Professor in Immunology at University of Cape Town, Deputy Director at South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative.
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Tom Scriba
Cape Town Marathon lands Major status in first for Africa
Chronic air pollution exposure (even moderate) and more advanced coronary artery disease
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This BBC article states that "climate change is believed to have played a role in such hot spells as this." Let me fix it:
Climate change IS making these hot spells more likely and more dangerous. Scientists have been warning of this for decades.
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Long-term exposure to air pollution, even at moderate levels, is independently associated with greater coronary artery calcium extent and total plaque burden at cardiac CT.
A Review in Communications Medicine explores Long COVID — which affects more than 400 million people globally — including current knowledge, gaps and future directions for research, diagnosis and treatment. go.nature.com/4unyxtI #medsky 🧪
Eric Topol
SCIENCE AND STRATEGY STAR | Professor Willem Hanekom tells Spotlight about taking a ventilated young patient to the Sea Point promenade, living with HIV, the need for an African research agenda, and the recurring joy that has defined his career.
www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2026/05/07/t...
Katharine Hayhoe
It comes after the UK recorded its warmest May night on Sunday when temperatures reached 19.4C.
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Tuberculosis kills on a vast scale, but as foreign aid shrinks, countries with a high burden of TB stand to gain a lot by investing more to curb the disease and its heavy social cost
@economist.com
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Perhaps the fact that we are conducting an unprecedented experiment with the only home we have, by digging up and burning massive amounts of fossil fuels that is driving global change at rates 10X faster than the most recent warming of this magnitude that occurred oh about 55 million years ago? 🧐
Bangladesh is in the grip of an explosive measles epidemic, stemming from a catastrophic breakdown in vaccine procurement following the country’s 2024 revolution.
The result was nationwide vaccine shortages and plummeting immunization rates. https://scim.ag/4tM2lAr
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Perhaps the fact that we are conducting an unprecedented experiment with the only home we have, by digging up and burning massive amounts of fossil fuels that is driving global change at rates 10X faster than the most recent warming of this magnitude that occurred oh about 55 million years ago? 🧐
So we blocked IFNγ in Mtb infected macaques and….the animals were fine. Turns out mice overestimate the importance of IFNγ in TB because IFNγ drives iNOS in mice but not macaques or humans. This means we don’t actually know how T cells suppress Mtb. rdcu.be/ff9GB #tuberculosis #immunology
The combined effects of a heat dome and climate change have brought extreme warmth to western Europe.
