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Wer einmal begriffen hat, wie das mit den Aerosolen funktioniert und wie viele vermeidbare Kranke und Tote wir schon vor der #Pandemie durch luftübertragene Erreger hatten, erst recht aber durch #Corona-Masseninfektion und #LongCovid, für den gibt es kein "Zurück zu 2019" mehr...
Wir müssen und *können* gefährliche Erreger *überall* aus der Luft holen, wo viele Menschen zusammentreffen und Infektionsketten überhaupt erst entstehen.

Allein der Schutz der vulnerabelsten Gruppe - Säuglinge und Kleinkinder - die durch "gewöhnliche Atemwegsinfekte schweren...
Schaden nehmen können (30-50% bekommen im Alter von 0-3 Bronchitis, was Risiko für schwere Atemwegserkrankungen und vorzeitigen Tod im Erwachsenenalter massiv erhöht) ist Imperativ genug, die primitive und barbarische Vorstellung der Masseninfektion "für Immunität" zu begraben.
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🏰 O Castelo Mourisco da Fiocruz será iluminado de vermelho de hoje até domingo em alusão ao Dia Mundial da #Tuberculose, celebrado nesta sexta-feira (24/3).

👇 Acompanhe o fio e saiba mais sobre essa data:
O objetivo é aumentar a conscientização sobre a doença, que ainda representa um grande desafio para a saúde pública.

#fiocruz #tuberculose #tb #diamundialdatuberculose
Criada pela @opsoms em 1982, a data é uma forma de aumentar a conscientização sobre as consequências devastadoras à saúde, bem como os impactos sociais e econômicos provocados pela doença, além de intensificar os esforços com o objetivo de acabar com essa epidemia global.
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Some very interesting dev in the Tx regimens for #TB especially the common rifampicin susceptible TB
@MoHFW_INDIA @DHFWKA @ICMRDELHI @StopTB @UNICEF @paimadhu
#MedTwitter #idtwitter
The imp points 👇 Image
There were 4strategy groups with diff initial regimens; noninferiority was assessed in the 2 strategy groups with complete enrollment, which had initial regimens of high-dose RIF–linezolid & bedaquiline–linezolid (each with INH, PZA,& ETH).
-The primary outcome was a composite of death, ongoing treatment, or active disease at week 96.
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#Taliban Spokesman:
"Late today, operations was carried out in Qalacha and Shuhdai Salehin areas of Kabul city on the hideouts of Daesh Kharijites (#ISKP). 7 Kharijites were killed& 7 others were captured alive.
Similarly, 2 Khawarij were captured alive in Nimroz province today." Image
A pro-#TB source:
"3 Daesh militants were killed& 2 women& 3 children were captured alive, from a hideout of the group in Qalacha area of Kabul.
Another operation was conducted against a hideout in Shuhadai Salehin area of PD8. 2 #ISKP members were killed& 2 women were arrested." Image
#Taliban's spokesman provided more details about yesterday's anti-#ISKP raids in #Kabul and #Nimruz provinces:
"Late yesterday in Kabul& Nimruz provinces, a key ISKP network, involved in organizing the attacks on #Longan_Hotel (a place where #Chinese nationals were staying), ... Image
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As 2022 draws to a close, we’ve been reflecting on some of the highlights (in no particular order) — you can read the full article here: bit.ly/3IfaKYc, or digest the thread below. Wishing you a happy new year and all the best for 2023! 1/23
The #cancer research community has made huge strides leveraging the unique attributes of #nanopore sequencing to characterise cancer at unprecedented resolution, unlocking previously hidden variation and accelerating research to support human health. nanoporetech.com/cancer-research 2/23
In May, @mdelledon took a group of scientists into the Gobi Desert to capture small mammals, including bats, to study their microbiome and they set up a genomics lab in a tent. They demonstrated the utility of the MinION in the harsh, off grid and sandy desert environment! 3/23
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It's World AIDS Day: time to take stock. Because there is no #HIV #vaccine and women can't compel men to use condoms, people continue to get newly infected. And because the majority of them live in poor parts of the world, the undeclared #pandemic is very expensive.
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2/AIDS
Inside the USA federal spending on HIV/AIDS $7.6 billion/year.
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3/AIDS
Of that, about $780 million goes to the @CDCgov for prevention programs -- and much of that is passed onto the States.
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Middle aged patient presents with insidous onset, progressively worsening SOB.

Chest is full of wheezing and creps.

What is this?

#MedTwitter Image
This is the HRCT thorax. Image
This is a biopsy proven adenocarcinoma.

No GGO
No air bronchograms
Multiple coalescing nodules of various sizes --> s/o cannonball metastases.

