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Ellie Bourgikos @ebourgikos.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"Jamestown Canyon virus may not be an emerging pathogen in the usual sense. It has been here for centuries. The emergence is in our awareness of it." Such a great summary of our JCV work by John Drake!! Would highly encourage giving it a read! 🦟 www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

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A Virus That Predates The Republic Has Been Hiding In American Mosquitoes. Scientists Just Decoded Its History

A mosquito-borne virus circulating since the 1700s went unnoticed until genomic sequencing revealed its centuries-long history and unique two-cycle transmission.

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Moritz Kraemer @mugkraemer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Real-time epidemic intelligence in a public health emergency: the 2026 Bundibugyo virus outbreak Massive collaboration between multiple international health agencies, the national public health institute, and research groups. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... inrb-umie.github.io/BDBV2026-Epi...

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Ellie Bourgikos @ebourgikos.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

For all those at @eeid2026.bsky.social, come to my poster (#21) at the 6pm session tonight to talk about Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever virus (CCHFV) evolution!! Bonus discussions of bunyavirus ecology, ancient livestock trade, and applications of phylodynamic methods! 🐂📈📜

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Moritz Kraemer @mugkraemer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The amazing teams around Dav Ebengo & Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, alongside the Institut National de Santé Publique and AfricaCDC have led an effort to improve understanding of the current #Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak. Data: github.com/INRB-UMIE/Eb... Dashboard: inrb-umie.github.io/EBOV2026_Epi...

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Moritz Kraemer @mugkraemer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Two more passengers (one in France and one in the US) from the MV Hondius testing positive after being evacuated yesterday. All data here: github.com/kraemer-lab/...

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GitHub - kraemer-lab/Hondius_hantavirus_h2026: Description of hantavirus cases for the 2026 human outbreak

Description of hantavirus cases for the 2026 human outbreak - kraemer-lab/Hondius_hantavirus_h2026

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Moritz Kraemer @mugkraemer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Joseph Tsui, Ben Reddy and I are recruiting a postdoc @psioxford.bsky.social to work on AI methods for multi-pathogen and multi-country biosurveillance optimisation for epidemic and endemic pathogens. Closing date May 11th my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Toward optimal disease surveillance with graph-based active learning | PNAS

Tracking the spread of emerging pathogens is critical to the design of timely and effective public health responses. Policymakers face the challeng...

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 29/04/2026

Infectious disease & enhancing global health 🦠💉 Our new research hub focuses on investigating what makes pathogens dangerous to strengthen and protect human and animal health 👇 youtu.be/q2uObboXgvk @ox.ac.uk

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Infectious disease & enhancing global health | Oxford Biology

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Have you heard of Jamestown Canyon virus? New work by @ebourgikos.bsky.social and @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social lab + friends explains the natural history of one of the rarest diseases in the United States, including a puzzlingly-slow evolutionary rate: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Ellie Bourgikos @ebourgikos.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Incredibly excited to see our work on Jamestown Canyon virus published in Current Biology!! I have grown with and loved this project for 3 years and couldn’t be prouder of the final paper 🩵🧬 Read it here to see how phylodynamics reveals JCV's complex life cycle! www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Moritz Kraemer @mugkraemer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Incredible work by Jonathan Pekar et al.: The emergence and molecular evolution of H5N1 influenza viruses in United States dairy cattle www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Ellie Bourgikos @ebourgikos.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

🦟📄 New preprint! Our first large-scale phylodynamic study of Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) reveals how mosquito ecology shapes the evolution, persistence, and spread of this understudied arbovirus in North America. Read it here! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Evolutionary history of Jamestown Canyon virus disentangles complex multi-vector ecology

Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) is a re-emerging mosquito-borne virus of increasing concern in North America. It has been historically understudied, leading to significant gaps in our understanding of it...

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