RT @BigBadDenis: A study of nearly 500,000 adults found Paxlovid taken within 5 days of COVID-19 infection was linked to a 12% lower risk o…

Influenza activity remained at a high level. COVID-19 remained at a low level of activity. RSV activity remained at a low level. Influenza vaccination is strongly recommended now.

Full report: health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/cov…

I’m at the Safer Air Conference at Parliament House.

Indoor air safety is the biggest budget saving available, easiest anti-inflation / productivity boosting investment we have available.

Case in point: my mum recently spent 11 days in a hugely expensive publicly funded ospital, constantly on oxygen. The reason? Bad ventilation at a leading Sydney hospital.
I then spent a week off work sick, because I picked up the same infection due to bad air safety at a different leading Sydney hospital.

Some of the best parliamentarians are here: Assistant health minister Rebecca White, Michelle Ananda-Rajah, @Mon4Kooyong , & Dr Amanda Cohn (MLC in the NSW parliament). (All women 🤔)
Helen Haines no doubt would’ve been here, as she was in previous years.

Coroner recommends TGA consider tougher restrictions on #peptide use after death of Australian actor Richard Norton. abc.net.au/news/2026-10-2… via @ABCaustralia

Washington's H5N1 dairy outbreak is substantially larger than previously reported.

State records now list 27 affected dairy herds, up from 8: 26 in Yakima County and 1 in Benton County.

Eighteen were confirmed Oct. 23 alone.
The source and transmission pathways remain under investigation.

People in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have started receiving a vaccine against Bundibugyo Ebola, the deadly strain of the virus that has killed thousands of people in the republic in recent months
bmj.com/content/395/bm…

Excellent analysis by @alisonannyoung - lab leaks are common, as are cover-ups. Important work on lab leaks by Sandhya Dhawan and Stuart Blacksell @MahidolU cited. healthbeat.org/2026/10/27/rus…

Hot off the press! Read our report, 'Safer shared air - a critical accessibility and inclusion issue' online here 📖 buff.ly/40Wgb7v

#CleanAir #InclusionMatters #SaferSharedAir #SaferAirProject

Australia's indoor air pollution crisis: Doctors, scientists and parents push for urgent national standards in schools and hospitals. Great to see this as the headline story today. @DrBronKing @SaferAirProject @CO2RadicalAus smh.com.au/healthcare/inv…

Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached 10,000 confirmed cases, government data showed Tuesday, as health authorities race to slow the spread of the disease in multiple African countries. apnews.com/article/ebola-…

For anyone getting into biology, please consider taking airborne disease resistance more seriously.

It's a super important area of medicine that is a huge cause of death and sickness but easily gets forgotten. We're likely to get many more airborne plagues in the future due to the combination of not just extremely dense and interconnected society (including city and farm animals), but also accidents from bio research and offensive biotech (both from random people and from secret government programs that can easily get themselves exempted from safety restrictions), all enhanced by powerful AI.

Right now, this area is getting way less love than longevity research (which continues to be super important!), but it's an area where there are lots of unclaimed wins that we know exactly how to do (but are not yet doing) with present-day tech:

* early detection
* passive universal testing
* filtration/ventilation/UVC
* better vaccines (including making them open source and open science)
* cryptography to make all of the above privacy-preserving

We can have China-level pandemic resistance with Sweden-level limited intrusion into people's lives, and then go even further. We just have to actually do the work for it.

A Swiss woman being treated for Ebola in Nigeria was medically evacuated to Switzerland with her husband Monday, officials said, as Nigerian authorities continued monitoring 52 people who had been in contact with her. to.pbs.org/3UknEMY

A team of leading Ebola scientists will travel to Nigeria to help investigate how the country’s first patient in more than a decade got infected, Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya said. reut.rs/48eJ2X9

Bird flu outbreak at Utah mink farm sparks concerns about government response | Utah | The Guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2026/o…

A powerful gene-editing technique has been used to edit DNA directly in a person’s body — the first known instance of such a treatment.
go.nature.com/4iC2gMn

A more than 40% risk reduction “would send many researchers over the Moon”. This personalised mRNA vaccine reduced the risk of skin cancer returning or the recipient dying by 42%

go.nature.com/4zIVp9E

Well, THAT'S not good.

Some California startup has injected AI-designed virus into humans.

It's not like AI has tried blackmailing us, stolen money, conspired, submitted false police reports, engaged in computer fraud, etc.

We can TOTALLY trust whatever it designs .....right?

Kenya reports second death from Ebola reut.rs/4igBW98 reut.rs/4igBW98

In 2022, an illegal lab was discovered in #Reedley California. Samples were destroyed and there was no data on potential harm arising. We used @EPIWATCH_bsp to analyse signals of epidemics spatially and temporally around the incident. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YAD24H2Y… @KevinKileyCA @ChinaSelect @Biodefensecomm

Report of @ChinaSelect here: chinaselectcommittee.house.gov/media/investig…