@xavierabadmdg.bsky.social
Viròleg, català, interès en virus emergents, bioseguretat&biocontenció.
Catalan, virologist, emerging diseases, biosafety&biocontainment. Personal views.
Catalan, virologist, emerging diseases, biosafety&biocontainment. Personal views.
El brot de #Marburg, un patogen #GP4, a #Etiopia continua creixent. 46 casos possibles amb 8 de confirmats i 4 morts. No hi ha cap vaccí comercial però sí alguns d'experimentals. Queda per veure si sera aprovat el seu ús d'emergència i arribaran a temps. #filovirus #OneHealth
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
El brot de #Marburg, un patogen #GP4, a #Etiopia continua creixent. 46 casos possibles amb 8 de confirmats i 4 morts. No hi ha cap vaccí comercial però sí alguns d'experimentals. Queda per veure si sera aprovat el seu ús d'emergència i arribaran a temps. #filovirus #OneHealth
Però no #H5N1 sinó #H5N5 la quel cosa ho converteix en una raresa i un recordatori que, al nostre voltant, els fenomens de recombinació són possibles, i si la circulació vírica és intensa i l'estació de l'any favorable, fins i tot són probables. #gripaviaria #transmissió
Preliminary human bird flu case reported in Washington state www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
Preliminary human bird flu case reported in Washington state
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Però no #H5N1 sinó #H5N5 la quel cosa ho converteix en una raresa i un recordatori que, al nostre voltant, els fenomens de recombinació són possibles, i si la circulació vírica és intensa i l'estació de l'any favorable, fins i tot són probables. #gripaviaria #transmissió
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The last patient with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (#DRC) has recovered and been discharged. This marks a major step forward and begins a 42-day countdown to declaring the outbreak over.
Read the news here: bit.ly/3JgoNQ5
Read the news here: bit.ly/3JgoNQ5
Last Ebola patient in Democratic Republic of the Congo discharged
The last Ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was discharged today, marking an important milestone in the efforts to end the outbreak.
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October 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The last patient with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (#DRC) has recovered and been discharged. This marks a major step forward and begins a 42-day countdown to declaring the outbreak over.
Read the news here: bit.ly/3JgoNQ5
Read the news here: bit.ly/3JgoNQ5
A book in which we have participated explaining what we best know about #biosafety and #biocontainment in experimental facilities with small laboratory animals in combination with dangerous pathogens. In a question and answer format. Bastant clar i molt català. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Practical Management of Research Animal Care and Use Programs
This book guides through all the aspects to consider during planning, and managing sustainable research animal care and use programs.
link.springer.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A book in which we have participated explaining what we best know about #biosafety and #biocontainment in experimental facilities with small laboratory animals in combination with dangerous pathogens. In a question and answer format. Bastant clar i molt català. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Un llibre en el que hem participat explicant el que millor sabem sobre #bioseguretat i #biocontenció en instal·lacions experimentals amb petit animal de laboratori en combinació amb patogens perillosos. En format de preguntes i respostes. Bastant clar i molt català. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Practical Management of Research Animal Care and Use Programs
This book guides through all the aspects to consider during planning, and managing sustainable research animal care and use programs.
link.springer.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Un llibre en el que hem participat explicant el que millor sabem sobre #bioseguretat i #biocontenció en instal·lacions experimentals amb petit animal de laboratori en combinació amb patogens perillosos. En format de preguntes i respostes. Bastant clar i molt català. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Brief discussion on #biosafety and #biocontainment around the kick off of construction of a #BSL3 building by @irta-cresa.bsky.social on @uab.cat. An expansion of capabilities that will allow us to work with all we work with ( #HPAI, #WNV, #ASFV, #CSFV, #MTC) and more. 7ciencies.cat/recerquem/bi...
Biocontenció i bioseguretat a Catalunya - 7Ciències
Fa uns mesos es publicava una notícia a diferents mitjans sobre l’ampliació dels laboratoris de Bioseguretat i biocontenció de l'IRTA-CReSA. Quan treballem
7ciencies.cat
September 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Brief discussion on #biosafety and #biocontainment around the kick off of construction of a #BSL3 building by @irta-cresa.bsky.social on @uab.cat. An expansion of capabilities that will allow us to work with all we work with ( #HPAI, #WNV, #ASFV, #CSFV, #MTC) and more. 7ciencies.cat/recerquem/bi...
