Mass death of seals raises fears #H5N1 avian flu might be jumping between mammals. Tom Peacock: “If this turns out to be sustained transmission in a wild mammalian species this is yet another worrying ‘first’ with these H5N1s that shouldn’t be ignored.”
inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Excited to see this study with José Lourenço Uri Obolski Caitlin Pley & Philippa Matthews published in Virus Evolution 😊
We used an innovative approach to identify which amino acids in #HBV are key in genotyping w/ several key aa found in #polymerase spacer domain!
doi.org/10.1093/ve/vea…

Most recent work from the lab just out nature. By combining ancient DNA work, population genomics, and in vitro infections we show that the Black Death shaped the evolution of immune genes. Kuddos to co-first authors Tauras Vilgalys and Jennifer Klunk. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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oh good, I didn’t want to sleep tonight anyway

5. This is not a new #Ebola spillover, they have concluded. The virus that killed this woman is linked to the 2018-2020 outbreak; it is most closely related to viruses that were transmitting in Beni in Nov-Dec 2018.
There are 2 possibilities here:

Read on for an excellent summary of study designs being considered to test vaccine efficacy of MVA against monkeypox infection.

If I hear one more public health official say that we need to “stay ahead” of the monkeypox virus I may have to scream.
We had decades to stay ahead of this virus.
We didn’t.
Now we need to catch up.
Public health starts with honesty.

Helpful thread!

for those wanting to learn more about Marburg, I found this review to be a helpful starting point: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Please come and get your monkeypox vaccine if eligible! Walk in clinics operating this weekend.

Saturday 30 July , 11.30am to 6pm
Sunday 31 July, 11.30am to 6pm

guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/monkeypox-upda…

WHO Director General has determined #monkeypox
*is*
a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

This is absolutely the right decision: legally and ethically.

Dr Tedros confirmed criteria for a PHEIC have been met, & described the EC as 'not able to reach consensus'