📢 @ssi-dk.bsky.social: #Usutuvirus påvist i danske #myg// Usutu #virus detected for first time in #Danish #mosquitoes🦟🐦⬛
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DK: #Usutuvirus påvist i danske myg. For første gang er usutuvirus påvist i #myg indsamlet i #Danmark. Fundet bekræfter, at virus cirkulerer i den danske natur, men ændrer ikke den aktuelle vurdering af risikoen for befolkningen.
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🖥️ In our recent webinar, Dr. Yannick Simonin described how his team tracks WNV and Usutu virus in southern France using a “One Health” approach that links human, animal, and environmental health.
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#WestNileVirus #UsutuVirus
No os preocupéis !! 🦟😬 #usutu #viruses #virus #wnv #virususutu #usutuvirus
Help protect Blackbirds in our gardens from #UsutuVirus which is gaining ground in the UK
Figure 2 in Münger et al. (2025): "Selection of bird species, both free-ranging and captive, with evidence of Usutu virus (USUV) or West Nile virus (WNV) infection and/or exposure, the Netherlands, 2016–2022."
New publication: #OneHealth approach uncovers emergence and dynamics of Usutu and West Nile viruses in the Netherlands, by @jurrianvanirsel.bsky.social @tjommem.bsky.social and others. #usutuvirus #westnilevirus #ecologicalepidemiology
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Figure 7 in Agliani et al. (2025): "Eight Eurasian blackbirds were sampled on day -7 (blood, serum, pharynx and cloacal swabs and breast feathers); after sampling, the blackbirds were singularly housed in cages in isolators and left to acclimatize for 7 days and activity and health status were monitored. On day 0, blackbirds were either inoculated with USUV Afr3 (n = 3), Eu3 (n = 3), or sterile PBS (n = 2). On 1, 3 and 5 days post inoculation (d.p.i.) blackbirds were sampled (blood, serum, pharynx and cloacal swabs and breast feathers). At the humane endpoint, blackbirds were euthanized, necropsied, and tissue samples were collected for histopathology, tissue titration and RT-qPCR. Created in BioRender, agreement licence number OO28BUTARJ."
New publication: Experimental Usutu virus infection in Eurasian blackbirds, by @tjommem.bsky.social and others. #turdusmerula #onehealth #pathogenesis #usutuvirus
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Heartbreaking news from Isle of Arran vets. #Blackbird virus seems to have reached Scotland 😩💔
Read more here 👇🏻 #bird #BeAware #UsutuVirus
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New publication: #UsutuVirus Antibody Dynamics in Naturally Infected #Blackbirds, the Netherlands, 2016–2018, by @jurrianvanirsel.bsky.social and others.
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#Flavivirus #BloodBrainBarrier
#WestNileVirus #UsutuVirus cross in vitro #BBB (🧠microvascular #EndothelialCell - ThinCert - #Pericyte #Astrocyte, 60 Ω/cm2)
w/o barrier disruption
BBB secretome
⏬MMP3 MCP1
⏫IFNβ CXCL10
@barryrockx.bsky.social x #NPJViruses 2025
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Figure 1 in Van Irsel et al. (2025): "The mapped model predictions of the gradient boosting model showing the USUV occurrence over the Netherlands for the years 2016 (A), 2017 (B), 2018 (C), 2019 (D), 2020 (E), 2021 (F), and 2022 (G). Colours indicate the USUV occurrence probabilities ranging from 0 (white) to 1 (dark orange). For each year the histogram of the monthly total number of dead reported blackbirds is shown (n), with the months selected for our analyses (June–October; blue) and all other months (red)."
New publication: Spatio-temporal #Usutuvirus model explains Eurasian #blackbird Turdus merula population trends, by @jurrianvanirsel.bsky.social and others. #citizenscience #nichemodels #transmission #vectorbornepathogen #wildlifemortality
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Kannst die Amseln gerne zu uns schicken. Ihr Gesang fehlt hier
#Usutuvirus 🙄
Blackbirds are dropping dead from the sky as virus spells eerie threat for UK > www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-n... via #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ZoonoticDisease #Wildlife #UsutuVirus #flavivirus #Ornithology #Birds #Mosquitoes #Humans #SouthAfrica #England #UK #Worldwide
Graphical abstract Koenraadt et al. (2024).
New publication: Overwintering of #Usutuvirus in #mosquitoes, The Netherlands.
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Klimawandel treibt Ausbreitung voran
Das Usutu-Virus, das ursprünglich in tropischen Regionen beheimatet ist, breitet sich seit über zwanzig Jahren in Europa aus. Es wird durch heimische Stechmücken übertragen, die das Virus von Vogel zu Vogel weitertragen.
#Usutuvirus
New publication: Sentinel #chicken surveillance reveals previously undetected circulation of #WestNilevirus in the Netherlands, by @HenkvanderJeugd @ReinaSikkema and others. #Usutuvirus #Orthoflavivirus #sentinel #serology #surveillance
https://doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2024.2406278
New publication: Ixodes ricinus as potential vector for #Usutuvirus, by @ReinaSikkema @HenkvanderJeugd and others. #ticks #mosquitoes #birds #onehealth #viralreplication
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012172
New publication: Assessing #WestNilevirus (WNV) and #Usutuvirus (USUV) exposure in #birdringers in the Netherlands: A high-risk group for WNV and USUV infection? By @HenkvanderJeugd @ReinaSikkema and others.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2023.100533
New NIOO publication: Evaluation of the use of alternative sample types for mosquito-borne flavivirus surveillance, by @HenkvanderJeugd and others. #westnilevirus #usutuvirus #wildbirds #arboviruses
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100456
Komt het goed met de merel? Persbericht van ons Vogeltrekstation met @Sovon, DWHC en @ErasmusMC over het #usutuvirus https://nioo.knaw.nl/nl/pers/komt-het-goed-met-de-merel