https://www.europesays.com/uk/127022/ Host associations and genetic diversity of bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae and Streblidae) in bats from Thailand | Parasites & Vectors #BatFlies #Entomology #Genetics #HostVectorInteraction #InfectiousDiseases #Parasitology #phylogenetics #Science #SpeciesDelimitation #Thailand #TropicalMedicine #UK #UnitedKingdom #VeterinaryMedicine/VeterinaryScience #Virology
On our radar: To tackle chronic disease, turn to the virologists
“Virologists are dedicated to discovery and service. Understanding viruses helps combat viral diseases and unlocks broader biological insights. Virologists signed up for this work, and we are ready to do even more.”
Terence S. Dermody and Julie K. Pfeiffer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Take a deeper dive: A longer version of this #OpEd is available in the Annual Review of #Virology, a publication of @AnnualReviews https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-vi-12-041725-010437
The US should step up efforts to combat its year-long bird #H5N1 flu outbreak and control the #pandemic risk to people, an international group of virologists has warned. The high historical human mortality rate from H5N1 suggests “the terrible consequences of underreacting to current threats”, say human and animal virologists from the Global Virus Network spanning more than 40 countries...Their intervention on Tuesday highlights alarm at the proliferation of the H5N1 avian pathogen now detected in #poultry in all 50 US states, infecting scores of people and causing at least one confirmed death…The US outbreak has spread nationwide since March 2024, affecting more than 1,000 dairy herds and killing or triggering the culling of tens of millions of poultry. At least 70 human cases have been identified, with one person dying in Louisiana, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. —The Economist #Virology #Epidemiology #BirdFlu #CDC #HHS #PublicHealth
Phylogenomic insights into West Nile virus lineage 2 circulating in Croatia | Virology Journal https://www.byteseu.com/994111/ #Croatia #MolecularPhylogenetics #virology #WestNileVirus #WholeGenomeSequencing
Identifying Environmental Risk Factors and Mapping the Distribution of West Nile Virus in an Endemic Region of North America
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GH000161 <-- shared paper
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[an older paper (2018) but a good one, including showing the versatility & usefulness of #FedScience spatial datasets]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #USA #WestNile #WestNileVirus #fedscience #NationalLandCoverDatabase #NLCD #virus #publichealth #arboviruses #environment #data #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #fedscience #geocoding #environmental #landcover #physiography #climate #weather #transmission #model #regressiontree #risk #hazard #riskmaps #elevation #humidity #rainfall #precipitation #disease #soil #integrated #opendata #mosquito #satellite #SouthDakota #pasturelands #crossdiscipline #virology #remotesensing #earthobservation #Pathobiology #Epidemiology
@USGS @USGS_EROS
Video and article from our lab about our latest giant virus paper
"Researchers discover large dormant virus can be reactivated in model green alga"
And link to original paper
https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-2552/full
Beware scientists official deep fakes are coming our ways. #virology #vaccines #publichealth and #science will be under pressure.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/rfk-autism-study-1.7508733
#ThrowbackThursday #virology
The oldest piece of equipment in my lab, a >55 year old refractometer that I inherited from the lab next door when they retired in 2010. It consists of a light source and prisms and measures the concentration of dissolved substances by their ability to bend light through the prism. In virology, we use gradients of sucrose spun at high speeds to purify viruses which will settle at distinct sucrose densities as measured on the refractrometer. It still works.
#virology
The Story behind the Science: On the discovery of respiratory syncytial virus | mBio https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.03074-24
Our project for the SHADOC 
doctoral program has been selected. If you are interested to do an international #PhD in structural virology @afmblab.bsky.social , the #HellenicPasteurInstitute and #SynchrotronSoleil please visit our proposal : https://schadoc.univ-amu.fr/en/call-candidates/health-well-being/garcom
For application procedure please read carefully : https://schadoc.univ-amu.fr/en/call-candidates Call for candidates are open between March 10th and april 21st.
@strucbio #StructuralBiology #virology #CryoEM #SXT
"2020: an isolation odyssey" https://vimeo.com/446927270 #cinema #virology #COVID19 #covid #movie
"2020: an isolation odyssey is a reenactment of the iconic finale of 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968). Restaged in the context of home quarantine, the journey through time adapts to the mundane dramas of self-isolation–poking fun at the navel-gazing saga of life alone and indoors."
2 great artists gone, ... noticeably Betsy Arakawa died of an #hantavirus mis-diagnosed... I wonder how common that news is in New-Mexico ?
Actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa died of natural causes about a week apart. #virology #publichealth
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89ydyjewjlo
As Measles Outbreak Spreads, RFK Jr. Reverses Message and Urges Vaccination
https://futurism.com/neoscope/rfk-jr-measles-recommends-vaccination-mmr
Faculty position in evolutionary virology, University of Ostrava. Looks like a wonderful opportunity!
#viruses #virology #evolution #facultyhiring #academicjobs
Look up anything having to do with HIV on the CDC website and this warning comes up at the top of the page, even if the contents have nothing to do with it.
https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/data-research/facts-stats/index.html
#virology
Latest #TWiV clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin kicks off with an apt quotation for the U.S.: "If you do not change direction you might end up where you are heading." -- Lao Tzu
Dr. Griffin notes that even though an #MMWR was published, it was censored, because 3 expected reports on #BirdFlu were not in it. #Fascism #CDC
#virology #medicine #COVID #vaccination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82-97zZJ78Q
Shownotes/links: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1190/
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