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#zoonotic — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. RE: journa.host/@thexylom/11719672

    "Fruit bats face threats ranging from hunting for bushmeat and traditional medicine to habitat loss caused by deforestation, urban development and mining." But "Bats Traded for Traditional Medicine Put Nigeria at Risk of Zoonotic Disease Transmission".

    #bats #zoonotic #pandemic #endangeredSpecies #Nigeria #traditionalMedicine #batTrade #health

  2. #KnowledgeByte: #Zoonotic #Diseases are infections that can be transmitted between animals and humans. These diseases are caused by various pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi.

    How #GlobalWarming is helping to spread the Zoonotic Diseases.

    knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Zoon

  3. 1-Jul-2026
    #COVID19 #vaccine boosters may help protect against future animal #coronaviruses
    First exposure to SARS-CoV-2 ‘locks in’ our #immuneResponse

    yes, I would expect that the global exposure to covid and its vaccines may make it harder for any future #SARS-like #zoonotic outbreaks to cause harm.

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #publicHealth

  4. Bats harbor many #zoonotic #viruses yet remain asymptomatic; why? @Lucie_Virevolte &co show that #bat GBP5 evolved under +ve selection, driving virus-specific restriction & lineage-specific loss of a #prenylation motif that reshaped #antiviral function @PLOSBiology plos.io/48KVgYe

  5. Zoonotic spillover is the successful transmission of a pathogenic entity—such as a virus, bacterium, or parasite—from a non-human animal reservoir into a human population. This rare but consequential event occurs when a pathogen successfully crosses the strict biological boundary between species.
    #WhatIs #Zoonotic #Epidemiology #Virology #Biology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/03/wi03162601.

  6. No vaccine, no cure: Nipah virus is back in the news.
    India (West Bengal) just confirmed 2 cases in healthcare workers — one recovering, one critical. Contacts tested negative, and WHO says low risk of wider spread.
    Deadly zoonotic virus (40-75% fatality) from fruit bats, spreads via close contact or contaminated food. High alert in parts of Asia, but not easily transmissible person-to-person.

    #NipahVirus #PublicHealth #India #Zoonotic #covid

    sbs.com.au/news/article/what-t

  7. What is the #relationship between #viral #prospecting in #animals and medical #countermeasure development? MedRxIV: medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

    With #Filoviridae as a case study, we show there is little #evidence to suggest that viral prospecting has accelerated countermeasure development or that systematically discovering novel #zoonotic viruses in animal hosts before they cause human outbreaks has been feasible.

  8. Evaluating #epizootic & #zoonotic #threat of an #H7N9 #LPAIV #variant associated with enhanced #pathogenicity in #turkeys. J Gen Virol.: microbiologyresearch.org/conte

    H7N9 infection in turkeys can generate novel variants with increased #risk through altered pathogenicity and potential HA antigenic #escape. These findings emphasize the requirement for enhanced #surveillance and understanding of A/Anhui/1/13-lineage viruses and their risk to different species.

  9. Evaluating #epizootic and #zoonotic #threat of an #H7N9 low pathogenicity avian #influenza virus (LPAIV) #variant associated with enhanced #pathogenicity in #turkeys, BioRxIV, biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

    ...H7N9 infection in turkeys can generate novel variants with increased risk through altered pathogenicity & potential HA #antigenic escape. These findings emphasise requirement for enhanced surveillance & understanding of A/Anhui/1/13-lineage viruses & their risk to different species.

  10. #Zoonotic #infections by avian #influenza virus: changing global #epidemiology, #investigation, and #control, Lancet Infect Dis.: thelancet.com/journals/laninf/

    Avian influenza virus continues to pose zoonotic, #epizootic, and #pandemic #threats worldwide, as exemplified by the 2020–23 epizootics of re-emerging #H5 #genotype avian influenza viruses among #birds and #mammals and the fatal jump to humans of emerging A(#H3N8) in early 2023.

  11. New (as yet unpublished) potential evidence that #SARS-#CoV-2 was found in #raccoon #dogs (canids) in the #Huanan #Market in late-2019. Specifically, viral and raccoon dog #DNA in #swabs presumably taken at the time from a stall known to house those animals.

    Caveats:

    -not yet #peer #reviewed.

    -lots of DNA mixing together in a market.

    -can the #provenance of the data be #verified?

    - #zoonotic/#lab/market #origin are not #mutually #exclusive.

    #COVID 🦠 🧬

    🔗 theatlantic.com/science/archiv

  12. #introduction
    Hi all. I'm just starting to explore mastadon. I'm a #diseaseecologist who studies #zoonotic #viruses in wildlife and how they #spillover into livestock and people. I work for a science-based nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance. My research focuses on #bats and their associated #henipaviruses, #coronaviruses and #filoviruses in Asia and Africa.