some positive news? who.int/news/item/18-0…

Neglecting sex and gender in research is a public-health risk nature.com/articles/d4158…

New WHO Bacterial Priority Pathogens List - critical group now down to 3 - CR-Acinetobacter, CRE and 3GC resistant Enterobacterales (Pseudomonas now in 'high' group)

🔥 Scientists demystify why subsequent bouts of dengue are worse than a first-time infection: they found that disease severity correlated with the order of infecting serotypes as well as the antigenic distance between the infecting viruses. 1/

Ich freue mich auf diese Veranstaltung zusammen mit dem MCID Bern & geschätzten Experten zur aktuellen Situation der Vogelgrippe in Rindern in den USA und der Bedeutung für die Schweiz! HUG Université de Genève #H5N1

A call for more action on H5N1 by colleagues from the US. Important new observation: pigs are susceptible science.org/content/articl…

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Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl That’s a terrible decision… right in the middle of a flu outbreak too , threaten every scientist in the country from loosing funding if they say something unpopular …

🙏 We are grateful to the organizers of the annual meeting.

🔝 It has been a pleasure to reconnect with so many colleagues, and we look forward to continuing to share results collaboratively.

🥰 Thank you, VEOEurope .

📊 Marta Pardo Araujo, PhD at CEAB-CSIC and part of the Mosquito Alert Scientific Team participated in the poster session.

👩‍🔬She presented her research on the present and future suitability of invasive & urban vectors through environmentally-driven mosquito reproduction number. 👇

🖥️ In the 'Innovations and Data Analytics' session, Marcel Salathé exposed the AIcrowd Challenge, where participants developed solutions to accurately identify mosquitoes in images from citizens.

🔝 Participants trained models for precise IA detection and classification.

📽️ A video highlighting the work carried out at VEOEurope during Mischa Huijsmans' visit to CEAB-CSIC was presented during the meeting.

👩‍🔬Marta Pardo Araujo and Catuxa Cerecedo, from the Mosquito Alert Scientific team presented an overview of the work done.

🗺️ Data collected from Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, and Spain, led to the modeling and integration of pathogen and vector data to develop visualisations.

🌟 Fantastic opening talk by Prof. Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl from Erasmus MC, Head of the Viroscience Department and World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre.

🗣️ Followed by a session on the Future of Phenotype Prediction, organized by Koopmans and chaired by Ron Fouchier.

📸 Eva Veronesi

📢 Exciting news!

👥 This week, the #MosquitoAlert team took part in the VEO Annual Symposium 2024.

🦟 We were thrilled to contribute by organizing the 'Vector Borne Transmission Data' session, led by our co-director Frederic Bartumeus.

🔜 Follow the thread for a summary.👇

De coronapandemie was een katalysator voor aanvallen op de zorg. Uit analyse van 255 (!) aanvallen blijkt dat aanvankelijk stigma het hoofdmotief was, later gevolgd door vaccinatie & conflict.

Supertrots op deze publicatie met o.a. Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl.

Healthcare is #NotATarget 🚨

🌡️ Heat-related deaths on the rise. Food insecurity increasing. Vector-borne diseases spreading. Just some of the risks highlighted in our new Policy Brief on integrating #health in #climatechange policies.

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#climatehealthcluster #EUClimateAndHealth

A piece of news I learned today: None of the 49 dairy farms with herds that have tested positive for #H5N1 #birdflu sold raw milk, according to Dept. of Agriculture.