What a view!

I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear: This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited. The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.

James Watson has died. #giftarticle 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

Die Aktivität respiratorischer Viren - vor allem Rhinoviren und SARS-C2- ist weiter rückläufig Wie schon im Oktober haben wir vereinzelt sporadische Influenza A Fälle, bisher jedoch ohne Anzeichen einer zunehmenden Aktivität #Sentinelsystem_Österreich #MedUniWien #MonikaRedlberger Schönes Wochende!

If you read and watch one thing today it should be this pice accompanying @agawande.bsky.social documentary. "As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This is both discouraging, and also should be a warning of how easily infectious disease can come roaring back – Canada has far less vax skepticism than its southern neighbour ... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...

If you work with or rely on academic journals - don't miss this strange, funny, horrifying story about what happened when @carloschaccour.bsky.social published a paper on a malaria breakthrough in a prestigious journal – and AI came for the letters page. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

Der Artikel zeigt, neben vielen zu hinterfragenden Abläufen im Begutachtungsprozess, vor allem eines: will man sich in der Bedarfserhebung zur #MECFS Versorgung auf die selbstgebastelten Daten der Stakeholder verlassen, wird man das Problem unterschätzen. www.diepresse.com/20274631/pen...

Ein Drittel aller Menschen erkrankt im Laufe des Lebens an einer Gürtelrose. Die kostenlose Impfung gegen Gürtelrose für Menschen ab 60 Jahren und Risikogruppen ist ein Meilenstein, auf den ich besonders stolz bin! Einen Impftermin können Sie z. B. bei Ihrer Hausärztin/Ihrem Hausarzt vereinbaren.

Check out our paper in @natcomms.nature.com ! We explored the link between pre-existing neutralizing antibody (nAb) titers and dengue disease protection & how different cell substrate and virus maturation state influences the measurement of nAb titers rdcu.be/eOfXW

The decline of twitter started about 10 years ago, but I was too addicted to let go. So, I'm ultimately happy that I was pushed away by the smooth-brained takeover. It forced me to reset. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/29/g...

The right-wing war against public health means that now a person has refused to cooperate with a case investigation that exists for the sole purpose of minimizing the risk to others. Really selfish behavior from a suspected measles case in Utah.

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision "Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research." #PhD #academia 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Back home after a week of meetings and talks at #CDC Taiwan #ChangGung University in Taipei and #AcademiaSinica It was an intense and inspiring exchange on our groups‘ latest work on #Dengue #Flaviviruses #OneHealth - many very nice people showed us their beautiful country Feeling grateful and happy

Auch diese Woche dominieren #Rhinoviren 29% und #SARS-CoV-2 18% (rückläufiger Trend) Zahl der #Sentinelproben wg der Herbstferien deutlich geringer #Influenzasituation: In Österreich (wie im Großteil Europas) derzeit nur sporadische Nachweise Norwegen und Spanien melden bereits vermehrte Aktivität

#MECFS wird immer wieder - auch in Gutachten - abgetan, weil es "keinen Biomarker" gäbe. Dass es eine klare klinische Präsentation, mit unterstützenden, ins Gesamtbild passenden, Untersuchungsergebnissen gibt, scheint für manche zu komplex...

Die Herbstwelle hält sich auf hohem Niveau - der Großteil sind Infektionen mit Rhinoviren (34%) und SARS-CoV2 (21%) #Influenza - weiterhin einzelne sporadische Fälle ohne Reiseanamnese Wir werden sehen, was die kommende Ferien- und Reisewoche bringt #Sentinelsystem #MonikaRedlberger #MedUniWien

A Review of auto-Abs neutralizing type I IFN in patients with arboviral diseases: Auto-Abs against type I IFNs: Strong, common, and global determinants of severe arboviral diseases url: rupress.org/jhi/article/...

Australian government: "Suspected H5 bird flu in elephant seals at Australian sub-Antarctic Island". If this is correct, then highly pathogenic avian influenza will have invaded Oceania, the last continental region that was still free of the disease. www.agriculture.gov.au/about/news/s...

Together with Ralf Bartenschlager @ciid-heidelberg.bsky.social we are looking for a PhD student! The project @trr179.bsky.social will revolve around (Hepatitis) viruses and the regulation of pattern recognition receptors in innate antiviral immunity. Contact us if you're interested! #PhDPosition

Since 2023 Cambodia has reported human cases of H5N1 bird flu after a decade. 16 infections from Feb 2023–Aug 2024, mostly in children and teens exposed to backyard poultry. Mortality reached 38%. Sequencing shows all cases were of avian origin not human-to-human spread. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

🦠 Abstract submission for the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Virology is open! Share your research with the virology community and help shape the scientific dialogue next year in Heidelberg. 🕐 Deadline: Jan 4, 2026 🔗 virology-meeting.de/programme-ab... #GfV2026 #virology #virologymeeting

Highly pathogenic avian influenza detected in a poultry farm (161,000 layer hens) in Dodewaard, Gelderland, The Netherlands. All these hens are being killed to prevent further virus spread. There are 26 poultry farms in a 10 km radius around the farm.

Looking very much forward to visiting Gisa @geroldlab.bsky.social at Medical University Innsbruck tomorrow - discussing our recent studies on tick-borne encephalitis and future flavivirus projects 🌸

Auch aus den Aussagen der Patientenanwaltschaft wird klar, dass die Versorgung von #MECFS flächendeckend schlecht ist. Ohne den Aufbau vom spezialisierten Anlaufstellen wird es einfach nicht gehen, das ist ja alleine angesichts der momentanen Situation offensichtlich. on.orf.at/video/142960...

