Jason Kindrachuk

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Associate Professor | Canada Research Chair |
University of Manitoba, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences | contributor @Forbes | #emergingviruses #COVID19 #Ebola #mpox

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Latest update from out Pan Canadian Milk Network: tested an additional 38 samples (72 samples tested to date from all ten Canadian provinces). All samples have tested negative for Influenza RNA. Preprint update has been submitted and should be live shortly👇 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Longitudinal Influenza A Virus Screening of Retail Milk from Canadian Provinces (Rolling Updates)www.medrxiv.org medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences

Pan Canadian Milk Study Update 🐄🥛: an additional 16 milk samples (from NL, NB, PEI, NS, & QC) have tested negative for influenza RNA. Our preprint will be updated soon 👉thanks to my amazing postdoc candidates and undergrad researchers leading this work in the lab www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Longitudinal Influenza A Virus Screening of Retail Milk from Canadian Provinces (Rolling Updates)www.medrxiv.org medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences

Very proud of #IMReC playing a part in this critical work on #mpox led by our Congolese colleagues and bringing together partners from DRC, Europe, US, and Canada www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sustained Human Outbreak of a New MPXV Clade I Lineage in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congowww.medrxiv.org medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences

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1. US #measles update: There's been a big jump — 50% — recently in cases, with the year-to-date total now at 97. Eighteen jurisdictions have reported cases. There were 58 cases in total in 2023. About 70% of the cases are associated with outbreaks (3 or more cases). www.cdc.gov/measles/case...

Come work with us in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases University of Manitoba : Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - Assistant Professor (Emerging Pathogens) Closing May 15th universityaffairs.ca/search-job/

Lest we forget that even with stockpiled vaccines and now a third generation vaccine we still don’t have equitable access or any availability in mpox endemic regions. Globally we’re not ready in the slightest

National Academies report says US not ready for intentional, accidental smallpox outbreak www.cidrap.umn.edu/smallpox/nat...

National Academies report says US not ready for intentional, accidental smallpox outbreakwww.cidrap.umn.edu

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National Academies report says US not ready for intentional, accidental smallpox outbreak www.cidrap.umn.edu/smallpox/nat...

National Academies report says US not ready for intentional, accidental smallpox outbreakwww.cidrap.umn.edu

Excited to post our collaborative work with our Cameroonian colleagues (led by Dr. Ernest Tambo) on mpox risk perception and community engagement in 🇨🇲. Including IMReC partners Drs. Placide Mbala, Anne Rimoin, and Souradet Shaw www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Assessment of risk perception and determinants of mpox for strengthening community engagement in local populations in Cameroonwww.medrxiv.org medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences

Thrilled to present this new collaborative work modeling vaccine deployment strategies for #mpox in DRC. Great partners from Yale, U.Manitoba, INRB-Kinshasa, and UCLA Also to highlight the amazing work by PhD candidate Alexandra Savinkina papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Modeling Vaccination Approaches for Mpox Containment and Mitigation in the Democratic Republic of the Congopapers.ssrn.com Background: Mpox was first identified in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 1970. In 2023, a historic outbreak of mpox occurred in the country, conti

Time for pre-study collaboration meetings #Salone

#NeverForget

Greetings from #Kigali. Looking forward to meeting colleagues here today, then off to #Nairobi for a One Health meeting and finally to #Sierra Leone for field work

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Virologists: Virology Africa 2024 is extending abstract submission and "early bird" registration cutoff till 31st January!! #Virosky www.virologyafrica.com

If you’ve ever wondered how Gob Bluth would do with condom advertising pitches - today is your lucky day Aaron Rodgers is somewhere out there right now reading this and mouthing “you serious, Anthony?”

Assuming that Elon attempted to take Twitter mobile

Mpox surge in Congo raises fears world will ignore warnings again - The Washington Post from Fenit Nirappil. Great to share our study along with insights from great colleagues Anne Rimoin Boghuma Titanji and Gregg Gonsalves www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/...

Mpox surge in Congo raises concerns world will ignore warnings againwww.washingtonpost.com Authorities confirm the first sexual spread of mpox in Congo during a surge that has led to more deaths than last year’s global outbreak.

