GIDEON

08/25/2025

. The team is in full swing in ! Stop by booth #58 to learn how GIDEON can make your more efficient. Plus, Dr. Jean Felipe and Mathew Symes have some great swag for you!

08/23/2025

🌍✨ We’re excited to be at AMEE 2025 in Barcelona (Aug 24–27)!
Come meet the GIDEON team at booth #58 and discover how our solutions are supporting medical education worldwide.

👋 Stop by to say hello to Jean Felipe Teotonio, MD, MPH and Mathew Symes, and don’t miss your chance to grab an exclusive gift! 🎁

See you in Barcelona! 🇪🇸

08/21/2025

What if you could cut through the noise of in seconds?
That’s exactly what GIDEON was designed to do.

Our platform brings the world’s infectious disease information together in one place so professionals can act quickly and accurately.

Highlights:
• Interactive diagnosis module to look beyond local pathogens
• Outbreak maps and decision trees for identifying thousands of organisms
• First case scenario module to improve early outbreak detection 🚨 Designed specifically for the World Health Organization (WHO)!

With data from 20,000+ sources, GIDEON helps government agencies, researchers, clinicians, and educators save hours and focus on what matters most — protecting lives.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/45JZltm

08/15/2025

From an innovative spark to global impact - The GIDEON story
At a medical conference, Dr. Steve Berger heard about Bayesian analysis and asked a question that would change everything.

When he discovered that no one was using this powerful statistical method to , he saw an untapped opportunity to help.

Dr. Berger partnered with Uri Blackman to build their 1st prototype and put it to the ultimate test: a real patient case.

What happened next launched what would become the world's most .

Click to discover the disease that started it all and how GIDEON founder Uri Blackman tells this remarkable story.
https://bit.ly/3JniF8h

Every global innovation starts with a question. For GIDEON, it began in a WHO training room in Brussels when Dr. Stephen Berger asked: “Is anyone using Bayes...

08/12/2025

🚨 Pacific Island nations are seeing their worst outbreak in nearly a decade.
16,502 cases and 17 deaths in 2025. Climate change is playing a major role.

Highest dengue counts since 2016:
• Fiji: 10,969 confirmed cases and 8 deaths
• Samoa: over 5,600 cases and 6 deaths
• Tonga: over 800 cases and 3 deaths

Rising temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, and higher humidity are giving Aedes mosquitoes—the main dengue carriers—more time and ideal conditions to spread the virus.

GIDEON’s infectious disease database provides updated outbreak data, interactive maps, epidemiology charts, and other tools to help clinicians, educators, and public health teams respond effectively.

Learn more from the World Health Organization: https://bit.ly/4mFqmoS

Situation report

08/06/2025

🚨 ’ : 67 cases, 3 deaths in New York City

Legionnaires’ disease is a serious pneumonia caused by bacteria.
You can get it by breathing in tiny water droplets from contaminated sources such as cooling towers, fountains, or hot tubs.

✅ It does not spread from person to person.
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Symptoms appear 2–14 days after exposure:
• Fever and chills
• Cough and shortness of breath
• Muscle aches or diarrhea

⚠️ It is often misdiagnosed.
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The NYC cluster is linked to 11 cooling towers that tested positive for Legionella. All have been disinfected. Most patients are over 50 or have health risks such as smoking or chronic lung disease.

Health officials stress early testing and prompt antibiotics to lower the risk of death.
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GIDEON’s infectious disease platform tracks Legionnaires’ and 360+ other disease outbreaks, with maps, clinical data, and tools for public health planning.

Learn more → https://bit.ly/45lqJ0v

A great place to begin addressing misdiagnosis is if clinicians are willing to embrace doubt when faced with diagnosing pneumonia-like symptoms.

07/24/2025

🚨 hasn’t let go yet: 1,319 U.S. cases across 40 states. Growth slowed last week with only 10 new cases, but pockets with low vaccination keep fueling the spread.

📷 Latest snapshot
• 87 % of cases come from local clusters
• 92 % of patients are unvaccinated, or their status is unknown
• 3 deaths in 2025, all unvaccinated
• New reports this week: CO, IA, NM, WY
• States are launching back-to-school catch-up clinics to prevent the spread once schools start

👉 Why it matters
• Measles moves fast: 1 sick child can infect up to 15 others. Routine MMR shots shut that door, yet coverage gaps give the virus room to run.

