🎉 New in August: Measles virus joins Pathoplexus!

Following strong community support, we added MeV data submission (with Open & Restricted-Use options, as always) and powerful search & data access for MeV
pathoplexus.org/measles/search

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This is quite late but our lab has a preprint out about a SARS-CoV-2 situation we had in mink in Lithuania back in 2021. It's a doozy with re-emergence of extinct lineages, a country-wide test of all mink farms in Lithuania & some interesting dynamics in mink. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/5🧵

BEAST X v10.5.0 finally released – you can't just do beta releases forever. github.com/beast-dev/be...

Details and instructions for installing on the BEAST website: beast.community

Delighted that our Research Briefing on our paper on the origins of the Clade IIb Mpox outbreak and the continued emergence risk in West Africa is out! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Awesome to finally meet in person during the @JuaKivu_viro consortium meeting in Kigali, Rwanda. Now attending the #edctpforum ⁦meeting.
#edctp3

What a week in Lisbon! 🇵🇹 ViBioM 2025 brought 150+ virus bioinformaticians from 34 countries to explore viral evolution, ML tools, & taxonomy challenges. 🌱 All plant-based thanks to @desafiovegetariano! Huge thanks to organizers, speakers, and community! #ViBioM2025 #Viromics

@refineproject.bsky.social partner Olli Vapalahti is organizing the 11th European Meeting on Viral Zoonoses 20-23 September 2025 in the sunny French Côte d’Azur . Abstract submission is now open! Deadline for submissions is 12.5. Read more about the meeting here: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

The first JUA KIVU paper has been published in Nature Medicine! We show that #mpox rapidly spreads mostly through sexual contact within densely populated areas, highlighting the need for extended collaboration, health education strategies, contact tracing, clinical care and surveillance.