🎉We are pleased to welcome Bachelor student Ludivine Thomas (Univ de Lorraine) for an internship under Dr. Snoeck’s supervision. She is working on the development of new lab methods to detect Influenza A virus RNA in water and validating different sample types for anti–Influenza A antibody detection
Dr. Reteng and Dr. Snoeck participated to an OH4Surveillance workshop on influenza in Copenhagen in February. The event gathered animal and human health experts to exchange on whole-genome sequencing of influenza virus, from technical aspects to communicating results to health authorities.
📣Successful public outreach! Dr Snoeck and Dr Hübschen, together with ALVA, recently published an activity report highlighting the long-standing surveillance of zoonotic diseases of avian origin in Luxembourg. The report written in easy-to-understand language is available at: tinyurl.com/report-LIH
🎉Congratulations to MD Vilaysone Khounvisith from the LaoLuxLab! She defended her PhD thesis at the University of Basel on March 4 with distinction (Cum Laude). Her research explored the link between WASH and infectious diseases in Laos. Well done, Dr Khounvisith! 👏
#Laos #InfectiousDiseases #WASH
🎉We are happy to announce recent publications on collaborative projects with partners in the Central African Republic, Burkina Faso and Laos
#research
#onehealth
#laos
#burkinafaso
#centralafricanrepublic
#infectiousdiseases
We kicked off the new year on the ice! ⛸️
In January, our team enjoyed a fun ice skating outing, an energizing way to connect, recharge, and start the year with motivation and team spirit.
Between October 14 and 16, Dr. Hübschen participated to the 20th meeting of the WHO European Regional Reference/Global Specialized laboratories in Berlin, Germany 🧪
Mid October, Dr C. Snoeck and A. Sausy again had the pleasure to participate to the annual meeting of the National Reference Laboratories for avian influenza and Newcastle disease virus in Italy🎉. Great exchange of information, especially in light of the current avian influenza situation in Europe.
🎉We are happy to announce that Emmie Gillet joined our team last September as a Laboratory technician. Emmie will be working on tick surveillance in Luxembourg, part of the One Health🌍for surveillance project.
Andrea Diaz, our PhD student, recently visited the Lao-Luxembourg laboratory hosted by the Institut Pasteur du Laos. The purpose of her visit was to advance her PhD project, focused on infectious diseases in children under five years of age in Laos. #InfectiousDiseases #VulnerablePopulations
In August, Dr Hübschen, Dr Reteng and C. Gamio attended a tick identification workshop in Tartu, Estonia. Organized by the OH4Surveillance consortium, the event focused on the morphological identification of common European ticks. Many thanks to Dr Chitimia-Dobler for sharing valuable expertise!
Dr Aleksandra Krawczyk participated to a workshop on an interdisciplinary approach for ticks and tick-borne pathogen risk assessment organized by PRAGMATICK COST Action (pragmatick-action.eu) on the 2nd and 3rd of October. #TickBorneDiseases #Ticks #EU
Alexandre Stockholm, from the Université de Lorraine, successfully completed his ten-week internship with us. 🎉👏
He explored the role of birds in the tick-borne disease borreliosis, under the supervision of Dr. Aleksandra Krawczyk. Alexandre will continue to work with us in August as summer student!
Together with Dr Ben Mamou from WHO EURO, Dr Judith Hübschen and Emilie Charpentier conducted an onsite accreditation visit to the National Measles and Rubella Laboratory in North Macedonia in June 2025. Congratulation to the team for successful accreditation!
#WHO #Measles #Rubella
On May 14th, we participated to a workshop at the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg organized by the Division de l'inspection sanitaire. There, we shared our expertise on vector-borne disease surveillance with the medical community.
#vectorbornediseases #luxembourg
In April, we started our monthly tick 🕷️ sampling at various sites in Luxembourg, as part of the One Health 4 Surveillance project. Stay tuned for updates on ticks in Luxembourg #OneHealth #TickSurveillance #Luxembourg
We’ve recently published several articles in peer-reviewed journals🎉. Stay tuned for more science from the Clinical and Applied Virology group!
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Influenza A and B were reliably detected in wastewater, closely aligning with clinical trends📈. Novel methods to define flu seasons using wastewater data show promise for complementary community-level disease surveillance👩🔬. #PublicHealth #WastewaterSurveillance #Luxembourg
Dr. Lisa Hefele joined the celebration of Luxembourg’s National Day at the Luxembourg Embassy in Vientiane, Laos. Wishing everyone a joyful National Day! ✨
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#luxembourgNationalDay
#Laos
We took part in the 8th Luxembourg Microbiology Day hosted in the House of BioHealth! Congrats to the Luxembourg Society for Microbiology for organizing a great event. Here are some snapshots from the day! 📸 #Microbiology #Luxembourg
We are happy to announce that we will participate to the 8th Luxembourg Microbiology Day. We will share with the scientific community one poster on ticks and tick-borne diseases, and one poster on virus surveillance in wild birds. Join us there! 👩🔬🎉
#MicrobiologyDay #Luxembourg
Are you interested in ticks and tick borne diseases? Recently four team members participated to the 16th international symposium in Germany. Dr. Krawczyk and Dr. Reteng shared their results and insights through an oral presentation, a panel discussion and a poster.
#Ticks #TickBorneDiseases
Happy Lao New year!
🎉We have been visiting our collaborators around Laos with a customary basket, to celebrate with them the Lao New Year🎉
#Laos #LaoNewYear #LaoPDR
🎉In February, we met our partners from the One Health for Surveillance international project in Uppsala. Dr. Merten (left) from ALVA, Dr. Hübschen (middle) and Dr. Snoeck (right) from LIH formed the Luxembourgish delegation.
Learn more at: tinyurl.com/OH4S-LIH
#OneHealth #EU #Zoonoses
🎉Happy Lao New Year!🎉
Our Clinical & Applied Virology group has worked with WHO for 20+ years to fight measles & rubella. It took years to build a strong global lab network (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39204069/), but its future is uncertain. WHO seeks new funders - every contribution helps!
#Measles #Rubella #MakeAnImpact
🌐The @who.int faces serious funding challenges after the US withdrawal, putting critical programs at risk. If you’d like to help sustain global health efforts, consider donating to the WHO Foundation: whofoundation.donorsupport.co/page/FUNEKRB...
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Have a look at our new publication: Latent tuberculosis prevalence in healthcare workers in Laos: a cross-sectional study
👉 tropmedhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#tuberculosis #Laos #VulnerablePopulations #PublicHealth
Three people are standing in front of a window and hold the prize up. On the edges of the photo, parts of the Christmas decoration are visible.
🎉 We won! A big shout-out to our team for winning the Luxembourg Institute of Health’s Christmas decoration contest! 🎄✨ Our "snow globe" theme brought a magical winter wonderland to life. We thank the rest of our team and everyone else who helped make this happen! #TeamVictory #HolidaySpirit 🎅🏆