Edyth Parker
@edythparker.bsky.social
Pathogen Genomic Epidemiologist at the Institute of Genomics and Global Health (ACEGID); I will be tedious and dignified on here. 🇿🇦
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We find that subclade K viruses are antigenically advanced; however, this year's flu vaccine surprisingly elicited antibodies in many individuals that efficiently recognized these viruses. The implications are clear: go get this year’s vaccine if you haven’t already!
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Antibodies elicited by the 2025-2026 influenza vaccine in humans
A new H3N2 variant (named subclade K) possesses several key hemagglutinin substitutions and is circulating widely during the 2025-2026 influenza season. In this report, we completed experiments to det...
www.medrxiv.org
January 7, 2026 at 1:34 PM
We find that subclade K viruses are antigenically advanced; however, this year's flu vaccine surprisingly elicited antibodies in many individuals that efficiently recognized these viruses. The implications are clear: go get this year’s vaccine if you haven’t already!
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Fantastic opportunity!
We are recruiting two postdoc roles to work with #DeZiNetwork on dengue, Zika, and other emerging arboviruses:
🔬 Viral Computational Genomics
🔗 Apply here: lnkd.in/eq-dqCJb
🧪 Viral Genomics and Immunology
🔗 Apply here: lnkd.in/eMEKWb9b
More on DeZi here: lnkd.in/edwBg-qX
Deadline: 15 Jan 2026
🔬 Viral Computational Genomics
🔗 Apply here: lnkd.in/eq-dqCJb
🧪 Viral Genomics and Immunology
🔗 Apply here: lnkd.in/eMEKWb9b
More on DeZi here: lnkd.in/edwBg-qX
Deadline: 15 Jan 2026
LinkedIn
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lnkd.in
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Fantastic opportunity!
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I rarely ask for things, but I will make an exception for my colleague and friend, Augustine Goba, who dedicated his life to saving others.
Augustine was Director of the hemorrhagic fever lab in Kenema, Salone, and is struggling with PSP.
Please consider donating.
www.gofundme.com/f/augustine-...
Augustine was Director of the hemorrhagic fever lab in Kenema, Salone, and is struggling with PSP.
Please consider donating.
www.gofundme.com/f/augustine-...
Donate to Help Augustine Goba battle Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, organized by Michelle McGraw
Mr. Augustine Goba is the Emeritus Director of the Kenema Gov… Michelle McGraw needs your support for Help Augustine Goba battle Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
www.gofundme.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I rarely ask for things, but I will make an exception for my colleague and friend, Augustine Goba, who dedicated his life to saving others.
Augustine was Director of the hemorrhagic fever lab in Kenema, Salone, and is struggling with PSP.
Please consider donating.
www.gofundme.com/f/augustine-...
Augustine was Director of the hemorrhagic fever lab in Kenema, Salone, and is struggling with PSP.
Please consider donating.
www.gofundme.com/f/augustine-...
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So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
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Amazing novel mpox recombination between epidemic clade 1 and 2 in returning traveller detected in UK: virological.org/t/inter-clad...
Inter-Clade Recombinant Mpox Virus Detected in England in a Traveller Recently Returned from Asia
Inter-Clade Recombinant Mpox Virus Detected in England in a Traveller Recently Returned from Asia Authors: Steven T. Pullan1, Isobel Everall1, Rebecca Doherty1, Lucy Crossman1, Emma Wise1, Hassan Ha...
virological.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Amazing novel mpox recombination between epidemic clade 1 and 2 in returning traveller detected in UK: virological.org/t/inter-clad...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This #GivingTuesday, become a monthly donor at World Central Kitchen. $50 will be added to your first month’s gift, thanks to a $1 million match. Together, we can ensure WCK is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to crises around the world. bit.ly/3KjB2vD
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We are in peak French heist season.
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
stzl.ink
November 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
We are in peak French heist season.
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1/ 🚀 Pathoplexus now supports Marburg virus (MARV) and Ravn virus (RAVN) (sister viruses in the same genus). MARV has two main clades and causes severe disease with reported fatality rates of 24–88%.
You can read more detail about adding Marburg here: pathoplexus.org/news/2025-11...
You can read more detail about adding Marburg here: pathoplexus.org/news/2025-11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
1/ 🚀 Pathoplexus now supports Marburg virus (MARV) and Ravn virus (RAVN) (sister viruses in the same genus). MARV has two main clades and causes severe disease with reported fatality rates of 24–88%.
