Hantavirus and SARS-CoV-2 are from fundamentally different virus families -with distinct taxonomy, genome structure, replication strategies, transmission modes, and clinical manifestations.

⚠️ While both are RNA viruses capable of causing severe respiratory disease in humans, the similarities begin and end there.

🚩 Ivermectin has *no* demonstrable in vivo effectiveness as an antiviral. But mysteriously, you can buy it from Mary.

🤦‍♂️ Dr. Bowden’s imperviousness to facts for the sake of engagement-farming the ignorant remains an ongoing embarrassment to physicians.

Everything is bigger and better in Texas: especially the grift.

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Oncology. Only large Phase 3 trials lead to changes in treatment. Such are multicentered, placebo controlled, done in oncology excellence centers and drugs are provided free of charge. Now let's look at this. NO baseline demographics, no real assessment of responses by RECIST standards, never use self assessment of such by patients, and always make sure that the treatment on which patients would be is well defined. And now this terrible crappy trial from McCullough Foundation

No doubt that the usual suspects of conspiratorial pro-spread of contagion science denying anti-vax eugenicists will have thoughts.

No Link Between Aluminum Adjuvants and Serious or Long-Term Health Outcomes: BMJ Meta-analysis
"The review included 59 studies (37 case series, 11 randomised controlled trials, nine cohort studies, two ecological studies). High quality evidence from randomised controlled trials and large cohorts consistently showed no association between aluminium adjuvanted vaccines and serious or long term health outcomes, such as asthma, autism spectrum disorders, or other chronic conditions."

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Information is a determinant of health but very little is known about trusted sources or health literacy worldwide.

This week we published the first global survey of digital health literacy and trust in health information sources at Nature Health Nature Portfolio from Rachael Piltch-Loeb Ayman El-Mohandes, MBBCh, MD,MPH,FAAP Scott C. Ratzan MD Ken Rabin Carolina Batista MD Rebecca Katherine Ivic, Ph.D. and colleagues at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.

A few key findings:
Medical providers were the most trusted source of health info worldwide (in all but one country).

Most younger people accept AI generated health information, older people less so.

There were correlations between democratic freedom and trusted sources of health information.

Self-reported digital health literacy was generally high - and higher in lower middle income countries than high income countries.

Most people prefer health information in ‘words and pictures’ format - not video (take note: social media companies!)

There is a wealth of data here for anyone interested in this crucial topic of health information. #health #trust #healthliteracy #information #medicine

https://lnkd.in/efTZZUwt

𝗨𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗼𝘂𝘃𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝗲𝘂𝘅 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝘀

Je suis très heureux d’avoir contribué, avec de nombreux et nombreuses collègues, à l’ouvrage 𝙏𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙚 (𝙤𝙪 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙦𝙪𝙚) 𝙨𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙫𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙨, qui vient de paraître chez CNRS EDITIONS.

📖 https://lnkd.in/dyFjwcCE

La vaccination fait partie de ces sujets à la fois essentiels et sensibles, sur lesquels circulent beaucoup d’informations, et parfois beaucoup de confusion. Il m’a donc semblé particulièrement important de participer à un livre pensé pour le grand public, avec l’objectif de rendre les connaissances scientifiques plus lisibles, plus solides et plus partageables.
Expliquer ce qu’est un vaccin, comment il fonctionne, comment sa qualité et sa sécurité sont évaluées, et pourquoi il demeure un outil majeur de santé publique, c’est tout l’intérêt de ce beau travail collectif.

Autrices: Sylvie Guerder, Monique Dontenwill, Claire MARC
#Vaccins #SciencePourTous #SantéPublique #CultureScientifique

The anti-vaccine movement has never just been about alternative facts.

In 1896, the National Anti-Vaccination League printed postcards with rhetoric that reads like a modern social media post. Same tactics: emotional manipulation, conspiracy framing, and the exploitation of scientific uncertainty.

The playbook hasn’t changed, but the scale has. And the collapse of the institutions that used to buffer against it.

Robert Putnam talks about the quiet erosion of American civic life in Bowling Alone: fewer neighbors who know each other, fewer community organizations, less civic engagement. We’ve lost the connective tissue that once gave trusted information somewhere to land and a buffer against misleading claims.

Here’s what I keep coming back to: the anti-vaccination movement figured out something the health and science world keeps missing. People don’t just adopt a new set of facts. They accept an invitation to belong.

It doesn’t matter how good our evidence is.

