If you are as obsessed with endogenous viral elements in host genomes as I am, Save the date! will be a most excellent meeting mostly organised by @thekatybrown.bsky.social (even though my name is on it) royalsociety.org/science-even...

Endogenous viral elements | Royal Society

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Katy Brown, Dr Emma Harding and Professor Rachael Tarlinton

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For Vet/farmer colleagues in the UK - the BTV-3 outbreak is really explosive this year - please sign up for tonight's industry webinar and send in your questions. We will do our best to get you the most accurate information we can ahdb.org.uk/events/bluet...

Bluetongue virus update – 5 August

Cases of bluetongue virus (BTV) are rapidly increasing in both sheep and cattle. Clinical signs appear to be more severe than previous years, resulting in high mortality in sheep. During this webinar ...

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About time there was a crackdown on this …. At its worst this is preying on the vulnerable selling snake oil . These sorts of pressures from the desperate are a huge part of what medical training and ethics is about … you have to say no a lot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Undercover reporter offered fenbendazole and ivermectin as cancer treatment

A terminally ill man was offered the drugs by a stair lift salesman claiming they could shrink tumours.

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Unfortunately the 26/27 season has got iff to flying start and the news from South West England is shocking and sickening. By the start of August in 24 and 25 there were no cases in the UK, in 2026 we have over 80 already confirmed with more serious levels of mortality in sheep. Vaccinate ASAP

Philip Thomas@philvet123.bsky.social · last mo.

BLUETONGUE- THE EFFECTS OF THE 25/26 SEASON IS DRAWING TO AN END AND WE CAN SEE WHERE IT GOT TO LAST YEAR. THOSE AREAS MAY STILL HAVE SOME OVERWINTERED VIRUS AND THERE COULD BE FRESH INCURSIONS FROM ACROSS THE CHANNEL. IT'S HOT AND THE MIDGES ARE ACTIVE, SAYS HE SCRATCHING. VACCINATE ASAP

With a very large number of dead sheep in Cornwall and exmoor this years btv-3 outbreak in the uk is kicking off in a very bad way. Join the ahdb bluetongue webinar update on Wed for the most up to date and accurate info we have ahdb.org.uk/bluetongue-v...

Bluetongue virus technical webinars

We're holding a series of webinars to provide live updates and presentations from industry experts on bluetongue virus BTV).

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With BTV-3 now in the high sheep density areas of the UK we are seeing a lot of severe disease and mortality in sheep. 50 cases since the start of July means and early and hard start to the season that does not bode well. Not too late to vaccinate! experience.arcgis.com/experience/4...

There would be a lot more of these reports if more places were brave enough to look

Michelle Wille@duckswabber.bsky.social · 3w ago

Disease in a cat on a dairy farm in the Netherlands, positive for HPAI. Follow-up investigations of the cattle on the farm revealed 15.3% of serum samples from lactating dairy cows and 3/38 serum samples from youngstock postive by HI. 👉 www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...

www.science.org/content/arti... This is what we should have done, everywhere but at least the last country standing is going to give its vulnerable bird populations a fighting chance against H5N1

As flu virus threatens its unique bird species, New Zealand pins hopes on a vaccine

Arrival of H5N1 in Australia triggers ambitious vaccination program

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Bird flu kills more than 75% of baby seals on remote Australian island, study finds

Scientists say 13,000 southern elephant seal pups on Heard Island have died of the H5N1 strain.

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Another publication from Cristobal Castillo Aliaga 's PhD with us here at OneVirology, University of Nottingham demonstrating the feline leukaemia virus is likely circulating in Guigna endangered small felids) in Chile after spill over from domestic cats link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cross-species transmission of host adaptation of feline leukemia virus between domestic cats and the wild felid Leopardus guigna - Veterinary Research

Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) is widespread in domestic cats and frequently spills over into wild felid populations, causing severe outbreaks in nondomestic felid populations. Domestic cats carry both ...

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This one is a biggie in wildlife and veterinary care. It is entirely true that euthanasia is in most cases the most appropriate thing for the animals welfare (in wildlife that are bought to veterinary hospitals). bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Wild West of wildlife rehab?

To many members of the public, and to some veterinary professionals, the rescue and rehabilitation of wild animals may seem like an uncomplicated virtue, a simple case of compassion in action. But th...

