Category: Zoonosis
Dr. John Campbell: Wuhan Institute of Virology were working on Monkeypox virus in February 2022
Dr John Campbell wonders why the Wuhan Institute of Virolgy were researching the Monkeypox virus just weeks before the outbreak of Monkeypox in Europe. More...
WHO: We don’t know if it’s too late to contain Monkeypox
“We don’t really know whether it is too late to contain Monkeypox”
The fact that this virus has appeared in Europe in a large number of cases, an increasing number of cases, is clearly cause for some concern and it does suggest that there may have been undetected transmission for a while. More...
UK: Monkeypox cannot be eradicated by vaccination alone due to animal reservoirs
“Monkeypox has a wide range of hosts, which has allowed it to maintain a reservoir… it therefore cannot be eradicated by human vaccination alone.” More...
Moderna looks at producing a Monkeypox vaccine
Moderna is considering turning its mRNA vaccine platform towards finding a vaccine to defend against Monkeypox, according to a recent tweet by the company. More...
Research: The changing epidemiology of human monkeypox
“Using a structured format, we describe the greater than 10-fold increase in confirmed, probable, and/or possible monkeypox, cases over the past 5 decades, from 48 cases in the 1970s to 520 cases in the 1990s. More...
Monkeypox pandemic predicted in March 2021 to kill 270 million *1 Update*
In March 2021, NTI partnered with the Munich Security Conference to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. More...
USA: SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant spillover from human to horse
“A report on a possible direct exposure to SARS-CoV-2 from a COVID-19-positive individual to an adult horse.” More...
US: Chronic wasting disease in Michigan white tailed deer
A deadly neurological disease known for affecting different species of moose, elk, and other hoofed mammals has been confirmed in a white-tailed deer in Michigan. More...
Research: SARS-CoV-2 spike gene passaged in black rats
Hexapeptide vocabularies of the SARS-CoV-2 spike gene showed the shortest immunological T-distance to black rats. More...
Spain: SARS-CoV-2 spillover infection into wild otters in Valencia
“We present evidence of spillover infection of wild mustelids by reporting the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in a Eurasian river otter found near a water reservoir in the Valencian Community, Spain.” More...