H5N1: international failures and uncomfortable truths - The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…

We are #hiring a Communications Officer to support activities for an exciting new partnership, and work closely with our Head of Communications on PSI-wide initiatives.

Apply by 18 June 2024 👇
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The #WHOPandemicHub team visited Fiocruz in English including Cidacs with Ministério da Saúde 🩵, PAHO/WHO Country Office & Pandemic Sciences Institute to align on data-based & pathogen genomic surveillance activities for further collaboration with the aim to strengthen pandemic intelligence in the country

📢 Last chance to apply for #MODRA ! Don't miss out on this opportunity to join our transformative training programme.

📌 Apply by May 31st: bit.ly/MODRA2024
📌 modracademy.org

🎥 #dyk that according to World Health Organization (WHO), on average #ebola will kill half of all people infected? Join us on Wednesday 12 June at Curzon Oxford for our screening of 'Survivors', a film showcasing the lives of three people in Sierra Leone during the devastating Ebola epidemic.😷🌍

The

Molnupiravir or nirmatrelvir-ritonavir versus usual care in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

⏰ Last chance to register 
 
The International Pandemic Sciences Conference 2024 is taking place from 1-2 July in #Oxford .
 
Register to attend in-person by 3 June to explore the latest advancements in pandemic sciences and network with experts 👇

web.cvent.com/event/2e7cb90c…

The COVID-19 pandemic reversed trends in mortality observed before the pandemic: global age-standardised all-cause mortality rates increased by 21·9% for males and 16·6% for female aged 15 years and older compared with 2019.
thelancet.com/journals/lance…

There are just 5⃣ days to go until our late-breaking abstract submission deadline.

Don't miss out on a chance to present new, timely & relevant research at #PandemicSciences24 on 1-2 July.

Submission deadline: 23:59 BST Mon 20 May

Submit now 👇
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'Bird flu strain found in US cows flown to UK lab for testing'.
I assume it's the virus that has been flown, not US cows.
Clarity of expression please Grauniad!

P.S. Ian Brown is a real expert in animal influenza, worth paying heed to.

Really helpful Sam Scarpino Moritz Kraemer
Is there a link to follow as timeline updates?
My understanding is that US is struggling with an integrated (one health) surveillance and control programme for this.

'Subsidiarity, a structural principle of justice, suggests that decision-making authority primarily lies with the level of governance closest to the issue'. Critically important given the mistrust hangover from the pandemic.

📢 Call for abstracts on late-breaking research for #PandemicSciences24 on 1-2 July.
 
Abstracts can cover data & insights that are:
✅ new in the past 3 months
✅ highly relevant & timely
✅ not previously submitted.
 
📅 Deadline: 20 May
 
Submit now:
web.cvent.com/event/2e7cb90c…

Congratulations to the research and policy team for reaching the finals of the Vice-Chancellor's Awards.
Pandemic Sciences Institute GloPID-R

MERS-CoV still around and still a threat. KSA has great experience of detecting and controlling health-care associated MERS transmission - other places are less aware and less prepared.
See: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28153558/

COVID vaccine campaign saved $732 billion in averted infections, costs cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study…

Coming up tomorrow 7 May, I am hosting the distinguished speaker series Oxford Statistics and delighted to have Prof. Marc Suchard from UCLA speak on Pandemic Scale Phylogenetics.

Sign up here: stats.ox.ac.uk/events/disting…

Drinks reception following the talk.

PSI colleagues Peter Horby, Moh Family Foundation Fellow Md. Zakiul Hassan & Amanda Rojek met Prof Abu Faisal Pervez in Bangladesh this week, to review progress on a promising #Nipah virus study to improve patient care 🇧🇩

Study partners include icddr,b and IEDCR & CDC Global Health.

1 in 5 US retail milk samples test positive for H5N1 avian flu fragments. This suggests extent of infection in dairy cows may be under estimated. ‘Fragments’ does not mean there is an infection risk but this needs confirmation by looking for viable virus. cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenz…

Sorry, I’m rubbish at this:

Here is part two.. geographic distribution, lots of urban cases (see Lagos).

Data are from NCDC.
Link to figures: try this

researchgate.net/profile/Friday…