New exhibition opens today🤩
🦠Smallpox
The only human disease to be eradicated
Horrific illness often leaving those who did not die, horrendously disfigured🥹
Last Glasgow outbreak was 1950 & lasted only days due to a phenomenal public health response.
More? Come see us🙏
🦠Smallpox💉🐄
The only human disease to have been eradicated.
High mortality & devastating effects on victims.
Last Glasgow outbreak, March 1950.
Triggered mass quarantine & vaccination. With parallels to the 2020 C19 pandemic😷
Exhibition opens in October. Come along 🙏
@gushamilton Great talk. Really compelling. Would love a link or an expansion of “no pneumococcus in the new world” couldn’t fathom that for something that feels ubiquitous
@amyreadmicro@gloshospitals@GlosPath@drjanefreeman@bugdoc76 Shame I missed this! Really valuable work - similar stuff in Glasgow on/off site. Our median response from survey was a 12hr target! Showed ⬇️ TTI =⬇️ pt LoS with signif orgs. Little impact on TTP with 👍🏻volume. Yield loss dependant on org with ⬆️ TTI.
@RestIsPolitics@RoryStewartUK@campbellclaret Scotland junior doctors have agreed to a significant pay rise and commitment to matching inflation.
Do people outside of Scotland appreciate there have been no public sector strikes here? That the strikes in Eng/Wales were avoidable with proper engagement?
@mattforde @hilarywilson111 is the best doctor and person I’ve worked with and trained under. All of the department are lovely. They SHOULD
sell her poster at the museum (that she helped set up) @FriendsofGRI
An uptick of pleural samples on the bench to EID dispatch —> High incidence of pulmonary (pleural/pneumonic) iGAS (M1UK) this winter associated with Influenza A in Scotland.
See article for disease characteristics, outcomes and epidemiology. #IDTwitter
https://t.co/eLO1YUNJ53
The PDF of the study
So we should at least improve the time of BC transport to the lab, and not only the BC volume
Such an interesting study
@SazaliBasri@HanzHc@PuiLi_Wong
Which of these is important when it comes to blood culture?
1) Blood culture volume
OR
2) Transport time of the bottles to the lab
This was presented at the @ECCMID2023 sharing session during the @ADVANCE__ID meeting
Blood cultures are URGENT samples! Pre-analytical factors impact on outcomes (LoS). Impact: Transit times > volume. Delighted to have collaborated with the irrepressible @Timpwj89. 4hr BC UK-SMI evidence➡️@UKHSA#IDTwitter https://t.co/PHogray1cN