Until we understand that, and start rebuilding communities that offer a sense of belonging, we’re going to keep losing ground on every new platform, in every new format, one postcard at a time.

New piece on Community Immunity: Evidence Needs a Community to Give It Weight

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Measles didn’t come back because we forgot the science.

It came back because systems drifted.

When vaccination coverage drops—even slightly—the system changes.

Outbreaks don’t spread randomly. They cluster where gaps appear.

In this issue of Human Systems, I break down why measles is reappearing—and what it reveals about information, access, and trust.

🐄👨‍⚕️ Santé humaine et animale : comment faire face à la désinformation ?

De la pandémie de Covid-19 à la dermatose nodulaire, chaque crise sanitaire révèle les mêmes dérives : instrumentalisation des peurs, exploitation des vulnérabilités, remise en cause des repères scientifiques… jusqu’à fragiliser la confiance envers les institutions.

Médecins et vétérinaires sont en première ligne, confrontés à des dynamiques similaires.

Face à ce déferlement de fake news et à la viralité des contenus de désinformation, que peut la parole scientifique ?
 
Retrouvez l'entretien croisé entre le Dr Didier Spindler, vice-président du Cnom, et le Dr Jacques Guérin, président de l'Ordre national des vétérinaires ⬇

https://lnkd.in/eafu82RC

Orange is the new melanoma risk ?
Pushing tanning bed for teens is like putting cyanide in the water… A really bad idea…
Ok, overstating the issue, but really the idea of exposing a new generation to more melanoma risk is not only dangerous. It is not only stupid: it is criminal…


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My latest op-ed for the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) is live. I wrote about my experience with HPV and how grateful I am that my son and daughter will almost certainly never experience it thanks to the HPV vaccine.

https://ow.ly/1sma50YW3jY

We’re excited to see Science Communication for Scientists: Linking Strategy with Creativity, Practice and Respect recognized in the Journal of Science Communication with a thoughtful review by Matthew S. VanDyke.

The review praises the textbook’s evidence-based, ethical, and practical approach to science communication. As Professor VanDyke writes, Science Communication for Scientists “serves as a necessary, current resource for scientists hoping to communicate about their work more effectively.” The book also incorporates many of the core principles of the Alda approach to science communication, emphasizing connection, audience awareness, and communication grounded in clarity, empathy, and responsiveness.

Co-written by Alda Center Executive Director Laura Lindenfeld alongside fellow communication scholars John Besley (Michigan State University College of Communication Arts and Sciences), Xia Zheng (Stony Brook University School of Communication and Journalism), Anthony Dudo (Moody College of Communication at UTAustin), and Todd P. Newman (University of Wisconsin-Madison), the open-access textbook combines research-backed communication strategies with practical applications for scientists, students, and educators. Since its release in September, thousands of readers around the world have accessed the resource, highlighting the growing demand for effective science communication training.

We’re proud to see this work contributing to a broader movement toward science communication that strengthens trust and understanding between STEM professionals and the communities they serve.

👉 Read the review in the Journal of Science Communication: https://lnkd.in/eagUx3MT

👉 If you are already using Science Communication for Scientists, leave a comment below or reach out to the authors with your thoughts! If you haven't had a chance to check out this great resource, you can get it here, along with resources for instructors: https://lnkd.in/ev3G9Can

#SciComm #sciencecommunication #STEM

One of the most powerful lessons I’ve encountered in public health is this: Communication is never as good as you think it is.

It’s up to all of us to make sure that what we’ve built doesn’t stay a secret that only the people who already know about it can access.| 18 commentaires sur LinkedIn

For more than a century, vaccines have largely meant needles and syringes. But scientists are now finding new evidence that vaccines delivered through a nasal spray could be more effective than we thought, building immune protection exactly where many respiratory viruses first enter the body.

Here’s how nasal vaccines could change the way we think about immunity: https://bit.ly/4cXBpWY | 12 comments on LinkedIn

Demain, aux #Thermes_Balaruc_les_Bains, nous lançons le premier cycle de conférences en #Occitanie consacré à la prévention et à la lutte contre la désinformation en santé.

Pourquoi ce sujet?!
➡️ Parce que la “fake médecine” n’est pas un sujet marginal.
➡️ Parce que la santé est devenue l’un des terrains les plus exposés aux fausses promesses, aux récits simplistes et aux offres pseudo-thérapeutiques.
➡️ Parce que lorsqu’on souffre, lorsqu’on cherche à comprendre, lorsqu’on espère aller mieux, on devient plus vulnérable aux discours qui promettent vite, beaucoup, et parfois sans preuve..