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As the "owner" of a 16 year old boy in the UK.. theres a few very big elephants in this room not being talked about. These kids are the covid generation - they missed a really critical socialisation period in their development and are on the whole a very anxious bunch. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

More than one million young people not in work or education as report warns of 'lost generation'

The number of Neets aged 16 to 24 increases to its highest level in 12 years, as a major review says the figure will continue to rise without "urgent" action.

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Oh dear I’ve lost a swarm of bees, how long before there is a panic on the village Facebook?

Even though I'm not in the redundancy pools (the vet school is mostly protected) its still a fairly grim day here at Notts....

Officially in press now. Really nice study on coronaviruses in pet long eared hedgehogs with Italian colleagues. Gabriele the first author did the data analysis with us here on his bio-informatics externship as part of his specialist training in Vet Micro www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sequencing of Betacoronavirus erinacei from faeces of pet hedgehogs demonstrates a continuity of MERS-CoV like viruses in European and Eurasian hedgehog species

Hedgehogs have been recently identified as carriers of Betacoronavirus erinacei (also known as Erinaceus coronavirus, EriCoV) a virus closely related …

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From colleagues in Berlin - more AMR in urban waterways than rural - this is a pretty common finding in waste water studies. While sewerage treatment removes (some) bacteria its not designed to filter out chemical residues www.izw-berlin.de/en/press-rel...

If you are engaged in UK sheep farming please consider filing in the annual lambing survey. Plan is to use the data to set up benchmarking indicators for farms to see how they are going compared to others forms.office.com/pages/respon...

About bloody time …

joeymaier 🌊@joeymaier.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"One of the biggest drivers...unsustainable harvest for their blood to be used in pharmaceuticals. Now, two major pharmaceutical companies, Amgen Inc. and Abbott Laboratories, have publicly announced they will shift toward synthetic blood instead." news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

New pre-print - this one was a really fun collaboration with colleagues in Italy with a neat finding a lot of coronaviruses reported as "recombinants" might not be (there are an awful lot of species and parts of the world not in the databases) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Viruses, they do what they want…

Karim Majzoub@karimaj.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We found a viral Trojan Horse: a virus can hide inside another virus.This one surprised us: deltaviruses don’t just borrow a helper virus. They can travel inside it. A literal Trojan Horse “virus-in-a-virus” route into cells. 🤯 Kudos to 1st author @viroscope.bsky.social and co-authors !

About time .. note this is not actually new or even research, but its the first time anyone’s been stubborn enough to push it through the uk regulatory processes www.gov.uk/government/n...

New avian influenza vaccine trials begin in UK

New targeted trial in turkeys will test vaccine efficacy as part of fight to protect wild and captive birds

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Really sad to hear this, Robin was a a huge influence on so many of us, both his work and for me personally being kind enough to be interested in a bewildered new PIs work

Laurence Pearl 🔥@laurencepearl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Very sad to hear of the death of Robin Weiss FRS - a great virologist, research leader and mentor in whose lab I learned molecular biology. A wonderfully kind and morally attuned man. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_W...

Now this is a right mess - how to sink your national surveillance system by refusing to review pathogen classification when a disease moves from "exotic" to endemic www.vettimes.com/news/vets/li...

Ah signs of spring… the cat left me a live frog in the hall this morning

I'm especially happy I managed to sneak an 1802 satirical cartoon from my son's GCSE history course into an editorial on Avian Influenza communications bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Avian influenza: how well is relevant biosecurity information communicated via online resources?

Click on the article title to read more.

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Once upon a time in another life I worked on oral contraceptives for possums … we didn’t have cinnamon Oreo’s to tempt them though

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明@tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We haven’t had a decent animal-related novelty NZ news story in so long, but this country still has the juice

Its hard to overstate just how urgent this is, we need to get vaccinating BEFORE we have lots of sad wildlife documentaries of mass deaths in penguin colonies...

Vaccination against H5 HP avian influenza virus leads to persistent immune response in wild king penguins www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Done, see you all there… some real science discussion from people who know stuff ( the novelty! )

Microbiology Society@microbiologysociety.org · 6mo ago

Annual Conference is the UK's largest annual gathering of microbiologists. Register now to secure your spot: https://microb.io/AC26Register #Microbio26

The ultimate scientific accolade - your paper appearing in the "news" section of one of the really big science journals... (well ok its really Guilherme's accolade but I did help a bit....) Spotting viral invaders in koala family trees www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Spotting viral invaders in koala family trees

Genetic analyses of koala pedigrees help to suss out virus-induced genome changes that affect cancer risk and reproductive success.

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