You can read more detail about adding Marburg here: pathoplexus.org/news/2025-11...
You can read more detail about adding Marburg here: pathoplexus.org/news/2025-11...
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A nice article, highlighting the important work our collaborators in South Africa are doing using wastewater to surveil a bunch of different vaccine preventable diseases (and finding a lot more of them than other reports would make you believe…).
💪🇿🇦
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
💪🇿🇦
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
Wastewater surveillance reveals disease trends in South Africa
From COVID-19 to measles, scientists are showing how wastewater surveillance can expose underreported infections and strengthen national health monitoring.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
A nice article, highlighting the important work our collaborators in South Africa are doing using wastewater to surveil a bunch of different vaccine preventable diseases (and finding a lot more of them than other reports would make you believe…).
💪🇿🇦
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
💪🇿🇦
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
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I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear:
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear:
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
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GISAID on providing data to @Nextstrain.org: "After consulting with our staff and advisors on the feasibility of keeping your global tree up-to-date, there was a clear consensus that continuing to generate, zip and move big files back and forth is not sustainable and a waste of resources."
🙃
🙃
Nextstrain: Interruption to GISAID-based SARS-CoV-2 sequence analyses
Nextstrain blog post from 2025-11-06; author(s): Trevor Bedford, Richard Neher and the Nextstrain team
next.nextstrain.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
GISAID on providing data to @Nextstrain.org: "After consulting with our staff and advisors on the feasibility of keeping your global tree up-to-date, there was a clear consensus that continuing to generate, zip and move big files back and forth is not sustainable and a waste of resources."
🙃
🙃
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“Sudan's Death Toll Could Exceed Gaza’s. Here’s Everything You Need to Know”
Important convo on the genocide there from me/Zeteo, with 2 Sudan experts who offer actual solutions to stop the fighting & put pressure on outside actors like the UAE & Saudi:
Important convo on the genocide there from me/Zeteo, with 2 Sudan experts who offer actual solutions to stop the fighting & put pressure on outside actors like the UAE & Saudi:
Sudan's Death Toll Could Exceed Gaza’s. Here’s Everything You Need to Know
Two experts on Sudan explain how the killing in El Fasher is worse than anyone knows.
zeteo.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
“Sudan's Death Toll Could Exceed Gaza’s. Here’s Everything You Need to Know”
Important convo on the genocide there from me/Zeteo, with 2 Sudan experts who offer actual solutions to stop the fighting & put pressure on outside actors like the UAE & Saudi:
Important convo on the genocide there from me/Zeteo, with 2 Sudan experts who offer actual solutions to stop the fighting & put pressure on outside actors like the UAE & Saudi:
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Sudan hospital bombing kills 460 patients and healthcare workers buff.ly/SJnIcle
Sudan hospital bombing kills 460 patients and healthcare workers
buff.ly
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Sudan hospital bombing kills 460 patients and healthcare workers buff.ly/SJnIcle
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I’m so honored to be a guest on the last episode of Science in Action after a decades-long run. I only wish it were ending on a happier note, but if science were in a better place, it wouldn’t be ending.
If we had a normal Science in Action next week, we'd likely lead on this milestone in H5N1 bird flu, and the global picture
As it is, it's the final episode, and @angierasmussen.bsky.social will be joining a top top panel to discuss the dire state of anti science in 2025.
H5N1 will get a look in?
As it is, it's the final episode, and @angierasmussen.bsky.social will be joining a top top panel to discuss the dire state of anti science in 2025.
H5N1 will get a look in?
It’s everywhere except Australia. I don’t know if H5N1 will make the jump to human adaptation and pandemic potential, but it’s never had more opportunities.
youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY?...
youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY?...
October 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I’m so honored to be a guest on the last episode of Science in Action after a decades-long run. I only wish it were ending on a happier note, but if science were in a better place, it wouldn’t be ending.
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The count down to the end of the Ebola outbreak in the DRC has officially begun. The last patient in the treatment center has be released. 42 days need to elapsed without any new cases for the end of the outbreak to be official. Fingers crossed.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/last-e...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/last-e...
Last Ebola patient in DR Congo discharged; countdown to end of outbreak starts
www.cidrap.umn.edu
October 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The count down to the end of the Ebola outbreak in the DRC has officially begun. The last patient in the treatment center has be released. 42 days need to elapsed without any new cases for the end of the outbreak to be official. Fingers crossed.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/last-e...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/last-e...
