libera/##covid-19/ Tuesday, 2025-05-13

BrainstormNew from StatNews: Biotech: STAT+: Appeals court reopens the question of who owns patents for groundbreaking CRISPR discovery → https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/12/appeals-court-reopens-the-question-of-who-owns-patents-for-groundbreaking-crispr-discovery/01:58
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: China’s Xi Jinping says ‘bullying only leads to self-isolation,’ after tariff truce with US → https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1kldo4z/chinas_xi_jinping_says_bullying_only_leads_to/08:54
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Opinion: Why Casey Means could be the right pick for surgeon general: Our most dangerous epidemic right now is not Covid, it is obesity, and we have the basic tools to fight it. Means is a convincing spokesperson suited for this fight,… → https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/13/casey-means-surgeon-general-maha-rfk-jr-residency/10:40
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Genomic epidemiology of a novel Pandoraea pneumonica group caused severe bloodstream infection in Hainan, China, 2021-2024: CONCLUSION: BSI caused by this novel cluster of P. pneumonica is linked to significant morbidity and mortality. Such cluster remains a critical public health challenge due to their regional [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40357401/12:37
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Montague Frank Poynton Marshall: bmj;389/may13_12/r921/FAF1faFrank was born in London and attended Chigwell School, before being evacuated to Buckinghamshire, where he attended Berkhamsted School. He set his mind on becoming a doctor and applied to the London Hospital in 1943. An air raid warning interrupted his [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r921.short13:34
BrainstormNew from ScienceNews: Humans have shockingly few ways to treat fungal infections: It's not quite as bad as The Last of Us . But progress has been achingly slow in developing new antifungal vaccines and drugs. → https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fungal-infection-drug-vaccine-zombie15:02
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Amended Biologics Working Party Vaccines Quality Operational Expert Group (BV-OEG) Influenza Meeting: EU recommendations for the seasonal influenza vaccine composition for the season 2025/2026 → https://www.ema.europa.eu/system/files/documents/regulatory-procedural-guideline/amended-eu-recommendation-vaccine-composition-2025-2026_en_0.pdf15:12
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: When Will the Measles Outbreak End?: Paul Offit, MD, offers a glimpse of when the outbreak might end as well as where we are with herd immunity, the MMR vaccine’s efficacy, and insights on breakthrough cases. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/when-will-the-measles-outbreak-end-17:10
BrainstormNew from Politico: (translated) “*Pfizergate” : *Ursula *von *der *Leyen #risk of heavy effects secondary: The Court of the *UE #have determine #that Wednesday #if the #european Commission #have disobeyed the rules of transparency at no disclosing  the *SMS #go his [... want %more?] → https://www.politico.eu/article/pfizergate-ursula-von-der-leyen-risque-de-lourds-effets-secondaires/18:10
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: COVID before or during pregnancy may confer 2 to 3 times the risk of miscarriage: Although the risk was greater with moderate-to-severe infections, even mild cases were linked to more than double the risk. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-or-during-pregnancy-may-confer-2-3-times-risk-miscarriage18:59
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Wastewater testing predicts community COVID cases, experts say: Sewer sampling, the authors say, could be expanded to track other infectious diseases such as H5N1 avian flu or mpox or to detect unexpected pathogens. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/wastewater-testing-predicts-community-covid-cases-experts-say20:26
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Wastewater testing predicts community COVID cases, experts say: Sewer sampling, the authors say, could be expanded to track other infectious diseases such as H5N1 avian flu or mpox or to detect unexpected pathogens. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/wastewater-testing-predicts-community-covid-cases-experts-say20:26
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): The antibody used is mainly advertised for ELISA and WB. Altough some flow detection is shown, this is only via Spike labeling of ACE2+ cells, and subsequent staining. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11450194471067634120:36
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Long COVID tied to substantial loss in work productivity: Participants with ongoing long-COVID symptoms were more likely to report any productivity loss in the preceding 3 months compared to those without ongoing long COVID symptoms. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/long-covid-tied-substantial-loss-work-productivity21:54

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