First record of HPAI in a sheep in March 2025, identified on an infected poultry premises w ducks, chickens, turkeys and geese in Great Britain. Serological positivity across repeated sampling and the presence of viral RNA in milk samples 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does drinking beer make you more attractive to mosquitoes? Experiments performed at a large music festival suggest the bloodsuckers are more attracted to hedonistic attendees www.science.org/cont... 1/3

Quick takes: Mosquito-borne illness in Europe, polio in 3 nations, avian flu hits more US poultry France and Italy continue to battle chikungunya outbreaks and the spread of dengue, as Greece probes possible local malaria cases.

Australia has approved its first vaccine designed to protect koalas from chlamydia. This single‑dose vaccine, developed by the University of the Sunshine Coast, reduces infection, prevents disease progression, and even reverses symptoms in some cases.

Field epidemiologists often work in challenging conditions, where time and resources are limited. Mobile labs are transforming their work by bringing diagnostics to outbreak sites and cutting wait times from days to hours. Celebrate #WorldFieldEpidemiologyDay and learn more: youtu.be/z3vJQaNVXBw

An interesting ZOLA (Zoonotic Risk Mitigation in Live Animal Markets) PhD research project for a Bangladeshi candidate [email protected] for more info

Biocheck was mentioned in #QualityMeatScotlandMagazine for its ability to provide science-based insights into on-farm practices of #Scotland’s pig industry as well as help farmers & vets to make informed decisions which is exactly what we aim for. 🚀 Read the full article 👉 shorturl.at/zS3NQ

Peter presents the Australian Biosecurity Genomic Database 🖥️ exactly the solution to this problem! Now you can easily compare your data to this database and quickly identify notifiable pathogens. Bonus: instructions for how to report them if you find them! Incredible initiative.

📖Publication Alert🚨 Our PhD student @sjanshoff.bsky.social published a paper on the prevalence of the emerging Alongshanvirus (ALSV) in horses across the Americas, Europe and Oceania 🐎🌍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #TRACiR #virology #scicomm #teamscience

Interested in owning a part of Australian history? The Molonglo Observatory site is for sale: www.realestate.com.au/property-hou... Don't worry, we stopped scientific operations a few years ago and gave it a suitable farewell (see next post). #RadioAstronomy

Stopping Spillover at the Source: #OneHealth Meets #Pandemic #Prevention 🛎️ A new roadmap in Emerging Infectious Diseases outlines how investigating and intercepting virus spillovers early—using integrated, cross‑sector efforts (One Health approach)—can help prevent future pandemics. #ActNow

Cattle B3.13 H5N1 rapidly accumulated adaptations in polymerase genes = better replication in bovine cells/tissues: PB2 M631L in all sequences + maps to the polymerase-ANP32 interface, PA K497R in majority sequences 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Reassortment of HPAI produced high fitness genotypes w enhanced capacity for transmission. Also host dependant advantages, such as EA-2022-BB in gulls (presumably underpinnining massive 2022 seabird outbreaks). 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

BEAST X accelerates Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic inference with enhanced scalability and geo spread modeling. #BEASTX #Phylodynamics #VirusEvolution 👤EVBC: Philippe Lemey 🔗

Short blog post on linking One Health pathogen surveillance through snail faecal sampling -> www.lstmed.ac.uk/news-events/... #AMR #Schistosomiasis #OneHealth

Will a #virus spillover into a new host species lead to dead-end infection or sustained #epidemic? This study uses a nematode-virus model to show that early #spillover traits, especially infection prevalence & shedding, are important predictors of viral persistence @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3UCnZHp

I just found out Animal Health Canada is on bluesky! 🎉 Doing some great things around EAD preparedness in Canada 🦠

Have you registered for the 2025 AHC Forum? 🎉 Join us Sept 23–24 in Ottawa or online as we celebrate 15 years of connecting Canada’s animal health and welfare community with expert insights, bold discussions and future-focused ideas. 👉 Register now: https://animalhealthcanada.ca/forum-2025

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...

The #IPCC has announced the authors selected for its Seventh Assessment Report. 664 experts from 111 countries have been invited to participate as Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors, & Review Editors. 🌍 51% from developing countries 🚺 46% women 🔗 bit.ly/AR7AuthorsPR

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats

New Zealand’s prescribing habits likely helped create a homegrown #MRSA 🇳🇿🧬💊 Now ‘AK3’ has been detected overseas Our recent study shows how it evolved & how #Genomics can help reduce the impact of the next ‘superbug’ #AMR is an issue for everyone #SciComm 🖥️🧬💻 #AcademicSky #MicroSky 🧪🧫🦠

A troubling shift in US climate policy. Chris Wright, ex-fossil fuel exec & now US Energy Secretary, says US may 'update' past Climate Assessments - cornerstone reports built on decades of peer-reviewed science. This could downplay the #ClimateCrisis #Disinformation #ScienceMatters

