Our current approach to outbreak control is panic followed by complacency. But outbreaks do not begin or end based on whether wealthy countries care about them. For real progress, we need sustained efforts against emergent viruses, not half-assed acute phases of fear & neglect.

In the The Guardian today, an excerpt from the plankton chapter of my book, featuring the exquisite forms, formidable power, and fundamental indispensability of the ocean’s tiniest and most abundant creatures theguardian.com/news/article/2…

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This is perfect…

I am gravely concerned that a 10-month-old unvaccinated child from Deir al-Balah, #Gaza, has been confirmed to have polio—the first case in Gaza in 25 years. World Health Organization (WHO) and partners urgently worked to collect and transfer stool samples from the child for testing at a WHO-accredited

Wir haben gestern Abend noch eine kurze Folge Pandemia aufgenommen, um über die aktuellen Entwicklungen bei #mpox zu sprechen. Die kommt dann Anfang der nächsten Woche. Aber zur Vorbereitung hab ich mir noch einmal unsere mpox-Folge von Ende Juni angehört und ganz

Tony Fauci is recovering from a nasty bout of #WestNile fever. He spent six days in hospital but is now home and expects to make a full recovery. "I’ve never been as sick in my life," he told me. "I really felt like I’d been hit by a truck." statnews.com/2024/08/24/fau…

I’ve read a lot of stuff about #mpox already that is wrong or at least confused. And it’s not that surprising. The situation is pretty complicated and confusing. I tried to disentangle a few things for News from Science here (thread to come later): science.org/content/articl…

A very informative piece from Kai Kupferschmidt in Science, Space & Robots #mpox Let’s continue busting myths so that we don’t hamper the response in Africa by CDC Africa World Health Organization (WHO) We will certainly take note for our regular @ECDC EACS information-sharing #Mpoxwebinars next 4/9/2024

Scientists, including Dr Emma Hodcroft, launch new open-source database for genetic sequences, starting with #Ebola Zaire & Sudan, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus & #WestNile. A challenge to GISAID, which has had repeated run-ins with scientists. By Jon Cohen.

Am 6.9. ist es wieder so weit: Wir machen einen Zoom-Call für alle unsere Hörer, die uns bei Steady abonniert haben. Wir freuen uns auf das Gespräch mit euch und sind gespannt auf eure Fragen und Anmerkungen. Und wer uns noch unterstützen will: steadyhq.com/en/pandemia/ab…

BREAKING: #H5 bird flu detected in Missouri individual with no reported contact with animals. It's not yet clear if this the same version of the virus that has been circulating in dairy cows. More questions than answers at this point. statnews.com/2024/09/06/mis…