🎉 We are very excited to have our recent @naturecomms.bsky.social publication chosen to be featured on a Editors’ Highlights webpage specific to public health. www.nature.com/collections/... @emcat1.bsky.social & Shirin Ashraf

New in Nature Comms: We applied metagenomic + targeted NGS to serum from febrile patients in Uganda. Post-COVID, LMICs have sequencing infrastructure that could be repurposed for pathogen discovery. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are looking for a research fellow for our clinical infection research group. Apply now. @emcat1.bsky.social @drtoniho.bsky.social @nhsresearchscotland.org.uk @edinburghaccord.bsky.social @nhslothian.bsky.social @ukri.org apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Today is the 5-year anniversary of the first #COVID19 lockdown in UK. Really important to reflect on lessons we have (or haven't) learnt, as the threat of another pandemic is higher than ever. Glad that @emcat1.bsky.social & I could contribute to this.👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

How can you help tackle HPV? VACCINATE & SCREEN CVR researchers are working hard to develop new tests to catch early warning signs more accurately—potentially streamlining cervical screening and reducing patient stress. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... #HPVAwarenessDay

Infectious Disease Society of America issues a statement on the political interference with the CDC vaccine information and the advisory committee on immunisation www.idsociety.org/news--public...

If you are one of the #CDC #HHS #FDA #NIH employees who have learned today that your employment is being abruptly ended, we want to hear from you. @altcdc.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

Wow - a super-fast effort to sequence a sample from the recent SUDV case in Kampala, Uganda 🇺🇬 - showing a closer link to sequences from 2012 than 2022, suggesting that this is a new outbreak. virological.org/t/near-real-...

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

L’Institut Pasteur décide de quitter X (ex-Twitter) pour rejoindre BlueSky ! 🦋 L’Institut Pasteur a pris cette décision en raison de plusieurs dérives graves constatées sur la plateforme X depuis son rachat. Rejoignez-nous pour continuer à défendre la science ! www.pasteur.fr/fr/espace-pr...

Good news on a H5N1 vaccine efficacy in a preclinical model in case it is needed science.org/doi/10.1126/...

CDC confirms first severe H5N1 case in US patient www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

A Decade After the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, Sierra Leone Begins a New Chapter With Nation-Wide Preventive Vaccination of Frontline Workers allafrica.com/stories/2024...

A REALLY big flavi-like virus...https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.08.574764v1.full.pdf

Fabulous work with colleagues in Burundi, who took up Mpox sequencing to understand the situation AND are willing to share pre-publication, shows the expanding tree, and evidence for several introductions not taking off. In progress virological.org/t/preliminar...

[email protected] announced a broad recall of Raw Farms LLC raw whole milk & cream on store shelves & has suspended distribution of additional products after multiple positive #H5N1 #birdflu tests. It advises avoiding other Raw Farm products for now. www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA...

I talked to the world news cast about the newly authorized #mpox vaccine LC16m8 which can be used in children >1 year old. 3 million doses have been donated to African countries dealing with outbreaks currently. theworld.org/segments/202...

Poignant frontline perspective of a #Rwandan physician responding to the recent #marburg outbreak. It is well worth a read. We are are two weeks into the 42 day countdown to declaring the outbreak over🤞🏾. These brave HCPs kept us safe. #medsky #idsky 🧪 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Couldn’t find a virology starter pack so here’s one to get the ball rolling. Repost/reply if you are a virologist so I can find and add you to the list! go.bsky.app/SinqoJU

The US joins the list of countries that has detected clade Ib #mpox. A person who recently traveled from eastern Africa was diagnosed with the disease in San Mateo County, California. Sounds like a mild case. My story: www.statnews.com/2024/11/16/m...

Potent neutralization by a RBD antibody with broad specificity for SARS-CoV-2 JN.1 and other variants www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Update on the teenager with #H5N1 #birdflu in British Columbia: Canada's national lab confirms it is H5N1 virus. It is a version of the virus that is slightly different than the one in cows in the US. This version is one found in wild birds. www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Update on the H5n1 case in a teenager. Unfortunately very severe. Source remains unknown. Wastewater testing ongoing www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe.... Not clear which lineage yet