We're having a significant leptospirosis outbreak among sea lions along the California coast with significant mortality from kidney failure in the mammals Make sure your pet dogs who love the beach are vaccinated and don't get too close Remember: leptospirosis is the most common zoonosis of humans

Join WHO for their August webinar, ‘Global Applications of the One Health Joint Risk Assessment Operational Tool (JRA OT)' Date: Tuesday 19 August 2025 Time: 10PM AEST Online via Zoom Click the link below to register: who.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Are you passionate about wildlife health, zoonotic diseases, and the One Health approach? Join #WOAH as a Technical Coordinator – ZOOSURSY Project. 📅 Apply by 25 Aug 2025 🔗 Apply Here 👉: rr-africa.woah.org/en/news/open...

The preprint for the press releases making the rounds. Given so many dry cows are infected (subclinically), it's got to be more than just milking equipment. Good to see more work being done. Still not convinced about the "breath data" #2344b #dairy #hpai #h5n1

Defining new Buruli ulcer endemic areas in urban southeastern Australia using bacterial genomics-informed possum excreta surveys https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667575v1

Coding interviews from people who left government earlier this year, and this is a fantastic quote in response to a question about what DOGE tech folk don't understand.

Clinical and molecular description of natural infections with an Asian strain of lumpy skin disease virus in Bos indicus ->Nature | #Virus #Health #Disease #Infection | More info from EcoSearch

Here is an exciting story - understanding how age-based risk factors in the host may contribute to viral evolution of coronaviruses. 🦇🦠🔬 Super important work that takes a One Health approach to building a harmonious future with wildlife and the environment!

“FluWarning” flags HA segments significantly differ from background sequences. E.g. H5N1 2019-2025, FluWarning flagged emergence of B3.13, linked to a spillover event in US dairy cows. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@woahglobal.bsky.social published the inaugural report on The State of the World’s Animal Health #AntibioticResistance #BirdFlu #Vaccination www.woah.org/en/document/...

!! Using base-editing (in neonatal mice, and patient-derived fibroblast lines) to introduce interruptions in trinucleotide repeats that cause disease (eg Huntingtons and Friedreich’s ataxia) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The one public service job that Dutton was successful in cutting.

Excited to see this progressing! @OneHealthEpi's Animal Disease Insights — going live 26 April 2025 to celebrate #WorldVeterinaryDay. Free, interactive surveillance of 130+ animal diseases in 200+ countries. Explore here: onehealthepi.com/dashboard #AnimalDiseaseInsights #VetEpi #OneHealth

Just out "Making sense of the virome in light of evolution and ecology" doi.org/10.1098/rspb... from super ⭐ team @meganawallace.bsky.social @duckswabber.bsky.social @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social @ryanmimrie.bsky.social @eddieholmes.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org

1/8 🚨 FIRST H5N1 SHEEP INFECTION🚨 Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in England - the first known case in this species. This discovery expands the growing list of animals susceptible to H5N1, raising further concerns about the virus's ability to adapt to new hosts. #BirdFlu #H5N1 #AnimalHealth

This week, our Animal Disease Insights platform was featured on TEPHINET and in the World Veterinary Association (WVA) newsletter! Discover how we are transforming global animal health surveillance with data-driven insights. #AnimalHealth #VetEpi #OneHealth www.tephinet.org/news/advanci...

Hello Bluesky! 🤓 Early release dispatch out from our group analyzing the stability of H5N1 virus in milk, wastewater, and on surfaces wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

H5N1 virus in irradiated raw milk; on polypropylene, stainless steel, and rubber surfaces; and in irradiated wastewater from a treatment plant: Inactivation slower in milk than in wastewater, no substantiall difference on surfaces. 👉 wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

More H5N1 infections in cats have been linked to raw diets. Communication around testing (and deflection by some companies) has led to confusion, especially around 'non-negative' results. Thoughts on that in the blog post linked in the replies. 1/3

Postdoc Opportunity Got a PhD in disease evolution, or something similarly hardcore? Know your way around phylodynamics? Good. We need you. If you’re up for real-world research getting hands-on with fieldwork, sequencing, and making sense of viral evolution, apply here: jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-25456.

Seriously who does this?!? 😡

ALERT NVSL uploaded 15 sets of #H5N1 B3.13 seqs 5 Dairy Herds collected in 2025 (likely California) PB2 E627K PB2 seqs also had K54R and L475M signaling clonal expansion on these 5 farms

🦆 High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza – WOAH Sit Rep 68 #IDSky #IDEpi 🧪 🗓️ Covers Feb 2025 📊 In Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania: Reports 121 outbreaks in poultry & 166 outbreaks in non-poultry birds & mammals ▶️ About 11.4 million poultry birds died or culled 🔗: www.woah.org/app/uploads/...