Aquí, una breu discusió sobre bioseguretat i biocontenció a voltes de l'inici de la construcció d'un edifici de alta #biocontenció de @irta-cresa.bsky.social al campus de @uab.cat. Una ampliació de capacitats que ens permetrà treballar amb tot el que hi treballem i més. 7ciencies.cat/recerquem/bi...
Biocontenció i bioseguretat a Catalunya - 7Ciències
Fa uns mesos es publicava una notícia a diferents mitjans sobre l’ampliació dels laboratoris de Bioseguretat i biocontenció de l'IRTA-CReSA. Quan treballem
7ciencies.cat
September 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Aquí, una breu discusió sobre bioseguretat i biocontenció a voltes de l'inici de la construcció d'un edifici de alta #biocontenció de @irta-cresa.bsky.social al campus de @uab.cat. Una ampliació de capacitats que ens permetrà treballar amb tot el que hi treballem i més. 7ciencies.cat/recerquem/bi...
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Good news! Ring vaccinations against #Ebola have begun in DRC, according to @who.int:
“An initial 400 doses of the Ervebo Ebola vaccine—from the country’s stockpile of 2000 doses prepositioned in the capital Kinshasa—have been delivered to Bulape, one of the current hotspots of the outbreak.”
“An initial 400 doses of the Ervebo Ebola vaccine—from the country’s stockpile of 2000 doses prepositioned in the capital Kinshasa—have been delivered to Bulape, one of the current hotspots of the outbreak.”
Ebola vaccination begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Bulape, Democratic Republic of the Congo—Vaccination of frontline health workers and contacts of people infected with Ebola virus disease has begun in Bulape health zone in the Democratic Republic of ...
www.afro.who.int
September 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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September 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“Europe is entering a new phase—where longer, more widespread and more intense transmission of mosquito-borne diseases is becoming the new normal,”
Malalties que tinguerem tornen, de la mà amb altres de noves. #mosquits #WNV #chikungunya #dengue #arbovirus #OneHealth
www.science.org/content/arti...
Malalties que tinguerem tornen, de la mà amb altres de noves. #mosquits #WNV #chikungunya #dengue #arbovirus #OneHealth
www.science.org/content/arti...
Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe
Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome
www.science.org
September 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“Europe is entering a new phase—where longer, more widespread and more intense transmission of mosquito-borne diseases is becoming the new normal,”
Malalties que tinguerem tornen, de la mà amb altres de noves. #mosquits #WNV #chikungunya #dengue #arbovirus #OneHealth
www.science.org/content/arti...
Malalties que tinguerem tornen, de la mà amb altres de noves. #mosquits #WNV #chikungunya #dengue #arbovirus #OneHealth
www.science.org/content/arti...
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The #mpox Emergency Committee met yesterday and advised me that in its view, the situation no longer represents an international health emergency. I have accepted that advice.
Lifting the emergency declaration does not mean the threat is over, nor that our response will stop.
Lifting the emergency declaration does not mean the threat is over, nor that our response will stop.
September 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The #mpox Emergency Committee met yesterday and advised me that in its view, the situation no longer represents an international health emergency. I have accepted that advice.
Lifting the emergency declaration does not mean the threat is over, nor that our response will stop.
Lifting the emergency declaration does not mean the threat is over, nor that our response will stop.
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Would never ever be possible today and I am quite pessimistic that we will eradicate another human disease in the years (decades?) to come.
#ThrowbackThursday: In 1980 the 🌍🌎🌏 was declared #smallpox free, thanks to mass vaccination efforts.
Smallpox was an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. #VaccinesWork
Smallpox was an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. #VaccinesWork
August 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Would never ever be possible today and I am quite pessimistic that we will eradicate another human disease in the years (decades?) to come.
