Africa CDC chief says ‘no magical solution’ for intensifying deadly Ebola outbreak www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/africa...

Africa CDC chief says ‘no magical solution’ for intensifying deadly Ebola outbreak

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EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected www.science.org/content/arti...

EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected

A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says

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We have been thinking about the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius. Preprint now out: Rapid modelling of the 2026 Andes virus outbreak predicts limited transmissibility and low mainland outbreak risk. A brief thread follows 1/9 zenodo.org/records/2053...

Mammary gland explants from both beef and dairy cattle [Aberdeen Angus, Holstein Friesian, Limousin cattle] permissive to infection with avian-adapted and mammalian-adapted H5N1 viruses 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Really pleased to have this project out - a nice collaboration between @socialinfluenza.bsky.social and @prmurcia.bsky.social looking at the risk of H5N1 spillover into commonly used cattle breeds 🦠 🐮

Ed Hutchinson@socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨New pre-print!🚨 Using a panel of different H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b viruses and human seasonal influenza, and mammary explants from common beef and dairy cattle breeds, we add to the growing data showing that H5N1 spillovers into cattle should be seen as an ongoing risk www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨New Pre-Print🚨 Although H3N2 subclade K has multiple mutations in HA, neutralisation assays with pre-epidemic human sera show only moderate antigenic drift, and vaccines used in the 2024/2025 flu season induced cross-neutralising immunity www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

I wrote a festive little piece for @uk.theconversation.com about the invisible but beautiful world of viruses, our fight against viral diseases, and how you can explore all of this, and more, by making paper snowflakes ❄️🦠🤓❄️ #scicomm #sciart theconversation.com/the-twelve-v...

Feeling festive? Why not deck the halls with @cvrinfo.bsky.social's papercraft #VirusSnowflakes and celebrate the science of viruses and the fight against viral diseases. Download for free: cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl... #scicomm #sciart #decorations

H5N1 in bats - what should we think about this? @itingtu.bsky.social explains her recent preprint (a collaboration with multiple @cvrinfo.bsky.social groups) in a really nice interview with @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Vampire bats may have contracted H5N1 bird flu in Peru, raising worries about further spread

Bats could form a bridge between marine and terrestrial mammals, scientists say

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I-Ting Tu@itingtu.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My 1st first-author paper is out as a preprint! Excited to share the fascinating story of marine-feeding vampire bats 🌊🦇 We found that marine-diet bats were exposed to #H5#AvianFlu 🦠 from marine wildlife and could potentially spread it to livestock via blood feed🩸 doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.686930

If you'd like to celebrate the biology of viruses - or the fight against viral diseases - this winter, try out our free and updated #VirusSnowflake designs. Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them! cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...

Fascinating multi-disciplinary study from @itingtu.bsky.social showing that vampire bats are being exposed to H5 HPAIVs 😄 Really excited to have been a small part of this story and cannot wait to see where it goes next 🦇🦠🦭

I-Ting Tu@itingtu.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My 1st first-author paper is out as a preprint! Excited to share the fascinating story of marine-feeding vampire bats 🌊🦇 We found that marine-diet bats were exposed to #H5#AvianFlu 🦠 from marine wildlife and could potentially spread it to livestock via blood feed🩸 doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.686930

We talked about this back when the first trial for lenacapavir first said the magic words everyone wants to hear, "halted for efficacy"(*), so a recap: this is not a vaccine or a treatment. It's PrEP aka "pre-exposure prophylaxis": you take the drug so if exposed to the virus, you will not catch it.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last yr.

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

📢 We’re delighted to announce that Professor Emma Thomson has been appointed as the new Director of the CVR. An internationally recognised expert in emerging infectious diseases, Emma will continue to lead the CVR in its role in national and global pandemic response. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Important work from the Flu-TrailMap-OneHealth Consortium demonstrating that unpasteurised milk poses a risk of transmitting H5N1 - great to see this out there to help people make informed choices about raw milk consumption (…basically, don’t…)🥛🐄 🐑 🦠

Ed Hutchinson@socialinfluenza.bsky.social · last yr.

If you don't pasteurise it, how long can H5N1 influenza viruses stay infectious for in milk? We had a look at this in a new preprint with ‪@cvrinfo.bsky.social‬, @roslininstitute.bsky.social‬, ‪@pirbrightinst.bsky.social‬ & the APHA (1/N) www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

Ambitious project to develop low-cost genome sequencing for pathogens known and unknown - University of Birmingham

Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats

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Very excited to be at my first #microbio2025 conference! If emerging infectious diseases, coronaviruses, adaptive immunity or epidemiological modelling interest you come see my talk in the Viruses: Adaptive Immunity session on Wednesday 👨‍⚕️🦠🔬

Excited to be at my first @microbiologysociety.org annual conference with the Hutchinson Lab @socialinfluenza.bsky.social! Please come and find me at poster 005 (block A) if you want to talk about biosafe methods to study HPAIV H5N1 🦠

1/3 How long do you think it takes for highly pathogenic avian flu H5N1 sequences to be uploaded to GISAID after collection? How long should it be? In this commentary, we find a median delay of 228 days, with half the countries taking more than 6 months. rdcu.be/eeZGU @naturebiotech.bsky.social

Lengthy delays in H5N1 genome submissions to GISAID

Nature Biotechnology - Lengthy delays in H5N1 genome submissions to GISAID

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I’ve now been asked about the USDA H5N1 action plan quite a few times, so maybe I should say a few things about it. There are a few things I like about it, more things I don’t, and some things about it that are completely WTAF. This is the 5 step plan:

Exciting new preprint from Imrie et al looking at how changes in population immunity after the COVID-19 pandemic have influenced the potential emergence of ‘SARS-CoV-X’ (with classically beautiful data vis) @cvrinfo.bsky.social

Ryan M. Imrie (he/him)@ryanmimrie.bsky.social · last yr.

Happily kicking off my Bluesky account with our new preprint exploring how post-pandemic shifts in immunity have changed the risk of future zoonotic coronavirus emergence. Check it out here: 🔬📄 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Excited to connect and discuss! #Virology #Epidemiology #Science