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New study shows that recent #measles outbreaks in #Burundi were driven by multiple virus introductions, highlighting the importance of disease surveillance to understand how the virus spreads.
Conducted by the @EDCTP3-funded GREAT-LIFE consortium.
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
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Our team is buzzing with activity as we sequence more #mpox samples working around the clock to deepen our understanding of the virus’s dynamics. Science in action, driven by purpose and collaboration.🧬🔬 @MarionKoopmans @JuaKivu_viro @ndipac @1986Bom @EDCTP3
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New paper out: we map how yellow fever surged through Horto Florestal Park in São Paulo city and uncover drivers of rapid transmission and spillover risk.
Learn more:
➡️ nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Another paper of our collaboration in DRC and Rwanda @EDCTP3: tracking the evolving mpox clade Ib outbreak. Great team, more work ongoing to try to understand the outbreak @Udahemuka1 @1986Bom and many others nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
The first preliminary analysis of the genomic surveillance performed after the introduction of mpox clade Ib in Burundi @MarionKoopmans and a lot of local collaborators who are not on C virological.org/t/preliminar…
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This recently published real-time PCR assay can detect the novel subclade (clade 1b) and distinguish it from other clades
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@1986Bom @MarionKoopmans @ndipac @LeonardSchuele
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We later on released the molecular detection real-time PCR assay capable of differentiating this new subclade with other #Mpox clades/subclades. This will allow countries to detect cases
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Earlier this year, we reported the genome of this new subclade, allowing the world to understand the changes in the virus and opening the floor to designing new detection assay. Our work was published in @Eurosurveillanc
@MarionKoopmans @1986Bom @ndipac
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working in LMIC has its challenges: a datafile from our shared work @Udahemuka1 @1986Bom @mvankerkhove
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🦠 Working around the clock over the past 10 days to investigate the rapid viral expansion of OROV beyond the Amazon Basin! @fiocruz @LACENs @lalcan40 @vagnerf0nseca @Tuliodna @LourencoJML - climade.health/2024/08/04/ra…
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Mpox was declared a public health emergency of international concern when clade II strains spread globally, and scaled back once that was going down. committee will have a renewed look, with widespread circulation in DRC, spread to neighbouring countries.
In light of the spread of #mpox outside #DRC, and the potential for further international spread within and outside Africa, I have decided to convene an Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations to advise me on whether the outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern.
The committee will meet as soon as possible and will be made up of independent experts from a range of relevant disciplines from around the world.
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We present here the analysis of 58 full genome sequences of the new subclade in South Kivu from October 2023 to May 2024
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Our sequence analysis of 58 MPXV clade Ib cases from Kamituga and Kamanyola, South-Kivu, DRC show that there is likely more widespread circulation outside the Kamituga region which is in line with detections in surrounding countries like Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya
update on mpox genomic analysis in South Kivu virological.org/t/preliminar…
Mpox (presumably clade 1b) now also diagnosed in Rwanda and Burundi indicating cross-border spread which is not unexpected
MENYA WIRINDE #MPOX
Mu Rwanda hamaze kugaragara abantu babiri barwaye indwara y'ubushita bw'... youtu.be/2g69bVjyeyc?si=fb2x… via @YouTube
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It was an honor to host the #ViBioM2024 meeting in #Leuven @ the #RegaInsitute the last 3 days! Great science @ the interface of #Virology & #Bioinformatics! Fantastic to welcome old friends and make new ones! Hope to see you all again in Lisbon @ #ViBioM2025 🦠 🖥️
We are looking for a motivated PhD researcher with a strong interest in virology and public health which will work in my group and the group of @ReinaSikkema with @MarionKoopmans as promoter
WerkenbijErasmusMC : PhD researcher on emerging viral infections werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vac…
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How does WHO assess risk posed by SARS-CoV-2 emerging variants? nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
Grateful to all experts involved in advising WHO throughout the last 4+ years.
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Please take note that the application deadline has been extended to May 15. veme.climade.health/applicat… #VEME2024 – at Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Glad to have contributed to identifying the changes in the mpox genome
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