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It is egregious that RFK Jr requested @annalsofim.bsky.social retraction of this paper because he didn't like the data www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
August 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It is egregious that RFK Jr requested @annalsofim.bsky.social retraction of this paper because he didn't like the data www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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🗓️ One year ago, WHO Director-General @drtedros.who.int declared the upsurge of #mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
Since then, 28 countries in the African region have reported nearly 50,000 confirmed cases of mpox.
Since then, 28 countries in the African region have reported nearly 50,000 confirmed cases of mpox.
August 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
🗓️ One year ago, WHO Director-General @drtedros.who.int declared the upsurge of #mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
Since then, 28 countries in the African region have reported nearly 50,000 confirmed cases of mpox.
Since then, 28 countries in the African region have reported nearly 50,000 confirmed cases of mpox.
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Now is the time that I remind you that, while plague has been endemic in the western United States for 70+ years and this is a normal occurrence, our work does seem to strongly suggest climate change is increasing spillover risk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
July 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Now is the time that I remind you that, while plague has been endemic in the western United States for 70+ years and this is a normal occurrence, our work does seem to strongly suggest climate change is increasing spillover risk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
El q passa quan no es tanca bé un tema, i s'ha de dir q #GuanyDeFunció és un tema espinós, és q moltes polítiques passen a ser possibles, assenyades o forasenyades. A banda q un mateix experiment #GoF pot ser inacceptable en una instal·lació i acceptable/segur en una altra. #biosafety #bioseguretat
Exclusive: In response to White House concerns about allegedly risky research on viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens, the National Institutes of Health has begun a crackdown on dozens of studies it was funding, ScienceInsider has learned. scim.ag/44oJIbw
Exclusive: NIH suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns
Trump executive order leads to pauses on U.S.-funded research into TB, influenza, COVID-19, and other diseases, dismaying some scientists
scim.ag
July 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
El q passa quan no es tanca bé un tema, i s'ha de dir q #GuanyDeFunció és un tema espinós, és q moltes polítiques passen a ser possibles, assenyades o forasenyades. A banda q un mateix experiment #GoF pot ser inacceptable en una instal·lació i acceptable/segur en una altra. #biosafety #bioseguretat
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Visca Catalunya. Visca el Català.
No us ho perdeu. La cantada d'havaneres de Calella de Palafrugell ha acabat amb "El meu avi". Quin moment:
El meu avi
www.catorze.cat
July 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Visca Catalunya. Visca el Català.
Comentaris virus-lents (267): l’empestada Yersinia i la seva virulència.
Ja saben que la meva hipòtesi de treball és que la virulència no s’apaivaga com a conseqüència de la circulació del patogen en la població. M’ho han sentit dir molt pel que fa a #SARSCoV2 i encara ho mantindria pels virus, en…
Ja saben que la meva hipòtesi de treball és que la virulència no s’apaivaga com a conseqüència de la circulació del patogen en la població. M’ho han sentit dir molt pel que fa a #SARSCoV2 i encara ho mantindria pels virus, en…
Comentaris virus-lents (267): l’empestada Yersinia i la seva virulència.
Ja saben que la meva hipòtesi de treball és que la virulència no s’apaivaga com a conseqüència de la circulació del patogen en la població. M’ho han sentit dir molt pel que fa a #SARSCoV2 i encara ho mantindria pels virus, en general. Però vet aquí que un estudi recent apunta a atenuació de la virulència en un patogen, l’agent causal de la pesta, …
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June 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Comentaris virus-lents (267): l’empestada Yersinia i la seva virulència.
Ja saben que la meva hipòtesi de treball és que la virulència no s’apaivaga com a conseqüència de la circulació del patogen en la població. M’ho han sentit dir molt pel que fa a #SARSCoV2 i encara ho mantindria pels virus, en…
Ja saben que la meva hipòtesi de treball és que la virulència no s’apaivaga com a conseqüència de la circulació del patogen en la població. M’ho han sentit dir molt pel que fa a #SARSCoV2 i encara ho mantindria pels virus, en…
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mRNA vaccines have already saved millions of lives from Covid and could save even more from flu. Cancelling investments in critical research will set us back and cost us time and lives if bird flu emerges as the next pandemic.
