I was interviewed about this article by Monique Steele for RNZ RNZ rural news rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Density matters: How population dynamics of house mice (Mus musculus) inform the epidemiology of Leptospira 🐁 The wider movement patterns and easier encounters of positive mice highlight the possibility of biases in classical prevalence surveys 📊 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

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Excited to share this collaborative work with Zamin Iqbal ! We're thrilled about the potential impact LexicMap could have on advancing microbial genomics research! Imagine how cool it is to search for a gene (with >30k hits) against 2 million bacterial genomes within 1 minute!

Our lab at Cornell is hiring a postdoc to lead investigations of viral #zoonoses in #Bats and develop strategies for pandemic prevention. Background in #DiseaseEcology, #OneHealth, #EEID, or epidemiology. More details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28001

HKU5 in minks! 😣 ‘We identified a MERS-like coronavirus—Pipistrellus bat coronavirus HKU5—in two mink from a single farm associated with an outbreak of pneumonia, as well as the first report, to our knowledge, of a coronavirus in nutria.’ nature.com/articles/s4158…

ARE YOU WDA 2024 OFF COUNTRY CONFERENCE CURIOUS? Sangjin, Fernando, Lucas, Marianthi, Cat, Berta and Sarange share their vision for WDA 2024 so think Olympic coverage but with wildlife health. It's going to be huge. Listen on your favourite app or Google Wildlife Health Talks.

udder to udder rather than respiratory transmission of H5N1 in cattle nature.com/articles/s4158…

with some suspected cases in Europe, we're likely to hear a lot about Marburg in the coming days... promedmail.org/promed-post/?i…

Two people in Germany have tested negative for Marburg. According to this report, much of the information posted on social media yesterday was incorrect. politico.eu/article/suspec…

EXCLUSIVE: My latest VANITY FAIR investigation examines why the federal response to the growing #H5N1 outbreak in dairy cows became marred by obfuscation + an unspoken `Don't test, don't tell' policy on America's farms, and how /1 vanityfair.com/news/story/ins…

So this interview lasted 2 hours so this “you’re scaring me” part might seem like an overreaction or fearmongering to someone without that context. There’s a lot of evidence to support my hypothesis that a potential H5N1 pandemic would be worse than COVID.

NEW: The country's top medical and public health professional societies are suing RFK Jr for unlawful anti-science changes to government vaccine guidelines.