Gewoon eng, hele menigte die een woordvoerder van Samidoun toejuicht en waarschijnlijk niet beseft dat die organisatie expliciet steun betuigt aan de pogrom van Hamas op 7 oktober. Hoe naïef kun je zijn? Wees bewust van kwaadaardige organisaties die je goede bedoelingen kapen.

Coming up….will be talking about one health and prevention of pandemics. Is it possible? In my view, we should try, but that is not simple. Scientifically it may be doable, politically is another level of complexity. Discuss rebalancing our footprint? belgian-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/en/events/euro…

Another day, another outbreak. As always, if given opportunities to infect susceptible hosts, emerging viruses will emerge.

New Invited speakers announced at the #18vaccinecongress , Camila Coelho, PhD, MBA, David Diemert, Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl. Submit your abstract by 17 May and join us in Lisbon in September! spkl.io/60164NlZA

Global solidarity is out the window if it means actually sharing something? telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/0…

Dat zal ze leren…..of zoiets?🙃 Arm land😔

Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl very very interesting: pathogen-host interaction should be one of our future goals! looking forward to discuss VEOEurope meeting next week!

transporting cows for slaughter can be done across states without testing. Are slaughterhouse workers monitored? CDC aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poul…

cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/h…

Kai Kupferschmidt lays out what we are not doing.

-no serology
-no screening of people at risk
-limited testing
-minimal surveillance/epi
-delayed data sharing
-we haven’t even figured out the extent of the cattle outbreak

Far too much fucking around. We will inevitably find out.

In his media briefing just now, World Health Organization (WHO) director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called out the US response to #H5N1 :
220 people are being monitored and at least 30 have been tested, he noted. 'However, many more people have been exposed to infected animals and it's important that all those…

The communication breakdown happening right now between the feds & states & farms with H5N1 proves Madhu Pai, MD, PhD's point.

Public health desperately needs to learn the art of communication, conversation, and, frankly, that sometimes means letting others spread the message.

another image from the incredible work done by Philipp Markolin, PhD . for people that want to delve into the details of this topic.

A comprehensive article into the topic including the latest scientific findings, expert testimony and literature analysis can be found here 🔽

A deep dive made accessible to curious non-experts without dumbing down key scientific concepts:

protagonist-science.com/p/treacherous-…

Reminder: cluster of MERS cases in Saudi Arabia, likely associated wit hospital transmission. One person died, two others in ICU. This virus keeps trickling into humans. Source of initial infection here unknown who.int/emergencies/di…

So true! Need for new skills in training future public health experts ( and some of it also for scientists) forbes.com/sites/madhukar…

Looking at trends of respiratory viruses in the southern hemisphere to predict what may happen next season in the northern hemisphere is commonly done for influenza. Here possibly interesging info for covid19 in queensland

Learning to predict phenotypes from genotypes is the next step in genomic epidemiology. Here, antigenic evolution predicted for influenza from historic data. VEOEurope Daniel Remondini Leo Poon working on different approaches as well. Interesting! Leo Poon

.Robbert Dijkgraaf is niet beschikbaar als minister in een kabinet als de vier formerende partijen eruit komen. “Ik ga niet in zo’n extreem rechts kabinet zitten.” #Op1 #MAX

The power of household studies, here from the Gambia during different waves of the COVID19 pandemic, showing effects of prior infection nature.com/articles/s4146…