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In one week join our Biosecurity Game Changers Fellow Dianah Nasike in coversation with Dr Talkmore Maurta with African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) and Dr Claire Standley with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). Register here: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Come join The Institute of Genomics and Global Health and be part of shaping a resilient, self-sustaining future for health security in Africa! www.linkedin.com/posts/edyth-...

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“These men emerged from a historical tradition that revered hierarchy and sought to sustain racial and economic dominance, only to find themselves in a world where that order was unraveling.” link between current US and recent southern African racial Politics is key… www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Devastating "The ongoing war in the Gaza Strip generated a life expectancy loss of more than 30 years during the first 12 months of the war, nearly halving prewar levels. Actual losses are likely to be higher" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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How Trump’s USAID freeze halted the effort to develop an effective HIV vaccine in Africa www.statnews.com/2025/02/26/t...

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Our analysis of the second incursion of H5N1 viruses (genotype D1.1) into dairy cattle in the US is now posted to virological virological.org/t/timing-and...

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Join us in embedding the Global South, emerging talent and equity firmly within health security and the 100 Day Mission!

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Troubling findings, particularly as HKU5 was found in farmed fur animals: mink and nutria, in China 🧪📊 #virosky #science #zoonosis #scicomm www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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"The benefits of AI for public health will be critically dependent on the availability, accessibility and representativeness of data and a firm ethical framework." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Today at #MSC @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social of the Pandemic Center will be co-leading a discussion to advance innovative biosecurity solutions for the #100DaysMission. We're excited to hear many discussions of innovative opportunities including our Biosecurity Game Changer @edythparker.bsky.social

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🚨 Cutting #PEPFAR funding to South Africa = catastrophic clinical & economic fallout: 📉 +565K new HIV infections ⚰️ +601K additional deaths 📉 Life expectancy ⬇️ up to 3.7 years 💰 $1.7B extra healthcare $$ over 10 years Investing in HIV saves lives & money. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

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Older, but great piece: "While it might be cathartic to compare Elon Musk’s tech firms to apartheid-era mines, the connection between ex-South Africans and American capitalism is complicated." africasacountry.com/2024/10/the-...

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Our new preprint, out now, estimates the size of #influenza oral #antiviral #stockpile, including #BaloxavirMarboxil and #Oseltamivir, needed #globally during the early stages of a potential influenza #pandemic before the availability of vaccines. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Global health suffers from two forms of elite capture: the global and the local Please read both these papers! journals.plos.org/globalpublic... journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

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The latest clarification on how PEPFAR funds may be used, issued today limits PrEP only for pregnant women and breastfeeding women. Women in Africa participated in research studies that allowed us to understand how these medications work many did so with the promise of continued access post study.

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This is a very valuable resource: it estimates the HIV infections and deaths that are likely to occur due to the U.S. aid freeze. Suddenly freezing health aid, with no careful plan to fill the funding gap, is a death sentence for many people. This is human-caused misery, suffering, and mortality.

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I am credibly told that all the officials working on #HIV at #USAID has been put on administrative leave. Meanwhile the waivers Sec Rubio is claiming have not actually been communicated to implementers and they are withdrawing in-country staff, so nobody is actually available to stop the stop-work.

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First genome sequence from the Ugandan Ebolavirus outbreak with analysis: virological.org/t/990 and first filovirus genome submitted to Pathoplexus database: pathoplexus.org/seq/PP_0011C.... Great (and rapid) work from the National Health Laboratory, UVRI and partners.

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"A sudden and prolonged stop to HIV programmes does not allow for a managed transition and puts the lives of millions at risk" @who.int expresses deep concern about US pause on HIV funding www.who.int/news/item/28...

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Morally repugnant and a death sentence for millions.

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Thanks to all who joined for this important discussion! At the end of the event, moderator @edythparker.bsky.social asked attendees to answer this question: What encourages you about the future of biosecurity? Respond below!

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Wendy Barclay and I are recruiting a postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of swine influenza viruses and how this impacts future pandemic potential. Job is based at Imperial's South Kensington campus. Drop me a DM/email for more details. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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🆕 On Jan 10 @who.int received reports of suspected Marburg cases in Tanzania. - 9 suspects including eight deaths (89% fatality rate), were reported. - Samples are pending official confirmation - Contacts, including healthcare workers, are under follow-up. www.who.int/emergencies/...

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This Friday, at 11 EST join our 1st event in the Game Changers Seminar Series on Early Warning Systems, Disease Detection, & Wastewater Biosurveillance. Moderated @edythparker.bsky.social w/ panelists, Marta Giovanetti, @josh-levy.bsky.social, Christian Happi Register brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Should be a fun discussion! With @edythparker.bsky.social wearing her moderator hat :)

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Join us for a discussion with some of my favourite people and thinkers on the future of early warning systems in biosurveillance!

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Really proud to share our preprint describing early adaptation of H5N1 to US dairy cattle, and showing how these mutations enhance the ability of the virus to infect other mammals, such as pigs and humans. With @influenzal.bsky.social @vidhid.bsky.social @drclairesmith.bsky.social and many more!

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Rwanda’s first ever Marburg outbreak is declared over, with 42 days having passed since the last case cleared the virus. www.afro.who.int/countries/rw...

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Great summary from Krutika on our work on the 2024 Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak in Rwanda, led by a brilliant team!

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Africa Lists Diagnostics for Priority Diseases africacdc.org/news-item/af...

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Thanks to Jon Cohen at Science Magazine for covering our study on mpox vaccination needs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Insufficient vaccine doses available to expand mpox vaccination drive in Kinshasa in the DRC. Pledged vaccine doses have not fully materialized much like during covid. A global pandemic changed little about how we approach access and equity in outbreak response.

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Genomic characterization uncovers transmission dynamics of Marburg Virus in Rwanda following a single zoonotic spillover event https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.01.24316374v1

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We are delighted to announce BEAST X v10.5.0 (beta 1) - the X is to differentiate it from the project 'BEAST2' & to denote these are orthogonal with a common origin. Website: beast.community Github: github.com/beast-dev/be... Many new models, performance enhancements and features (and a new logo)

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1️⃣ What is the proximal origin of Mpox virus? 2️⃣ What factors drive emergence vs spread? 3️⃣ When and where? Immensely proud to be part of this work by a pan-Africa consortium established and led by Prof Happi and spearheaded by postdoc in the lab, Edyth Parker! Part 1: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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