
Geneva Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases
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https://www.hug.ch/centre-maladies-virales-emergentes 02-11-2018 11:13:44
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Today, I shared insights on the Mpox outbreak and its management challenges in Uvira, eastern 🇨🇩, at the Geneva Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases's monthly Medical Colloquium. Key issues include lack of lab capacity, insufficient contact tracing, community engagement and vaccine confidence. #Mpox #PublicHealth




I’m pleased to share our latest #preprint, describing a scalable, high-throughput, optimized #nanopore based sequencing method for genomic surveillance of #influenza A virus across various host species. Funded by MCID Bern and Swiss National Science Foundation. Dr. Jenna Kelly 👩🏻🔬👩🏻💻🦠🧬🇨🇦🇨🇭 Universität Bern researchsquare.com/article/rs-521…






WHO study lists top endemic pathogens for which new vaccines are urgently needed World Health Organization (WHO) who.int/news/item/05-1…

Voué à la destruction, un fonds de données épidémiologiques de la World Health Organization (WHO) a été recueilli par la #Bibliothèque de l’UNIGE. Cette source documentaire, unique pour l’histoire des maladies qui ont marqué les sociétés au cours des 70 dernières années, est disponible au CMU. Lire





Die Finanzierung der VEuPathDB-Datenbank (einschließlich PlasmoDB, TriTrypDB, FungiDB, VectorBase etc.) durch die NIH wurde eingestellt. Als Ersatz bieten sich die hiesigen NFDI4Biodiversity und NFDI4Microbiota 🦠 🧬 💻 an. Deren Ausweitung ist Ziel der DFG public | @[email protected] – g-f-v.org/information-de…



Excited to be in Bern today to launch the Center for Pathogen Bioinformatics (CPB) - a great collaboration of @SIB, Tanja Stadler & Niko Beerenwinkel ETH Zürich, Richard Neher Universität Basel & myself Swiss TPH, to better tackle known & novel pathogens - introduced today by Christophe Dessimoz!

