BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving

Emergence of a novel reassorted high pathogenicity avian influenza A(H5N2) virus associated with severe pneumonia in a young adult Background Infection of backyard and poultry with low pathogenicity avian influenza LPAI A(H5N2) viruses has occurred in Mexico since 1994, and the first human infection caused by this influenza virus...

Pre-print on the latest human case of H5Nx from Mexico ( and first-ever H5N2 ) around Sept 2025

Young, female, save for her BMI no major risk factor identified; survived but hemoptysis and lung damage observed. Not to be confused with the fatal H5N1 Mx case.

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digital illustration of grey shouldered flying foxes sleeping in a wattle tree, with patchy clouds in the background

one grey headed flying fox flying across the sky at sunset, with some eucalyptus leaves overhead

Digital illustration of lots of bats flying out between trees at night

Set of 3 bat drawings, from 2021 #bats #mammals. I lived really near a bat colony then and would see them all the time :)

an in progress color pencil drawing of a pallid bat swooping down to eat an arizona bark scorpion

an in progress color pencil drawing of a pallid bat swooping down to eat an arizona bark scorpion (close up of the bat)

an in progress color pencil drawing of a pallid bat swooping down to eat an arizona bark scorpion (close up of the scorpion)

it’s bat friday! im working on this piece of a pallid bat swooping down to eat an arizona bark scorpion (fun fact: arizona bark scorpions are the most venomous scorpions in north america! but these bats can eat them no problem 😊) #science #bats #bugs #arthropods #sciart #illustration

There are 1500 described species of bat in the world with more being added all the time. Each species is unique in its requirements and the role they play in the ecosystem. In the UK we have 18 resident species www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...

The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic A retreat from investments in drugs and vaccines leaves U.S. less prepared for the next viral scourge, experts warn

The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Supporting the hatred of Ibis' everywhere!

Most entertaining talk so far at #IBRC2025 by Fauzan.

After 11 years, Aaron and I tag teamed a joint seminar on Genotype to Phenotype: Bat immunity at #IBRC2025

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Day 4 #IBRC2025

If you don't catch me at #SMBE2025 in Beijing on Tuesday maybe you'll catch me at #UQ or #IBRC2025 in Cairns, Australia the week after! IBRC made pretty promo pictures for each talk.

Nipah virus infects another in India's hot spot The man's illness was found during monitoring contacts of his father who recently died from a Nipah infection.

Nipah virus infects another in India's hot spot www.cidrap.umn.edu/nipah/nipah-...

While I've been at talks all morning, #ASV2025 just officially started, with an inspiring virologist: Charlie Rice. #Virology

#SMBE2025 Symposium 20: Thematic symposium: evolution of immunity

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CDC vaccine advisory committee to review long-approved immunizations A leader of the CDC's reconstituted vaccine advisory committee said the panel would start a review of long-approved shots.

Yesterday #CDC posted an extraordinary (also thorough & very useful) pre-buttal of claims about thimerosal in flu vaccines that will be made tomorrow at #ACIP. #HHS made CDC take it down.
Never a dull moment these days.
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#postdoc #virology #immunology #pandemicpreparedness #comparativeimmunology

Paul and Doug worked on this for a long time. Good to see it out!

Interferon-epsilon, an estrogen-induced type I interferon, is uniquely exploited by Neisseria gonorrhoeae via effects on sialic acid metabolism Kurt-Jones et al. examined IFN-ε, a hormone-responsive type I IFN expressed by genital epithelial cells, during Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Ng) infection. They demonstrated that mice lacking IFN-ε exhibit ...

Interferon-epsilon, an estrogen-induced type I interferon, is uniquely exploited by Neisseria gonorrhoeae via effects on sialic acid metabolism
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Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’ Exclusive: Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body

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A crazy week. One MSc student successfully defended. A PhD TAC agrees the student can submit. AI (student)-assignmemts marked and the Center for Infection, Immunity & Cancer symposia successfully concluded..

⚠️ Discovery of a new mode of viral transmission:

Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse !

These viral satellites that do not encode their own glycoproteins, are in fact physically encapsulated within their helper virus particles!

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#CSHA #Suzhou #CellDeathandInnateImmunity

A positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus acquired a negative-sense open reading frame through recombination Author summary The discovery of brine shrimp virga-like virus 1 (BSVV1) challenges the conventional view that positive- and negative-sense RNA viruses are evolutionarily independent. Through genomic a...

Recombination between positive-sense and negative-sense RNA viruses: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

We look forward seeing you tomorrow for Prof. Sampson's webinar on "Developing Research Capacity inAfrica: Focus on Pathogen Bioinformatics and Vaccine Development". Register: www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi.... @sbvirologia.bsky.social @amersocvirology.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social

CONFERENCE announcement: Two upcoming bat meetings. Come join us to learn all things about bats in Chicago and Cairns.

Measles cases top 350 in Texas-New Mexico measles outbreak

Measles cases top 350 in Texas-New Mexico measles outbreak www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas...

Postdocs are not enrolled in a degree, they earn a salary. They are 'staff' too. The postdoc layoffs were not mentioned in this article.

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Aus and China also run on fixed rates for indirect costs. I feel the US will need some sort of city-loading but a balanced fixed rate would suffice.

retrospectively without any leadin. People will lose jobs over this. Struggling departments will shut. A long term plan to reduce the indirect costs to a national, acceptable, standard would work. Being gungho will destroy academia in the US.