Pathogen Genomic Epidemiologist at the Institute of Genomics and Global Health (ACEGID); I will be tedious and dignified on here. 🇿🇦
Edyth Parker
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This is extremely chilling - virologists being targeted for what appears to be minor (if any) "offenses".
We all know _why_ this is happening, so I'm not going to belabor that point - but I want to provide some context on the technical details.
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www.science.org/content/arti...
Overland Aid Convoy to Gaza Blocked by Military Forces novaramedia.com/2026/05/18/o...
Complemented by the great work by Ghafari and team one post down! virological.org/t/molecular-...
🔉 CEPI is urgently accelerating the development of three investigational vaccine candidates towards clinical trials in response to the deeply concerning Bundibugyo ebolavirus epidemic.
More in the press release ⬇️
ARTIC network has published Bundibugyo (BDBV) sequencing resources as the 2026 outbreak continues in DRC & Uganda. We have compiled guidance for labs wishing to sequence, assemble and analyse BDBV genomes: artic.network/viruses/bdbv/bdbv-sequencing-guide.html
The amazing teams around Dav Ebengo & Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, alongside the Institut National de Santé Publique and AfricaCDC have led an effort to improve understanding of the current #Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak.
Data: github.com/INRB-UMIE/Eb...
Dashboard: inrb-umie.github.io/EBOV2026_Epi...
Our initial work on the potential geographic and ecological origin of the MV Hondius Andes virus outbreak showing the outbreak lineage clusters most closely with some of our new sequences from southern Chile (lead by the brilliant Lissette): virological.org/t/potential-....
The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.
Gotta say it’s a bit on the nose to have a ship full of wealthy white people and an outbreak that’s actually been controlled dominate global media while a major Ebola outbreak in DRC with cross boarder spread is going unnoticed.
www.npr.org/2026/05/16/g...
First genome sequence from Andes hantavirus strain from ongoing ship outbreak posted on Virological: virological.org/t/complete-s... courtesy Swiss National Reference Centre for Emerging Viral Infections, Geneva University Hospitals, University of Zurich
