I wonder how much of this is down to researchers ordering the same reagent that a previous paper used.
One massive hurdle in fighting Ebola in DRC: Ituri has nowhere near the capacity it needs for safe and dignified burials, just 7 of 98 needed ambulances, for instance.
That means higher likelihood of unsafe burials and new infections as well as longer wait and more anger/mistrust in communities.
Another fantastic preprint on BA.3.2's propensity for children, this time from Yunlong Cao & co.
They not only confirm David Ho's lab findings (that kids have ~0 Ab response to BA.3.2) but dig into the details of exactly why kids are so vulnerable to BA.3.2.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
1/6
The basis for the last sentence below: New data from David Ho's lab showing that while adults & kids have ~equal antibody responses to XFG & NB.1.8.1, children have essentially no neutralizing antibodies to BA.3.2.
This seems to solve the BA.3.2 + kids mystery. 1/14
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
ASV is alarmed by the US HHS to suspend and debar Dr. Ralph Baric from federal funding. Read our open letter below:
Transferrin receptor 1 binds human parvovirus B19 VP1u to facilitate entry
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
My new piece looks at recent bizarre overestimates of Long COVID rates.
Also, how we can be fairly certain that the true rate of Long COVID is now very low in 2026.
open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...
President Trump uses two executive orders to weigh in on the childhood vaccine schedule.
What it’s like to work on an Ebola ward
www.thetimes.com/article/fe1f...
The ongoing evolution of SARS-CoV-2 is heavily constrained by population-level immune imprinting. Recent genomic surveillance reveals an unexpected demographic shift: the highly mutated BA.3.2.2 subli...
Multifunctional Pan-ebolavirus Antibody Recognizes a Site of Broad Vulnerability on the Ebolavirus Glycoprotein www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Researchers identify transferrin receptor 1 as the long-sought receptor, previously termed VP1uR, required for parvovirus B19 entry into erythroid cells, and determine the cryo-EM structure of the rec...
On the front line of the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Esther Kaisiki puts aside her own fear and promises patients they won’t be abandoned
