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Simon Pollett
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Clinician-scientist with a focus on respiratory and mosquito-borne epidemic & pandemic viruses. Associate Professor @ USUHS. Posts are my own.

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jbloomlab.bsky.social
Working w @huddlej.bsky.social & Trevor Bedford, we mapped neutralization titers on interactive Nextstrain trees to visualize neutralization across subclades and natural mutations.

See:

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nextstrain.org
September 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Reposted by Simon Pollett
isabelott.bsky.social
More evidence against 🦟 Oropouche transmission. “If you bypass the midgut infection & escape barrier, it COULD be competent” – and if my grandmother had wheels she’d be a bicycle. Given the strength of the midgut barrier + other tx nuances, it’s hard for viruses to evolve incrementally around it.
globalvectorhub.bsky.social The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · May 8
🦟" #Oropouche orthobunyavirus in Urban #Mosquitoes: #Vector Competence, Coinfection, and Immune System Activation in #Aedes aegypti" by Silvana F. de Mendonça et al. www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17...
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May 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Reposted by Simon Pollett
colincarlson.bsky.social
Turns out, that's only seven studies between 1961 and 2024. Still, a fair bit of work to extract the data, summarize it, make sense of methodological differences, and come to a conclusion about public health risks. Our open data initiatives can save us some time on #1 and #2 before outbreaks start.
Fig 3. Experimental vector origin location and collection year. a) Map and b) table of the origin of each vector used in experimental vector competence publications. World map created in BioRender. c) The vector collection year of each colony/strain of species (line) relative to the corresponding publication year (circle/hexagon). Vectors without a collection year stated in the publication are shown as hexagons without a corresponding line.
April 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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ecdc.europa.eu
🔗 The updated maps support risk assessment and help inform decisions around vaccination and awareness campaigns.

Learn more and explore the interactive TBE maps here ➡️ bit.ly/42p8XJT

#TBE #TickBorneEncephalitis #IDsky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #ECDC4PublicHealth #TickBorne
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in Europe: new maps published
New maps published by ECDC show that hotspots for tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in the EU are mainly concentrated in Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe, based on 2023 notification rates of locally-...
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April 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM