After 50 years of its 1st description & many years of pushing, I can't hide my excitement that the first-ever Ph 2 #Lassa vaccine clinical trial is now active in West Africa, including Nigeria Thanks to CEPI & many others for making this happen iavi.org/features/iavi-…

Our researchers, with Oxford Population Health (OxPop), have found that preventive vaccinations against Lassa fever in West Africa could help avoid the next #pandemic 💉 Read more >> news.liverpool.ac.uk/2024/08/28/pre… 📸 credit: CEPI

From #mpox to #H5N1, disease surveillance is crucial for containment. CEPI's latest blog explores how robust global disease surveillance could help the world detect future pandemic threats faster, featuring expert insight from Chikwe Ihekweazu & Jean Kaseya ⬇️cepi.net/quest-detect-n…

Check out CEPI's August newsletter 📰 Featuring insights on CEPI's ongoing response to the mpox outbreak, a look at the impact of a Lassa fever vaccine, the latest instalment of The Viral Most Wanted, and plenty more. linkedin.com/pulse/cepis-co…

Got 1 min? Listen to Jean Kaseya explain why strong disease surveillance helps to save lives during an outbreak. Got 5 mins? Read our latest blog that dives further into the need for disease surveillance as a first line of defence against outbreaks➡️bit.ly/4cO6tXk

Amid rising concerns over the spread of infectious diseases like mpox, hosted by SK bioscience, CEPI met with global health leaders in Korea 🇰🇷 yesterday to foster international collaboration and dialogue on pandemic preparedness ⬇️ koreabiomed.com/news/articleVi…

The US is currently battling a surge in eastern equine encephalitis, a rare but very dangerous virus that is spread by mosquitoes 🦟 Learn more about this disease and its viral family, the Togaviruses, in CEPI's #TheViralMostWanted ➡️ cepi.net/matonaviruses-…

CEPI's CEO Richard Hatchett has received an honorary doctorate from Universitetet i Oslo for his “outstanding strategic and scientific leadership of CEPI". t.ly/hkKLz

.CEPI will provide $2.05m to South African biotech company Afrigen Biologics for a proof-of-concept project to investigate whether synthetic DNA could serve as an alternative to the traditional plasmid DNA used for mRNA vaccine development, cutting timelines and costs.

Our latest #LassaFever situation report shows that 982 confirmed cases and 168 deaths have been recorded in 2024. This loss of lives is not just a number but a significant loss of a family member, friend, colleague or a seasoned healthcare worker CEPI writes on the