.FDA says pasteurization does appear to kill #H5N1 #birdflu in milk, and sour cream and cottage cheese too. Megan Molteni reports. statnews.com/2024/05/01/bir…

IMO this does not obviate the need for broad and durable vaccines against sarbecoviruses or at least SARS-CoV-2 but it suggests that we might have to rely on immunogenicity endpoints over clinical ones. I don’t have a problem with that but I can see where others would.

Happy to share our latest paper out online today Immunity! Thanks to collaborators and friends @Genentech Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Vishva Dixit Klaus Heger Gitlin Lab MSK GSK Graduate School! cell.com/immunity/fullt…

'However, equity is an ethical imperative and is fundamental to accurate, representative, and actionable pandemic science'

My new piece with Anita Cicero Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Science Magazine

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I’m not British

H5N1 Viruses and Vaccines journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

New post:

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I think it's worth doing but I'll be somewhat surprised if beef itself ends up positive for H5N1. AFAIK there's no indication that virus is replicating in muscle tissues in cows.

A more relevant question is what is Dept. of Agriculture's plan for testing the actual beef cattle themselves?

My book, 'In Defence of Fauci', is now available for pre-order: amazon.com/dp/B0CW1CCQLV

It provides a comprehensive, chapter-by-chapter refutation of the arguments in Robert F. Kennedy Jr's book, 'The Real Anthony Fauci.'

Evolution of nasal and olfactory infection characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 variants: buff.ly/3U7APN4

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#COVID_19 #Neuroscience

Correlates of protection against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 in vaccinated children. Privileged to collaborate with Youjia Zhong Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Duke-NUS Medical School. Many thanks to Nature Medicine for publishing our findings.
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There is no real rational reason for why but it is disappointing to learn that some people don’t tolerate spicy food well

CD8+ T-cell responses towards conserved influenza B virus epitopes across anatomical sites and age nature.com/articles/s4146…

WHO COVID vaccine advisers recommend switch to JN.1 strain cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/who-c…

If someone writes in their book about killing their dog, imagine the things they’ve done that didn’t make it in.

some really really cool structural virology papers coming out this year

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1/ Are you struggling to keep track of all the #H5N1 developments in the US?

Together w/ Brennan Klein & Moritz Kraemer, we started an open-access timeline of key events related to the outbreak.

As you can see, the situation is rapidly progressing, so we will keep updating.

It is GREAT that we can now protect infants in the US against RSV with nirsevimab; RSV is the #1 cause of hospitalization for kids under 1 in the US

But 99% of global deaths & 88% of hospital admissions from RSV are in low & middle income nations, where the drug is unaffordable

Online now: Eliciting a single amino acid change by vaccination generates antibody protection against group 1 and group 2 influenza A viruses dlvr.it/T60szs