Noticing lots of cold symptoms and cases of the sniffles? 🤧 We're seeing a sharp increase in rhinovirus, which causes the common cold, as shown in our latest weekly data. This isn't unexpected for this time of year when kids go back to school and mixing increases.

New #UKHSAVirusWatch: In this week’s data we see a continued decrease in #Flu while #COVID19 and #RSV remain at baseline levels

Full report: gov.uk/government/s...

Last week we published our first annual report on infectious disease trends. 📊

The report brings together all the key data from 2023 to early 2025 and outlines the steps our organisation is taking to tackle these threats.

Read the full report 🔗🔽
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Join us for the next in the series of our popular #BitesizeBioinformatics webinars to explore a new tool, technique, analysis, approach or software:

🧬 24th April - Analysing MultiOmics data, 4-5pm

💻 7th May - Running Nextflow pipelines, 4-5pm

🔍Coming soon: AI, Nanopore and more.

Norovirus uncovered, why is this year worse?

In a special episode of the LSHTM Viral #podcast, Damien Tully breaks down the science behind #norovirus, how it spreads, outbreak hotspots & how to avoid #infection.😷

open.spotify.com/episode/4pEP...

There is significant respiratory virus activity in the EU/EEA, with an intense #influenza season & concurrent #RSV epidemic.

People eligible for vaccination are encouraged to get vaccinated.

Check the current situation on #ERVISS:
erviss.org
#IDsky #EPIsky

Surprised to announce a new version of Seq-Gen (v1.3.5) – software for simulating nucleotide/amino acid sequences on a tree. Nearly 30 years old but still being used and cited apparently so fixed a few things. Written in 1990's C so should compile on just about anything. github.com/rambaut/Seq-...