That "explosive" nature, however, could potentially be caused - as @arambaut.bsky.social lays out - by a combination of long(ish) term cryptic transmission, linked to sexual networks / sex work, followed by more recent detection and reporting.

Again, his thread:

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Epidemiological and genomic evolution of the ongoing outbreak of clade Ib mpox virus in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo - Nature Medicine Genomic and epidemiologic data suggest that the rapid spread of mpox clade I in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has happened mostly through sexual contact within densely populated areas.

For recent outbreaks of Clade Ib in the DRC, similar patters have been seen, although not the same "explosive" nature we're observing in Sierra Leone.

@marionkoopmans.bsky.social's paper:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Een belangrijk vaccin dat mensen moet beschermen bij grote uitbraak #vogelgriep staat op losse schroeven nu de VS een contract met Moderna heeft opgezegd. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social: "Dit besluit gaat ongetwijfeld gevolgen hebben voor nieuwe vaccins."
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kleine correctie. Ik stop als afdelingshoofd maar ga niet met pensioen!

Meest terecht verdiende onderscheiding Commandeur in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau is voor @marionkoopmans.bsky.social We hebben meer helden nodig als Marion. Laat haar een voorbeeld zijn voor velen en inspiratie voor alle jonge vrouwen aan het begin van hun wetenschappelijke carrière. 🥳

Crystal Heath DVM on X: "This is one of the clearest, most grounded breakdowns of what’s wrong with our current bird flu response—and what actually needs to happen next in terms of vaccination and why. I would also add that we need compel producers to stop relying on heatstroke-based methods to https://t.co/PWXUNOCIsL" / X This is one of the clearest, most grounded breakdowns of what’s wrong with our current bird flu response—and what actually needs to happen next in terms of vaccination and why. I would also add that we need compel producers to stop relying on heatstroke-based methods to https://t.co/PWXUNOCIsL

x.com/drcrystalhea... Vet saying it like It is

It’s mad. I wrote a few thoughts about it the other day. Since then someone posted that all the grants cancelled to date are ones started under the Biden administration. If this is all some mad political tit-for-tat it’s utterly pathetic and incredibly destructive.

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International Symposium on Pandemic Preparedness CoViPa – Virological and immunological determinants of COVID-19 pathogenesis - lessons to get prepared for future pandemics: The research network CoViPa, funded by the Helmholtz Association, is dedica...

Interested in SARS-CoV-2 and pandemic preparedness? Join the #covipa symposium on June 2/3 in Heidelberg/Germany, with keynotes by @marionkoopmans.bsky.social, @sanderlab.bsky.social, Florian Krammer, Gülsah Gabriel and Andreas Wack: indico.dkfz.de/event/1169/

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Exclusive: NIH to end billions of dollars in foreign research grants Move by US biomedical agency jeopardizes thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

www.nature.com/articles/d41... what we dreaded happened

Voor welke dilemma’s komen wetenschappers te staan nu de VS de aanval opent op academische vrijheid? Op 20 mei organiseren de KNAW en @debalie.bsky.social een debatavond, met o.a. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social. Meer info en tickets: bit.ly/3YOXl0j
#academischevrijheid #wetenschap #maandvandevrijheid

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Viroloog Marion Koopmans (Erasmus MC) is gekozen als lid van de National Academy of Sciences. Haar onderzoek richt zich op opkomende infecties met speciale nadruk op het ontrafelen van routes bij het ontstaan en de verspreiding van ziekten op het grensvlak tussen mens en dier.

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As I understand this, these are contextual analysis with general llm's and not specifically trained llm's on a certain topic. General llm's are worse at this.
Diagnostics is done with specifically trained deterministic Ai what is really different from generative Ai.

Thanks for sharing.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic performance comparison between generative AI and physicians - npj Digital Medicine npj Digital Medicine - A systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic performance comparison between generative AI and physicians

See lots of enthusiasm about generative AI in different areas of medicine. This systematic review shows that optimism is not supported by current evidence, except in urology and dermatology. From promise to validation as a valley of death www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A comparative analysis of the dendritic cell response upon exposure to different rabies virus strains - PubMed Rabies is a viral zoonotic disease that causes over 60,000 human deaths annually worldwide. Natural infections lack a virus-specific immune response, leading to a near 100% fatality rate unless immedi...

Paper by Phd student Kesha Kroh under guidance of @CarmenEmbregts and @Corine_GvK studying fundamental aspects of infection with different rabies viruses. Rabies is 100% lethal, and understanding why there is no effective host response is crucial pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40208887/

The Wuhan CDC has nothing to do with the origin of COVID-19. Virus genetic engineering and culturing was not their trade (samples were sent to Beijing/Shanghai). They did not have collection of bat viruses from Yunnan. I was told that staff at WCDC did not hear about the outbreak until late Dec.

mag toch allebei?

thank you!

👏🏽Congratulations to Prof. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social for receiving the ESCMID Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Infection!

We’re proud to celebrate Professor Koopmans, a key member of the Ecraid Coordinating Committee, for receiving this award! Read more: bit.ly/AwardESCMID

Vacature: Postdoc Virology The department of Viroscience at the Erasmus MC and the department of Chemical Biology & Drug discovery at Utrecht University have joined forces to identify functional glycan receptors for influenza A...

We a looking for a Postdoc!
Interested in virology, stem-cell derived models, glycans?
Apply before 29th of October!

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yes, it was wonderful

I think eventually lots of science influences policy. In fact, it is something that is considered when evaluation science programs, to assess impact of the work. They key issue of course is to have clearly delineated roles. Scientists should not step into the shoes of politicians and vice versa

were you there? Missed that. The meeting is so big that it is hard to find anyone. Glad you enjoyed it. I think this is an important topic. Not sure how to deal with it, but I do definitely think we all have a role to play.

thanks Alma. Well...packed....I missed the packed room on Saturday. But honoured with this award.

Listening to @marionkoopmans.bsky.social giving the ESCMID excellence award lecture “Towards pandemic prevention, moonshot or utopia?” at #ESCMIDGlobal

@escmid.bsky.social

Incredible treat when traveling back from Vienna. The flight crew @KLM thanked me and invited me into the cockpit for landing. With clear skies, the impressive dashboards and nice conversations, we descended into Amsterdam. What a treat! Thanks team, this was very special

scheduled to give a talk at the European Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases conference about addressing anti-science in our community. Looking for examples, experiences. suggestions?

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