Pratyush Kollepara
@praty1931.bsky.social
PhD student in infectious disease modelling
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/pkollepara
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/pkollepara
Increasing evidence for multimodal transmission of mpox! Our work showed that sexual + nonsexual transmission led to underestimation of attack rate even when nonsexual transmission is initially minimal and surveillance needs to be focused on multiple modes of transmission.
doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
June 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Increasing evidence for multimodal transmission of mpox! Our work showed that sexual + nonsexual transmission led to underestimation of attack rate even when nonsexual transmission is initially minimal and surveillance needs to be focused on multiple modes of transmission.
doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
Reposted by Pratyush Kollepara
An explosive outbreak of mpox in Sierra Leone is raising fears of wider spread. The country of 9 million has seen more than 3000 cases already.
“We could see very rapid geographic expansion […] if we don’t really try and get things under control quickly,” says @kindrachukjason.bsky.social
🧪 #IDsky
“We could see very rapid geographic expansion […] if we don’t really try and get things under control quickly,” says @kindrachukjason.bsky.social
🧪 #IDsky
Explosive mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone overwhelms health systems
Rapid transmission through sexual networks raises fears of wider spread in the region
www.science.org
June 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
An explosive outbreak of mpox in Sierra Leone is raising fears of wider spread. The country of 9 million has seen more than 3000 cases already.
“We could see very rapid geographic expansion […] if we don’t really try and get things under control quickly,” says @kindrachukjason.bsky.social
🧪 #IDsky
“We could see very rapid geographic expansion […] if we don’t really try and get things under control quickly,” says @kindrachukjason.bsky.social
🧪 #IDsky
I hope that so-called "international" conferences will be held in less prohibitive locations now.
This is horrible and maybe now academics in the global north who have always traveled freely without the added worry of visa and immigration concerns will have some empathy for academics from the global South for whom this is actually the norm i.e. harassment at borders and visa denials.
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
April 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I hope that so-called "international" conferences will be held in less prohibitive locations now.
Reposted by Pratyush Kollepara
This is horrible and maybe now academics in the global north who have always traveled freely without the added worry of visa and immigration concerns will have some empathy for academics from the global South for whom this is actually the norm i.e. harassment at borders and visa denials.
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.
April 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This is horrible and maybe now academics in the global north who have always traveled freely without the added worry of visa and immigration concerns will have some empathy for academics from the global South for whom this is actually the norm i.e. harassment at borders and visa denials.
If you think about how people reacted to lockdowns & omicron wave in Australia, then we have a piping hot piece of research for you, that breaks it down by socioeconomic status: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Socioeconomic correlates of urban mobility trends in two Australian cities during transitional periods of the COVID-19 pandemic | Royal Society Open Science
During the COVID-19 pandemic, both government-mandated lockdowns and discretionary
changes in behaviour combined to produce dramatic and abrupt changes to human mobility
patterns. To understand the so...
doi.org
January 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
If you think about how people reacted to lockdowns & omicron wave in Australia, then we have a piping hot piece of research for you, that breaks it down by socioeconomic status: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...