🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

A new study published today in PLOS-Pathogens deepens our understanding of how past exposures to flu affect our body’s response to new or currently circulating strains and seasonal flu vaccines: bit.ly/2CF7KEU UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences UF IDDynamics

U of Illinois did 1.3% of total testing done in the US last week – w/ a low-cost saliva-based test they developed to test 50K students & faculty, 2x/wk, with <6 hr turnaround. Is this science fiction? 👉No. They had the will to try. What's your school doing? @OpenCovidScreen

Just out The Lancet: results from our RCT supporting the use of fractional yellow fever vaccine dosage for outbreak response thelancet.com/journals/lance… KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Tropical Medicine Oxford WHO R&D Blueprint MSF Science

Thank you @EPI_UF! Super proud of our hardworking team

UF investigators coauthored the first study to determine the CoronaVac vaccine is 50% effective at preventing COVID-19 in Manaus, Brazil where the P.1 variant is widespread. 👉 bit.ly/3mAkvTG (Nice work UF IDDynamics @MHitchingsEpi Derek Cummings!) University of Florida News UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences @UFExplore

🦟#PLOSNTDs: 'Modelling distributions of #Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus using #climate, host density and interspecies competition' by Bingyi Yang Rhoel Dinglasan Derek Cummings et al. @EPI_UF PLOS NTDs dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Our work about individual NPI policies’ effects on COVID-19 spread in the US counties is now out Nature Communications. We found, earlier in the pandemic, multiple interventions were needed to bring Rt below 1. Relaxing some NPIs needs counterbalanced by others.1/3 nature.com/articles/s4146…

New work led by Leah Katzelnick characterizing antigenic evolution of dengue viruses over 20 years in Thailand science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… We found that dengue viruses became more antigenically distant from each other over time. 1/2

May reflect evasion of heterotypic immunity but lots of work to do to understand selective pressures that could give rise to this pattern. With @hsalje Steve Whitehead WRAIR Ana Coello Angkana T. Huang @ufidd and others. 2/2

New research by UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and EPI biologist Derek Cummings shows that as populations of people gain immunity to dengue, it drives evolutionary pressures that select for viral evolution—and newly susceptible hosts. bit.ly/3HAZUZG University of Florida News @UFExplore

We showed that shift in #demography is the key driver of 4 #decades of rising age of #DHF in #Thailand (8y->24y). Opportunity to make long-term #projections of #dengue based on demography elsewhere. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… PNASNews UF IDDynamics @PDGCambridge

👏🏽 Bachir Assao, coordinateur épidémiologie du Centre de Recherche du Niger🇳🇪 qui débute son doctorat à l’Université de Floride UF IDDynamics. Objectif ▶️mieux modéliser et anticiper les épidémies qui sévissent régulièrement dans ce pays. epicentre.msf.org/actualites/bac…

VEBRA COVID-19 group Otavio Ranzani Natalie E. Dean, PhD Derek Cummings @MHitchingsEpi Jason Andrews

Our new Fluscape work is out eLife - the journal. We reported long term intrinsic cycles in individual antibody responses against 21 A(H3N2) strains that were isolated between 1968 and 2014. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Congrats to Assao Neino Bachir for placing first in the UF Graduate Student Research Day for his poster on malaria diagnostics!

Florida surgeon general altered key findings in study on Covid-19 vaccine safety ow.ly/LlUV104EMFz

A short 🧵on a recent study by Margaret (Maggie) Lind with @MHitchingsEpi Derek Cummings Albert Ko et al. Data show that immunity induced by vaccines, prior infection or both (hybrid) protects against SARS-CoV-2 infection when viral exposure is low to moderate (1/) nature.com/articles/s4146…

Florida’s controversial surgeon general Joseph Ladapo — who is also a tenured professor of medicine at UF — is at odds with the university over whether the public should receive new COVID-19 boosters. alligator.org/article/2023/0…

Responding more effectively to public health emergencies. Two FLORIDA & Emerging Pathogens Institute faculty are part of a new CDC-funded outbreak analytics and disease modeling network, designed to improve our nation's response to the outbreak of infectious diseases. phhp.ufl.edu/2023/09/28/uf-…