Reporter for CIDRAP News. Former radio guy. New York Mets fan. cdall@umn.edu
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I’m really honored that IDSA (which has been instrumental in my career for so long) chose me for this role and I hope the publication is valuable to ID clinicians — civilization’s defenders and real world Ghostbusters — and helps them stay on top of an endlessly fascinating, intellectually challenging, everchanging field that has so many puzzles to solve
Introducing IDSA Reporter, a new digital news destination for infectious diseases professionals.📰
Led by Editor-in-Chief @AmeshAA, IDSA Reporter features original reporting, expert perspectives, clinical analyses & more on the issues shaping ID.
Read: idsareporter.com/
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Heartbroken. An enormous loss for her family and friends, and for the global science and public health community.
Thank you @HelenBranswell for your extraordinary reporting, rigor, humanity and commitment to helping the world understand complex issues. 1/2
Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69. trib.al/3bBswKg
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Terrible, terrible terrible news.
We're bereft to lose @HelenBranswell. She was precise, fair, and prescient, and the world is poorer without her.
Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69 statnews.com/2026/10/13/hele…
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Quoted in @CIDRAP on Merck pulling Recarbrio from the US. The clinical gap is immediate but narrow, hardest on difficult Pseudomonas. The real problem: stewardship limits use, revenue stays low, companies exit. PASTEUR Act would fix that.
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Streptomycin and vancomycin came out of soil. Fleming needed a contaminated plate and a prepared mind. That was antibiotic discovery. De la Fuente's lab now pulls candidates out of extinct genomes in hours using AI tools. My reaction to OpenAI's video on de la Fuente's lab, and why the asymmetry argument should anchor the AI biorisk debate.
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Philanthropy, however, can take drug development only so far. For a problem as significant and costly as antimicrobial resistance, the type of innovation we need will emerge only if policymakers create the conditions for it to flourish cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial… #AMR
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Listen to these people, out on the street, singing a song about hope and still having time, in echo of the man who gave them it and whose loss yesterday would give anyone cause to question either.
If anyone knows the power of song abd music in shock and grief it’s Dubliners. x.com/ef1975722/status/20829…
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📰 CIDRAP News reporter Chris Dall recaps these top 3 news stories:
-Cyclospora outbreak: bit.ly/3T0ZyWF
-Ebola outbreak in the DRC: bit.ly/4pto2DU
-Increases in ‘nightmare' bacterial infections: bit.ly/4vFuOIk
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NDM, a carbapenem resistance gene, increased 461% in US hospitals from 2019–2023. What makes it especially concerning is that it spreads between different bacterial species on plasmids. I’m quoted in this @CIDRAP piece on why this matters, why some of our newest antibiotics remain vulnerable to NDM, and why wastewater surveillance could provide an important early warning system. cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial…
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Every story this week has been a variation on a single theme: infectious disease is the default state of the world. I have said this many times, and I have written about it, because it is the fact that everything else in this field rests on. The only thing that holds these pathogens back is a system. It is a system of people, laboratories, inspectors, and vaccines, and every part of it has to be funded, staffed, and trusted.
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The resistance gene that’s causing ‘nightmares’ in US hospitals 🧬
A gene that makes bacteria resistant to most antibiotics is on the rise. Public health officials want to know where else it’s lurking.
Read more: bit.ly/4vFuOIk
ALT Nurse adjusting the ventilator of an ICU patient
ALT A hand holding a petri dish with multidrug-resistant bacteria
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#DanielDennett on “black box science” and #AI: It's so easy to do black box science by pushing a few buttons to get an output generated by an artificial system... But are we starting to abandon our fundamental capacity to understand how things work?
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“Until antibiotic discovery is funded at a scale that matches the threat posed by AMR, efforts will be reactive instead of proactive, costing money and lives,” cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial…
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Dentists still write millions of prescriptions a year for an antibiotic with life-threatening risks
Dentists wrote more than 27 million antibiotic prescriptions last year, many of them unnecessary. Part 1 of a 3-part series by @lizszabo.bsky.social
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In this video I discuss antibiotic resistant bacteria and how people acquire these infections
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In this @cvdall @CIDRAP piece I’m quoted about E.coli infections, their burden, and antibiotic resistant versions. cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial…
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In this @CIDRAP @cvdall piece I’m quoted about drug resistant gonorrhea and the potential of zoliflodacin, a novel and promising antibiotic developed using an innovative partnership cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial…
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Aaron Siri is misrepresenting flu vaccine evidence by selectively citing studies.
Doing this after the deadliest non-pandemic pediatric flu season on record — 280 children dead, 89% of whom were not fully vaccinated — is unconscionable.
Here’s what the data actually show. 🧵
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