If you transitted through Vienna today and are missing a green suitcase, I can report that it's enjoying the sun on the tarmac outside of Gate 61.
Hope it finds you again!
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.
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 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.
The ARTIC Primer Foundry is now live and will soon begin shipping BDBV primers on request primalscheme.com/orders
🚨 Hantavirus and genomic epidemiology: Has it been smooth sailing?
Join a special PHA4GE & IPSN webinar exploring how genomics supported the response to the Hantavirus outbreak.
📅 20 May 2026
🕒 14:00 CEST
📍 Zoom
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