D'où cette nécessité pour devenir véritablement autonome: "Comprendre. Repérer. Vérifier. Décider."

C’est aussi cela, la prévention : aider chacun à rester acteur de sa santé, sans être seul face aux promesses, aux peurs et aux manipulations.

Une information fiable ne supprime pas l’espoir, elle évite que l’espoir soit détourné.

https://lnkd.in/dJw9q8jM

Ministère de la Santé Agence Régionale de Santé Occitanie (ARS) Mathieu Molimard Dominique Costagliola Herve Maisonneuve
Paul François Houvion Laetitia Miquel

#SantéPublique #Désinformation #FakeMédecine #Prévention #Thermalisme #BalarucLesBains #EspritCritique #LittératieEnSanté

As HHS leadership censors data that undercuts their narrative on the value of vaccines, the public does not support Sec. Kennedy’s vaccine agenda. Turns out when healthcare is unaffordable, the prospect of getting measles is decidedly less appealing.

In honor of everyone who works to make vaccines work, The Geneva Learning Foundation is pleased to share this article celebrating five years of visual storytelling by and for health workers.
https://dub.sh/S2fqwsN

In 2021, we asked immunization workers to share their challenges during World Immunization Week.

Not one photograph arrived.

The format was words only.

By 2024, more than three thousand photographs had come in from roughly sixty countries.

They were taken on phones in clinics, on motorbikes, in pirogues on the Congo River, in displacement camps, in cold rooms.

They were taken by women and men whose names rarely appear in donor reports.

The cameras were ordinary.

The decision to pick them up was not.

Gifty Akushadjibi, an interpreter for the deaf community in Ghana, described it as an act of seeing.

"You need to look at the photos. You can just analyze your work for the day, what went wrong, what must you do to help."

This is the story of a category error in global health: the assumption that the people closest to the work are the people who matter least to its narration.

Five years of World Immunization Week celebrations told us otherwise.

Ooops… the antivaxers are at it again!!

There’s a dangerous pattern playing out in real time: selective storytelling disguised as “new revelations.”

Recent headlines are circulating claiming that AstraZeneca has “admitted for the first time” in court that its COVID vaccine can cause blood clots.

Yes — court documents acknowledge a link to a condition (TTS).

Anyone posting or calling this out was ridiculed. Medical practitioners called scientists and other colleagues “antivaxers”!

But here’s what’s being left out but the vaccine extremists:

🔹 This risk was identified, studied, and publicly disclosed in 2021
🔹 It was added to regulatory guidance and product information years ago
🔹 Health authorities globally weighed the risk as very rare compared to the benefits during the pandemic.

All that was being said was the science was lacking. More testing needed to be done as harms were not known!

So what’s actually new?

👉 Not the science.
👉 Not the risk.
👉 Not the transparency.

What’s new is the framing and institutional drift.

When established facts are repackaged as shocking “first-time admissions,” it doesn’t inform the public — it misleads them.

And that has real consequences:
- It erodes trust in institutions
- It distorts informed consent
- It fuels division rather than understanding

We should absolutely scrutinize pharmaceutical companies and doctors who are heavily supported including regulators who are funded by the industry.

We should absolutely support those harmed and ensure accountability.

But we should also demand something equally important:

Accuracy. Context. Integrity in reporting.

Because without those, we’re not holding power to account —
we’re just amplifying noise.

#PublicHealth #MediaLiteracy #Misinformation #Accountability #COVID19| 13 commentaires sur LinkedIn

💉 Misinformation and vaccine hesitancy remain among the major challenges for public health in Europe and worldwide.

📚 I am therefore pleased to share this important event, which is part of the European Public Health Week 2026 programme and will focus on the presentation of two newly translated guides on vaccine-related events and vaccine communication.

🗣️ These resources aim to support effective, evidence-based scientific communication and help counter misinformation.

🇮🇹 The event will be held online and in Italian.

📍 More information about the event:
https://lnkd.in/dHiZPFTq

#EUPHW #PublicHealth #Vaccines #HealthCommunication #Misinformation #VaccineHesitancy #EUPHA

Daniel Fiacchini Francesco Baglivo Antonello Lupi Enrico Di Rosa EUPHA - European Public Health Association