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🗞️ Exciting news - our Belgian house #mosquitoes (Culex pipiens) made it into #Science! Honoured to be part of this amazing research consortium!
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
October 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🗞️ Exciting news - our Belgian house #mosquitoes (Culex pipiens) made it into #Science! Honoured to be part of this amazing research consortium!
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
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Cambodia reports 3 new linked human cases of H5N1 bird flu, all with chicken exposure. Total for 2025 now at 12 cases, 5 deaths—9 cases since June. Clade unknown, but likely 2.3.2.1c (seen in Cambodia, China, Dubai), distinct from US outbreak
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Emergence of a Novel Reassortant Clade 2.3.2.1c Avian Influenza A/H5N1 Virus Associated with Human Cases in Cambodia
After nearly a decade without reported human A/H5N1 infections, Cambodia faced a sudden resurgence with 16 cases between February 2023 and August 2024, all caused by A/H5 clade 2.3.2.1c viruses. Fourt...
www.medrxiv.org
July 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Cambodia reports 3 new linked human cases of H5N1 bird flu, all with chicken exposure. Total for 2025 now at 12 cases, 5 deaths—9 cases since June. Clade unknown, but likely 2.3.2.1c (seen in Cambodia, China, Dubai), distinct from US outbreak
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🥵 La #canicule ne touche pas que la France : record national de chaleur pour un mois de juin en Espagne 🇪🇸
46 °C ont été mesurés, ce samedi, à El Granado (ouest de l'Andalousie).
Le précédent record était de 45,2 °C, à Séville, en juin 1965.
Source @AEMET_Esp
46 °C ont été mesurés, ce samedi, à El Granado (ouest de l'Andalousie).
Le précédent record était de 45,2 °C, à Séville, en juin 1965.
Source @AEMET_Esp
June 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
🥵 La #canicule ne touche pas que la France : record national de chaleur pour un mois de juin en Espagne 🇪🇸
46 °C ont été mesurés, ce samedi, à El Granado (ouest de l'Andalousie).
Le précédent record était de 45,2 °C, à Séville, en juin 1965.
Source @AEMET_Esp
46 °C ont été mesurés, ce samedi, à El Granado (ouest de l'Andalousie).
Le précédent record était de 45,2 °C, à Séville, en juin 1965.
Source @AEMET_Esp
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Very thankful to @sandiegouniontribune.com for covering the termination of our wastewater surveillance in San Diego.
If we don't want to lose sight of infectious diseases in our community, we need new funding - please reach out: searchcovid.info
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/07/d...
If we don't want to lose sight of infectious diseases in our community, we need new funding - please reach out: searchcovid.info
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/07/d...
DOGE cuts shut down San Diego County’s wastewater testing system
Other alternatives are available, but none show coronavirus subtypes like San Diego’s SEARCH
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Very thankful to @sandiegouniontribune.com for covering the termination of our wastewater surveillance in San Diego.
If we don't want to lose sight of infectious diseases in our community, we need new funding - please reach out: searchcovid.info
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/07/d...
If we don't want to lose sight of infectious diseases in our community, we need new funding - please reach out: searchcovid.info
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/07/d...
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Quick update on this - a good one!
Thanks to our fantastic colleagues at county HHSA, we're able to continue our wastewater surveillance work, including generating retroactive data from the last few months, as well as new data moving forward.
For how long, we'll see, but expect updates soon! 🌟❤️
Thanks to our fantastic colleagues at county HHSA, we're able to continue our wastewater surveillance work, including generating retroactive data from the last few months, as well as new data moving forward.
For how long, we'll see, but expect updates soon! 🌟❤️
Very thankful to @sandiegouniontribune.com for covering the termination of our wastewater surveillance in San Diego.
If we don't want to lose sight of infectious diseases in our community, we need new funding - please reach out: searchcovid.info
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/07/d...
If we don't want to lose sight of infectious diseases in our community, we need new funding - please reach out: searchcovid.info
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/07/d...
DOGE cuts shut down San Diego County’s wastewater testing system
Other alternatives are available, but none show coronavirus subtypes like San Diego’s SEARCH
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Quick update on this - a good one!
Thanks to our fantastic colleagues at county HHSA, we're able to continue our wastewater surveillance work, including generating retroactive data from the last few months, as well as new data moving forward.
For how long, we'll see, but expect updates soon! 🌟❤️
Thanks to our fantastic colleagues at county HHSA, we're able to continue our wastewater surveillance work, including generating retroactive data from the last few months, as well as new data moving forward.
