Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀
@mackayim.bsky.social
forever virologist, researcher, PCR guy. past lab manager. husband. dad. reader. writer. fixer. bad typist. learner. australian.
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Can you imagine a vaccine that prevents and protects our sons and daughters from cancer?!!?Can you imagine denying our children this protection?!?Vaccination works & science is marvellous 😊
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Can you imagine a vaccine that prevents and protects our sons and daughters from cancer?!!?Can you imagine denying our children this protection?!?Vaccination works & science is marvellous 😊
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Fucking awesome. I well remember the first briefing the NZ Min of Health’s office received on Gardasil (must have been 2005). We could see this future and hope. Such a stunningly important breakthrough.
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Fucking awesome. I well remember the first briefing the NZ Min of Health’s office received on Gardasil (must have been 2005). We could see this future and hope. Such a stunningly important breakthrough.
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Segurísimo que fue por la vacuna + detección temprana 🥰
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Segurísimo que fue por la vacuna + detección temprana 🥰
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November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Vaccines work 👌
November 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Vaccines work 👌
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![[black text on lilac background with white border on 2 sides] Zero
cervical cancer cases diagnosed in Australian women aged under 25 in
2021 - the first time since records began in 1982](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4w5w2dprfoupeib3bmqktfiz/bafkreihtms5huzsjggqv2wn2k4zw5puie677bielmpircz43khfibkpjae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Awesome news! Vaccines are amazing!
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Awesome news! Vaccines are amazing!
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vaccines are truly the best
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
vaccines are truly the best
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Voilà, voila...
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Voilà, voila...
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Could this possibly be VACCINE-related?
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Could this possibly be VACCINE-related?
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Pssst… America, this is how public health works. You’re not actually meant to kill more citizens. #rfkjr #duhmerica
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Pssst… America, this is how public health works. You’re not actually meant to kill more citizens. #rfkjr #duhmerica
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One word….. “vaccination”
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
One word….. “vaccination”
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Truly inspirational! Like smallpox, whooping cough etc etc. And we have lunatics hell bent on destroying all this!! Simply no way to get ones head around THAT level of hubris and stupidity.
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Truly inspirational! Like smallpox, whooping cough etc etc. And we have lunatics hell bent on destroying all this!! Simply no way to get ones head around THAT level of hubris and stupidity.
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Do your parent friends know there's a vaccine that can prevent one of the 10 most common types of cancer (both incidence and mortality) in the world?
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Do your parent friends know there's a vaccine that can prevent one of the 10 most common types of cancer (both incidence and mortality) in the world?
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Dankzij vaccinatie (het kan niet vaak genoeg worden benadrukt). 👇🏼
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Dankzij vaccinatie (het kan niet vaak genoeg worden benadrukt). 👇🏼
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Astounding achievement!!
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Astounding achievement!!
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It really is
Our son got his first dose of HPV vaccine when he was 9
Vaccinating boys & men has benefits for BOTH women (e.g., helping to reduce HPV transmission to female sexual partners) AND men (e.g., reducing the risk of oral, head & neck, penile, & anal cancers)
Our son got his first dose of HPV vaccine when he was 9
Vaccinating boys & men has benefits for BOTH women (e.g., helping to reduce HPV transmission to female sexual partners) AND men (e.g., reducing the risk of oral, head & neck, penile, & anal cancers)
November 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
It really is
Our son got his first dose of HPV vaccine when he was 9
Vaccinating boys & men has benefits for BOTH women (e.g., helping to reduce HPV transmission to female sexual partners) AND men (e.g., reducing the risk of oral, head & neck, penile, & anal cancers)
Our son got his first dose of HPV vaccine when he was 9
Vaccinating boys & men has benefits for BOTH women (e.g., helping to reduce HPV transmission to female sexual partners) AND men (e.g., reducing the risk of oral, head & neck, penile, & anal cancers)
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Amazing
November 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Amazing
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Let's keep sharing these amazing stories about how vaccines have transformed our lives
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Let's keep sharing these amazing stories about how vaccines have transformed our lives
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Fantastic news. Vaccines at work. A reminder also to women to not forget to get their pap smear too. I got mine today. Do you know that you can now self administer the test? Something my GP informed me today. #womenshealth
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Fantastic news. Vaccines at work. A reminder also to women to not forget to get their pap smear too. I got mine today. Do you know that you can now self administer the test? Something my GP informed me today. #womenshealth
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RFK Jr needs to be in jail for what he’s doing to this country
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
RFK Jr needs to be in jail for what he’s doing to this country
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This is what vaccines give us.
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This is what vaccines give us.
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Great to see the effects of a cancer-preventing vaccine unfolding!
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Great to see the effects of a cancer-preventing vaccine unfolding!
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One of the greatest medical achievements. Frazer and Zhou are legends.
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
One of the greatest medical achievements. Frazer and Zhou are legends.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM