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Just out nature Micro 👇 - our paper w/ Ethiopian Public Health Institute and World Health Organization (WHO) showing recent clonal spread of #malaria parasites w/ mutations that allow escape from diagnosis in Ethiopia. Real threat to efforts to #EndMalaria across the Horn of Africa. IDEEL nature.com/articles/s4156…

Our paper out today with evidence of malaria diagnostic resistance in Ethiopia. Such a fascinating issue biologically but a threatening one to public health. Thank you Jonathan Parr for the opportunity to work on this along with World Health Organization (WHO) Ethiopian Public Health Institute IDEEL #malaria #globalhealth

Plasmodium falciparum is evolving to escape malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Ethiopia. nature.com/articles/s4156…

New research in Nature Portfolio from Jonathan Parr IDEEL working with World Health Organization (WHO), Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Brown University & CDC Global Health. news.unchealthcare.org/2021/09/plasmo…

A survey of 12,572 participants in Ethiopia reveals that malaria diagnostics miss almost 10 percent of cases owing to a gene deletion in Plasmodium falciparum parasites that is under positive selection, according to a Nature Microbiology paper. go.nature.com/39NXAPn

Breaking News: The WHO approved the first ever malaria vaccine, which could save tens of thousands of children in sub-Saharan Africa. The quest for this vaccine has been underway for a hundred years, a WHO official said, and is a "historic event." nyti.ms/3oxUgAy

A sketch to explain how a new variant may appear milder even with no change in underlying virulence. This can occur because, when calculating the fraction of cases that are severe, the denominator now includes many re-infections that had previously been averted. A thread. 1/8

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Vaccines that protect against severe illness and death have been available for more than a year. In this we estimate conservatively that in the US ~135,000 lost their lives to covid over the Delta wave for lack of vaccination medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

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Thanks Nature Microbiology for highlighting our work with Ethiopian Public Health Institute on #WorldMalariaDay. The battle against this terrible parasite is far from over. Only together we can #EndMalaria. IDEEL Gates Foundation @baileygenomics SANRU asbl École de Santé Publique (ESP) Kinshasa Pathogen Genomic Lab - INRB

BREAKING: US #monkeypox sequence data suggest there are at least 2 concurrent outbreaks going on globally, CDC says. It suggests the virus may have a foothold in places that haven't been identified & has been spreading longer than recognized. statnews.com/2022/06/03/gen…

The result of an exciting and informative research collaboration with NICD! A testament to the fact that data-sharing and cross-organizational collaboration lead to exciting opportunities to gain & spread knowledge. #COVID19 #SouthAfrica #SARSCoV2

Great #APHA2022 experience sharing & consuming research at the intersection of public health & applied stats. also always great to see UNC Public Health and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health represent 🥳🤍

Hold up!! What!?! !?!!? (just getting caught up on malaria lit..SMH) PS: No lie, I wrote a silly sci-fi short story about a similar scenario a while back, need to dig that up nature.com/articles/s4156…

Thanks Yonatan! Really interesting to think through the potential STI parallels...

Check out our new preprint (+ a great summary thread courtesy of @yhgrad) below!

👇Out today Nature Microbiology - our new paper led by Abebe Alemu Fola (PhD) showing emergence of #malaria strains w/ resistance to first-line drugs & diagnostics in #Ethiopia. These and recent reports from the region are truly concerning. nature.com/articles/s4156…