📖 Learn why eliminating measles protects everyone → https://bit.ly/3HbNzgD
💬 Does your community offer free MMR catch-ups? Tell us below.

Measles is highly contagious but preventable with vaccines. Until all nations work to control it, outbreaks may continue to persist.

07/22/2025

Can daily HIV PrEP pills pull double duty against other viruses?

Australian scientists gave the HIV PrEP combo tenofovir + dolutegravir to mice infected with the little-known HTLV-1 virus. They noticed the virus slowing down.

Then, when they added an MCL-1 blocker (a drug that tells infected cells to disable their own life support), the virus nearly disappeared!
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Why does this matter?
• HTLV-1 infects 5–10 million people in parts of Australia, Japan, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East
• About 1 in 10 people infected later develop aggressive leukemia or permanent spinal-cord damage
• No approved treatment exists yet
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💡 Next step: Human trials.

Read more ➜ https://bit.ly/3GAGGYI
👇 Which other “silent” infections deserve more attention?

07/17/2025

🧠 Could your shingles or RSV shot also help protect your brain?

💉 Both vaccines use a built-in immune booster (AS01) that helps older immune systems respond. A recent review of U.S. health records linked these vaccines to a lower risk of dementia, within 18 months of getting the vaccine.

• Shingrix: 18% lower risk
• Arexvy: 29% lower risk
• Both vaccines: 37% lower risk

Note: The study is observational, so it shows a link, not proof. Still, it hints at how immunity and brain health may be connected.

Read the study → https://go.nature.com/3Ub20XF

What do you think about this research?

AS01-adjuvanted shingles (herpes zoster) vaccination is associated with a lower risk of dementia, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. In propensity-score matched cohort studies with 436,788 individuals, both the AS01-adjuvanted shingles and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines, individu...

07/15/2025

🚨 12 human H5N1 cases in Cambodia in 2025. 6 people died; all had handled sick backyard chickens.

🔍 Key facts
• Age range: toddlers to adults
• No evidence of person-to-person spread so far

Learn more about H5N1 (bird flu): https://bit.ly/3DAtu4b
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🛠️ How the GIDEON database enhances outbreak surveillance
• Daily-refreshed outbreak data, you can filter by pathogen, country, or year
• Interactive maps that pinpoint where cases cluster
• Ready-made charts for class discussions and educational programs

Tell us: How do you use outbreak data in your work?

Learn about avian flu (bird flu): causes, symptoms, transmission, and prevention. Understand how H5N1 spreads from birds to humans and how to stay safe.

07/10/2025

🧑‍🔬 Making memorable without reinventing every lesson!

Get , plug-and-play created by experts and designed to turn dense pathogen lists into activities students can remember.

Here's just a sample of what you'll find:
🔹 Jeopardy! Animal Diseases: Review day becomes a buzzer-style game show
🔹 Marburg vs Ebola debate kit: Teams argue real-world outbreak responses
🔹 Foodborne cucumber-related outbreak case study: Use GIDEON’s differential-diagnosis tool to solve the mystery

Each pack delivers clear learning outcomes, maps, worksheets, and answer keys—ready to get started and keep the class talking.

Browse or download (no paywall): https://bit.ly/3ECQOeH

Already tested one? Share which lesson boosted engagement—or which pathogen still stumps your class. Your feedback shapes what we build next!

07/08/2025

✈️ 36 hours—that’s all a new needs to circle the globe.
In 2003, one hotel guest in Hong Kong infected 16 fellow travellers overnight, triggering outbreaks in three countries.

Airlines now carry 4.7 billion passengers a year, the busiest skies in history. Even a small flare-up can become tomorrow’s headline.

What you’ll find in our latest article:
• Why today’s travel corridors supercharge disease spread
• How outbreak surveillance can help you flag trouble before you board
• Simple steps that travelers and healthcare providers can take to break the chain

Read more → https://bit.ly/4bCbGT2

Discover how modern travel accelerates infectious disease outbreaks, challenges in outbreak tracking, and essential precautions travelers can take to prevent global spread.