That "explosive" nature, however, could potentially be caused - as @arambaut.bsky.social lays out - by a combination of long(ish) term cryptic transmission, linked to sexual networks / sex work, followed by more recent detection and reporting. Again, his thread: bsky.app/profile/aram...

For recent outbreaks of Clade Ib in the DRC, similar patters have been seen, although not the same "explosive" nature we're observing in Sierra Leone. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social's paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Een belangrijk vaccin dat mensen moet beschermen bij grote uitbraak #vogelgriep staat op losse schroeven nu de VS een contract met Moderna heeft opgezegd. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social: "Dit besluit gaat ongetwijfeld gevolgen hebben voor nieuwe vaccins." eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/artikelen/vs...

Meest terecht verdiende onderscheiding Commandeur in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau is voor @marionkoopmans.bsky.social We hebben meer helden nodig als Marion. Laat haar een voorbeeld zijn voor velen en inspiratie voor alle jonge vrouwen aan het begin van hun wetenschappelijke carrière. 🥳

x.com/drcrystalhea... Vet saying it like It is

It’s mad. I wrote a few thoughts about it the other day. Since then someone posted that all the grants cancelled to date are ones started under the Biden administration. If this is all some mad political tit-for-tat it’s utterly pathetic and incredibly destructive. bsky.app/profile/notj...

Interested in SARS-CoV-2 and pandemic preparedness? Join the #covipa symposium on June 2/3 in Heidelberg/Germany, with keynotes by @marionkoopmans.bsky.social, @sanderlab.bsky.social, Florian Krammer, Gülsah Gabriel and Andreas Wack: indico.dkfz.de/event/1169/

@vanranstmarc.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41... what we dreaded happened

Voor welke dilemma’s komen wetenschappers te staan nu de VS de aanval opent op academische vrijheid? Op 20 mei organiseren de KNAW en @debalie.bsky.social een debatavond, met o.a. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social. Meer info en tickets: bit.ly/3YOXl0j #academischevrijheid #wetenschap #maandvandevrijheid

Viroloog Marion Koopmans (Erasmus MC) is gekozen als lid van de National Academy of Sciences. Haar onderzoek richt zich op opkomende infecties met speciale nadruk op het ontrafelen van routes bij het ontstaan en de verspreiding van ziekten op het grensvlak tussen mens en dier.

As I understand this, these are contextual analysis with general llm's and not specifically trained llm's on a certain topic. General llm's are worse at this. Diagnostics is done with specifically trained deterministic Ai what is really different from generative Ai. Thanks for sharing.

See lots of enthusiasm about generative AI in different areas of medicine. This systematic review shows that optimism is not supported by current evidence, except in urology and dermatology. From promise to validation as a valley of death www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paper by Phd student Kesha Kroh under guidance of @CarmenEmbregts and @Corine_GvK studying fundamental aspects of infection with different rabies viruses. Rabies is 100% lethal, and understanding why there is no effective host response is crucial pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40208887/

The Wuhan CDC has nothing to do with the origin of COVID-19. Virus genetic engineering and culturing was not their trade (samples were sent to Beijing/Shanghai). They did not have collection of bat viruses from Yunnan. I was told that staff at WCDC did not hear about the outbreak until late Dec.

👏🏽Congratulations to Prof. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social for receiving the ESCMID Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Infection! We’re proud to celebrate Professor Koopmans, a key member of the Ecraid Coordinating Committee, for receiving this award! Read more: bit.ly/AwardESCMID

We a looking for a Postdoc! Interested in virology, stem-cell derived models, glycans? Apply before 29th of October! @thijskuiken.bsky.social @lisabauervirus.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social @rpdevrieslab.bsky.social www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1...

Listening to @marionkoopmans.bsky.social giving the ESCMID excellence award lecture “Towards pandemic prevention, moonshot or utopia?” at #ESCMIDGlobal @escmid.bsky.social

Incredible treat when traveling back from Vienna. The flight crew @KLM thanked me and invited me into the cockpit for landing. With clear skies, the impressive dashboards and nice conversations, we descended into Amsterdam. What a treat! Thanks team, this was very special

scheduled to give a talk at the European Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases conference about addressing anti-science in our community. Looking for examples, experiences. suggestions?

