ECDC defines strategies to fight avian and swine flu in humans: a guide has been released to help MSs to detect and respond to possible animal-related influenza threats, including pandemics. Check at  www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even... @ecdc.europa.eu 

Romancing the Casserole Mary Pratt 1985

Supper Table Mary Pratt 1969

Amazing example of influenza cheat/cooperator cycles in this recent paper - the repeatability of the oscillatory cycles is so striking Congrats to @alnajifg.bsky.social , @christopherbrooke.bsky.social , @vignuzzilab.bsky.social & friends www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪 #socialviruses

Northern Lights, BC Frederick Varley c. 1936

Smears of Jam, Lights of Jelly Mary Pratt 2007

Baking Bread Mary Pratt 1974

How does fever work? Our new Science paper shows how elevated body temperature can protect against severe influenza and that avian-origin viruses escape this defence. This is likely one reason why bird flus and some pandemic influenzas can be so severe.🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Unsurprisingly, the suspected cases of HPAI H5N1 in elephant seals on Australia's subAntarctic island (Heard Island) have been confirmed. 👉 minister.agriculture.gov.au/collins/medi...

Congratulations to Professor Mark Stradiotto in the Department of Chemistry, was among three Dalhousie faculty members inducted into the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the nation's highest academic honour! More details, please find: www.dal.ca/news/2025/11... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JUa...

We chatted with Marcela Uhart at @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social about this a few months back - listen to her here onehealthtrust.org/news-media/p... #onehealth @onehealthtrust.bsky.social

Highly pathogenic H5N5 avian flu has mostly been detected in wild birds and transmitted from Europe to N. America by pelagic seabirds. Mammals (seals, walrus, cats) have been infected, but this is the 1st documented human case. Some have a PB2-E627K mutation known to facilitate mammalian adaptation.

Preliminary human bird flu case reported in Washington state www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

Avian flu has decimated world's largest breeding colony of southern elephant seals www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

Leonard Cohen recites “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae | Legion Magazine youtu.be/cKoJvHcMLfc?... #RemembranceDay #LestWeForget

The National Ballet of Canada's The Nutcracker - Photo by Karolina Kuras

Canada Is About to Lose Its Status as Having Eliminated Measles. One province with an outsize number of cases has seen a collision of politics and public health policy, by Rebecca Ruiz, Vjosa Isai www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w... via @nytimes.com

How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

Our paper on the phenomenon of persistence and latency in Ebola virus in an unobserved reservoir is finally out in preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Canadian Opera Company's Orfeo ed Euridice returns elegant, restrained and very satisfying @canadianopera.bsky.social ✍️ John Gilks bachtrack.com/review-orfeo...

October - Madawaska Country A.J. Casson c. 1961

Autumn in Algonquin Arthur Lismer 1914

Opeongo Ridge, Clear Lake Charles Comfort n.d.

Our short summary of the 11th International Symposium on Avian Influenza is now out - a part of the conference proceedings published in CJM. 👉 cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....

Differential tissue tropism and transmission efficiency of two dominant influenza D clades with overlapping but distinct receptor binding fine specificities in ferrets journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Excited to share our study reporting the first Sin Nombre virus (SNV) genome sequences from the Northwestern U.S., and the first ever from a vole host. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#idboardreview mail sorter recently exposed to unknown powder in envelope and now in ICU with respiratory distress, widened mediastinum, blood cultures gram Positive rod. What #isolation precaution is needed? #idmeded #meded #idsky #idfellows #IPsky

The National Ballet of Canada Heather Ogden and Ben Rudisin Balanchine's “Diamonds” Photographer Karolina Kuras

O-Canada - Watch Yer Snacks Timothy Wilson Hoey n.d.

Ebola virus’ hidden target: virus transmission to and infection of skin journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Congratulations to Dr. Kayla King who was awarded the 2025 Francis Crick Medal & Lecture by the Royal Society for contributions to the fields of evolutionary biology & genetics of infectious disease. @zoology.ubc.ca @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social @kayla-king.bsky.social @royalsociety.org bit.ly/4lGJrWB

Locked out for 1 week so far. Not a peep from employer. Annoyed by their interference with our teaching and research mission (in my case, virus research for pandemic preparedness). Research grant deadline looms - Sept 10th. Grateful for my @dalfaculty.bsky.social colleagues! #KeepDalStrong

Six days. Six days with no news for students or locked out faculty, counsellors, and librarians. Six days with no news for other staff, community partners, or research collaborators at other univs. Six days of the senior admin doing nothing. 15 days since the admin was at the bargaining table.

I think about this quote a lot...

Medical students should be learning today, in anatomy labs, getting curriculum maps, receiving lectures and engaging with Faculty. Next week ALL students will be as behind in ALL programs, engineering, law, biology, EVERYTHING!!! Dalhousie is a Canadian U15 institution - an unprecedented lock out

Solidarity and support, Thank you ! More than two dozen academic and public sector unions from across the entire country have donated to our cause, thank you! Solidarity is how we will all win fair contracts! Keep Dal Strong Dalhousie Faculty Association #keepdalstrong

Landing Christopher Pratt 1973

Really excited to have been a part of this study, lead by @willharv.bsky.social on how reassortment of H5N1 in birds has lead to a 'specialist' genotype that thrives in seabirds and drives summer/spring (rather than winter) waves of poultry outbreaks www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Jelly Shelf Mary Pratt 1999

Beautiful Storm Nicki Ault 2019

Montagnes de Gaspésie Claude Picher 1992

Afterglow, Moose Lake A.J. Casson n.d.

#idboardreview A teenager rural SW Colorado w/ fever, fatigue, emesis x2d. 3wks ago exposed to crawl space & dusty chicken coop w/ mouse droppings. 4d ago buried a dead squirrel. Confusion, DIC, R inguinal/femoral tender lymph nodes. Dx? #medEd #idmedEd #IDsky #idfellows #idfellowship

🦇 NEW RESEARCH: Our 3-year study of Australian flying foxes identified six co-circulating coronaviruses, with highest rates of infection and co-infection in young bats, and evidence of circulating recombinants 🧪🌏 🧵 Available open access in @natcomms.nature.com 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

WHO condemns in the strongest terms the attacks on a building housing WHO staff in Deir al Balah in #Gaza, the mistreatment of those sheltering there, and the destruction of its main warehouse. Read our full statement: www.who.int/news/item/21...

Blue and Gold George Agnew Reid 1928

In Montreal for the American Society for Virology meeting. Four days of absolute adrenaline ahead. #ASV2025 #LoveVirology If you are attending the satellite symposiums, don’t miss the CSV symposium on emerging viruses that we are hosting. @cansocvirol.bsky.social @amersocvirology.bsky.social