Thanks to @cohenjon.bsky.social for covering this work. Insightful commentary from Drs. Anne Rimoin, Gregg Gonsalves, and Eddy Kinganda Lusamaki www.science.org/content/arti...

Amid Congo's deadliest mpox outbreak, a new worry: virus has become sexually transmissiblewww.science.org A related viral strain caused a global mpox outbreak in men who have sex with men

A very important investigation from an amazing international team of experts. Here is our report on clade I monkeypox virus transmission associated with sexual contact, with support from CIHR and IDRC wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Clade I–Associated Mpox Cases Associated with Sexual Contact, the Democratic Republic of the Congowwwnc.cdc.gov Clade I Mpox, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Upcoming seminar from @pharmalauren.bsky.social U.Manitoba Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and U.Manitoba College of Pharmacy. Details below

Thrilled to link to a fantastic group effort from a team of amazing colleagues. Our work comparing host cell responses to variola virus or clade I monkeypox virus infection: academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

Variola virus and clade I monkeypox virus differentially modulate cellular responses longitudinally ...academic.oup.com Abstract. Variola virus (VARV), the etiological agent of smallpox, had enormous impacts on global health prior to its eradication. In the absence of global vacc

Report from a large collaborative effort forthcoming - stay tuned

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I'm notoriously not great at social media, but if I want to do this stand up comedy thing, I suppose I should get on with it. I'm doing a new 5 minute set this Saturday, 9pm at Flappers in Burbank. Say hi. www.flapperscomedy.com/shows/saturd...

Shows – Flappers Comedy Clubwww.flapperscomedy.com Sat Nov 11th at 09:00 PM with Alex Allper, Audrey Halvorson, Catherine Duggan, Charlie Bruchez, Chelsea Sullivan, Eduardo Hernandez, Fryda Wolff, Garin Flowers, Greg Benevent, Krystle Drew, Kyle Chri...

In the history of the dumbfounding things uttered from RFK Jr’s mouth hole, this takes the cake: “I’m gonna say to NIH scientists, God bless you all,” Kennedy said. “Thank you for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

RFK Jr. comes ‘home’ to his anti-vaccine group, commits to ‘a break’ for U.S. infectious dis...www.nbcnews.com He has suggested without evidence that researchers and pharmaceutical companies are driven by profit to neglect chronic conditions.

Sharing part one of a longer term project from one of my PhD students and our amazing co-authors, with major accolades to Dr. Jia Kangbai www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Stigmatization of Ebola virus disease survivors in 2022, a cross-sectional study of Survivors in Sie...www.sciencedirect.com Evidence has demonstrated a high proportion of Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivors experienced stigma due to the disease. This study sought to underst…

If your number one Saturday night activity was trying to type as fast as possible to link apparent drowning to vaccination status, you’re not a super sleuth, you are purely and simply an asshole

Recruiting for Community Guidance Circle members: Our Health Prairies – A Secondary Data Analysis of the 2022 Our Health Survey from the Canadian Prairies Perspective’. In this study, we will be looking specifically at the data from the Prairie provinces (AB, MB, and SK) 1/

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Want to participate in a research study testing an inhaled vaccine for COVID-19? Live near McMaster University (Hamilton, ON)? Then email [email protected] to see if you are eligible! (Can only have been vaccinated with mRNA vaccines, currently recruiting those who have had COVID). 🧪#IDsky #Medsky

Tough to beat the University of Saskatchewan campus during the fall

Posted tho elsewhere tonight but it always deserves a shout-out when hearing from antivax/viruses don’t exist CHUDs For anyone wanting the definitive history on the smallpox eradication campaign. Spoiler alert: vaccination iris.who.int/handle/10665...

Smallpox and its eradication / F. Fenner ... [‏et al.]‏iris.who.int

Absolute legend and best to ever play the position, IMO. RIP 🐐 Dick Butkus, Pro Football Hall of Famer, dies at 80 | CNN us.cnn.com/2023/10/05/s...

Dick Butkus, Pro Football Hall of Famer, dies at 80 | CNNus.cnn.com Former Chicago Bears linebacker and Pro Football Hall of Famer Dick Butkus has died at the age of 80, the team announced Thursday.