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James Hay @jameshay.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

H3N2 preprint: there are concerns of a severe incoming influenza season due to the drifted H3N2 K clade. We at @psioxford.bsky.social analysed epi data and ran scenario models to see what we could discern about K clade transmission dynamics: zenodo.org/records/1770.... (1/18)

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Evaluation of the epidemiological outlook of the influenza A/H3N2 clade K in England during the 2025-26 season

Key findings England is currently experiencing a high growth rate of infections caused by the influenza A/H3N2 K clade. Antigenic change from the previously dominant clade, a rapid selective sweep evi...

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Christophe Fraser's Group @christophraser.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

New paper: we argue that a promising approach for studying mpox vaccine effectiveness in Central Africa to incorporate mpox vaccination + testing data into existing cohort studies, especially those for HIV/STIs. www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

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Clade I mpox vaccination: strategies for deployment and evaluation

Clade I mpox continues to spread in Central Africa with no sign of abating,1 however very few doses of vaccine have been deployed. Mpox vaccination strategies using either of the licenced vaccines, MV...

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

If less than 76.6% of your exploratory ideas fail, you’re not exploring enough…

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

How about a bit of good news? 8 patients were dismissed from the hospital in Uganda after recovering from Ebola. Many still in the quarantine period so outbreak still officially ongoing, but it's impressive that out of the 9 identified infections, there has only been one death (the index patient).

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Uganda discharges all eight Ebola patients, health minister says

Uganda has discharged eight people after they recovered from Ebola although at least 265 contacts remain under quarantine, its health minister said.

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Dr Edward Hill @edmhill.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

🐔 On 21 Jan 2025, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 was confirmed in commercial poultry at premises near Easingwold, Hambleton, North Yorkshire. #IDSky #IDEpi 🗺️ APHA Interactive Avian Influenza Disease Map: www.arcgis.com/apps/webappv... 🔗 Avian influenza: latest situation in England 👇

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Bird flu (avian influenza): latest situation in England

Find out about the latest bird flu situation in England and guidance for bird keepers and the public.

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Christophe Fraser's Group @christophraser.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

👋 Hello World! Some of our papers this year ICYMI Ferretti & Wymant et al, Nature: using 7 million digitally recorded COVID exposures, we found app-based contact tracing successfully measured the actual risk of transmission and we decomposed contributors to risk 045.medsci.ox.ac.uk/risk_measure...

Image shows how the probability of reported infection with SARS-CoV-2 among people notified by the NHS COVID-19 App increases with the risk score calculated by the app.

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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 20/11/2024

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

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Department of Statistics @oxfordstatistics.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

We have a new opportunity to work with the Department! Come & apply for the role of #postdoc research assistant. You will join the Digital Pandemic Preparedness project at the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social, and led by Prof. Christl Donnelly and Moritz Kraemer. App Deadline: 12pm, 07.01.25

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Humanity’s history is a battle against infectious diseases. And for most of our history we were losing very decisively. From my article about vaccines: ourworldindata.org/microbes-bat...

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