Christian Schroeder

"You could do all the right things in the world and get bit by a tick and it'll change your world... forever." Dr. Neil Lee Spector, MD (1956-2020) (@QuietEpidemic) #Lyme #LymeDisease

@docakx Quite the read. doi.org/10.1093/clinid… Asymptomatic infection quite possible.

The boy had worms in his eye.

@oldcanadaseries Maybe still have more🥹🥹🤩🤩?! maps.app.goo.gl/H1dBUFJngL2p8G…

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@eternalclassic_ @huskirl

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@julia_doubleday I DO NOT understand how this simple fact seems to be incomprehensible to those who are supposedly there to protect us. I really do not...

Some med professionals on here are very irritating . Yes I understand the r0 likely being low and risk of h2h transmission increasingly significantly being low. “Low” is not a low enough risk when it comes to half of humanity. Risk needs to be zero. Quarantine those ppl.

@TDotResident Hint: Not the people who filed FOIRs.

But who is taking over the Ford government for serious financial and governance mismanagement???

Phew. They probably just had covid.

@froglet80 Nothing says it actually NEEDS to be shitty AF. You could pamper people with great food and drink, fabulous internet, wonderful bionocs and an endless supply of whatever the local birds eat, and you might actually "survive". It's gotta beat burying half your friends and family.

they need to be moved to an isolation facility that is equipped to keep those not infected from getting it during the quarantine period. but shipping them all over the globe is a supremely bad idea. Is six weeks in a foreign isolation facility shitty AF? yes. Is it the risk you take when you board a floating petri dish for kicks? also yes.

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@OttoKurect @CoronaHeadsUp You'd think adults would know the above in advance w/o being told, or love to do this simply on the basis of putting the interests of fellow humans ahead of theirs even just a little(!!) Even for their own families! Anyway, send some N95s, too. I hate eating lobster without them.

@CoronaHeadsUp Theyshould tell people when they get on cruises, "Now listen, it's very unlikely, but if some kind of viral outbreak happens on this ship, you're not getting off until it burns out. We'll airdrop free liquor, lobsters, ice cream, whatever you want, but no getting off capisce?

If you have an outbreak of a deadly virus on a ship, the best thing to do, surely, would be to keep the outbreak on that ship until it burns out naturally. A ship is the perfect vehicle for quarantines. But no. As happened with the Covid outbreak on the Diamond Princess, we are now seeding the entire planet with infections from that ship by repatriating the passengers. Is there any benefit whatsoever in repatriating passengers who may be currently asymptomatic?

@BarryHunt008 Daily trivia: visualcapitalist.com/comparing-gene…

99% genomic similarity to previous hantavirus strain is meaningless Every COVID variant - Alpha, Delta, Omicron - falls within 99% of wild-type yet has completely different behavior What matters: specific mutations in functional domains, not overall similarity percentages

@PanasonicDX4500 A word from team Bacteria: Cholera says "Hi!"

“the hantavirus kills you too effectively for it to become a full blown pandemic” is the kind of jaded analysis I look for from a virologist

@raghu_venugopal Some people find more knowledge comforting.

Canada's radiologists oppose assymptomatic whole-body MRI as it: -isn't optimized for any condition or anatomy -lacks benefit -causes unneeded fishing expeditions -strains our healthcare system -widens inequity -delivers harm -commercializes low value care car.ca/wp-content/upl…

@Kenneth33071904 As long as it hit the inside of your mask, we're good.

Coughing in the work meeting hit different today.

@arijitchakrav Minimization and the instinct to do as little as possible is a pan-societal brain disease. It's just that in PH, the results end up being so, so bad. Corollary: A party who is caring, wants to be proactive, and is precautions is painted as freaky.

Whether or not this is a pandemic threat at this point, I find it absolutely jaw dropping that - 6 years into the untrammeled spread of cóvid - PH continues to (almost defiantly) interpret their day job as calm-mongering.

@CoronaHeadsUp The big hand needs to spin completely around about, oh, 1344 times before we can be sure you're in "perfect health".

Hantavirus ship passenger: "We're not in the cabins and nobody has any symptoms" "And, as of today, the approximately 150 of us remaining on the ship are in perfect health." El Mundo elmundo.es/galicia/2026/0…

@TDotResident WHA? HUH? YOU SAY SOMETHIN'? ugh...

THE EMERGNCY ALERT SYSTEMS STILL WORKS

@PaulNuki This is a nice summary. However, just as important is what happens if this thing does get legs. The implications are potentially catastrophic, justifying, IMHO, a "pull-out-all-the-stops" approach NOW, or actually days ago. But hey, we're reactive rather than proactive, right?

One of the clear lessons of the hantavirus outbreak is that *chance* makes a huge difference to how a disease can spread. The Andes strain of the virus causes 100s of human infections every year, but most burn out almost immediately. Occasionally, there is a bigger outbreak fueled by human-to-human transmission but these are rare. The pattern is a feature of almost all zoonotic spillover events, millions of which happen each year involving thousands of different pathogens. Mercifully, most go nowhere. They flare then vanish. Now enter *chance* – a series of unforeseen but often predictable environmental circumstances or events. A wet market, a trunk road, a game of beer-pong … or in this case, a hop-on-hop-off international cruise with connecting flights. The map below shows the 12 countries that passengers flew to after disembarking one leg of the cruise in St Helena in late April. 30 passengers disembarked there, one dead, but no one knew then about the disease to which they had been exposed. The outbreak has been serious, with three dead and at least five suspected cases so far. About 150 remain on the ship, while hundreds of potential secondary contacts are being traced and asked to isolate around the world. Nevertheless, the chances are that *this* outbreak will die out too. The virus does not appear to spread efficiently enough to sustain itself, even with the circumstances it has been handed. But here’s the thing: it’s a numbers game. Look again at that map and consider where we would be if the virus was more infectious, or had mutated to become so. It is why the World Health Organization and pandemic planning is so important.

@raghu_venugopal Patients shouldn't get a say?

Listen to the radiologists on elective whole-body MRI. It's against medical guidelines, unlikely to help you, creates unneeded anxiety, it doesn't extend your life or quality of life and you are more likely to be harmed. Time to stop the scan scam. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

@WDGPublicHealth It *could* be some of the best money you ever spend: geneticks.ca @GeneticksCanada It's unfortunate the article doesn't mention by name some of the "New" diseases: biomedgrid.com/fulltext/volum…

Think you know #ticks? You might be surprised! From when they’re active to where they live, common myths about ticks can actually put you at risk. As tick activity increases in our region, knowing the facts matters more than ever. 👉 Read the #blog: bit.ly/4uz2bwh

@veritasium Around here, like many others, it's known as "Not my problem".

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