Happy to see this out finally -- my thanks to the brilliant team!
Genomic epidemiology uncovers the origin of the mpox epidemic in Sierra Leone https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.15.25337823v1
October 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Happy to see this out finally -- my thanks to the brilliant team!
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The role of climate variability in shaping the 2023/24 outbreak of Dengue in Brazil (📉 in north regions; 📈 in southern populous regions).
Brazil recorded the largest outbreak on record which coincided with the warmest ever reported temperatures in the Americas.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brazil recorded the largest outbreak on record which coincided with the warmest ever reported temperatures in the Americas.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The role of climate variability in shaping the 2023/24 outbreak of Dengue in Brazil (📉 in north regions; 📈 in southern populous regions).
Brazil recorded the largest outbreak on record which coincided with the warmest ever reported temperatures in the Americas.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brazil recorded the largest outbreak on record which coincided with the warmest ever reported temperatures in the Americas.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Vaccination of frontline health workers and contacts of people infected with #Ebola has begun in the #DRC’s Kasai Province where an outbreak of the disease has been declared: www.afro.who.int/countries/de...
September 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Vaccination of frontline health workers and contacts of people infected with #Ebola has begun in the #DRC’s Kasai Province where an outbreak of the disease has been declared: www.afro.who.int/countries/de...
As always, the deepest admiration for INRB and Placide's work: The 16th Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Bulape Health Zone, Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A new spillover event from an unknown reservoir host virological.org/t/the-16th-e...
The 16th Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Bulape Health Zone, Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A new spillover event from an unknown reservoir host
Background The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently facing concurrent outbreaks including mpox, cholera and malaria (1-4). The Ministry of Public Health, DRC has declared the 16th Ebola...
virological.org
September 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
As always, the deepest admiration for INRB and Placide's work: The 16th Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Bulape Health Zone, Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A new spillover event from an unknown reservoir host virological.org/t/the-16th-e...
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DRC just declared an Ebola outbreak with 13 deaths so far.
🚨The WHO has issued an alert on a potential Ebola outbreak in the Kasai Province of Congo.
I really hope the outbreak doesn't spread bc of how difficult this will be to control without US funds -- plus the harm of travel bans, which are little more than security theatre.
I really hope the outbreak doesn't spread bc of how difficult this will be to control without US funds -- plus the harm of travel bans, which are little more than security theatre.
September 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
DRC just declared an Ebola outbreak with 13 deaths so far.
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August 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Join us 08/27 @ 11 AM ET for our next Biosecurity Game Changers Seminar topic: Regional Policies for Mitigating Risks Associated with AI-enabled Biodesign
🗣️ Moderated by Jon Arizti Sanz w/ panelists Rik Bleijs, Sarah Carter, & Suryesh Namdeo
Register here:
brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗣️ Moderated by Jon Arizti Sanz w/ panelists Rik Bleijs, Sarah Carter, & Suryesh Namdeo
Register here:
brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
August 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Join us 08/27 @ 11 AM ET for our next Biosecurity Game Changers Seminar topic: Regional Policies for Mitigating Risks Associated with AI-enabled Biodesign
🗣️ Moderated by Jon Arizti Sanz w/ panelists Rik Bleijs, Sarah Carter, & Suryesh Namdeo
Register here:
brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗣️ Moderated by Jon Arizti Sanz w/ panelists Rik Bleijs, Sarah Carter, & Suryesh Namdeo
Register here:
brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Really excited to have been a part of this study, lead by @willharv.bsky.social on how reassortment of H5N1 in birds has lead to a 'specialist' genotype that thrives in seabirds and drives summer/spring (rather than winter) waves of poultry outbreaks www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Genetic reassortment and diversification of host specificity have driven evolutionary trajectories of lineages of panzootic H5N1 influenza
Since 2021, subclade 2.3.4.4b A(H5N1) high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) viruses have undergone changes in ecology and epidemiology, causing a panzootic of unprecedented scale in wild and domes...
www.biorxiv.org
August 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Really excited to have been a part of this study, lead by @willharv.bsky.social on how reassortment of H5N1 in birds has lead to a 'specialist' genotype that thrives in seabirds and drives summer/spring (rather than winter) waves of poultry outbreaks www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...