Pikka Jokelainen

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Head of Function, Infectious Disease Preparedness and One Health, Statens Serum Institut 🧪 Dancing steps instead of walking, views mine, health one 🪶

📢 Outcomes from the EU-WISH International Workshop! Experts worked together to define priorities for: * Respiratory and emerging pathogens * Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) * Polio- and non-polio enteroviruses * Illicit drugs, chemicals, and health-related biomarkers 🔗: www.eu-wish.eu/results

Graphic for the "EU-WISH Outcomes International Workshop" showing a map with dotted lines connecting countries to a central point in Europe. On the right, text reads “Breakout sessions: Prioritization” above an illustrated ranking bar chart labeled 1, 2, and 3 with an upward arrow. The design uses shades of blue, teal, orange, and purple.

#mpox remains a public health emergency of international concern The announcement follows the fourth meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee regarding the upsurge of mpox. bit.ly/4dUE9V9

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Folkemødet 2025 has been filled with sunshine, creative science communication, and some fun and fast collegiate shag dancing ☀️🦟💃 Our Blodsugernes Battle, flåt vs myg, with Anders Fomsgaard and Tyra Grove Krause was 🤩😅😎!

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A key outcome from our One Health EJP research project #TOXOSOURCES now published in @eurosurveillance.org : 🥬 Molecular detection of Toxoplasma gondii in ready-to-eat salad mixes: multi-country survey using a validated and harmonised standard operating procedure, Europe, 2021 to 2022

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Our new issue is out 🗞️ bit.ly/EUS3022 Featuring a paper on re-emergence of #chikungunya virus on Réunion Island in 2024 The virus lineage causing the current epidemic has the ability to circulate in Aedes albopictus mosquitoes 🦟, a common vector in Southern Europe #IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky

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Rapid communication
Genomic insights into the re-emergence of chikungunya virus on Réunion Island, France, 2024 to 2025

Research
Use of cell phone data to correct Île-de-France population estimates and SARS-CoV-2 incidence, July to September, 2021: a proof-of-concept exercise

Molecular detection of Toxoplasma gondii in ready-to-eat salad mixes: multi-country survey using a validated and harmonised standard operating procedure, Europe, 2021 to 2022

Surveillance
Swine influenza virus surveillance programme pilot to assess the risk for animal and public health, the Netherlands, 2022 to 2023