 The original Outbreak After Dark crew is reunited for our first anniversary!
Plague doctors. Tuberculosis ghosts. Goat yoga. An infectious disease game show with questionable scoring.
And somehow, we're still here. 🔥
🎧 infectiousdose.com/post/a-ye…
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Today is National Immigrants Day. OTD in 1886, the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor. For 140 years, she has stood as a promise to everyone who comes here seeking a better life. That promise was never going to keep itself. Together we need to keep it. Let’s Vote!
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NOW LIVE
🎉 The original Outbreak After Dark crew is reunited for our first anniversary!
Plague doctors. Tuberculosis ghosts. Goat yoga. An infectious disease game show with questionable scoring.
And somehow, we're still here. 🔥
🎧 infectiousdose.com/post/a-ye…
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If you think schools are paying for sex changes, after needing to beg for pencils and hand sanitizer, then you’re a very special kind of stupid.
🚨 H5N1 has been confirmed in dairy cattle in a SECOND WA county.
As of 10/26/26, Washington reports 18 affected dairy herds: 17 in Yakima County & 1 in Benton County.
The Benton infection was detected before cattle showed signs of illness. 🧵
agr.wa.gov/about-wsda/news-a…
📻 HAWTHORN MILL, OCT 30, 1938.
An evening of music. An unexpected interruption. And a reporter who's in just the right place.
An original audio drama from Infectious Dose.
📡 Airs 10/30, 8 PM ET.
#InfectiousDose #TheDevilOfHawthornMill #AudioDrama #WarOfTheWorlds
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Antivaccine activist: stealth ninja nurses vaccinate you without consent under anesthesia! Also, hire me.
Reality: hospital offers parents the option of requesting their child be vaccinated under anesthesia, to reduce barriers and increase vaccination.
stopantivaxpropaganda.org/p/…
ALT Tweet by Aaron Siri says: “if you or your child were injected with a vaccine under anesthesia, here is a link to an attorney advertisement and intake form my firm just put out.”
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My late colleague and brilliant co U.S. Science Envoy with me in the Obama Admin the @Caltech Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Ahmed Zewail would disagree. God rest his soul he didn’t have to endure this, and of course RFK Jr forgets that it was the Arab scientists of the Middle Ages who kept Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen alive to hand it down in the Renaissance. My favorite books on this topic attached
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"My daughter caught measles when she was seven. I remember not feeling particularly alarmed about it.
Then one morning she said, 'I feel all sleepy,' and she went into a coma. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead."
Roald Dahl on his daughter Olivia
Don’t fall for the fear campaign...what is MEASLES?...a fever, a cough, a rash, runny eyes & runny nose.
-Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
"The measles vaccine came out in 1963. In 1962, the death rate from measles was two in a million.”
"So it was not even deadly BEFORE we had a vaccine."
IF YOU FEAR MEASLES...
You must not know that even in the 60s, before the vaccine, the survival rate was over 99.9%.
You must not know that the MMR is a live virus vaccine & can cause measles.
You must not know that the MMR vaccine is linked to 2,657% MORE DEATHS than measles since 1995.
You must not know that it's a very mild childhood illness for well-nourished children.
You must not know that natural measles infection provides lifelong immunity, unlike the vaccine.
You must not know that there are huge lifelong health benefits to getting measles, including a lower risk of cancer, lower risk of heart disease & stronger immune resilience.
You must not know that the MMR insert lists over 60 serious adverse events, ranging from encephalitis, seizures & death.
You must not know that studies show Vitamin A drastically reduces measles complications-yet public health officials ignore it.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Pre-vaccine US: ~400-500 measles deaths, 48k hospitalizations, 1k encephalitis/yr (~2/M). Vaccine cut >99%. 2657% uses unverified VAERS (not causal) vs rare measles deaths. MMR rarely mild symptoms. Benefit claims weak; measles causes immune amnesia.
cdc.gov/measles/about/…
ourworldindata.org/grapher/measle…
2/2 🥂 Meet the Menu of Misfortune.
We randomly drew 4 recipes from our first year. No planning. No quality control.
🍸 House Call
🌺 Symbiosis Spritz
🧀 Rumor Mill
🥧 Pecan Pustules
All 4 recipe cards + the episode transcript are always free in the companion blog post!
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RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 13): The NIH “Vaccinology and Immunology Center”: NIH has been studying vaccine adverse events for years, and new clinical trials should be science-based. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk… via @sciencebasedmed @gorskon
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My husband spent 10 days creating this short 3D cartoon using Maya + Claude, bringing my original 2015 vaccine comic book to life! 🎬🦠
And this is his very first attempt! 🥹👏
Voice-over from my little 9-yo niece, Nuna.
How many ❤️ can we get for their hard work with just one tweet? (on the original YouTube, please)
Come on, X, show him some love! 🚀
#EndPolio #vaccineswork
youtube.com/watch?v=KZL2Xuzy…
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Today is World Polio Day
Polio used to maim and kill millions
It doesn't anyone more
Anyone guess why?
I'll give you a clue
Vaccines
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📍. 🧵👇
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A scientist arrives in a remote Carpathian village to investigate an outbreak of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.
Her host is a respected physician. His patients adore him. His records raise questions.
And the ticks?
The ticks are very, very wrong.
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🚨H5N1 bird flu is emerging in Washington's dairy cattle.
On Oct 8, the state confirmed its first 2 infected dairy herds.
By Oct 16, that number had reached 8, all in Yakima County.
Officials have also confirmed a human infection linked to exposure to infected cattle. 🧵
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This is why H5N1 surveillance can't stop with testing livestock.
Protecting dairy workers requires appropriate PPE, access to testing, prompt identification of symptoms, and monitoring after exposure.
That helps detect human infections & limits further spread.