For how long, we'll see, but expect updates soon! 🌟❤️
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Addressing Antifungal Drug Resistance — A “One Health–One World” Challenge
@grthompsonmd.bsky.social and Angel Desai
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
@grthompsonmd.bsky.social and Angel Desai
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Addressing Antifungal Drug Resistance — A “One Health–One World” Challenge | NEJM
Use of some antifungal pesticides may select for resistant fungi in the environment,
which can then endanger human health. Coordinated regulatory processes in this area
are important.
www.nejm.org
June 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Addressing Antifungal Drug Resistance — A “One Health–One World” Challenge
@grthompsonmd.bsky.social and Angel Desai
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
@grthompsonmd.bsky.social and Angel Desai
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Après quasiment 3 ans de bricolage acharné, j'ai quasiment réussi à dégoogler mon téléphone de A à Z.
Une aventure compliqué mais qui vaut le coup. J'ai raconté ça sur @frandroid.com en deux épisodes ⬇️🧵
Une aventure compliqué mais qui vaut le coup. J'ai raconté ça sur @frandroid.com en deux épisodes ⬇️🧵
May 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Après quasiment 3 ans de bricolage acharné, j'ai quasiment réussi à dégoogler mon téléphone de A à Z.
Une aventure compliqué mais qui vaut le coup. J'ai raconté ça sur @frandroid.com en deux épisodes ⬇️🧵
Une aventure compliqué mais qui vaut le coup. J'ai raconté ça sur @frandroid.com en deux épisodes ⬇️🧵
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In a US-based study of 50 individuals with lingering symptoms after COVID-19 vaccination, researchers found SARS-CoV-2 S1 spike protein in CD16+ monocytes up to 245 days later, suggesting a possible immune link to post-vaccine syndrome.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Detection of S1 spike protein in CD16+ monocytes up to 245 days in SARS-CoV-2-negative post-COVID-19 vaccine syndrome (PCVS) individuals
Despite over 13 billion SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses administered globally, persistent post-vaccination symptoms, termed post-COVID-19 vaccine syndrome (PCVS), resemble post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 ...
www.tandfonline.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
In a US-based study of 50 individuals with lingering symptoms after COVID-19 vaccination, researchers found SARS-CoV-2 S1 spike protein in CD16+ monocytes up to 245 days later, suggesting a possible immune link to post-vaccine syndrome.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Worth your while to read this interview with Naomi Klein, including about the underlying rationale for the current US regime to break down science.
"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this."
Interview ⤵️
Interview ⤵️
Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'
The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.
www.rollingstone.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Worth your while to read this interview with Naomi Klein, including about the underlying rationale for the current US regime to break down science.
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Genomic epidemiology in action, from a great team of scientists 👇🏻
Our new paper is out! Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, @ucsandiego.bsky.social ran the Return To Learn program to mitigate transmission and monitor SARS-CoV-2 on campus. This paper analyzes the data collected during the Omicron waves, focusing on campus residences www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
Phylogeographic and genetic network assessment of COVID-19 mitigation protocols on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in university campus residences
We found little evidence for sustained SARS-CoV-2 transmission within individual buildings,
aside from students who resided in the same suite. Even in the face of heightened
community transmission dur...
www.thelancet.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Genomic epidemiology in action, from a great team of scientists 👇🏻
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VIDÉO. Cette Rouennaise mythique figurait parmi les premières femmes photographes : qui était Mme Breton ?
C’est en France, le 19 août 1839, qu’est officiellement inventée la photographie par Louis Daguerre, décorateur parisien. À Paris, la Société Française de Photographie est créée en 1854. Une…
C’est en France, le 19 août 1839, qu’est officiellement inventée la photographie par Louis Daguerre, décorateur parisien. À Paris, la Société Française de Photographie est créée en 1854. Une…
VIDÉO. Cette Rouennaise mythique figurait parmi les premières femmes photographes : qui était Mme Breton ?
C’est en France, le 19 août 1839, qu’est officiellement inventée la photographie par Louis Daguerre, décorateur parisien. À Paris, la Société Française de Photographie est créée en 1854. Une certaine Mme Breton, habitante de Rouen, y est inscrite dès 1...
france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr
May 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
VIDÉO. Cette Rouennaise mythique figurait parmi les premières femmes photographes : qui était Mme Breton ?
