A total of 12,327 suspected cases of #LassaFever were recorded during a 10-year period (2009-2018). Of the 1236 total confirmed cases, 543(43.9%) cases were recorded in 2018 alone- Sylvanus Okogbenin at the #LIC2019 Conference

The #LIC2019 conference just kicked off in Abuja, organized by the NCDC! CEPI is taking the lead on Lassa vaccines trials, presented in their keynote. Currently in Phase I/II development, very promising and exciting.

“We need to understand the epidemiology of Lassa and the incidence of disease in affected countries. NCDC establishing surveillance systems has helped our work tremendously.” Our CEO Richard Hatchett speaking at the first ever #Lassa conference #LIC2019 #OutsmartEpidemics

Pierre Formenty at the #LIC2019 “We’re not doing this work to publish in the best journals, but to save the lives of patients”. World Health Organization (WHO) NCDC

Dr. Vasee Moorthy of the World Health Organization (WHO) advocating for epidemic preparedness before outbreaks occur and more integrated research during outbreaks to help guide the public health response! #LIC2019

#Ebola rebounds BIG time: +12 cases reported today. That's huge. It's only the 4th time in this outbreak that there were more than 10 cases reported on a single day. There have been 36 cases reported this week (Monday onward). 1/

Our @acegid_lab partners performed advanced sequencing to uncover a yellow fever outbreak in their home country Nigeria. This is how we will protect the world from pandemics #rootsnotparachutes #africanscience World Bank @H3Africa_CC virological.org/t/yellow-fever…

#Ebola thread: New info from World Health Organization (WHO) on spread in Katwa, a major hot spot right now. Katwa (part of greater Butembo, pop: 1M) has recorded 148 cases so far. That's 21% of the outbreak total. And only 37% of cases there have come from contact lists. That's worrying.

The 24th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME) will take place in Hong Kong from Sunday August 4 to Friday August 9, 2019. More info: rega.kuleuven.be/cev/veme-works…

2. The #Ebola outbreak totals are 733 confirmed & probable cases & 459 deaths. Today's Ministère de la Santé RDC update contains a cool epi-curve showing cases by date of symptom onset & by location. Looks to me like a slight abating of cases — though that may be wishful thinking.

Our friends over at ACEGID have their awesome annual workshop coming. DO make sure to check it out and apply.

Are you looking for research materials on #Lassafever? Are you interested in employing social science insights in Lassa fever control? Visit lassafever.info, a newly launched online #LassaFever repository by NCDC Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Durham Anthropology Robert Koch-Institut #PreventEpidemicsNaija

We're happy to announce our second annual Systems Biology of Infectious Diseases Workshop - February 24-26, 2020 here in sunny La Jolla, CA. This year we're focusing on Systems Immunology and we have an amazing set of speakers lined up. Join us!🌴🏄‍♀️☀️ cvisb.org/2020-workshop/

Excited! We received a new R01 from NIA to study computational drug repositioning for Alzheimer's Disease. More info in the thread 👇 from 10 months ago. We will be hiring 2 new postdocs and a software developer for this project; pls RT!