🦠🐓😷🐧 Nuevo paper sobre la epidemiología espacio-temporal de #InfluenzaAviar #gripeaviar A H5N1 altamente patogénica en Chile. Un aporte hacia la prevención y mitigación con potencial pandémico desde una aproximación #OneHealth

Open access: doi.org/10.3389/fvets.…

Excellent video about avian influenza, and what to do if you see sick birds in Australia.
agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity-tr…

‘Penguin detectives’ required for new counting app bas.ac.uk/media-post/pen… via British Antarctic Survey 🐧

🚨 New study out!
We've been thinking a lot about how avian influenza viruses enter Australia to prepare for HPAI. Here we investigate virus incursion and subsequence expansion in Australia of H4 and H10 low path viruses. Huge collab with many partners!
👉biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

'The overall public health risk from currently known influenza viruses at the human-animal interface has not changed, and sustained human-to-human transmission of the viruses from these cases is currently considered unlikely'
👉cdn.who.int/media/docs/def…

January and August 2023, 2,788 Humbolt Penguins stranded/died = increase in mortality coinciding w introduction of HPAIV H5N1 in Chile. 2 sequences generated, do not belong to the same subcluster = evidencing independent introductions.
👉sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Job opportunity at CSIRO in Geelong. Come lead the diagnostic virology mammalian team at the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness. Leadership, networks, impact, quality, collaboration jobs.csiro.au/job/Geelong%2C…

Thijs Kuiken Meagan Dewar gave us the low-down.

Viruses in #Antarctica !

In our new study we provide a draft genome for a novel Iridovirus (large dsDNA #Virus ) from an Antarctic seaspider (Pycnogonida) doi.org/10.1017/S09541…

First virus from a #seaspider , and possibly the first iridovirus from the Southern Ocean benthos 🇦🇶

Un equipo científico internacional identifica la dispersión de la #gripeaviar de alta patogenicidad a través de la Península Antártica
La expedición, con investigadores del CSIC, halla aves muertas infectadas con el virus #HPAI al norte del Mar de Wedell
Gr. CSIC👇iviromics…

A 22-year-old starved penguin that hadn’t been seen for 16 years has reappeared on Phillip Island, making her one of the oldest ever discovered in the megacolony > bit.ly/3J3I4As

🚨Now published,
Aug-Nov is the highest risk period for HPAI introduction to Australia - here a summary of our 'enhanced surveillance' targeting arriving migratory seabirds and shorebirds in 2023. HPAI still absent in Oceania.
👉dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.13…

dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/he… Human gets H5N1 infection in cattle farm outbreak

In South Africa, BirdLife partner BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦 , SANCCOB and Biodiversity Law Centre have recently launched a ground breaking litigation to help protect the Endangered African #Penguin 🐧from extinction BirdLife International

Read More 👉 rb.gy/wvzt21

It’s important to be aware of the risk of avian influenza – watch this animation from @daffgov’s Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy (NAQS) which is raising awareness of the disease and encouraging early detection and reporting: agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity-tr…

🚨Happy to share that our preprint on recommendations for virome scale studies has emerged from pre-print purgatory. Herein we outline 10 suggestions for reporting in virome studies to ensure improved clarity and reporting.
👉zenodo.org/records/108464…

Very excited to introduce the survey for my Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Fellowship on disability & Antarctic Research. Key details: open to all, 10 - 20 mins to complete, French, Spanish and Russian translations coming soon. Further details in thread: form.jotform.com/240582125006042

Earlier this week, we announced the devastating news that Professor Craig Cary, a legend in the world of microbial biology, passed away.

We invite you to read more about his remarkable life in the form of an obituary here - brnw.ch/21wHGhs

Was a pleasure to assist with the short-tailed shearwater surveillance component and so happy they were negative. Amazing effort and work by Michelle Wille Marcel Klaassen to collect and analyse all of these samples.

HPAI from birds and marine mammals in Argentina: not related to first cases in Argentina, seperate introduction? 9 mutations in marine mammals viruses w Q591K and D701N in PB2 = mammalian adaptation mutations. pinniped-to-pinniped transmission?
👉wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30…