HHS cancels $766M in funding for Moderna to develop MRNA vaccine against bird flu
The Trump administration said it was cancelling $766 million in funding for a Moderna vaccine contract that was supposed to help pay for the development of a shot that would protect people against dif...
www.nbcnews.com
May 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
mRNA vaccines have already saved millions of lives from Covid and could save even more from flu. Cancelling investments in critical research will set us back and cost us time and lives if bird flu emerges as the next pandemic.
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And this, friends, is why the number one rule of science communication is don’t make shit up.
Jesus. Excellent work by Michael Le Page, and utterly infuriating scenario. As Michael points out, the press release from Colossal called these dire wolves throughout. But now they want to argue that they never claimed that. Scandalous, really.
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
Colossal scientist now admits they haven’t really made dire wolves
Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolve...
www.newscientist.com
May 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
And this, friends, is why the number one rule of science communication is don’t make shit up.
No minva el nombre d'explotacions afectades, per tant la circulació de #H5N1 #HPAI es manté a nivells alts, per ara continguda en remugants, vaquí de llet, principalment. Però això no ha de durar sempre, ni sempre podrà o voldrà quedar continguda. No li donem més camp. #OneHealth
#USDA reported 2 new #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds in Texas today, the first there since last Dec. Anyone know if these are new spillovers? it isn't easy to get that kind of info from USDA anymore.
Cumulative national total: 1065 herds in 17 states.
www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
Cumulative national total: 1065 herds in 17 states.
www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
May 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
No minva el nombre d'explotacions afectades, per tant la circulació de #H5N1 #HPAI es manté a nivells alts, per ara continguda en remugants, vaquí de llet, principalment. Però això no ha de durar sempre, ni sempre podrà o voldrà quedar continguda. No li donem més camp. #OneHealth
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Brazil confirms first outbreak of avian influenza on commercial farm reut.rs/4j5iFG4
Brazil confirms first outbreak of avian influenza on commercial farm
Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture confirmed on Friday the first outbreak of avian influenza on a commercial farm in the country.
reut.rs
May 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Brazil confirms first outbreak of avian influenza on commercial farm reut.rs/4j5iFG4
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New post on the challenges of communicating uncertainty - and the lengths people will go to in an effort to avoid being pinned down…
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kucharski.substack.com/p/possibly-a...
Possibly a serious possibility
How 'lurking weasel' phrases skewed Cold War intelligence
kucharski.substack.com
May 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
New post on the challenges of communicating uncertainty - and the lengths people will go to in an effort to avoid being pinned down…
kucharski.substack.com/p/possibly-a...
kucharski.substack.com/p/possibly-a...
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The number of *confirmed* #measles cases — which is only a portion of all cases — continues to climb. #CDC reports that as of 5/1, there were 935 cases, 13% of which required hospitalizations.
2025 is on track to be the worst year for measles in the US in 25 years. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
2025 is on track to be the worst year for measles in the US in 25 years. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
May 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The number of *confirmed* #measles cases — which is only a portion of all cases — continues to climb. #CDC reports that as of 5/1, there were 935 cases, 13% of which required hospitalizations.
2025 is on track to be the worst year for measles in the US in 25 years. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
2025 is on track to be the worst year for measles in the US in 25 years. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
Article interessant. Per un virus com #Mpox o #verolamico, que es transmet per contacte amb pell infectada o objectes (roba) que hagi estat contaminada, saber si el rentat domèstic, a mà, és efectiu, és important. #inactivació I les dades apunten que sí.
academic.oup.com/jid/article/...
academic.oup.com/jid/article/...
Efficacy of Laundry Practices in Eliminating Mpox Virus From Fabrics
In a trial of simulated manual clothes washing, sodium hypochlorite, liquid sanitizer, and 2 powdered laundry detergents in room temperature water, as well
academic.oup.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Article interessant. Per un virus com #Mpox o #verolamico, que es transmet per contacte amb pell infectada o objectes (roba) que hagi estat contaminada, saber si el rentat domèstic, a mà, és efectiu, és important. #inactivació I les dades apunten que sí.
academic.oup.com/jid/article/...
academic.oup.com/jid/article/...