🦟 Alert: “Sloth fever” (Oropouche) cases linked to travel in Cuba are rising in Florida. 🏝️ 30 infections reported, mainly in Miami-Dade. 🦠 Symptoms: fever, headache, nausea. 🩺 Travelers, take precautions! CDC World Health Organization (WHO) #PublicHealth #OropoucheVirus 🌍 tampabay.com/news/health/20…

What is eastern equine encephalitis and what do mosquitoes have to do with outbreaks? I joined Prof Andrew van den Hurk from UQ News to explain all for our latest at The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand theconversation.com/what-is-easter… 🦟

What is #OropoucheVirus? An explainer at The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand theconversation.com/what-is-sloth-… 🦟

Excellent explainer with everything you need to know about #Oropuche - thx Dr Cameron Webb theconversation.com/what-is-sloth-…

21 locally transmitted dengue cases so far in France in 2024: santepubliquefrance.fr/maladies-et-tr…

All throughout spring, we will be bringing you information and ideas for #NoSpraySpring. This year our campaign has a different look, but the message is the same! Join us to learn how to avoid pesticides, tips about beneficial insects and natural ways to deter pests #ozinverts

Our lab at Cornell is hiring a postdoc to lead investigations of viral #zoonoses in #Bats and develop strategies for pandemic prevention. Background in #DiseaseEcology, #OneHealth, #EEID, or epidemiology. More details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28001

Please RT! El Verde Field Station #PuertoRico now has a direct funding mechanism to assist with repairs. It was hit hard by recent hurricanes & Covid. We're eager to bring it back so we can continue the decades long research into tropical ecology. 🇵🇷🌴🐸🦋 donaciones.uprrp.edu/iniciativas/pr…

Neat to have my recent article for The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand on mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis translated for The Conversation France this week 🦟

Amazing to see Professor Euan Ritchie 🌏 🌳 🐾 🔥 🎶 recognised with the 2024 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for promoting understanding of science. So well deserved, what a legend!

We were awarded the #EurekaPrizes for citizen science! Congratulations to all our project team, particularly our amazing school teachers and students! Australian Museum Eureka Prizes

Very happy to be Australian Museum Eureka Prizes with the Beating Buruli team tonight! I‘d like to take this opportunity to thank Tim Stinear for his support throughout my PhD journey and ongoing collaboration since then in the fight against Buruli ulcer! BioSciences UniMelb Doherty Institute Science at Melbourne

Congratulations Professor Euan Ritchie 🌏 🌳 🐾 🔥 🎶! Nice to see your work recognised at Australian Museum Eureka Prizes #eurekaprizes; congratulations too Dr. Vanessa Pirotta (#whaleon!) for being among the finalists of this category alongside A/Prof. Suzie Sheehy #scicomm

Congrats to our fellow finalists for winning tonight! You are doing very important work!

Congratulations to the 2024 Australian Museum Eureka Prize winners! Their contributions are not only enhancing our lives today, but building a resilient, sustainable world for the future. View the full list: australian.museum/get-involved/e…

What a way to spend the morning! I got to visits Sydneys local breeding sites at and around the Olympic Park with mozzie legend Dr Cameron Webb Thanks so much for showing me around this morning, this is my type of sightseeing! BioSciences UniMelb PEARG

Have you registered for the Westmead Research Research and Innovation Conference yet? We hope to see you 17-19 September!

Looks like a great PhD opportunity - “Mechanical transmission of pathogens by mosquitoes” 🦟

Registration is now open for Attendees, Exhibitors and Sponsors for the 2025 Annual Meeting! Book your hotel and register today: mosquito.org/amca_annual_me… #AMCA2025 #AMCAannualmeeting

“Public health officials have confirmed the first case of the Oropouche virus in Kentucky and Jefferson County in a person who had returned to Louisville after traveling to the Caribbean.”