Jason Kindrachuk

Really fortunate to have presented along these very esteemed colleagues and to have some great questions from our audience today

Enjoy it as a participant - you’ve certainly earned that!

What an outstanding pleasure it was to attend last year and will hopefully be able to make it back out this coming round

So, @angierasmussen.bsky.social and @kindrachukjason.bsky.social and other #ViroSky folks, Virology Africa 2026 is going to be INSIDE the Kruger National Park in South Africa in September 2026!! It will be awesome 😁

When speed meets experience: emergency funding builds on past mpox research When speed meets experience: emergency funding builds on past Mpox research

🧪 #mpox #DRC
MBOTE-SK project major contributions to understand and respond to new Clade Ib mpox virus

Glad to be part
@globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social
@labgenpath.bsky.social
@itmantwerp.bsky.social
@kindrachukjason.bsky.social
@ispm.unibe.ch

www.global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/news-and-eve...

Surface sampling for mpox virus in multiple healthcare settings in Sierra Leone, June 2025 Background: As mpox virus (MPXV) has continued to expand geographically, critical knowledge gaps in environmental persistence in resource-limited healthcare settings remain. Despite evidence of fomite...

reat to see this collaborative effort out bridging our colleagues from Sierra Leone, DRC, Belgium, US, and Canada. Kudos to my MSc student Michaella Jaba and all of our team

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

I think about this a lot!
Medical professionals and their societies are sounding the highest level of alarm about the dangers of rejecting science and favoring conspiracy theories and it is hardly breaking through.
That's how far down the rabbit hole the US is.
This fight is hard.

Amazing achievement of global solidarity #SmallpoxEradication

Now, we just have #mpox 🙊

New outbreaks, new lineages #orthopox 🦠

#VaccinesWork but 💉 needs to be delivered to #DRC #Africa now

@boghuma.bsky.social @kindrachukjason.bsky.social @onisillos.bsky.social

Completely agreed. We know what can be achieved with ingenuity and perseverance - but need global leaders to champion this

I’m actually at a loss for words…

I haven’t heard anything new on h2h transmission for IIa

A systematic nomenclature for mpox viruses causing outbreaks with sustained human-to-human transmission - Nature Medicine We propose a new nomenclature for mpox virus lineages with sustained human-to-human transmission to improve tracking, communication and public health response.

A pleasure to be included on this as part of the WHO TAG-VE along with many esteemed colleagues:

A systematic nomenclature for mpox viruses causing outbreaks with sustained human-to-human transmission

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you 🙏

Thank you 🙏

Thank you so much 🙏

Thank you! Feeling is very mutual

🤣 thanks!

Going to maintain my program at UM for the time being. It will be a hefty balance but really proud of the work we’ve been doing internationally through the generous support of our funders

Thanks!

New leader coming to infectious disease lab in Winnipeg | CBC News A new leader is coming to the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, after its head stepped down just months after taking over leadership of the embattled laboratory that was previously at the ...

A very exciting professional update below that I can now share:

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🙏

The quote below is from Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, who recently resigned from CDC after co-leading the ACIP COVID work group. The new ACIP jettisoned work group experts in favor of anti-vax activists.
👉Canada's NACI is now the best source for evidence-based vax recommendations in North America

Three Cases of Vertical Transmission of Clade Ib Mpox Virus | NEJM This report describes three cases of clade Ib MPXV infection in pregnant women (one in each trimester of gestation) with molecular and histopathological evidence of transplacental transmission.

Huge congratulations to everyone on the team with great vision leadership for this work from Drs. Laurens Liesenborghs and Placide Mbala, and the MBOTE consortium. And an ongoing debt of gratitude to all study participants from our work

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

A lightning-fast, in-depth look into who RFK Jr selected for the vaccine advisory committee. One of whom was an expert witness against Merck's vaccine, despite RFK's stated reason of reducing conflicts of interest, per @reuters.com.

Well done @heidiledford.bsky.social and @rfieldmouse.bsky.social

Skyrocketing mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone raises fears of wider spread Boom in infections in the West African nation is driven by the same viral strain that caused a global outbreak in 2022.

An explosive surge of mpox infections in Sierra Leone has pummelled its health-care system, raising fears it will spark a larger outbreak in densely populated West Africa.

“The situation is so dire,” says Jia Kangbai, a researcher in Sierra Leone. With @kindrachukjason.bsky.social, for @nature.com.

Thanks for covering this, Max 🙏

Clinical and epidemiological characteristics among probable and confirmed patients with mpox in Sierra Leone reported from January to May 2025 We analysed available mpox cases reports in Sierra Leone from January to May 2025 following a historic increase in mpox cases across multiple urban and rural regions in the country. Here, we assessed ...

Update #1: Rolling clinical and epi updates for #mpox data from #SierraLeone. Watch for updated versions as additional data becomes available. Heartfelt thanks to our local colleagues in-country led by Dr. Jia Kangbai

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

The Wadsworth Center is expanding it's research focus on #virology /vector-borne diseases!
www.asmcareerconnections.org/job/research-scientist-5-g-31/78488664/
This is a unicorn assistant prof equivalent position with 12-month hard money salary and no teaching commitments (!)
Reposts appreciated 🙏

Great piece from @kakape.bsky.social on #mpox in #SierraLeone that features a great array of experts and colleagues. A pleasure to speak alongside these wonderful individuals