I am fascinated by how viruses evolve - and not just since #SARSCoV2 has shown us at the global stage how consequential virus evolution can be for us. In my new story in @science.org I got to explore how researchers are probing deeper into the past with old RNA virus genome. So a 🧪 thread…

Die #Herbstwelle hält an. Auch in dieser Woche dominieren #Rhinoviren (40%) und #SARS-CoV2 (19%) das Infektionsgeschehen #Influenza bisher nur sporadische Fälle (~1%) #Sentinelsystem #DINÖ Österreich

University administration: "We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible." Also university administration:

NY (Long Island) just confirmed local chikungunya transmission. One case is one case - not a growing outbreak - ongoing vector control and colder temps should keep it that way. Still: the illness is painful: terrible joint pain and when it spreads it spreads fast 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/n...

Article on our newly published study on the remarkable impact of vaccination on TBE cases in Austria - More than 10.000 hospitalizations prevented since 2000 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ein Schlag ins Gesicht für die vielen Wissenschaftler, die in Österreichs akademischen Prekariat ein trauriges Dasein fristen. Für eine genuine Besserung der Bedingungen sind keine Ressourcen da heißt es immer. Für positive Diskriminierung zu Gunsten von US-Forschern anscheinend schon.

FSME Langzeitstudie (>2.200 hospitalisierte Fälle in Österreich 2000-2024) ✅ Die Impfung schützt sehr zuverlässig: 91-99% Schutzwirkung Aber die Impfraten sinken, und mehr schwere FSME-Fälle bei Ungeimpften und bei nicht vollständig Geimpften sind die Folge www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

p.s. war im Spital, bin immer noch überwältigt von der Freundlichkeit und der Ernsthaftigkeit die alle gezeigt haben, von Reinigungspersonal bis Oberarzt. Nein, ich war nicht Sonderklasse. Die Menschen leisten Unglaubliches in Spitälern, Tag für Tag.

Wir ermöglichen die Gratis-Impfung gegen Gürtelrose und Pneumokokken für Menschen ab 60 Jahren und Risikogruppen. Impftermine können ab Anfang November 2025 bei teilnehmenden Ärztinnen und Ärzten und bei öffentlichen Impfstellen vereinbart werden. 1/3

Make sure you get the name of the journal that you're submitting to right in your cover letter

🦟" #France: Local #chikungunya cases top 700" @santepubliquefrance.fr via @outbreaknewstoday.substack.com.web.brid.gy open.substack.com/pub/outbreak...

Na da schau her, das ist erfreulich! #gürtelroseimpfung www.ots.at/presseaussen...

"Usutu, which mainly infects birds, was first detected in London blackbirds in 2020 and has been found in birds or mosquitoes every year since, making it now endemic to the UK … Usutu often establishes first, with West Nile following as temperatures rise." theconversation.com/first-eviden...

📣 Just published | 4th joint monthly report on #WestNileVirus with @ecdc.europa.eu ➡️ Belgium reports its first WNV outbreaks in wild birds – a new EU country affected ➡️ 989 human cases & 63 deaths across 13 countries ➡️ 127 equid & 217 bird outbreaks across 9 countries More 👉 link.europa.eu/fNP38x

📣 Get ready for ESCMID Global abstract submission! Abstract submission for #ESCMIDGlobal 2026 opens soon on 15 October 2025. You can already see important information for abstract presenters and guidelines for writing an impactful abstract. ow.ly/C4ji50X6fcS#ESCMIDGlobal #IDSky #clinmicro

Varicella-zoster virus reactivation and the risk of dementia Vaccination is more that protection against the pathogen-caused disease. www.nature.com/artic... 1/6

Ἠὼς δ᾽ ἦλθεν ἐῴη, ῥοδοδάκτυλος, ἦμαρ ἔχουσα. „Eos nun kam, die Frührote, rosenfingrig, den Tag bringend.“

…das spricht halt nicht für „Immunsystemtraining“ durch Sammeln von Infektionen. 🤷‍♀️ "Our results support .. that viral infections and related inflammation in the nervous system may be common – and possibly avoidable – risk factors for these types of disorders." www.sciencealert.com/a-study-of-5...

Jede Person, die sich auch nur ansatzweise mit der Situation & mit dem Alltag von Menschen mit ME/CFS in Ö auseinandergesetzt hat, weiß, dass das gelinde gesagt Unsinn ist. Es gibt keine Versorgung. Die Familien/Partner:innen schultern das allein. Und werden allein gelassen.. orf.at/stories/3407...

If the immune system is an army... ... would you rather rely on one “super warrior” — or on a diverse team of fighters, even if none of them is the single strongest? I’d go with the team. Why? Check out our new study, just published in Science Immunology: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Looking forward to visiting Chang Gung University in Taiwan and advancing our joint project on dengue. Thanks for the invitation 🌸https://www.cgu.edu.tw/mmevi/Subject/Detail/71295?nodeId=7835

WHO: Conditions ripe for further chikungunya spread Uneven case distribution makes it hard to call the situation a global rise, but ongoing transmission and risk factors boost the potential for further spread, the WHO said. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c... CDC / Frank Hadley Collins