#MedTwitter
#pulmtwitter
#oncology
#TB
#tuberculosis Image
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Mullah Mohammad Essa Akhund, was introduced as new #Kabul_Governor today.
A Pashton from Kandahar (?), he was a battle field expert of the #TB in the south, and recently was serving as security chief for the Ministry of Defense.
Pro-TB accounts defined him as an anti-ISKP figure.
Following the announcement of Mullah Mohammad Essa (Yasin) Akhund, as the new Kabul Governor, many sources in social media, accused him of having background of spoiling governmental assets in Paktika Province, when he was serving as governor there in late 2021.
Paktika people...
... reportedly complained and stood against him, which resulted in his shifting to Kabul as commander of security& support brigade of the Ministry of Defense.
#Taliban usually tolerate the wrongdoings of their powerful commanders and figures, mainly for keeping the group's unity.
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#idweek2022 @DocWoc71 Ddx rash #leishmania body part where sandflies bite; other ddx #paracoccidiomycosis given systemic sx
Other ddx #tb #botrymycosis wouldnt explain lungs; other #paragonomiasis
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The #extrajudicial_killings by the #Taliban continue:
Bahram Nuristani, a former ANSF officer (ex-police chief for Mandol District), was abducted, #tortured and killed by the Taliban.
Sources confirmed that the Taliban #accused him of providing logistics to the #NRF in #Panjshir. ImageImage
Unconfirmed:
Angry residents of Mandol District in #Nuristan Province, pushed out #Taliban from their district in reaction to the brutal murder of #Bahramuddin, a former district police chief under Republic Government&native of Nuristan, by the group (TB).
@SajjadNuristan:
"Du Ab of #Nuristan also fell to #local_uprising forces:
Over 1,500 armed supporters of late Commander Bahram have taken control of Du Ab&Mandol districts.
"My father's blood will not be wasted&we will clear Western Nuristan from Gujars& #TB," Bahram's son said." Image
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#Taliban's economic commission under chairmanship of Mullah Berader, made the following decisions to (allegedly) support #private_banks in Afghanistan:
- The courts of #AFG, should resume issuing Sharia deeds of properties (legally recognized ownership documents for properties). Image
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the IEA should work for the opening of bank accounts by Afghan banks in the neighboring countries& other countries of the region.
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the IEA should reach an understanding with donor countries& institutions ...
... that the (international) aid money should not only go to one specific bank anymore. Rather, in the light of a systematic mechanism, it should also go to other private banks of Afghanistan, so that justice can be established in dealing with the private banks of Afghanistan ...
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1/ America Is In the 'Figure It Out Yourself' Era of the Pandemic
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
by @edyong209

Débrouillez-vous!
2/ I spent the earlier part of my career focused on #tuberculosis #TB & #HIV.

We are most definitely seeing the TB-ification of COVID.

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Please take your seats for @gordon_sanghera's opening plenary of London Calling 2022. #nanoporeconf
GS: Lord Kelvin believed in meaningful measurement to see the whole picture. With nanopore sequencing you gain more comprehensive insights than ever before. #nanoporeconf
GS: In the 3 years since the last time we were at Old Billingsgate, @nanopore has released 200+ products, increased our single-molecule raw read accuracy from 95% to 99.6% & hugely improved our scalability & output. #nanoporeconf
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According to the state-run @BakhtarNA, the #Taliban's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice will tomorrow (Saturday, May 7), make an important #decree, about #Hijab ruling, public.
While not released from the official addresses of the IEA yet, the #Taliban's new plan for the implementation of Sharia #Hijab in Afghanistan is a document prepared in two pages and signed by the seven senior officials of the Taliban, including the Minister for the Propagation...
...of Virtue&Prevention of Vice, Chief Justice, Minister of Hajj, Education Minister...
The key contents of the #guideline:
- #Hijab is compulsory on all Muslim women who have reached the age of puberty.
- Any clothing that covers body is Hijab but it should not be transparent...
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"It's not just a glass of water. It's a glass of hope. It's the most obvious basic necessity for health and wellness. Just like air, we need water. We simply can't live without it."

— Meghan Markle, #TheTig
#WorldWaterDay
"663 million people worldwide don't have access to clean water. We need to change that"
#serviceisuniversal #cleanwater #tb
Meghan’s piece for #waterday on the tig
#tb
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@MondayNightIBD @southasianIBD @ibdesis @Empoweringpts9 @DCharabaty @ownyourcrohns @crohnsbabble @LivingWithUmeed @vkckiranpullela @TheMaveilousGut @dunung_ruchita 📣 #IBD patients & caregivers:

#IBDPoll 1️⃣

📊Thinking abt your IBD needs, what's been the biggest hurdle to your care?
📝 In the replies, elaborate. What’s helped your care?