C’est en France, le 19 août 1839, qu’est officiellement inventée la photographie par Louis Daguerre, décorateur parisien. À Paris, la Société Française de Photographie est créée en 1854. Une…
C’est en France, le 19 août 1839, qu’est officiellement inventée la photographie par Louis Daguerre, décorateur parisien. À Paris, la Société Française de Photographie est créée en 1854. Une…
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ᖴᗩᔕᑕIᑎᗩTIᑎG
Love ❤️ Bug 🦠
Hacks the Fly 🪰 Brain
𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢 colonizes brain regions tied to mating behavior in 𝘋𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘢 females, suppresses neural mGluR, and boosts receptivity to mating
𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢 is passed only through eggs, so making females more promiscuous enhances its transmission to progeny
Love ❤️ Bug 🦠
Hacks the Fly 🪰 Brain
𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢 colonizes brain regions tied to mating behavior in 𝘋𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘢 females, suppresses neural mGluR, and boosts receptivity to mating
𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢 is passed only through eggs, so making females more promiscuous enhances its transmission to progeny
Wolbachia-mediated reduction in the glutamate receptor mGluR promotes female promiscuity and bacterial spread
The mechanisms by which parasites mediate host behavioral changes remain largely unexplored.
Warecki et al. describe a molecular mechanism for how the endosymbiont Wolbachia induces
increased mating i...
www.cell.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
ᖴᗩᔕᑕIᑎᗩTIᑎG
Love ❤️ Bug 🦠
Hacks the Fly 🪰 Brain
𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢 colonizes brain regions tied to mating behavior in 𝘋𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘢 females, suppresses neural mGluR, and boosts receptivity to mating
𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢 is passed only through eggs, so making females more promiscuous enhances its transmission to progeny
Love ❤️ Bug 🦠
Hacks the Fly 🪰 Brain
𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢 colonizes brain regions tied to mating behavior in 𝘋𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘢 females, suppresses neural mGluR, and boosts receptivity to mating
𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢 is passed only through eggs, so making females more promiscuous enhances its transmission to progeny
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Our new paper is out! Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, @ucsandiego.bsky.social ran the Return To Learn program to mitigate transmission and monitor SARS-CoV-2 on campus. This paper analyzes the data collected during the Omicron waves, focusing on campus residences www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
Phylogeographic and genetic network assessment of COVID-19 mitigation protocols on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in university campus residences
We found little evidence for sustained SARS-CoV-2 transmission within individual buildings,
aside from students who resided in the same suite. Even in the face of heightened
community transmission dur...
www.thelancet.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Our new paper is out! Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, @ucsandiego.bsky.social ran the Return To Learn program to mitigate transmission and monitor SARS-CoV-2 on campus. This paper analyzes the data collected during the Omicron waves, focusing on campus residences www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
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Il est beau ce film actuellement sur @artefr.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Il est beau ce film actuellement sur @artefr.bsky.social
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Et fin juin, dans l’agglomération rouennaise, à Sotteville, l’un des plus importants festivals des arts de la rue d’Europe
«70 compagnies se produisent et proposent pas moins de 300 représentations gratuites, théâtre, pyrotechnie, déambulations, danse, marionnettes etc »
«70 compagnies se produisent et proposent pas moins de 300 représentations gratuites, théâtre, pyrotechnie, déambulations, danse, marionnettes etc »
May 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Et fin juin, dans l’agglomération rouennaise, à Sotteville, l’un des plus importants festivals des arts de la rue d’Europe
«70 compagnies se produisent et proposent pas moins de 300 représentations gratuites, théâtre, pyrotechnie, déambulations, danse, marionnettes etc »
«70 compagnies se produisent et proposent pas moins de 300 représentations gratuites, théâtre, pyrotechnie, déambulations, danse, marionnettes etc »
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April 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Our new issue is available
It marks marks European Immunization Week #EIW2025 with an editorial from @ecdc.europa.eu Chief Scientist Piotr Kramarz and our editor-in-chief Ines Steffens
🗞️ bit.ly/EUS2016
#vaccination #HumanlyPossible #IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky #PedSky 🦠🧪 #VaccinesWork #PublicHealth
It marks marks European Immunization Week #EIW2025 with an editorial from @ecdc.europa.eu Chief Scientist Piotr Kramarz and our editor-in-chief Ines Steffens
🗞️ bit.ly/EUS2016
#vaccination #HumanlyPossible #IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky #PedSky 🦠🧪 #VaccinesWork #PublicHealth
April 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Our new issue is available
It marks marks European Immunization Week #EIW2025 with an editorial from @ecdc.europa.eu Chief Scientist Piotr Kramarz and our editor-in-chief Ines Steffens
🗞️ bit.ly/EUS2016
#vaccination #HumanlyPossible #IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky #PedSky 🦠🧪 #VaccinesWork #PublicHealth
It marks marks European Immunization Week #EIW2025 with an editorial from @ecdc.europa.eu Chief Scientist Piotr Kramarz and our editor-in-chief Ines Steffens
🗞️ bit.ly/EUS2016
#vaccination #HumanlyPossible #IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky #PedSky 🦠🧪 #VaccinesWork #PublicHealth
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A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...
Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years
A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.
www.wired.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...
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Happy to have this story now published in @PNAS
The Q226L mutation can convert a highly pathogenic H5 2.3.4.4e virus to bind human-type receptors | PNAS #glycotime www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The Q226L mutation can convert a highly pathogenic H5 2.3.4.4e virus to bind human-type receptors | PNAS #glycotime www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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April 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Happy to have this story now published in @PNAS
The Q226L mutation can convert a highly pathogenic H5 2.3.4.4e virus to bind human-type receptors | PNAS #glycotime www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The Q226L mutation can convert a highly pathogenic H5 2.3.4.4e virus to bind human-type receptors | PNAS #glycotime www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Highly sensitive method captures rare RNAs in blood to search for disease www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Highly sensitive method captures rare RNAs in blood to search for disease www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Review from @donvinh.bsky.social in @jem.org: Fungi pose a growing health threat, w/ rising antifungal resistance. Deciphering the genetic and molecular bases of human immunity to fungi in the non-iatrogenic settings helps define pathways tractable for precision therapy. rupress.org/jem/article/...
April 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Review from @donvinh.bsky.social in @jem.org: Fungi pose a growing health threat, w/ rising antifungal resistance. Deciphering the genetic and molecular bases of human immunity to fungi in the non-iatrogenic settings helps define pathways tractable for precision therapy. rupress.org/jem/article/...
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@fischblog.bsky.social A new antibiotic is effective against gonorrhea, finds a new study published in The Lancet; if approved, it could become the first new class of antibiotic for the STI in 20+ years—a key tool as antibiotic resistance grows.
Oral gepotidacin for the treatment of uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhoea (EAGLE-1): a phase 3 randomised, open-label, non-inferiority, multicentre study
Gepotidacin demonstrated non-inferiority to ceftriaxone plus azithromycin for urogenital
N gonorrhoeae, with no new safety concerns, offering a novel oral treatment option
for uncomplicated urogenital...
www.thelancet.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
@fischblog.bsky.social A new antibiotic is effective against gonorrhea, finds a new study published in The Lancet; if approved, it could become the first new class of antibiotic for the STI in 20+ years—a key tool as antibiotic resistance grows.
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Not a ton of good news in public health these days. But this morning at 3am, governments around the globe reached consensus on a global pandemic treaty.
„The achievement of finding consensus in a world torn asunder by the Trump administration cannot be overstated“, Lawrence Gostin told me. 🧪
„The achievement of finding consensus in a world torn asunder by the Trump administration cannot be overstated“, Lawrence Gostin told me. 🧪
Global pandemic treaty finalized, without U.S., in ‘a victory for multilateralism’
Three years in the making, the accord aims to increase equity and avoid errors of the COVID-19 pandemic
www.science.org
April 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Not a ton of good news in public health these days. But this morning at 3am, governments around the globe reached consensus on a global pandemic treaty.
„The achievement of finding consensus in a world torn asunder by the Trump administration cannot be overstated“, Lawrence Gostin told me. 🧪
„The achievement of finding consensus in a world torn asunder by the Trump administration cannot be overstated“, Lawrence Gostin told me. 🧪
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After 8 months of peer review, our manuscript was published today @nature.com showing that bovine H5N1 viruses bind poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors. We now know that the virus is only 1 HA substitution away from efficiently binding human receptors.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors - Nature
Nature - Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors
www.nature.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
After 8 months of peer review, our manuscript was published today @nature.com showing that bovine H5N1 viruses bind poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors. We now know that the virus is only 1 HA substitution away from efficiently binding human receptors.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The overlapping global distribution of #dengue, #chikungunya, #Zika and #yellowfever
#IDsky ⚕️ #EpiSky 🦟
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#IDsky ⚕️ #EpiSky 🦟
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The overlapping global distribution of dengue, chikungunya, Zika and yellow fever - Nature Communications
Arboviruses transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes have an expanding global distribution and identifying areas at risk is important for public health planning. Here, the authors present global disease maps f...
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The overlapping global distribution of #dengue, #chikungunya, #Zika and #yellowfever
#IDsky ⚕️ #EpiSky 🦟
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#IDsky ⚕️ #EpiSky 🦟
www.nature.com/articles/s41...