Victor M. CormanOct 5, 2023
Interested in Hepatitis A Virus evolution? Check out our just published study on Hepatitis A Virus in Alpacas from Bolivia. In this study, we detected RNA of distinct HAV in ≈9% of New World camelids and HAV antibodies in ≈64%. Complete-genome analysis of the Alpaca HAV suggests a long association of these viruses with alpacas as hosts.
#HAV #CharitéVirology #EmergingInfectiousDiseases @ChariteBerlin
@bih_charite
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/12/23-1123_article
Divergent Genotype of Hepatitis A Virus in Alpacas, Bolivia, 2019

Divergent Genotype of Hepatitis A Virus in Alpacas

Emerging Infectious Diseases journal
Thomas Kesteman🔬🧫🦠🌏Apr 11, 2023

#Vietnam 2021: a single #SARSCoV2 introduction, 1 million cases!😱 Genetic epidemiology 🧬of this giant #outbreak published in
#EmergingInfectiousDiseases journal 📰

Kudos to 🇻🇳 [National] Hospital for Tropical Diseases, OUCRU Hanoi & HCMC, @tungts etc ... 👏

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/5/22-1787_article

Spatiotemporal Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Delta Variants during Large Nationwide Outbreak of COVID-19, Vietnam, 2021

Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Variants, Vietnam, 2021

Emerging Infectious Diseases journal
Show threadDaniele de RigoMar 11, 2023

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On #biodiversity loss versus #EmergingInfectiousDiseases (EIDs), a 2020 @ipbes report [3]:

https://mas.to/@ipbes/110003678193154043

Fig. 2 offered a clear summary:
"#Pandemics are a subset of EIDs, and this report reviews the scientific evidence of linkages to biodiversity for EIDs that did not become pandemic (e.g. #Ebola), as well as those that did (e.g. #COVID-19), so that patterns affecting both can be used to identify policy options to reduce the opportunities for future EID and pandemic emergence"

IPBES (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video 3 years ago, #COVID19 was declared a pandemic by @who. If we don't address #biodiversity loss, future #pandemics will be more frequent, costly & deadly than COVID19. @ipbes #PandemicsReport offers policy options. Press release, summary & full report ⬇️ https://ipbes.net/pandemics

mas.to
Uncharted TerritoriesMar 3, 2023

Using low-cost microphones to track the spread of disease between animals and people in the wild https://innovationtoronto.com/2023/03/using-low-cost-microphones-to-track-the-spread-of-disease-between-animals-and-people-in-the-wild/

#acousticmonitoring #emerginginfectiousdiseases #UofGlasgow

Using low-cost microphones to track the spread of disease between animals and people in the wild

Innovation Toronto
David SimonsJan 23, 2023

Excited that this manuscript is now out at @PLOSNTDs. This work sets up a lot of what I wanted to investigate for my PhD.

#Zoonoses #Rodents #DiseaseEcology #EmergingInfectiousDiseases

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010772

Rodent trapping studies as an overlooked information source for understanding endemic and novel zoonotic spillover

Author summary Emerging and endemic zoonotic diseases are projected to have increasing health impacts, particularly under changing climate and land-use scenarios. Rodents, an ecologically vital order of mammals carry a disproportionate number of zoonotic pathogens and are abundant across West Africa. Prior modelling studies rely on large, consolidated data sources which do not incorporate high resolution spatial and temporal data from rodent trapping studies. Here, we synthesise these studies to quantify the bias in the sampling of rodent hosts and their pathogens across West Africa. We find that rodent trapping studies are complementary to these datasets and can provide additional, high-resolution data on the distribution of hosts and their pathogens. Further, rodent trapping studies have identified additional potential host-pathogen associations than are recorded in consolidated host-pathogen association datasets. This can help to understand the risk of zoonotic diseases based on host distributions. Finally, we quantify the current extent of known rodent presence and pathogen sampling within a species range, highlighting that current knowledge is limited across much of the region. We hope that this will support work to study rodent hosts and their pathogens in currently under sampled regions to better understand the risk of emerging and endemic zoonoses in West Africa.

Lynn ChiuNov 29, 2022

Next #KLIColloquium with Orsolya Bajer-Molnar is on #EIDs:

All hands on deck – Transdisciplinary Approaches to Coping with Emerging Infectious Diseases

Dec 6, 3PM #Hybrid #Zoom

https://kli.ac.at/en/events/event_calendar/view/649

#Transdisciplinary #Transdisciplinarity #EmergingInfectiousDiseases #EID #EvolutionaryBiology #Evolution #StockholmParadigm

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Show threadTui22Nov 16, 2022

Ian #MacKay is on med-mastodon. If your interest is medicine and the health sciences (especially evolving #pathogens like #covid and #emerginginfectiousdiseases ) - he is is well worth following.

#RecommendedFollow

Michael Bazaco☣️🦠Nov 7, 2022

#Introduction

I’m an infectious disease #epidemiologist with a background in applied and clinical #microbiology, as well. I work in the public sector with a main focus on zoonoses, particularly #foodborneillness.

I’m also an adjunct professor at UMD, where I teach #emerginginfectiousdiseases as well as #foodpolicy.

Oh, and I love all things #StarWars, dogs, prog metal, and hate mangoes and Ewoks.

Looking forward to learning and sharing here. Ask anything anytime! ☮️