Jake Dunning
@OutbreakJake
Personal account/views. Infectious diseases consultant & researcher. Emerging & high consequence infectious diseases. Humanist.
High consequence infectious disease cases in the UK between 1962 and 2023 - the definitive list, described in our latest paper: microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa… #HCID @HPRUezi @PSIOxford @RoyalFreeNHS
Good news! The deadline for applications have been extended by one week. Closing date is now 17:00h on Friday 11th July.
Come study with us! A new DPhil (PhD) studentship from the @HPRUezi , based at @PSIOxford. This great project will investigate exposure risks & proportionate biocontainment measures for emerging & high consequence infectious diseases. Apply by 5pm 4th July ndm.ox.ac.uk/study/dphil-th…
A new PhD studentship opportunity in the NIHR HPRU in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, based at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine: lstmed.ac.uk/study/research…
Dr Alison Wright has been elected as the next RCOG President and will take up office in December 2025. Congratulations @AliWrightObGyn. You can read the College’s announcement on our website: rcog.org.uk/news/new-rcog-…
"You're not offering people a choice between living and dying, you're offering people a choice between dying and dying...all people are seeking is the choice to have some agecey and some control" Dr Clare Fellingham, consultant anaesthetist and voluntary assisted dying…
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Come and work with us in the @NIHRresearch Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections @HPRUezi. We have a post for a clinician to do a PhD in emerging infections and/or vector borne disease, working on national clinical studies.
Spot on
When journalistic FOMO turns into a hit piece🙄: The BBC wasn’t included in an IDF media tour of a Hamas tunnel in Gaza, and rather than seeking alternative ways to “verify” the facts, they leaned into skepticism without doing the legwork.
HPRU Clinical Fellow at University of Liverpool @HPRUezi jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ811/hpr…
The upsurge in mpox cases, ongoing since 2024, continues to represent a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Revised temporary recommendations have been issued by WHO. More info is available here: who.int/news/item/09-0…
Come study with us! A new DPhil (PhD) studentship from the @HPRUezi , based at @PSIOxford. This great project will investigate exposure risks & proportionate biocontainment measures for emerging & high consequence infectious diseases. Apply by 5pm 4th July ndm.ox.ac.uk/study/dphil-th…
Researchers at @PSIOxford have published a set of scales to assess stigma during infectious #DiseaseOutbreaks. Collaborating with @ISARIC1, the team created the monitoring tool to aid health professionals in addressing stigma early 🌏🦠 Read more 👉 ndm.ox.ac.uk/news/psi-publi…
A Jewish woman hid under the dead bodies of her murdered friends for eight hours to survive a massacre. Less than two years later she won the public vote of a huge international song competition. One based in a continent in which, within living memory, 6 million Jews were…
eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280… Our latest collaborative study, describing air and surface sampling around patients with clade 1b #mpox admitted to hospital isolation rooms in England. @HPRUezi @PSIOxford @RoyalFreeNHS @UKHSA
This comes across to me like a contemporary snake oil company. As @mgtmccartney suggests, they need to demonstrate benefit AND an absence of harms from screening offered; CEO's reply doesn't do this. The use of NHS logo is deliberate. It falsely suggests endorsement by the NHS.
appalled by this company on linkedin, dismayed that qualified GPs are associated with this private non evidence based screening endeavour and making claims of benefit there isn't evidence for. their use of the NHS logo is misleading and dismaying
appalled by this company on linkedin, dismayed that qualified GPs are associated with this private non evidence based screening endeavour and making claims of benefit there isn't evidence for. their use of the NHS logo is misleading and dismaying
3 years ago, my mum, a doctor and an active woman in her 50s, went into A&E and was diagnosed with cancer. 37% of cancer diagnoses happen in A&E. I find this hard to swallow. Diseases like my mum’s can be prevented. We’ve been working on Emerald (withemerald.com) for…
Extent of antibiotic prescribing in primary care based on risks of infection-related hospital admissions journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01… Deciding who needs abx in primary & urgent care is often difficult, for multiple reasons. I think reliable, discriminatory POCTs could help; need R&D.
The decline the UK is in is of our own doing. We vote for comforting lies, so that's what manifestos give us. We need to start voting for realism and we need political parties that give it to us. You think we have it bad? If we don't, our children have no future.
Case series of the first five human infections with monkeypox virus clade Ib and report on the public health response, United Kingdom, October to November 2024 eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280…
I'm not surprised. I guess the people who preached about the benefits of using HEPA filters everywhere, without good supporting evidence, will not be sharing this. Real life data is so important, and so frequently disappointing & bubble-bursting. Kudos to the study investigators.
New conference poster: No evidence for portable HEPA filtration units reducing respiratory infection episodes in care home residents • No evidence that episodes of fever/ delirium, gastrointestinal infections, falls or antibiotics consumed are reduced either