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Endangered primates, hard to easily and ethically study in a way that allows collection of the correct sample type to either generate a whole genome/isolate a virus. Lack of funding...

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Some of the time, Covid is the dominant respiratory pathogen. But not as often as it has been since 2020. Influenza is going to be a problem* this year. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
*More of a problem than usual, more of a problem than since 2020. Probably more of a problem than Covid.

Every day is a school day!

Are we at Mexico City levels yet? I saw the pendulum shortly after the 2017 quake, and it had lurched again. Plus the general problem of putting your city on a lake bed and then extracting all the water from the aquifer.

Jared Leto but recast as Evan Peters, channeling Cillian Murphy

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"Most viruses, including AdV and RV/EV, were more frequently detected in younger children, whereas SARS-CoV-2 was more frequently detected in adults." This mirrors what we have known for a long time. There are certain viruses which children amplify (flu, RV),others which adults amplify (SC2).

Over 24 weeks, 55% of the participants had a respiratory virus detected at least once, although they don't always need to symptoms. The youngest (ages 3-8) were most likely to be positive for a virus AND most likely to have symptoms; if staff were virus+, it was likely to be symptomatic.

The study is a mix of surveillance and symptom-responsive swabbing for adenovirus (AdV), human metapneumovirus (HMPV), influenza A and B, parainfluenza 1 to 4 (PIV 1–4), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), rhinovirus/enterovirus (RV/EV), SARS-CoV-2, and sCoVs 229E, HKU1, NL63, and OC43.

Thank you!

There's a reason I let my 11 month have cow's milk when we went to the US in the spring...