GIDEON

09/17/2026

Hundreds of millions of patients are affected by healthcare-associated infections every year, in the very places meant to heal them. We have evidence-based prevention bundles for , , , and C. difficile. The challenge isn't knowing what to do, it’s ensuring our systems make those protocols reliable under pressure.

Real patient safety isn't measured by posters on a wall. It’s measured by whether our care environments support a clinician to seamlessly follow the bundle at 3 a.m. on a busy, short-staffed ward.

https://na2.hubs.ly/H074gC50

Hospital acquired infections are defined by symptoms presenting after time in a hospital. But where do they come from and what are they?

09/16/2026

Looking for a fresh way to engage your medical or public health students? 📚💡
is full of human stories. GIDEON’s brand-new VIPatients feature brings history to life by detailing famous historical figures who suffered from specific infectious diseases - now integrated directly into 27,000+ country notes.
Use real-world historical cases to:
• Spark classroom discussions with medical history trivia
• Help students visualize the real-world impact of global diseases across centuries
• Add rich biographical context to epidemiological research

09/15/2026

Dengue in Laos is not spread evenly. It is sensitive to temperature, rainfall, urbanisation and water access.

This systematic review assembles the environmental and socioeconomic evidence on dengue risk across Lao PDR into a single picture of where risk concentrates and why: https://na2.hubs.ly/H074dL30

GIDEON is proud to support this paper with its data.

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09/14/2026

quiz 🔬Syphilis has been called the great imitator. Why?

A) It mimics the symptoms of many other diseases
B) It imitates the body's own cells to hide
C) It copies human DNA
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ANSWER: Syphilis can present as a rash, a fever, neurological disease or nothing at all, which is why it is easy to misdiagnose.
Read more: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07H3Nx0

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) spread by a highly contagious bacteria. If untreated, the disease can be fatal.

09/13/2026

Sepsis is not an infection. It is the body's response to one going catastrophically wrong.

That distinction matters clinically, because the source can be a chest infection, a urinary tract infection, a cut, or a procedure, and the treatment window is measured in hours. Roughly 11 million deaths a year are attributed to it.

The question that saves lives is a simple one: could this be ?

https://na2.hubs.ly/H074gvB0

Bacteria are some of the most common organisms in the world. They can cause a wide range of infections. What else do we know?

09/11/2026

🍄 Claviceps purpurea infects rye and replaces the grain with a dark fungal body full of alkaloids. Eat contaminated bread and those alkaloids constrict blood vessels. Medieval Europe knew the result as St Anthony's Fire: burning limbs, gangrene, convulsions, hallucinations. Some historians have linked outbreaks to witch trial accusations.

The same alkaloid family gave medicine ergotamine for migraine and, once Albert Hofmann modified it in 1938, L*D. One fungus, one chemistry, three completely different histories.

09/09/2026

Powassan virus transmits in as little as 15 minutes of tick attachment. There is no antibiotic treatment, no approved vaccine, and roughly half of neuroinvasive survivors carry lasting neurological deficits.

This scoping review, led by Dr. Sarah Maxwell at UT Dallas, maps the full ecological and clinical picture across North America, and explains why so many cases go undiagnosed:
https://na2.hubs.ly/H07FNw-0

GIDEON is proud to support this paper with its data.

Background: Powassan virus (POWV) is the only tick-borne encephalitis-group flavivirus endemic to the United States (U.S.) and is an increasingly serious public health threat. Reported U.S. cases remain relatively few but have grown steadily—from fewer than two annually before 2005 to a record 60 ...

09/08/2026

📈Love visual data? GIDEON does too! Our just got a major upgrade, allowing interpretation of multiple data points simultaneously as well as zooming into the graph for greater granularity. Working with just got a lot more interesting!

09/07/2026

Mycobacterium leprae has famously never been successfully grown in what?
A) Standard laboratory culture media
B) Armadillos
C) Mouse footpads

https://na2.hubs.ly/H074ZNh0

Leprosy is a disease that primarily affects the nervous system and it has been with us for thousands of years. Let's look at what we know

09/04/2026

🍄 In 1928 Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to a contaminated culture plate. Around the mould, the staphylococci had dissolved.

The mould was a Penicillium. What it was producing became , and the antibiotic era began with a spore landing in the wrong place.

The strain that made mass production possible came later, and from somewhere even less dignified: a mouldy cantaloupe found in Peoria, Illinois. Its descendants supplied the world.

Fungi have been quietly outsourcing chemistry to medicine ever since.

https://na2.hubs.ly/H074-br0

Penicillin continues to be used in a variety of ways to promote good health. It is often used to treat bacterial infections.