Vice President - National Microbiology Laboratory Branch, PHAC; Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in emerging viruses, U.Manitoba. Expert in the emerging zoonotic viruses with a focus on WHO priority pathogens. All views expressed are my own
Jason Kindrachuk
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So very proud to see this posted. This group has worked tirelessly to compile the data - Sustained Specific EBOV GP Immunogenicity Five-Years Post-Vaccination: Longitudinal Results from North Kivu and Equateur, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Jason Kindrachuk
I went to Eastern DRC with @drtedros.who.int during the 2019 Ebola outbreak. There were attacks. Health workers died. I called that story The Ebola Wars.
The current outbreak will almost certainly be much worse. My heart goes out to millions of Congolese who have been neglected for so long.
Ugh, this is bad. “The apparent scale of the outbreak makes a response harder, given the number of contacts that need to be traced and tests that need to be run, says Jason Kindrachuk, a virologist at the University of Manitoba…. “It's a heck of a lot of cases to be under the radar,” Rimoin says.”
Much of the global mortality remains invisible.
Of the estimated 61 million deaths worldwide in 2023:
- Only around 21 million were reported to WHO with cause-of-death information.
- And just 12 million reported deaths included sufficient data for public health analysis.
Greatly appreciate all of my colleagues from across the Public Health Agency of Canada | Agence de la santé publique du Canada who expedited this rapid risk assessment for Andes virus👇
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Our recent community-based investigation on H5N1 avian influenza. We screened for H5 seroreactivity and assessed avian influenza knowledge and risk perception in northern Manitoba. Huge thank you to our community participants and all co-authors!
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The WHO Director-General has just declared Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
This is the first time a PHEIC has been declared without an Emergency Committee first. Very surprising procedurally but makes sense for public health given size, spread & WHA
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Ebola virus disease (EVD), caused by the Ebola virus (EBOV), is characterized by high morbidity and mortality, with 16 distinct EVD outbreaks reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), al...
In light of the ongoing situation with Ebola in the DRC, I'm sorry to have to remind you that evolutionary biology makes it abundantly clear that ignoring a catastrophic disease outbreak because it's there, not here, is a terrible, terrible idea.
From MedPage Today, video of what happened.
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Jason Kindrachuk
Using a commercially available H5 serology assay, we identified a 7.4% (n=5/68) anti-H5 seroreactivity rate among hunters in Northern Canada. All participants reported close contact with wild birds.
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Since May, 2022, clusters of monkeypox infections have caused global concern. At present,
this concern has been tempered by the fact that, even when uncontrolled, the number
of infections is growing s...
27K likes, 2,337 comments - medpage on June 5, 2026: "BREAKING: Members of the American Diabetes Association (@amdiabetesassn) were escorted by police out of the convention center in New Orleans durin...
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