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#virology

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Birds Books and Bullshit

Does anyone have any good *video* resources on the current state of the COVID strains floating around and their various effects from an infection? Short and long term impacts would be preferred. I saw lots of data during the first couple years, but since public interest has died down I have had difficulty finding good resources. They must be in video format on account of my CFS brain. Thank you.

#COVID#CFS#Science
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SPQR

Well done dumb asses: "Measles has spread to 109 more people in Ontario over the last week, bringing the province’s total cases to 925 since an outbreak began in October. Sixty-nine people have required hospitalization – that’s eight more than last week – including four in intensive care."
#PublicHealth #InfectiousDiseases #virology #pathology #Ontario #healthcare #measles
thestar.com/news/ontario/more-

Toronto Star · More than 100 new measles cases reported in Ontario as total reaches 925By Hannah Alberga The Canadian Press
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SPQR

Everything is fine: "The spread of measles in the Southwest now constitutes the largest single outbreak since the United States declared the disease eliminated in 2000, federal scientists told state officials in a meeting on Monday."
#PublicHealth #vaccines #science #health #pathology #virology #Texas
nytimes.com/2025/04/22/health/

Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, which has been treating measles patients since the outbreak began in January.
The New York Times · Measles Surge in Southwest Is Now the Largest Single Outbreak Since 2000By Teddy Rosenbluth
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Duncan

Can anybody with a knowledge of immunology/ virology explain why we aren’t mass vaccinating the population against H5N1 now?
I know we don’t know the exact strain that will go pandemic yet but I thought with previous mass casualty flu pandemics (eg Spanish Flu) the high mortality was caused by the novel HN combination people didn’t have any previous immunity to? Wouldn’t mass immunization against *any* H5N1 strain make us more able to withstand what’s coming?
#Science #Immunology #Virology

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Charité Berlin

While little is known about the mysterious #Oropouche virus in Latin America, a number of deaths have been reported along with impacts on unborn babies. A #CharitéBerlin study has discovered that the pathogen is more widespread than previously thought.

👉 charite.de/en/service/press_re

Map of Latin America, with different regions shaded in a color scale from light yellow (low infection risk) to dark purple (high infection risk). The Amazon rainforest and other regions along the coast of Brazil, in Central America, and in the Caribbean are shown in purple. © Charité | Anna Frühauf (image taken from the original publication in The Lancet Infectious Diseases)
#CharitéVirology#CharitéPaper#medicine
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SPQR

Measles is among the most contagious viruses known. A single case can cause dozens more in places where people are unvaccinated. Infants too young for vaccination, immune-compromised people and the elderly are all at risk. Measles isn’t just a fever and rash. It can cause pneumonia, brain inflammation, permanent disability and death.
#PublicHealth #virology #pathology #infectiousdiseases #USA #healthcare
nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | I Study Measles. I’m Terrified We’re Headed for an Epidemic.By Michael Mina
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Michael Emerman

#ThrowbackThursday #virology
The oldest piece of equipment in my lab, a >55 year old refractometer that I inherited from the lab next door when they retired in 2010. It consists of a light source and prisms and measures the concentration of dissolved substances by their ability to bend light through the prism. In virology, we use gradients of sucrose spun at high speeds to purify viruses which will settle at distinct sucrose densities as measured on the refractrometer. It still works.

. A metal instrument with an eyepiece and several dials on the right and left and an additional metal cover that swings open for sample disposition. In the back, there is a cord to plug in a light source. The instrument has the incription, "Erma Tokyo No. 16367. Refractometer"
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Mohamed Samy Abousenna

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨

I’m excited to share our latest research, published in Scientific Reports, titled:

“Emergency response for recently isolated Foot and Mouth Disease virus type A Africa in Egypt 2022”

In 2022, Egypt faced a severe outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) caused by the A/Africa/G-IV variant.
📖 Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-889

#VeterinaryScience#Virology#FMD
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