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Thanks so much to the @FinancialTimes for choosing How Not to Die (too Soon) as one of the best health books for 2025 👏ft.com/content/5f6fc2…
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H5N1 (avian flu) is the most predictable pandemic we might have- with the caveat that the pathogens behind previous pandemics & even regional outbreaks weren’t predictable
Is America on the brink of sparking the next flu pandemic? And is it Donald Trump’s fault?
More below on how H5N1 is raging unchecked through the US
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It feels good to wake up to a blue wave across America & despite $$ by billionaires being spent trying to influence the election, normal people coming out to vote for peace, decency & democratic values.
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Esp congrats to @AbdulElSayed - a public health professional, doctor & Rhodes Scholar. He ran an unbelievable campaign!
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This goes against 2025/6 pattern of mild disease when infected from dairy cattle versus severe disease when infected from birds. Worrying given H5N1 circulating in dairy cattle in the U.S.
A person in Yakima County, Washington, who caught bird flu after being exposed to infected dairy cows has died following a severe illness, county health officials said on Sunday. cnn.com/2026/11/02/hea…
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Prof. Devi Sridhar retweeted
The death rate among confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has climbed above 50% after health authorities added hundreds of previously unallocated fatalities to the official toll bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Tomorrow, Nov 3. My book is released in the U.S. Details here: barnesandnoble.com/w/how-not-to-d…
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Fun to join the closing plenary of @rcgp annual conference in Glasgow gponline.com/prevention-pri…
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Glasgow this Friday. Royal College of GPs conference. Hope to see some of you there- it’s also live-streamed.
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RT @devisridhar: My latest column on selfies, cancer and AI: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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My latest column on selfies, cancer and AI: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Director of African CDC calling the International community to pay attention and respond to the growing outbreak of Ebola- now in Nigeria -
EBOLA IN NIGERIA: AN URGENT CALL FOR GLOBAL SOLIDARITY
Today 20 October 2026, I spoke with the Nigerian Coordinating Minister of Health and Social welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, who informed me of a confirmed Ebola Bundibugyo case in Nigeria. I commend his transparency and leadership. Early reporting saves lives.
When Africa CDC declared this Ebola outbreak on 15 May 2026, we warned of its regional dimension and implications.
This Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak has already become the most geographically widespread Ebola outbreak in history, affecting multiple countries across three regions of Africa.
With mortality approaching 50% in DRC, we face an extremely serious threat. Africa CDC has already begun mobilising support for Nigeria, while intensifying our response in DRC and Kenya and maintaining heightened vigilance in Uganda.
My appeal to the international community is urgent: ACT NOW.
We need immediate, flexible financing, medical supplies, diagnostics, trained responders and stronger community-based surveillance. We cannot allow this outbreak to spread to more countries or continue for another year.
Every day of delay costs lives. Africa’s health security is global health security. Stopping Ebola in Africa today means protecting the world. Nigeria has our full solidarity. Together, we must defeat this outbreak.
@AfricaCDC, @WHO, @WHOAFRO, @WorldBank, @gavi, @CEPIvaccines, @UNICEF, @NCDCgov, @African Union Commission, @Pandemic_Fund, @European Commission, @EU HERA, @US CDC, @UK FCDO, @Public Health Agency of Canada, @African Development Bank, @AfreximBank, @Gates Foundation, @Mastercard Foundation, @Wellcome, @UNOCHA, @IFRC
#AfricaReady #StopEbola #HealthSecurity
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Looking forward to giving a Public Health Scotland learning event this week about healthy life expectancy, what we know about living longer & healthier lives and the role of policy and experts in this objective. It’s a nice chance for me to learn from colleagues and a good complement to the MPH & undergrad teaching. The undergrad students requested a COVID lecture this week despite my attempts to dissuade - they were 12-16 years old during the pandemic, which arguably was the group hit overall hardest by the impact.
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U.S. suddenly realising that maybe the British got something right with the NHS 78 years ago….
Two-thirds of Americans now say they favor Medicare for All, according to a new @KFF poll. That's the highest level KFF has recorded since it started polling the idea in 2016, up from 53 percent in 2020.
This tells me two things: Americans are fed up with rising health care fering up a more realistic, more effective alternative.
You can't beat something with nothing, and right now Medicare for All is close to the only something on the table. Health policy experts need to offer something else.
What are your best ideas? (Mine are coming)
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Prof. Devi Sridhar retweeted
Inflation is up again. Not because of a pandemic. Not because of a natural disaster. Because of Trump’s war, tariffs, and corporate tax breaks.
It really is this simple: Republicans took over, and then drove up the cost of living in America.
It really is this simple: Republicans took over, and then drove up the cost of living in America.
BREAKING: Inflation climbed to a 4-month high in September as the Iran war continued to drive up gasoline prices ahead of key midterm elections.
Prices rose 3.7% in September compared to a year earlier.
Read more: abcnews.link/Le5jZ0N
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An evening spent trying to log into various platforms for student references, grant reviews, journal submissions and I can say logging on with all the various steps, passwords, authenticators is def the hardest part of it all for me 😵💫😵💫😵💫
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Prof. Devi Sridhar retweeted
Russia’s silence over the death of a lab worker underlines that pandemic preparedness amounts to nothing if information on threats is withheld | @devisridhar theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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My latest column on Russia’s suspected plague case: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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