UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program
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Official account of the Univ of WA ID Fellowship Program | PD Meena Ramchandani & APD Fred Buckner
Content: Cynthia K Wallace, Chief Fellow
- Great list! #IDSky
- My top 10 ID papers for 2025. Full citations and descriptions available at clarityinitiative.org/hot-takes Also see/hear our Communicable podcast episode on this at communicable.transistor.fm/episodes/com... What were your top 10? Any thoughts about what I missed welcome! #IDSky #Top10papers
- What weekend is this again? www.wsj.com/sports/footb...
- Drift and shift driving the intensity of this year’s influenza season… www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
- PAHO issues call to action on measles… www.reuters.com/business/hea... #IDSky
- Great read :) academic.oup.com/cid/advance-... #IDSky
- While we are all talking about measles, let’s not forget another MMR preventable disease - Rubella! shmpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #IDSky
- Cocirculation of emerging bat virus Pteropine orthoreovirus (PRV) with Nipah virus… Transmission appears related to consumption of raw date palm sap. www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin... #IDSky
- Current measles situation… One month into 2026 (left column) we are at 26% of total cases. Cases continue to be overwhelmingly in un- or under- vaccinated children (who are reliant on adults to protect them with vaccination). #IDSky
- Contrary to current assumptions of repeat importations, the major burden of MDR-TB in Bhutan appears to be due to recent local transmission resulting in a large endemic cluster… academic.oup.com/ofid/article... #IDSky
- Put young people under stress in close quarters and they will get sick… 40% got an acute resp infxn for which they sought medical care, 83% of these spent at least one day sick-in-quarters (SIQ). Rhinovirus, enterovirus and COVID were most frequent. academic.oup.com/ofid/advance... #IDSky
