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The global shift in H5 avian influenza viruses among wild birds has really changed the ecology. Europe now both a sink and a source for H5. Bidirectional spread of viruses between europe and asia. Global collaboration crucial academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…

Back in 2003 when #SARS took 299 lives from Hong Kong, an expert committee was founded to review the control of outbreak (sars-expertcom.gov.hk/eindex.html). So far #covid has caused 13,338 deaths in HK.

Hong Kong had nearly a full year to vaccinate its elderly population before the Omicron outbreak began. By February 2022, only 23% of the elderly age 80+ were fully vaccinated. Result: the highest number of Covid deaths per capita in the world while vaccines were widely available

Singapore, appears to be track to break its previous years of the highest number of #dengue cases, is reporting an 24% increase in the densities of Aedes aegypti. The 4 dengue viruses co-circulate, with each one replacing the other, driving outbreaks. telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Avian flu spills over from birds to mammals in UK bbc.in/40nZZcM

Worth reading this classic paper: nature.com/articles/natur…. It explains why repeat spillovers are bad, because even if pathogens currently transmit inefficiently, the longer they stutter along, the more opportunities it creates to pick up mutation that increases transmission...

New York City has declared an end to the mpox outbreak. Thanks to action by the LGBTQ+ community and local health officials, more than 100,000 people in the city were vaccinated and disease spread slowed significantly. bit.ly/3Yf9Xvi

Firewalled, but study finding almost 30% of ebola survivors experience sequellae even 5 years out academic.oup.com/cid/article-ab…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has just declared an end to the #COVID19 public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). "I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency", says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at press conference going on now.

Excited to see this work now online! Using a phylogeographic framework, we formally investigate the role of presumed origin locations of VOCs in their global dispersal and highlight the influence of air travel and hubs in the VOC expansion process. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

ECDC states there is not yet sufficient information to assess risks of the 16 notified cases of H5N1 in cats in Poland. Source unknown, suspected to be a common source given the sudden and widespread occurrence and involvement of in house cats ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/…

Good piece on the value of digital contact tracing in future pandemics by Marcel Salathé nature.com/articles/d4158… – combined with better linkage to venues of transmission (e.g. superspreading events), potential for a lot of impact here. 1/

WHO statement on reported clusters of respiratory illness in children in northern China WHO has made an official request to #China for detailed information on an increase in respiratory illnesses and reported clusters of pneumonia in children. At a press conference on 13

HKU Ben Cowling’s team at #EPIDEMICS9!

Australia being ‘left behind’ as federal research and development funding sinks to 30-year low theguardian.com/business/2024/…

“The WHO European Region is experiencing an alarming rise in measles cases. Over 30,000 cases were reported by 40 of the Region’s 53 Member States between January and October. Compared to 941 cases in all of 2022, this represents a more than 30-fold rise.” who.int/europe/news/it…

A big crowd of students & colleagues from HKU Public Health at the Option meeting. 4 full days of interesting discussion about flu and other respiratory viruses! HKU Medicine Options2024

Excited to share our paper on integrating contact tracing data to enhance outbreak phylodynamic inference is out now Molecular Biology and Evolution academic.oup.com/mbe/article/do… With Dillon C. Adam, Ph.D Hu Shu Ben Cowling @vijay_lab Olivier Gascuel from @ISYEB_UMR Anna Zhukova from Institut Pasteur, since 1887

Check out our BEAST tree summary method! The CCD0-MAP tree gives much more accurate results than the MCC tree. It returns the tree that maximises the product of sampled clade probabilities regardless of whether that tree was sampled. Highly recommend :) journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…