Dennis Bente

Can you see Bourbon virus? 😂

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus screening among African individuals in Spain: Lessons to learn - PubMed This is the first serosurvey conducted in Spain to suggest possible active circulation of the virus in Africans. Our results suggest the need for more extensive clinical and epidemiological studies in...

What a despicable scope of this study! Although not mentioned in the text, you can read between the lines that immigrants could be considered the source of CCHFV for Spain! #CCHFV pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39921135/?ut...

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

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More trouble for academia! NIH will change the indirect cost rates. This will motivate even more academics to leave the US.

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ROFL!

Everybody wake up!

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System

All of your most sensitive data and our country’s checkbook are in the hands of an unelected billionaire.

This is the most corrupt administration in history and it’s putting our economy & government in serious jeopardy.

It’s time to speak out and fight back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

World map with all countries in green except for the United States, symbolizing U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization. Caption from '@IdiotBenevolent' says "The updated World Health Organization map is a sick joke."

The joke is on us.

'Blathering in Davos': Trump mocked for 'lies and moronic claims' in big economic speech Donald Trump sparked outrage and mockery after delivering the first major economic speech of his second presidency.The newly inaugurated president spoke Thursday morning at the World Economic Forum in...

'Blathering in Davos': Trump mocked for 'lies and moronic claims' in big economic speech

www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”

🚨 URGENT: Major Disruption at NIH - Impact on Biomedical Research.
NIH has implemented sweeping restrictions that affect the entire biomedical research community. The ripple effects of these restrictions threaten to put U.S. biomedical research behind globally.
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Free speech absolutists

Hahaha. Gave my MAGA acquaintance a little of his own medicine. Got his panties in a wad and blocked me. They can dish out (for 4 years) but can't take their own medicine. What a loser.

Asking for a friend😅: a colleague with pathological narcissism makes snide comments in emails. What else can I do than just ignoring her? 🤣🤣🤣

I see that Melania chose to wear her Hamburglar hat to honor the criminals in the nation--and next to her.

The richest man on Earth is a drug-addict Nazi with an office in The White House.

What are you going to do about it?

Trump orders US to leave World Health Organization Trump has long been critical of how the Geneva-based institution handled the Covid-19 pandemic.

Told you guys! And so it begins. And scientists are blamed if we have a problem. www.bbc.com/news/article...

World Health Organization (WHO) The United Nations agency working to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable.

Not good news: @WHO just announced a new Marburg outbreak in Tanzania.

“As of 11 January 2025, nine suspected cases were reported including eight deaths across two districts – Biharamulo and Muleba. …Results are pending official confirmation.”

www.who.int/emergencies/...
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#IDsky

15,000 doctors sign letter begging Senate to reject RFK Jr for health secretary Kennedy, among other controversies, has spread misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine

I am glad people are standing up to this!

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Lol

Climate Change Denier James Woods Loses House To Climate Change Sending thoughts and prayers.

Nothing will change their mind.

📣 New podcast episode! Host Jill Morgan (@jill-morgan.bsky.social) from Emory University, Dr. Dennis Bente (@bentelab.bsky.social) from @utmbhealth.bsky.social & Dr. Saima Ali from Indus Health & Hospital Network discuss Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (#CCHF): netec.org/transmission...

WHO urges China to share Covid origins data, five years on from pandemic’s emergence | CNN The World Health Organization has urged China to share data to help understand the origins of Covid-19, five years on from the start of the pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

Plummer R. (2024, 20241230). Share Covid data, World Health Organization tells China. BBC Retrieved 1231, 2024,
https://buff.ly/4a1YmGV

WHO urges China to share Covid origins data, five years on from pandemic’s emergence | CNN The World Health Organization has urged China to share data to help understand the origins of Covid-19, five years on from the start of the pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

Gan N. (2024, 20241231). WHO urges China to share Covid origins data, five years on from pandemic’s emergence. CNN Retrieved 1231, 2024,
https://buff.ly/40jXPNe

Anonymous. (2024, 20241231). China defends COVID-19 data-sharing as WHO seeks more access. Reuters Retrieved 1231, 2024,
https://buff.ly/40ixP4O

Controversial COVID study that promoted unproven treatment retracted after four-year saga Paper on hydroxychloroquine led by French researcher Didier Raoult is second-most-cited study ever to be withdrawn.

Finally! Took way too long. Raoult, what a shady guy! Overall, the IHU now has 32 retracted papers — 28 of them authored by Raoult — and 230 other studies with expressions of concern!!!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive | Behind Closed Doors: The Spy-World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak The idea that the pandemic’s origins lie with a research facility in China was once labeled a conspiracy theory. Disagreements among intelligence experts on the issue ran deeper than is publicly…

Saw this in today’s WSJ. I don't recognize any of the names of the IC scientists mentioned in the piece. 😪 #ScienceNews #WSJ

Ticks? Hemorrhagic fever? Check out yours truly on this podcast.
#ticks #CCHF #virus #climatechange

Trump transition team plans immediate WHO withdrawal, expert says Members of Donald Trump's presidential transition team are laying the groundwork for the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization on the first day of his second term, according to a health law expert familiar with the discussions.

Have we learned any lessons from COVID? Not!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

I predict we will see the COVID situation all over again: HPAI will become a huge public health issue in 2025, and then the ignorant say we created it.

If you want to learn more about CCHF transmission risk