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Virologist. Likes history, hiking, tea, coffee & a good movie.Favourite viruses? Coronavirus, Emerging & Oncogenic Viruses. Favourite country? UK. Dad. Bibliophile.
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Largest measles outbreak in decades hits ‘under-vaccinated’ area www.thetimes.com/article/6607...

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Measles Outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico Sicken Nearly 100 People www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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My cousin offered to send us some eggs from Germany.

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#Polio vaccination in #Gaza has started. WHO teams are on the ground providing support to ensure a quality campaign.

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7.5yo:”Nice stamp that you’ve got. It’s a Fangtooth also known as Anoplogaster cornuta and lives in the twilight zone of oceans. They eat squid, fish and crustaceans.”

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Depopulation of farms for HPAI is a useful control measure, but what to do with all the carcasses? Here, a detailed assessment of burial as a means of disposal (in France). AIV detected for months after burial. 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Can avian flu spread via the wind? Can't be ruled out, experts say www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

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Neuraminidase reassortment and oseltamivir resistance in clade 2.3.4.4b A(H5N1) viruses circulating among Canadian poultry, 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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‘Death by ax.’ Fate of millions of research animals at stake in NIH payments lawsuit www.science.org/content/arti...

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What sparked the COVID pandemic? Mounting evidence points to raccoon dogs www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus Infection of Indoor Domestic Cats Within Dairy Industry Worker Households — Michigan, May 2024 | MMWR www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

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Immunological and Antigenic Signatures Associated with Chronic Illnesses after COVID-19 Vaccination www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Tests rule out Ebola, Marburg in DR Congo unexplained illness clusters www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin...

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Michigan cats may have caught H5N1 from dairy workers; Ohio counties declare avian flu emergency www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

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Scheduled meeting of CDC vaccine advisers postponed www.cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-fl...

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7.5yo:”Finally I got some more challenging spelling words today - “succulent” and “tonsillectomy”. I know what succulents are, but does tonsillectomy mean that tonsils are removed ?”

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Characterisation of the virome of Culicoides brevitarsis Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), a vector of bluetongue virus in Australia www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

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A nucleosome switch primes hepatitis B virus infection www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Antibodies targeting Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus GP38 limit vascular leak and viral spread www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Perturbation of de novo lipogenesis hinders MERS-CoV assembly and release, but not the biogenesis of viral replication organelles journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Zika virus inhibits cell death by inhibiting the expression of NLRP3 and A20 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Trump’s dismantling of USAid raises risk of mpox global emergency, experts warn

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Reports describe good maternal RSV vaccine, drug uptake in their first season www.cidrap.umn.edu/respiratory-...

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HHS to maintain free at-home COVID tests by mail—for now www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/hhs...

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Canada announces avian flu vaccine buy as USDA confirms first H5N1 detections in rats www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

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Mass polio vaccination campaign to continue in the Gaza Strip www.who.int/news/item/19...

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ARF4-mediated intracellular transport as a broad-spectrum antiviral target www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Bat-infecting merbecovirus HKU5-CoV lineage 2 can use human ACE2 as a cell entry receptor www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Newfound bat virus that uses notorious receptor poses ‘spillover’ risk www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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7.5 yo:”The Sped teacher tried to give me some difficult spelling words to challenge me. Words like “verge”, “monocle”, and “preposterous”. Of course I knew how to spell them correctly. I think she was quite impressed.”

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H5N5 avian flu detected in Canadian poultry flock, UK seals www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

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Measles Outbreak– Feb. 18, 2025 | Texas DSHS www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

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Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF www.science.org/content/blog...

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Strong and early monkeypox virus-specific immunity associated with mild disease after intradermal clade-IIb-infection in CAST/EiJ-mice www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The CXCL8/MAPK/hnRNP-K axis enables susceptibility to infection by EV-D68, rhinovirus, and influenza virus in vitro www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Third avian flu spillover reported in Arizona dairy herd; raw pet food sickens Oregon cats www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

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RSV vaccine prompts robust immune response in older recipients over 2 seasons www.cidrap.umn.edu/respiratory-...

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Wyoming reports its first human H5N1 avian flu infection www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

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Quick takes: New Mexico measles outbreak; FDA clears chikungunya, meningococcal vaccines www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/quic...

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Money and murder: the dark side of the Asilomar meeting on recombinant DNA www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Unveiling the Threat of Disease X: Preparing for the Next Global Pandemic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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MMR vaccination coverage in the U.S. before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: A modelling study www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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No Evidence of Anti-influenza Nucleoprotein Antibodies in Retail Milk from Across Canada (April – July 2024) www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Comparative syncytia formation dynamics of coronavirus MHV-A59 and pneumovirus hRSV A2 and incorporation into improved kinetic virus replication models www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

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Establishment of reverse genetics systems for Colorado tick fever virus journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

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Charting targeted courses for vaccination www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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U.S. conditionally approves vaccine to protect poultry from avian flu www.science.org/content/arti...

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Sorry, Mr. Kennedy, Most Americans Want to Get Their Shots www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...

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