"Jamestown Canyon virus may not be an emerging pathogen in the usual sense. It has been here for centuries. The emergence is in our awareness of it." Such a great summary of our JCV work by John Drake!! Would highly encourage giving it a read! 🦟 www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

A Virus That Predates The Republic Has Been Hiding In American Mosquitoes. Scientists Just Decoded Its History

A mosquito-borne virus circulating since the 1700s went unnoticed until genomic sequencing revealed its centuries-long history and unique two-cycle transmission.

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Real-time epidemic intelligence in a public health emergency: the 2026 Bundibugyo virus outbreak Massive collaboration between multiple international health agencies, the national public health institute, and research groups. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... inrb-umie.github.io/BDBV2026-Epi...

A one-stop dashboard for all your Ebola data needs -- well done Dav Ebengo and colleagues!

Real-time epidemic intelligence in a public health emergency: the 2026 Bundibugyo virus outbreak

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is currently responding to its 17th recorded Ebola epidemic, declared on May 15, 2026.1 This is only the second outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus (Orthoebolaviru...

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For all those at @eeid2026.bsky.social, come to my poster (#21) at the 6pm session tonight to talk about Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever virus (CCHFV) evolution!! Bonus discussions of bunyavirus ecology, ancient livestock trade, and applications of phylodynamic methods! 🐂📈📜

The amazing teams around Dav Ebengo & Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, alongside the Institut National de Santé Publique and AfricaCDC have led an effort to improve understanding of the current #Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak. Data: github.com/INRB-UMIE/Eb... Dashboard: inrb-umie.github.io/EBOV2026_Epi...

Two more passengers (one in France and one in the US) from the MV Hondius testing positive after being evacuated yesterday. All data here: github.com/kraemer-lab/...

Joseph Tsui, Ben Reddy and I are recruiting a postdoc @psioxford.bsky.social to work on AI methods for multi-pathogen and multi-country biosurveillance optimisation for epidemic and endemic pathogens. Closing date May 11th my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Toward optimal disease surveillance with graph-based active learning | PNAS

Tracking the spread of emerging pathogens is critical to the design of timely and effective public health responses. Policymakers face the challeng...

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Infectious disease & enhancing global health 🦠💉 Our new research hub focuses on investigating what makes pathogens dangerous to strengthen and protect human and animal health 👇 https://youtu.be/q2uObboXgvk @ox.ac.uk

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Infectious disease & enhancing global health | Oxford Biology

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Have you heard of Jamestown Canyon virus? New work by @ebourgikos.bsky.social and @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social lab + friends explains the natural history of one of the rarest diseases in the United States, including a puzzlingly-slow evolutionary rate: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Incredibly excited to see our work on Jamestown Canyon virus published in Current Biology!! I have grown with and loved this project for 3 years and couldn’t be prouder of the final paper 🩵🧬 Read it here to see how phylodynamics reveals JCV's complex life cycle! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Incredible work by Jonathan Pekar et al.: The emergence and molecular evolution of H5N1 influenza viruses in United States dairy cattle www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🦟📄 New preprint! Our first large-scale phylodynamic study of Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) reveals how mosquito ecology shapes the evolution, persistence, and spread of this understudied arbovirus in North America. Read it here! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Evolutionary history of Jamestown Canyon virus disentangles complex multi-vector ecology

Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) is a re-emerging mosquito-borne virus of increasing concern in North America. It has been historically understudied, leading to significant gaps in our understanding of it...

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📢New preprint on the impact of dengue virus genetic diversity on inhibition by Wolbachia 🦟🦠🧬 Project led by Afeez Sodeinde, @emiliefinch.bsky.social, and @keli5734.bsky.social! ✨ Key findings in thread below 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Heterogeneity in inhibition of genetically diverse dengue virus strains by Wolbachia

The release of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes transinfected with the virus-inhibiting Wolbachia bacterium has the potential to reduce the burden caused by dengue virus (DENV). However, the robustness of thi...

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