@marionkoopmans.bsky.social @lisabauervirus.bsky.social @thijskuiken.bsky.social @linekebegeman.bsky.social @rpdevrieslab.bsky.social @viruseslikeitsweet.bsky.social

@rpdevrieslab.bsky.social @debbyvanriel.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social Please help us sharing!

and another vacancy in our department! Great project, in dynamic team

Middelbare scholieren van het Streek lyceum in Ede doen een project over Europa en pandemieën. Ik kreeg een enthousiaste groep meiden over de vloer. Het resultaat youtu.be/UZ-vflcMFYA en youtu.be/V-JmWkmB9BU en de rough cut www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryQp...

Are you (or anyone you know) ambitious, interested in the pathogenesis of arboviruses and ready for Rotterdam? If yes, check out this vacancy for an assistant professor position 👇. More opportunities to join Viroscience will follow soon, so stay tuned 😀

Interested in pandemic science & preparedness strategies? Still time to register for 2 meetings in Glasgow with great speakers inc. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social @uofgregiusanna.bsky.social @kennethbaillie.bsky.social @sdwfrost.bsky.social @pathogenomenick.bsky.social Register by 5pm today👇

Mpox Clade I emerged in 2023 in South Kivu and since has spread sustained through direct human to human contact. Controlling this outbreak has turned out to be a major challenge. Through embedded outbreak research coupled with a local capacity building program, we first....

seeing all these cruise ship outbreak posts. Interesting to see this phase 3 clinical trial as well! www.nihr.ac.uk/news/uks-fir... . Now norovirus infection is nasty but for normally healthy persons a few days nuisance. Infections can however be severe in persons with impaired immunity

a s... load of work by talented PhD student Nathalie Worp, Miranda de Graaf, David Nieuwenhuijse, Bas Oude Munnink and our colleagues from DTU in @EuropeVeo : the global urban virome unravelled. Using metagenomics to understand global viral diversity www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

another cool piece of work from our consortium www.onehealthpact.org/news/overwin...

Please share with people interested in arbovirology. We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague to strengthen our team please share if you know of scientists interested in arbovirology, ready to make a move to Rotterdam! www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3508...

BREAKING: HHS announces that 10,000 federal health department workers will be laid off. NBC's Aaron Gilchrist has the latest www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

umbrella review of HPV vaccine safety and efficacy jada.ada.org/action/showP...

De Verenigde Staten zien gouden bergen voor zich met AI, maar ze hebben niet door dat ze hun eigen toekomst en van anderen op het spel zetten met die andere AI (avian influenza). How smart or stupid can you be? #birdflu #H5N1 #prevention #vaccination #surveillance #poultry #dairycows #mammals

Another arbovirus popping up in our enhanced surveillance pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40133068/ Not too surprising but a first for our country. No human disease noted, but first indication that we may need to start considering it. First step is to understand if this is a one off finding or not

Interesting read on the political uptake of the great barrington declaration and how that may trickle through in the avian influenza plans mention by US leadership www.importantcontext.news/p/the-great-...

3rd leading cause of death still in most states (and that's most likely an undercount if you consider the longer-term impacts to every system in the body). They have no interest in saving or prolonging or bettering anyone's life.

Almost a year of avian influenza in cows. No clues on how this started, no signs of abating, concerns about adatation and some speculation about why here and not in europe www.science.org/content/arti...

“Pandemic is over” as rationale to terminate grants on coronavirus vaccines and potential pandemic pathogens www.science.org/content/arti...

We are JUA KIVU: a #horizoneurope -funded consortium with 5 partners in Africa and 3 in Europe. We conduct mpox emergency outbreak research to better understand the dynamics of the ongoing outbreak in the African Great Lakes region, providing evidence-based support for its containment. juakivu.org

The first JUA KIVU paper has been published in Nature Medicine! We show that #mpox rapidly spreads mostly through sexual contact within densely populated areas, highlighting the need for extended collaboration, health education strategies, contact tracing, clinical care and surveillance.

our country joins many EU countries discouraging certain travellers from traveling to the US. nos.nl/artikel/2561... Who would have thought half a year ago

dip in hospital admissions for RSV in elderly, measured first season after introduction of vaccine for 75+ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Influenza A(H5N1) Virus in Sheep. See here: influenza-news.blogspot.com/2025/03/infl... @vanranstmarc.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social

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another mammal infected with H5 avian influenza. Remarkable which surprises you are in store for with a widely circulating virus. This most likely is an accidental case, so quite different from the " moo flu" situation but still relevant. www.bbc.com/news/article...

New project website juakivu.org with collaboration in the African great lakes region on mpox