Kath M O'Reilly

I am happy to announce that my master’s project on polio is now out as a preprint! Assessing early detection ability through spatial arrangements in environmental surveillance for poliovirus: a simulation-based study doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… 1/7

THIS was the moment @tompidcock made the move and defended his Olympic title! 💪 📹 @BBCSport #Paris2024 | #MountainBike

Polio detected in waste water samples in Gaza As WHO investigates source, Kathleen O’Reilly tells @Telegraph how conflict, breakdown of health services & limited sewage disposal have increased risk of #polio transmission. 👇bit.ly/3LzeKTG

If this round of H5 goes pandemic (it’s closer than it’s ever been) and stay-at-home orders or other onerous shit comes back, remember that the point is to buy time for vaccines. And then ask why we haven’t updated H5 vaccines with the five months and counting of warning.

“If you don’t define a productive day, you’ll never feel like you’re doing enough.”

HE'S DONE IT!!!! MARK CAVENDISH TAKES A RECORD BREAKING 35TH TOUR DE FRANCE STAGE VICTORY 🇮🇲🚀 #TDF2024

@jenmgshe Grinder! Dentist noticed it first and was mooted as a reason for headaches. Tension stretches out to tendons in neck too…

@kathmoreilly Oo are you a teeth grinder? Intrigued by the head/neck massage - I’ve had a knot under my shoulder blade for weeks so wonder if that could be contributing to the headaches?

If you get bad headaches what stops them? Mine is shades on 😎, tiger balm on my forehead 🐅, co-codamol washed down with coke/Dr Pepper🥤and a walk/lie-down to cool down. No screens 🙅🏼‍♀️. But all that has taken 5 hrs out of my day. 😬 Any other tricks out there?

I tweet quite a bit - but this one is different and perhaps the most important I’ve ever written I hope it gets shared as much as possible, so new parents don't make the same mistake I nearly made (even as a dad of five, having worked in A&E for 23 years and someone who teaches about not missing a diagnosis because of cognitive biases). Our 6 week old baby is getting discharged today from @TheAlexBrighton @UHSussex after receiving the best possible care for meningitis. She is doing really well and as a family we can't begin to express our gratitude to all involved. The day she came in, she was not herself but nothing which particularly worried us. But my wife did her temperature, and it was over 38C. As she was under 3 months, it meant she needed to be seen in A&E ASAP. By the time we got to A&E she was really quite sick even though it was only 30mins after taking her temperature. I initially dismissed her signs and initially even questioned why my wife did her temperature. I had a cognitive bias, twisting my thinking to believing she was ok because that is what I wanted her to be, when she wasn't- a positivity bias. Please if you are worried about your new baby - be like my wife and not me, check their temperature, use your gut instinct and don't delay getting the help your baby needs. @M_R_F

Is science’s dominant funding model broken? nature.com/articles/d4158…

We are recruiting two PhD students to sensin wastewater for public health working on the Leverhulme-funded project @CranfieldUni @cranfieldwater @LeverhulmeTrust jobs.ac.uk/job/DHU905/phd…

"One Sample Many Analyses" A simple concept that feels very intuitive, but hard to implement at a national level across many stakeholders... but certainly worth working towards! nature.com/articles/s4146…

This July, the application window for countries to apply for @gavi support for human rabies vaccines opens! @ifakarahealth @KEMRI_Wellcome This is a massive opportunity to prevent human rabies deaths & catalyse action to #EndRabiesNow ! More info 👇

📢#PhD studentship available at @INRAE_France, in collaboration with @RoyalVetCollege to #model #zoonotic pathogens (inc H5N1) spreading through well-characterised farming and trading networks. Apply by 01/07 to join us in Lyon: jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-22192 @UMR_EPIA @PoultryHub

@DrSimonHarris Yep, lots of it in Greenwich area. Last of the waves of viral infections? I hope so.

There’s a lot of ‘slapped cheek’ (parvovirus) going through our primary school age children at the moment. Is it just us or is there a national wave going on?

As the election campaign in the United Kingdom marches on, politicians are hardly discussing the country’s global standing in science. Here’s why that needs to change, says Paul Nurse go.nature.com/3z7Spdb

We’ve opened the call for @BritishAcademy_ Visiting Fellowships 2025! As part of our commitment to international engagement we will give up to £40k for academics to spend 3-6 months to be based at a UK higher education or other research institution thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/visiti…

Polio remains a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and – until it is eradicated – a threat to children everywhere. We urge governments to continue to prioritize immunization, and to keep up the fight to rid the world of this crippling disease #WHA77 #EndPolio

In partnership with @RLMglobalhealth, our members @ChrisDrakeley, @IsabelByrne & @drrachellowe from @LSHTM_Planet joined @WHO’s task force to review how rising temperatures & changing weather patterns impact malaria & NTDs. Read more👇 bit.ly/3VeFPkG

Want to address the emerging challenges of vaccine confidence in the digital era?💉💻 Learn how to measure & monitor vaccine hesitancy using #AI innovation with this short course delivered by @HKUniversity with @vaccine_trust. Apply by 2 June 2024 👉bit.ly/3QX15sN