The evidence supports the alt theory of a spillover from animals sold at the market. Spillovers also happen to account for all other novel infectious disease epidemics. I'm tired of writing about this since I'm tired of the harassment. Pretty much every science writer I know feels the same.

Sobering reading... like if some of our sebirds did not already have a complicated future www.nzgeo.com/stories/dead...

We’re about to find out what the deadliest avian flu in history means for a nation of birds

Only 300 individual birds in New Zealand have any sort of protection from H5N1, which has devastated wild birds and domestic poultry across the world. The virus has also killed tens of thousands of se...

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and now the edited final version is online, too! journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Hantavirus stability and inactivation

Author summary Hantaviruses are ubiquitous rodent viruses and contain some of the most lethal known zoonotic viruses, including Andes virus (ANDV) and Hantaan virus (HTNV), with no FDA- or EMA-approve...

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Ben Nilsson-Payant@ben-nilsson-payant.bsky.social · last mo.

Very happy to celebrate the first paper from the Nilsson-Payant Lab @ki.se! We investigated inactivation methods for hantaviruses (including ANDV) and for how long they can remain infectious in the environment under different conditions! journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Very happy to celebrate the first paper from the Nilsson-Payant Lab @ki.se! We investigated inactivation methods for hantaviruses (including ANDV) and for how long they can remain infectious in the environment under different conditions! journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Hantavirus stability and inactivation

Author summary Hantaviruses are ubiquitous rodent viruses and contain some of the most lethal known zoonotic viruses, including Andes virus (ANDV) and Hantaan virus (HTNV), with no FDA- or EMA-approve...

journals.plos.org

Which blows one little Andes virus outbreak clean out of the water, with none of the accompanying hysteria and bandwagon-jumping we have seen for the ORTHOhantavirus…🙄

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3mo ago

BREAKING: A new outbreak of the highly contagious Ebola virus has been confirmed in Congo’s eastern Ituri province, Africa’s top public health body said. There have been 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded so far.

Who would have thought last year, but a very timely and useful collaboration with Toni and Eike!

Translational and Computational Infection Research@compvirol.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Andes virus, a rare hantavirus with reported human-to-human transmission, is making headlines. Good news: standard disinfectants are effective🦠🧴 👉 press release @ruhr-uni-bochum.de (sorry, German only): bit.ly/4wnXzLg 👉 original publication: bit.ly/4wdtpu5 #Hantavirus #Virology

I've spent yesterday and today talking to researchers across the globe trying to understand the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius. My story in @science.org is here (and some threaded thoughts coming): www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 #IDsky

Cruise ship’s hantavirus outbreak puts researchers in uncharted territory

Questions about the culprit virus and its route of spread remain as health officials make plans for stranded passengers

science.org

More details emerge on hantavirus patients on cruise ship www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin...

More details emerge on hantavirus patients on cruise ship

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Suspected Andes virus (presumably?) outbreak on a cruise ship travelling from Ushuaia, Argentina, with several dead and possible human-to-human transmission! Scary stuff! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Three dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak on Atlantic cruise ship

The World Health Organization said one case of hantavirus infection has been confirmed, with five more suspected cases under investigation.

bbc.com

Exciting times ahead in the lab! #nanopore #virussequencing

Really cool stuff Daniel!

Daniel Blanco-Melo@dbm003.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excited to share our work on #AncientRNA from alcohol-preserved lungs, recovering the oldest human RNA virus genome (an 18th-century rhinovirus). Our study shows that viral RNA remnants persist in centuries-old tissue, opening new ways to study virus evolution and historical disease #Paleovirology🫁🦠

Very happy to announce that my first PhD student successfully passed his PhD defence on Friday: Congratulations Dr Abraham Ayanwale!

Decoding influenza virus: From polymerase mechanisms to translational therapeutics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country

Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes the country more hospitable for insects. The country was until this month one of the only places in the world that did not have a mosquito population. The other is Antarctica. Continue reading...

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Rereading Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons for the first time since high school. I never realised how profoundly inaccurately scientific research is depicted in his books….

Big and well-deserved congratulations to our brilliant postdoc Wanda Christ, who received the Sven Gards prize for her PhD dissertation at @ki.se! nyheter.ki.se/wanda-christ...

Happy to share our study demonstrating safe and effective disinfection methods for Andes virus. Thanks to Toni Meister @UKE and Eike Steinmann @mmv-rub.bsky.social for reaching out and helpful collaboration with @mariarosenthal.bsky.social. www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S019...

Stability of Andes virus and its inactivation by WHO-recommended hand rub formulations and surface disinfectants

Hantaviruses are responsible for thousands of infections globally. In the absence of vaccines or targeted treatments for severe diseases such as haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hanta...

journalofhospitalinfection.com

Excited to share our work describing a series of structures that allow us to propose a new model for Hantavirus genome replication by the viral L-protein. Another great experience with @loiccarrique.bsky.social @ben-nilsson-payant.bsky.social @efodor.bsky.social Jon Grimes. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Structural characterization of the full-length Hantaan virus polymerase

Author summary Hantaviruses are widely distributed viruses that can undergo zoonosis where they cause severe disease in humans. Old World hantaviruses, found predominantly in Asia and Europe, can caus...

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