New paper out with @joelcmiller.bsky.social @chpoletto.bsky.social This paper's for you if you are interested in relationships between realised and intrinsic generation intervals for epidemics on networks! doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Network structure induced bias in estimates of intrinsic generation times

Author summary When a new infectious disease outbreak starts, mathematical epidemiologists find themselves building or using mathematical models to understand its propagation, predict its future cours...

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Increasing evidence for multimodal transmission of mpox! Our work showed that sexual + nonsexual transmission led to underestimation of attack rate even when nonsexual transmission is initially minimal and surveillance needs to be focused on multiple modes of transmission. doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Heterogeneity in network structure switches the dominant transmission mode of infectious diseases

Abstract. Several recent emerging diseases have exhibited both sexual and nonsexual transmission modes (Ebola, Zika, and mpox). In the recent mpox outbreak

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Kai Kupferschmidt@kakape.bsky.social · last yr.

An explosive outbreak of mpox in Sierra Leone is raising fears of wider spread. The country of 9 million has seen more than 3000 cases already. “We could see very rapid geographic expansion […] if we don’t really try and get things under control quickly,” says @kindrachukjason.bsky.social 🧪 #IDsky

An explosive outbreak of mpox in Sierra Leone is raising fears of wider spread. The country of 9 million has seen more than 3000 cases already. “We could see very rapid geographic expansion […] if we don’t really try and get things under control quickly,” says @kindrachukjason.bsky.social 🧪 #IDsky

Explosive mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone overwhelms health systems

Rapid transmission through sexual networks raises fears of wider spread in the region

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I hope that so-called "international" conferences will be held in less prohibitive locations now.

BK. Titanji@boghuma.bsky.social · last yr.

This is horrible and maybe now academics in the global north who have always traveled freely without the added worry of visa and immigration concerns will have some empathy for academics from the global South for whom this is actually the norm i.e. harassment at borders and visa denials.

This is horrible and maybe now academics in the global north who have always traveled freely without the added worry of visa and immigration concerns will have some empathy for academics from the global South for whom this is actually the norm i.e. harassment at borders and visa denials.

Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt@jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · last yr.

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

If you think about how people reacted to lockdowns & omicron wave in Australia, then we have a piping hot piece of research for you, that breaks it down by socioeconomic status: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Socioeconomic correlates of urban mobility trends in two Australian cities during transitional periods of the COVID-19 pandemic | Royal Society Open Science

During the COVID-19 pandemic, both government-mandated lockdowns and discretionary changes in behaviour combined to produce dramatic and abrupt changes to human mobility patterns. To understand the so...

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