Moritz Kraemer
@MOUGK
Assoc. Professor @UniofOxford; Epidemiology, Statistics, Genomics;
he/him.
Co-Director: https://t.co/CWmnHehZW9…
Co-founder: @globaldothealth
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Calling academics thinking of doing a sabbatical in 2025–2026...
All Souls College Visiting Fellowships now open for applications. Deadline 2 Sept. Come visit us University of Oxford!
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1/ Updated #H5N1 timeline w/ events through May 17th.
Biggest news:
I. Wastewater from 9 sites in TX ➕ for H5N1.
II. CDC released flu A wastewater dashboard, shows ⬆️ signal in 5 states.
III. Fed gov providing funding for farms.
Work w/ Brennan Klein, Moritz Kraemer, & Global.health
Congratulations to PSI Director Peter Horby for being elected as a Fellow of the The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.
Prof Horby joins a cohort of exceptional researchers recognised for their contributions to science.
Read more 👉 psi.ox.ac.uk/news-and-opini…
The #WHOPandemicHub team visited Fiocruz in English including Cidacs with Ministério da Saúde 🩵, PAHO/WHO Country Office & Pandemic Sciences Institute to align on data-based & pathogen genomic surveillance activities for further collaboration with the aim to strengthen pandemic intelligence in the country
1/ Updated #H5N1 timeline w/ events through May 2nd.
Biggest news:
I. Pasteurized milk is safe & no virus found in beef.
II. Municipal wastewater pos. for H5 (doesn't necessarily mean human cases, see below).
III. CDC expands guidance for farm workers.
Work w/ Brennan Klein & Moritz Kraemer
1/ Are you struggling to keep track of all the #H5N1 developments in the US?
Together w/ Brennan Klein & Moritz Kraemer, we started an open-access timeline of key events related to the outbreak.
As you can see, the situation is rapidly progressing, so we will keep updating.
USDA APHIS is tracking the cumulative number of cattle herds known to have high path H5N1. Moritz Kraemer made plot of each state's herd-based 'epi curve'.
General pattern: more and more herds affected.
But maybe leveling off in Texas (H/T Oliver Pybus )?
aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poul…
Florian Krammer 0bFuSc8 Dept. of Agriculture Raj Rajnarayanan Ryan Hisner Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 Rick Bright Dr Emma Hodcroft Louise Moncla Trevor Bedford Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA Michael Mina Bloom Lab Caitlin Rivers Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl the raw sequences are on SRA - very slowly going through them now but having the fastas public would save me a lot of time/effort....
