A Mammarenavirus Close to Lassa Virus in a Patient with Meningoencephalitis | NEJM
A 37-year-old man in Chad presented with a fever and a headache. An extensive evaluation
identified a mammarenavirus, close to Lassa virus, in samples of cerebrospinal fluid.
This is an interesting case of a patient from Chad infected with a novel arenavirus species/variant/strain, presenting with meningoencephalitis.
IMO, could be classified as a highly divergent Lassa virus strain in a new country (similar to what Togo has observed).
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
17.11.2025 16:47 — 👍 83 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 1
Confirmed, but H5N5, not H5N1. First human case caused by this subtype of avian influenza virus - The Washington Post share.google/eBn4Twuju9LQ...
16.11.2025 15:12 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Preliminary human bird flu case reported in Washington state
Preliminary human bird flu case reported in Washington state www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
14.11.2025 21:39 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
First outbreak of Marburg (or Ebola) in Ethiopia. There isn't a licensed vaccine for Marburg, but an experimental one was used for a 2024 outbreak in Rwanda (www.science.org/content/arti...).
14.11.2025 21:39 — 👍 26 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Gracias Fede! 🤗
13.11.2025 22:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Enhorabuena Miguel Ángel!
lo leeré con mucho interés
13.11.2025 21:35 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Nuevo artículo publicado por nuestro grupo:
"El virus del Nilo Occidental (West Nile): una amenaza creciente en España con importantes implicaciones en Salud Pública".
En el último nº de la Revista Española de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública.
revistamedicinapreventiva.com/articulo/el-...
13.11.2025 19:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
⚠️Atención con Senegal🇸🇳: brote de Fiebre del Valle del Rift🦟🐄. ¿Qué sabemos? Las cifras más recientes informan 277 casos confirmados y 22 muertes. Saint-Louis es la zona roja (ver mapa). Seguido de Matam y Louga. Adjunto último informe oficial
23.10.2025 05:59 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Somos 5 los investigadores del CISA (INIA-CSIC) en la lista Standford de mejores investigadores en ciencias veterinarias. Enhorabuena a mis compañerxs Carmina Gallardo, Marisa Arias, Pedro Sánchez-Cordón y Francisco Llorente.
25.09.2025 06:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Solo tenemos un cerebro: cuidémoslo | Kranion
Ha salido un artículo que me hace especial ilusión, Editorial de Revista Kranion
Solo tenemos un cerebro: cuidémoslo.
Descarga gratuita
www.kranion.es/frame_esp.ph...
16.07.2025 16:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Frontiers | Seroprevalence of Zika virus and dengue virus infections in migrants in Italy
IntroductionEstimating the burden of Zika virus (ZIKV) and dengue virus (DENV) infections in migrants is important to promote their health status and recomme...
Este estudio en Italia detecta altas seroprevalencias frente a dengue y zika en inmigrantes, lo que indica que la exposición en sus países de origen les ha creado inmunidad protectiva. Ello hace difícil que introduzcan dichas enfermedades en Europa.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
16.07.2025 16:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pues ya lo siento, era un estupendo programa, de los que hacen falta. Espero que lo que sea que lo releve sea igualmente un buen programa de divulgación científica. De lo otro ya hay mucho. Un abrazo JAL.
24.06.2025 09:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Perfecto ejemplo de "cómo retorcer un argumento hasta que se ciña a mis creencias"
03.06.2025 15:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
05.05.2025 12:14 — 👍 56 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1
As Trump Targets Researchers, Europe Makes a Pitch to Attract Scientists (Gift Article)
The continent’s leaders are hoping to benefit as the Trump administration cuts support for research and threatens universities such as Harvard and Columbia with the freezing of federal funds.
„Over the longer term, the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, plans to double grants for researchers relocating to Europe and to enshrine freedom of scientific research into a law called the European Research Area Act.“
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05.05.2025 12:13 — 👍 151 🔁 64 💬 6 📌 10
Ayer fue el día del libro. Lo celebro con esta modesta aportación en forma de opúsculo sobre salud cerebral.
Orgulloso de compartir autoría con @memarzo.bsky.social, prologo Raúl Juárez y portada de un excelso ilustrador, @difol.bsky.social
Espero lo disfrutéis
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
24.04.2025 18:04 — 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
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Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.
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Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.
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Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.
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By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.
The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵
19.04.2025 08:46 — 👍 2340 🔁 1014 💬 98 📌 101
Parece que Bluesky le está comiendo la tostada a X en el ámbito científico (o eso afirma @altmetric.com )
29.03.2025 07:08 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It won’t end with COVID: Countering the next phase of American antivaccine activism 2025–29
Peter Hotez writes on how to counter the next wave of anti-vaccine activism in @plosglobalpublichealth.org
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journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
08.01.2025 21:09 — 👍 87 🔁 36 💬 4 📌 4
Dynamics of Bagaza, West Nile, and Usutu Viruses in Red-Legged Partridges, Portugal, 2018–2022
Bagaza, West Nile, and Usutu Viruses, Portugal
NEW PAPER OUT!
"Dynamics of Bagaza, West Nile, and Usutu Viruses in Red-Legged Partridges, Portugal, 2018–2022"
A fruitful collaboration between Portugal and Spain, affected by emerging epornitic flaviviruses.
Proud to be part of it!
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
25.03.2025 08:12 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Nuevo subtipo Gripe aviar altamente patógena H7N9 en EEUU 👇
17.03.2025 18:34 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Virologist • JdC postdoctoral fellow at Viral Biology group (I2SysBio)
The VIGILANT project is funded by #HorizonEurope and develops broad spectrum antivirals for pandemic preparedness. Find more information at https://linktr.ee/VIGILANT_EU
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Servicio de Microbiología Clínica del Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal. Clinical Microbiology Department, Ramon y Cajal Hospital. Madrid.
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|Scientist - PhD in Biomedical Sciences|. RNA viruses replication and host interactions.
Scientist, Virology, UCLM, ETSIAMB, Albacete, CBMSO, Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Cambridge, Imperial College, DTU, basketball
Tenured Scientist at IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM)
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Scientist and Deputy Editor, Cell at Cell Press
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#Biologist and MSc in #Biotechnology, ongoing PhD Thesis at @Microbiome_CNB. Currently, working as @Momentum_CSIC Technician launching the AI Lab of @MNCN_CSIC with Luis R. Pertierra, Ph.D.
Doctor en Biología. Entomólogo. Especialista en organismos nocivos con importancia sanitaria.