In the COVID-19 Omicron surge, #KULeuven combined contact tracing with sequencing. Only 1/3 of contacts shared the same strain 🤯, so most people misperceived where they got infected. @thibaut-jonathan.bsky.social and team show how to assess contact tracing accuracy in the future! #IDSky #EpiSky

🚨 New paper in Eurosurveillance - @karatasmustafa.bsky.social We used shotgun metagenomics on indoor air in a Belgian daycare to track respiratory, enteric & skin viruses. 👉 40/42 samples contained human viruses—even when kids seemed healthy! 📄 Read here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41000028/

New paper out! We sampled indoor air for a year in a Belgian daycare and used shotgun metagenomics to track viruses. We recovered many viral genomes of interest. What would you sample next? Read at @eurosurveillance.org @emmanuel-microb.bsky.social, @jellematthijnssens.bsky.social -->

New study on reaching people with undiagnosed tuberculosis in Rwanda: “… our results suggest that analyzing satellite imagery may allow the identification of urban areas where inhabitants are at higher risk of tuberculosis.”

One of my favorite #ESCMIDGlobal sessions is "Year in #PublicHealth". Yi Lang Hsu summarizes outbreaks that occurred in the last year: Mpox, Avian Influenza, Marburg, Oropouche! #PublicHealthSky #IDsky #ESCMIDGlobal2025

Our patients persecuted; colleagues and public health institutions under attack. Our field needs to rise up & fight back Silence=Death Redux: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, and the Imperative to Resist Viewpoint by @ericmeyerowitz.bsky.social & me OpenAccess: academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

New #kuleuven study: indoor air sampling to monitor respiratory infections in childcare settings. 🧒🏽🏫 Key findings: 🔬 Sensitive pathogen detection 🌬️ Correlation with CO2 & infection rates 📈 Early outbreak warnings 👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi... #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #RespiratoryInfections

New publication by Christelle Jouego & cols. maps TB hotspots in Cameroon using OpenStreetMap & WorldPop data. Reveals up to 53% of TB cases go undiagnosed in some regions 🧐. Urgent need to reallocate diagnostic tools where they're needed most. #GlobalHealth #TB www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New study: analysing indoor air to detect outbreaks. “… Air sampling could provide sensitive, responsive #epidemiology indicators for surveillance of respiratory pathogens…” See thread for details and previous air sampling work with @emmanuel-microb.bsky.social… #IDEpi #IDsky #PedsID #KULeuven 🛟

🚨 #PhDPosition Opportunity Alert 🚨 Join the Matthijnssens-lab @KU_Leuven to explore the early-life #virome dynamics and their impact on immunity in infants from Ghana & Zambia! 🌍🧬 📅 Start: June 2025 🔗 kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…#microbiomem#bioinformaticsc#phageg#NGSGS

It's not so much mutations spontaneously emerging in individuals that is most concerning, but the fact that flu season is ramping up, giving H5N1 more opportunities to mix with human influenza strains, @angierasmussen.bsky.social told me. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

IDEpi: a dedicated Bluesky feed for Infectious Disease Epidemiology. This feed collects posts tagged with #IDEpi or keyword combinations like #IDSky + #EpiSky. Comments and suggestions welcome! Access here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Hello Bluesky! A quick overview of what we learned doing contact tracing for COVID-19 at KU Leuven. #IDEpi #PublicHealth #EpiSky #IDSky @Emmanuel_microb 1️⃣ Tracing sources of infections (backward contact tracing) could efficiently slow COVID-19 spread. (Raymenants, Geenen, et al; Nat Comms) More👇