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In our new @Nature paper Andrew Bowman and
@OSUVetCollege colleagues find high rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Ohio's white-tailed deer and evidence of human-to-deer and deer-to-deer transmission. Should we panic?
A paper in Nature shows that white-tailed deer are a reservoir for SARS-CoV-2 in North America nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Not only were the deer in Ohio infected at very high rates (35% by PCR) but deer in Iowa had similarly high rates. Humans are likely spreading SARS-CoV-2 to deer across the US.
In our new @Nature paper Andrew Bowman and
@OSUVetCollege colleagues find high rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Ohio's white-tailed deer and evidence of human-to-deer and deer-to-deer transmission. A new animal reservoir could seed future variants that wind up back in humans.
A @Nature paper reports the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in more than 35% of 360 white-tailed deer tested in northeast Ohio. At least three viral lineages from humans were found in the animals alongside evidence of deer-to-deer transmission. go.nature.com/3ErEVWm
Fantastic position: tenure-eligible Senior Investigator
at NIAID Vaccine Research Center (VRC) niaid.nih.gov/about/senior-i…
Fantastic faculty position opportunity working with a great group at University of Minnesota vet school in public health. hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EMP…
Given enormous public confusion about COVID-19 origins, I thought we could use a dose of perspective by turning back the clock to 2009 and telling the little-known story of how the origins of the "swine flu" pandemic were unraveled over 7 years. the-scientist.com/news-opini…
Fascinating exploration of how China's devastating ASF outbreak spiked pork prices, potentially driving people towards alternate wildlife food sources and increasing the risk of zoonotic spillover. science.sciencemag.org/conte…
Striking patterns of excess mortality in 2020-2021 by country. We are just beginning to understand the toll of COVID-19 globally. elifesciences.org/articles/6…
Martha Nelson retweeted
Extraordinary results require extraordinary proof. This has been the mantra of #ancientDNA research since the 1990s, where contamination is a major source of error. The problems that @MichaelWorobey cites in this thread are well known to us in ancient DNA. Worth a read. – at Santa Cruz, CA
SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 in Italy in September 2019: the most important finding yet on the origin of the pandemic*.
(*or an error with big consequences.)
A thread. 1/24
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Martha Nelson retweeted
.@EcoHealthNYC is hiring! 3 positions open - Behavioral risk program manager/research scientist; Epidemiological modeling/forecasting research scientist; Program manager One Health Workforce Next Generation. Full details here: ecohealthalliance.org/career…
Martha Nelson retweeted
🚨HIRING🚨 Dr. Yasmine Belkaid has recently established the Laboratory of Host Immunity and Microbiome at NIAID and is currently seeking to recruit for tenure-track/tenure-eligible investigator positions. 👩🔬🧑🏻🔬👨🏽🔬👩🏿🔬👨🏼🔬 Check it out! 👇
niaid.nih.gov/about/tenure-t…
I was a blissfully happy scientist for a decade. Then I became a mom and things took a turn. Then the pandemic hit and it got worse. Here's how I survived. science.sciencemag.org/conte…
Scientific Director
National Human Genome Research Institute
(Review begins: May 15)
genome.gov/about-nhgri/Divis…
Faculty position advertised in University of Maryland School of Public Health Dept of Epidemiology ejobs.umd.edu/postings/80613
Martha Nelson retweeted
Great thread on the emergence and ongoing convergent evolution of the N501Y #COVID19 lineages
This is a truly excellent preprint, It captures a lot of crucial ideas about where we are in terms of the evolution of SARS-CoV-2. 1/n
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Bioinformatics position newly advertised at NCBI (NIH) to expand tools and resources for working with genomic data. (NIH main campus, Bethesda, MD) evol.mcmaster.ca/~brian/evol…
My career officially peaked. Nowhere to go but down. youtube.com/watch?v=_v-U3K1s… @HBO @LastWeekTonight