Please share your #PatientExperience w #MondayNightIBD 👇🏽

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦=Family
👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏽=Friends
🥼=Specialist
@MondayNightIBD @southasianIBD @ibdesis @Empoweringpts9 @DCharabaty @ownyourcrohns @crohnsbabble @LivingWithUmeed @vkckiranpullela @TheMaveilousGut @dunung_ruchita #MondayNightIBD #PatientExperience
#IBDPoll 2️⃣

🧐Thinking about your culture’s expectations

📊 Have you tried Complementary and Alternative (CAM) Therapies (ex: ayurveda, homeopathy)?

What drove you to try these therapies? Please share your experience.

SE=side effects
@MondayNightIBD @southasianIBD @ibdesis @Empoweringpts9 @DCharabaty @ownyourcrohns @crohnsbabble @LivingWithUmeed @vkckiranpullela @TheMaveilousGut @dunung_ruchita Thank you @MondayNightIBD for shining a spotlight on 🌏 #SouthAsianIBD pt experience!

I'm Madhura from 🇮🇳, co-founder Team @ibdesis. We are proud to lead #PatientExperience on #MondayNightIBD!

We hope to improve care for our community around the 🌍 through @SouthAsianIBD.
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✨🆕 IHME researchers published today in @sciencedirect – "Estimating the population at high risk for tuberculosis through household exposure in high-incidence countries: a model-based analysis" using #TB data from the 2019 #GBDstudy. #tuberculosis sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
The researchers estimate that in 20 high-incidence countries, 38 million individuals live in a household with someone with pulmonary #tuberculosis — with children under 5 making up 12% of populations with home exposure.
➡️Findings include: #Zimbabwe, #Mozambique, #Zambia, and #Pakistan have the highest proportion of the population with household exposure.
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Starting #UnsungHeroesImmuno. Did you know about Onesimus and his knowledge of variolation? 1/
#UnsungHeroesImmuno What about Dr. William Augustus Hinton and his work with syphilis? 2/
#UnsungHeroesImmuno We also have Drs. Louis Tompkins Wright and Jane Cook Wright, a father-daughter pair that changed the field of oncology. 3/
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We are starting Dr. @SaraSuliman13's talk on #TB and #BCells! Let's go! #BIIW21 #BIIAtTheBench
A great paper by Dr. @SaraSuliman13 on her work with Dr. Luo on #tuberculosis in #Peruvians: nature.com/articles/s4146… #BIIW21 #BIIAtTheBench
#GWAS can be hard to link genes together and that's okay. This means we need to regroup #BIIW21 #BIIAtTheBench
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The #GlobalFund #ResultsReport was lacking data for 2021 on #TB.
The #WHO just released the 2021 Global Tuberculosis Report, featuring 2020 data. It's a sobering read.
You can find it here: reliefweb.int/sites/reliefwe…
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The headline is probably this graph. The scale was clearly chosen for dramatic effect (also data for more than 4 years shouldn't be too much to ask), but notifications fell off a cliff last year.
1.3mn fewer cases were found, a 19% drop y-to-y.
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Under that overall number we can find some solace (only 2.5% drop in the African region), but mostly tragedy.
In India and Indonesia, notification fell respectively ‼️25% and ‼️31%. Together they represent over half of the global drop.
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Las personas con #tuberculosis (TB) ya no son físicamente como mostraban los libros: con musculatura esquelética. Desde hace algunos años, se han empezado a verlas obesas o con sobrepeso. La #diabetes es la principal comorbilidad de la enfermedad. 🧵 (1/6)
saludconlupa.com/noticias/los-p… Image
En esta #entrevista, la directora ejecutiva de la Dirección de Prevención y Control de Tuberculosis del @Minsa_Peru, Julia Ríos, explica la necesidad de una buena alimentación en la lucha contra la #TB y de un enfoque integral para erradicarla. (2/6) Image
📌 “Una persona que se infecta tiene 10% de probabilidad de hacer la enfermedad en el tiempo que le queda de vida. Si es una persona con #VIH, con una inmunidad muy baja, el riesgo de que se enferme es de 10% por año”. (3/6)
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Pres of the Council of Ministers Italy "The advances we have made are at risk b/c of #COVID19 - #Italy is committed thru @g20org to "rekindle the spirit" that led to the creation of the @GlobalFund" "Sufficient, sustainable and predictable funding needed." HEAR HEAR
@oumajoyce2 speaking now: "I am humbled that Global Fund continues to engage and put us as civil society at the centre of the response - as we celebrate #GlobalFund20 I celebrate the 44 mn lives saved - amazing progress."
To learn more about @oumajoyce2 and her story and why she supports the @GlobalFund
globalfundadvocatesnetwork.org/2021-2022-spea…
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