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@PeterHotez
Jun 9, 2020 • 3 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
While all attention is on #COVID19 our National School of Tropical Medicine @BCM_TropMed (work led by @Rojelio) found widespread toxocariasis in low-income areas of #NYC, led by the #Bronx.

Thank you @CathFlowers for introducing us to city leaders/reps

journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…
A reason this is significant: Earlier in @JAMAPsych (my first paper in a psychiatric journal) I highlighted the role of toxocariasis for its role in developmental delays among socioeconomically disadvantaged kids (based on work from @sunydownstate)

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…
Finally with Profs. Robin Gasser @unimelb and Ali Rostami we estimated the seroprevalence of toxocariasis journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic… Image

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Feb 14
Disastrous measles epidemic in my state of Texas now up to 48 in 4 counties: my chart on what happens when children acquire measles vs a very safe and effective MMR vaccine. From my new paper in @PLOSGPH Image
Here’s the link to my paper journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…
And my article from a decade ago predicting this, entitled “Texas and its Measles Epidemics” journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…
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Feb 4
Long COVID impacting more than 1 million children: CDC study suggests. Also a reason why it was important to vaccinate kids vs COVID. It wasn’t only about deaths and hospitalizations. Covid vaccines reduce the risk of long Covid. Papers attached abcnews.go.com/Health/long-co…
publications.aap.org/pediatrics/art…
thelancet.com/journals/lanre…
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Jan 14
1/n But remember: the risk of myocarditis after Covid infection is much higher than it is following vaccination, and it’s not just myocarditis it’s also heart attacks and strokes. So Covid vaccination is an important way to protect your heart health

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC95…. x.com/nichulscher/st…Image
2/n

. heart.org/en/news/2024/1…Image
3/n Covid 19 the virus is a thromboembolic virus. Important paper from @nature nature.com/articles/s4416…
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Jan 3
PolitiFact | Yes, there have been placebo-controlled studies on childhood vaccines. Good article by ⁦@PolitiFact⁩ FYI I recently did a PubMed ⁦@NLM_NIH⁩ search on placebo-controlled RCT and other trials approved for vaccines. Lists attached politifact.com/factchecks/202…
This is what I found for MMR vaccine, this is not intended to be comprehensive, but to debunk the idea that there are no such trials. You can do this yourself, it’s an open access database and just takes a minute. There are many, in fact: Image
Rotavirus vaccine Image
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Dec 29, 2024
H5N1 not a reason to be terrified. We know a lot about zoonotic flu, have been preparing for it 20 yrs (unlike when COVID began), + we have candidate vaccines, antivirals, diagnostics

Only 3 things can negate this:

policy failures
pandemic denialism
antiscience disinformation
It was actually the leadership of the W Bush Admin that prioritized a national response to zoonotic flu in 2000s, recruited my mentors, like DA Henderson, Maj Gen Phil Russell, Stewart Simonson, WI Gov. Tommy Thompson, Mike Osterholm, Bruce Gellin, Peggy Hamburg, to name some
So we can defeat H5N1, but it will need to be made a national priority
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Nov 10, 2024
Another reminder: in U.S. we must now expect a regular cadence of pandemic threats: SARS in 2002, SARS-2/Covid in 2019, likely SARS-3; avian flu; Nipah; Ebola 2014, 2019; Zika 2016, soon dengue, YF. So we can’t screw around, the Trump Admin needs serious players for CDC, FDA, NIH
The Trump Administration and the Republican-led Congress must take this seriously. If we’re going to have a chance vs this onslaught of pandemic threats - and they are coming - we cannot waste time with ideologues, lightweights, propagandists, and antivaccine activists
In his first term in office: they missed the entry of the SARS-2 virus into NYC from Southern Europe bc they focused on travel from China, couldn’t organize testing and tracing, lost time and lives bc of fake hydroxychloroquine cures that didn’t work. We can’t do that again
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