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🚀 Deadline: 28 February 2025
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A month left to apply for the #ESWI awards for early career scientists! For the Claude Hannoun Prize for Best Body of Work and the Young Scientist Vaccine Innovation Award, you'll need:

✅ Executive summary of your work
✅ Letter from your supervisor/department head

See below for more details!

Last week, a teenager in British Columbia contracted H5N1, the first human case acquired in Canada. The BC CDC and and Canadian Food Inspection Agency have released sequences from this infected person and domestic and wild birds sampled in BC, which we've just added to Nextstrain. A thread:

The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/