🗣️ Hear from Dr Carla Mavian (Carla Nartuhi Mavian 🇦🇲🇧🇬🇮🇹🇪🇸) from the FLORIDA Emerging Pathogens Institute on genomic surveillance in #Haiti , including #cholera , arboviruses & #coronaviruses .

📅 24 May 2024
⏰ 13:00-14:00 UK time
📍 LSHTM | Online

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This is a blatant misrepresentation of our work science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. Our study does not in any way suggest that the application of SPF50 sunscreen “blocks our natural defences” or is detrimental to health.

This comment about @dropbox still lives in my head rent free

Love this story. War office accidentally summoned experts in cryptogams (algae) rather than cryptograms (encrypted text). Confused botanists turn up & dutifully serve out the war at Bletchley Park.

With #H5N1 #birdflu spreading amongst dairy cows, one of the most important things to think about right now is what would need to happen for this virus to actually start a pandemic.
I'm on a train, so a brief thread...

I’ve understood this correctly, it seems to be suggesting that the thing people are doing for a perceived benefit doesn’t necessarily have that benefit. But it has a different benefit, so it’s fine to let them believe it?

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9/We found that a greater degree of protection from infection was seen with increasing numbers of prior infections. Interestingly, immunity from one prior infection only protected against Delta, with two prior infections required to provide any protection against Omicron BA.1.

7/Amazingly, 84% of PCR-positive infections were asymptomatic. This is much higher than estimates for the UK, or other HICs, but is remarkably consistent with findings from South Africa’s excellent PHIRST-C study (85% asymptomatic). thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

6/Attack rates of 45% and 57% were seen during Delta and Omicron BA.1 waves respectively. The high rates of Omicron infections were despite 84.2% seropositivity prior to BA.1 arriving in The Gambia.

1/Our first paper from the TransVIR study in The Gambia is now out! nature.com/articles/s4146… This household prospective cohort study provides unique insights into the epidemiology and immunity to respiratory viruses in an African setting. MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM Sheffield Uni - Clinical Medicine 🦠 💉 🫀💙🔬🩺

Great team away day!

Abdullah Abdelaziz Block what you can randomise what you can't. Balance is a matter of efficiency not of validity. Validity is a question of appropriate conditioning. See onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

This should be required viewing for every class on probability.

🎉Our new study published today in The Lancet Microbe: SpyCATS longitudinal household cohort study of #StrepA carriage and infection and transmission in The Gambia! thelancet.com/journals/lanmi… [1/7]

🚨We're hiring 🚨 NIHR UCLH Biomedical Research Centre The Crick

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Mr Brightside has now spent 408 weeks in the Top 100 without reaching Number 1. How did it end up like this?

Tim Cook I think the ad would work much better if it was reversed. All the objects should be expanding out of the iPad rather than being crushed into it

made this edited version in five minutes (thanks iMovie!)

My review of the BBC's migration coverage was published yesterday. It's quite long so here is the 6-point summary.
bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…