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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#AI cracks #superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
Their hypothesis is that the superbugs can form a tail from different #viruses which allows them to spread between species. Prof Penades likened it to the superbugs having "keys" which enabled them to move from home to home, or host species to host species.
Critically, this hypothesis was unique to the research team and had not been published anywhere else. Nobody in the team had shared their findings.
bbc.com/news/articles/clyz6e9e

What tuberculosis looks like under a microscope. There are around thirty long white worm-like germs wit red exteriors and red lines through the middle.
www.bbc.comAI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists yearsThe lead researcher has told the BBC he was so astounded he assumed his computer had been hacked.
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CBC British Columbia

Under the microscope: Looking at B.C.'s wastewater surveillance for viruses
Scientists say they hope testing wastewater for pathogens, which gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic in B.C., continues and helps better inform the public of emerging threats going forward.
#science #publichealth #wastewater #viruses #BC #News
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#German foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that #coronavirus behind #COVID19 #pandemic was accidentally released from #China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, two German newspapers reported
According to report by Die Zeit and Sueddeutscher Zeitung, Germany's spying agency #BND had indications that the institute had conducted gain-of-function experiments, whereby #viruses are modified to become more transmissible to humans for research purposes
reuters.com/business/healthcar

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Lkdc

For people interested in viruses, @ducky's reports are an excellent resource. Most of the information is very recent, but yesterday's report also included a look back at the horse flu outbreak of 1872-1873. Although the outbreak caused horrendous suffering for the horses affected, it also created an awareness of horse welfare that benefited future horses. I hope that the current H5N1 outbreak will lead to a similar awareness of the welfare of cows and hens.

mstdn.ca/@ducky/11409114915246

Mastodon CanadaDucky 🇨🇦 (@ducky@mstdn.ca)This week's Pandemics in BC blog posts: General: https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2025/03/01/2025-03-01-general/ BC: https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2025/03/01/2025-03-01-bc/ #covid19bc #covid #h5n1
#viruses#EquineInfluenza#H5N1
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Fco Javier Casas Ciria

Two definitions of RSV infection: influenza-like illness (IBD) and the combined use of IBD and prolonged severe acute respiratory infection (IBD/SARI).
A small percentage of #RSV hospitalizations meet the criteria for IBD but not SARI (10%). Those without cough (a requirement in the SARI definition) would have been excluded if we had used the SARI definition alone.

academic.oup.com/jid/advance-a

#viruses#respiratoryinfection
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