Duncan MacCannell

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Molecular epi and public health. Pathogen genomics, clin micro, AMR, (bio)tech and open data. Personal account. Opinions/dad jokes are my own. 🦣 @[email protected] 🔬🦠🧬😷💉🌻🍩☁️🧟‍♂️

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We are delighted to announce BEAST X v10.5.0 (beta 1) - the X is to differentiate it from the project 'BEAST2' & to denote these are orthogonal with a common origin. Website: beast.community Github: github.com/beast-dev/be... Many new models, performance enhancements and features (and a new logo)

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ARTIC collaboration in mpox surveillance in the DRC. #molecularepidemiology #pathogen #pathogensurviellance #metagenomics #bioinformatics #epidemiology #nanopore #virus #outbreak #clinicalvirology #sequencing #mpox virological.org/t/mpox-clade...

Mpox Clade Ib cases in Gomavirological.org First mpox virus clade Ib cases in Goma, Nord Kivu, DRC: Potential risk for a larger outbreak Since the identification of the first human case of mpox in 1970, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR...

Some tattoo inks and washes are actually pretty decent carbon sources. www.forbes.com/sites/ariann...

Bacteria Found In Multiple Tattoo Ink Brands, Study Suggests: What To Know About Tattoo Ink Infectionswww.forbes.com Although over half of the inks had labels claiming they were sterile, some still contained bacteria, suggesting the sterilization process was either ineffective or the sterility claims were inaccurate...

I remember learning about checks and balances in civics class. That was cool.

Staff shortages and cutbacks are a common issue across public health. I guess it's comforting to know that we will soon be able to defer the big stuff to an army of law clerks.

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Forget the debate, the Supreme Court just declared open season on regulators | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com As the country reels from a Presidential debate that left no one looking good, the Supreme Court has swooped in with what could be one of the most

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New test results released by the FDA found that bird flu virus is making its way from dairy farms and into milk processing plants but also confirmed that the commonly used flash pasteurization method fully neutralizes the virus.

FDA’s testing of raw milk finds H5N1 bird flu in half of samples but confirms flash pasteurization kills virus | CNNcnn.it New test results released by the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday found that bird flu virus is making its way from dairy farms and into milk processing plants but also confirmed that the comm...

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The Science of Food Safety: Spotlight on Candace Cole | ASM.orgasm.org From analyzing drug-resistant bacteria on dairy farms to tracking unresolved foodborne outbreaks, Candace Cole, Ph.D., is on a quest to leverage microbiology to support food safety.

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Molecular Confirmation of Anopheles stephensi Mosquitoes in the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen, 2021 and 2022wwwnc.cdc.gov An. stephensi Mosquitoes, Yemen

For Father's Day this year, my family got temporary tattoos of my face, looking tired and annoyed. That's some pretty epic trolling.

Sorry if I missed folks at #asmmicrobe today. Floating between work, sessions and off-site meetings. Catch me tomorrow if you are around.

Reminder: if you're in Atlanta for Microbe (or if you just want a rocking good time), come join us at the Omni on Thursday afternoon!

Attending #ASMMicrobe in Atlanta this week? Come join us at a pre-conference workshop on pathogen genomics, metagenomics, emerging surveillance technologies, and new partnerships that help make it happen When/where: Thursday, June 13th from 1-4pm at the Omni. More details here: bit.ly/AMDworkshop

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Washington State University Awarded $1.5M for Zoonotic Respiratory Disease Trackingwww.genomeweb.com The funding will support studies by WSU's Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory of viral transmission among ruminant animals.

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‘Playing Russian roulette with your health’: my encounter with LA’s raw-milk, powdered-meat smoothiewww.theguardian.com As bird flu spreads through US cattle, a hip California grocery store is making a smoothie from unpasteurized dairy and a supplement made from organs

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Huge amounts of bird-flu virus found in raw milk of infected cowswww.nature.com New findings point to the milking process as a possible route of avian-influenza spread between cows — and from cow to human. New findings point to the milking process as a possible route of avian-inf...

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The ARTIC group is looking for a new bioinformatician! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #metagenomics #bioinformatics #epidemiology #nanopore #illumina #virus #outbreak #SARSCoV2 #clinicalvirology #sequencing #molecularepidemiology #pathogen

Research Fellow (Sequencing Bioinformatics) - College of Life and Environmental Sciences - 80859 - Grade 8edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com To create and disseminate knowledge through initiating and conducting original research and through publication in the area of bioinformatics for real-time genome sequencing applications. You will wor...

📣 Come join us in Atlanta on June 13th for this preconference workshop at ASM Microbe on cross-sector collaboration in pathogen genomics and public health. www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20188...

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Outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza ...www.cdc.gov This report describes the joint investigation between CDC, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration after influenza A (H5N1) was detected in a U.S. farm worker.

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Now published! www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

I hope this preprint is useful for folks tracking SARS-CoV-2 lineages from wastewater sequences! @ssutcliffe.bsky.social led this group effort by 9 teams from 6 countries. We tested 9 tools to find & quantify lineages in a simulated mixture of BA.1, BA.2, and Delta. Some take-homes: 1/n

Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in wastewater: an assessment of nine computational tools using simulated genomic datawww.microbiologyresearch.org Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) is an important epidemiological and public health tool for tracking pathogens across the scale of a building, neighbourhood, city, or region. WBS gained widespread ...

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🧪 I realized that if you are no longer on Twitter then you may have missed some of recent posts. Bill Wood, in whose lab I trained as a post-doc, died earlier this month. #celegans #bacteriophage #genetics #biochemistry www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...

William B. Wood, pioneering scientist, passes away at 86www.colorado.edu A distinguished professor emeritus of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, Wood helped transform CU Boulder into a nationally ranked hub of biomedical science, improved science education

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Outbreak of Human Trichinellosis ...www.cdc.gov This report describes human trichinellosis cases associated with eating black bear meat.

Michigan farmworker diagnosed with bird flu, becoming 2nd US case tied to dairy cows (yahoo.com)

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Scientists have managed to generate a full genetic sequence of #H5N1 #birdflu from store-bought milk, suggesting commercial milk products could be a way to monitor the outbreak in cows, given the lack of cooperation from dairy farmers. www.statnews.com/2024/05/21/b...

Move over, wastewater. Store-bought milk could be another way to track the bird flu outbreak in cowswww.statnews.com Store-bought milk could provide a work-around, University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson researchers suggested, similar to wastewater surveillance.

Influenza A virus (A/environment/USA/CO-UW-9084466/2024(H5N1)) segment - Nucleotide - NCBITwitterFacebookLinkedInGitHubNCBI Insights BlogTwitterFacebookYoutubewww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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A deadlier version of mpox is ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo, while the type that caused a 2022 outbreak among gay and bisexual men is regaining strength. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/h...

C.D.C. Warns of a Resurgence of Mpoxwww.nytimes.com A deadlier version of the infectious disease is ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo, while the type that caused a 2022 outbreak among gay and bisexual men is regaining strength.

Last night marked the official launch of the new CDC website, and with it, the new AMD homepage. Check us out at www.cdc.gov/amd Incredible work by @ldraper.bsky.social and the DIDRI/OAMD comms team!

From where I'm sitting, I can see a cybertruck parked crookedly in the otherwise full parking lot. In the past ten minutes, at least three groups of people have walked by, clearly had some sort of wtf discussion about it, and stopped to take selfies with various gestures in its direction. No notes.

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Estimates of SARS-CoV-2 Hospitalization and Fatality Rates in the Prevaccination Period, United Stateswwwnc.cdc.gov SARS-CoV-2 Hospitalization and Fatality Rates