Amazing speed from the teams in Uganda and the DRC - impressive!
Three genomes released so far - a few quick takes:
1️⃣ New genomes ~equidistant from 2007 and 2012 outbreaks.
2️⃣ Represents new spillover from reservoir.
3️⃣ Limited diversity, so too early to speculate on timing.
Great work ⭐!
While this seems to work well for rabies, I'd be cautious about applying it to diseases with different R0 values and transmission dynamics, but we're working on an extension of the formula that could make it useful for a wider range of pathogens 🦠
A simple method of estimating rabies outbreak sizes from phylogenies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.01.729206v1
🧬 New resource alert!
Pleased to share the release of RABV-gDB: a new platform for rabies virus genomic data, analysis, and sequence management developed
@cvrbioinfo.bsky.social
as part of the RAGE toolkit.
🌐 gdb-web-dev.cvr.gla.ac.uk
🔧 github.com/RAGE-toolkit
#Rabies #Genomics #OneHealth