Catherine Moore

This week I’ll mostly be at @eswinfluenza.bsky.social
#ESWI2025 representing Public Health Wales and @escvirology.bsky.social

Low level circulation with bi annual increases/peaks. As the vaccine is used less apart from in the extreme risk groups, there will be more reliance on natural immunity which will wane and also drive antigenic variation. That’s currently what we see with the seasonal coronaviruses.

I’m relieved to see this. 🎉

I felt sorry for this old bear when I was doomscrolling charity shops online, so I clicked buy now. I appear to have reunited old friends. (The tiger was already mine) #WinniethePooh #TiggerToo

I think he had a good life 😊

I came home, and we’ve buried him under the apple tree in the garden.

My fluffy bestie King Arthur just died. I’m in work, so didn’t get to say goodbye 😔 He was loved, and we will miss him #KingArthurCat #GoodbyeArthur

And I hope your day is good as well 🎉 (I’m in work)

He’s FeLV negative. It is a dilemma, he does travel okay, but if it’s only going to give him a few months, I don’t want to put him through the stress.

A fluffy black cat showing his fluffy tummy.

My adorable and super friendly King Arthur has been diagnosed with lymphoma of the gut. No blockage, but it’s a large mass. Now the dilemma of whether we try chemo which will mean regular trips to Bristol from Cardiff. #SadTimes

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A sparrow with a curved beak

I’m in Thessaloniki airport, I think this sparrow has Avian keratin disorder?? Very long curved beak.

Because I’m a terrible photographer, here’s just a few pictures of my lab team talking about their posters. One more of Anastasia to add. @escvirology.bsky.social #ESCV2025

Another great @escvirology.bsky.social meeting underway in Thessaloniki. If you’re there, please do come and ask Ester anything about the society.

At a time when we should be investing more into the sector. This news is awful.

1/ Over 2 MILLION non-native birds released every year into the Welsh countryside, without proper controls or oversight, causing harm to the natural environment.  Time is running out – call on the Welsh Government to licence these releases now!

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#ESCV2025 #ClinicalVirology #Virology

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I promise the posters will be better than the old skool shocker I presented last year 😬 they’ll be on parvovirus PCR in pregnancy; the addition of mpox as part of a routine STI screen; screening for acute GI viruses in the immunosuppressed and H1N1pdm09 oseltamivir resistance in the Welsh community👍

The countdown has begun to what is the best Clinical Virology conference in Europe starting the 17th September in Thessaloniki. I’ll be there with the team who work on virological surveillance and R&D for viral disease for public health in Wales @escvirology.bsky.social #WSVC #PublicHealthWales

Yesterday I learned that Pokémon was a shortened form of Pocket Monster. I did fact check this with my internal Pokémon expert @molassive.bsky.social before posting. She also told me the company earns more than Disney, Pokémon being the largest grossing franchise globally. #FridayFacts #Pokemon

Twice a year I upload all of the influenza characterisation data from Wales in time for the vaccine composition consultation meeting. Today it only took me 6 attempts and I didn’t have to email the help-desk to confess my utter ineptitude. I’m calling that a win. #HappyFriday

Only 3 logs? 😂

If you squint hard enough and grit your teeth and then apply a bit of spin, he did also say ‘the protective effects of the vaccine’ - so he is acknowledging mRNA vaccines do protect. Excellent!

Bess on her throne #ElizabethTudorCat #CatsofBlueSky

Most evenings I take a walk in my garden in the dark, so I can find #hedgehogs. Here’s one from this evening.

We had a living roof (sedum) installed when we had our extension built during the pandemic. (Yes it was difficult with supplies, timing etc) This year, it’s finally looking exactly as I imagined, flowering and full of pollinators. #HelpingNature

My work account was #hacked about a month ago. Currently ‘migrating’ 15 years of emails and files to a whole new work persona. I can assure you, it is a bit of a faff. Might have been easier to have taken early retirement 🤔

It’s beginning to learn from itself, so we’re in the beginning of a spiral of stupid.

Measles PCR ready, mumps PCR ready..how long to hold out before bringing in a rubella PCR? #ReturnofthePreventableInfections #VaccinesWork