GCEVD retweeted
🐍 Today is Snakebite Awareness Day.
Every snakebite should be treated as a medical emergency. Knowing what to do can save a life. Learn how to respond to a snakebite — and stay away from ssssnakes! bit.ly/Ssssnake
GCEVD retweeted
Diagnostics are essential to bring outbreaks under control. @WHO, @AfricaCDC and @UNITAID launched the BRIDGE-Access initiative (Bundibugyo Response for Improving Diagnostic Global Equitable Access) in the #DRC to generate evidence on how diagnostic tests perform against #Ebola caused by Bundibugyo virus, aiming to help countries make informed decisions about which tools to adopt and deploy and bring diagnosis closer to affected communities.
GCEVD retweeted
Vaccines are important for this #Ebola outbreak, but not enough…
With @DrTedros & @Dr_JeanKaseya we describe why we must put similar efforts into strong ecosystems for diagnostics & therapeutics to detect, and respond rapidly & effectively
Read here: thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
GCEVD retweeted
.@WHO has given emergency use listing to the first molecular diagnostic test for Bundibugyo virus: bit.ly/4wlKQaT #Ebola
GCEVD retweeted
Uganda has not yet confirmed it publicly, but it appears to have a #Marburg outbreak. A very reliable source tells STAT that 2 cases have been confirmed. The US government has issued a level 4 — aka do not travel there — advisory based on intel it has received. statnews.com/2026/06/30/marb…
GCEVD retweeted
Have you ever seen this iconic image of the #Ebola virus, from the first known outbreak in DRC in 1976? An electron microscopic image, it was captured by #CDC 's Fred Murphy, a virological giant and a very kind interviewee. He died yesterday. He will be missed, but his scientific legacy lives on.
GCEVD retweeted
Three common #Ebola myths debunked:
❌ Everyone with Ebola dies.
✅ Many survive, especially with early diagnosis and quality care.
❌ Closing borders stops Ebola.
✅ It can drive travel underground and hinder outbreak control.
❌ Ebola spreads through the air like the flu.
✅ Ebola spreads through direct contact with infected bodily fluids or contaminated materials, not routine airborne transmission.
GCEVD retweeted
🦠 Mpox, hantavirus, Ebola: face à l’irruption de ces virus, le Centre des maladies virales émergentes des @hug_ge et de l’UNIGE joue un rôle clé dans le diagnostic et la réponse clinique. Créée après l’épidémie d’Ebola de 2014, cette structure fête ses 10 ans alors qu’une nouvelle flambée inquiète tout un continent.
Plus d’informations 🔗 unige.ch/lejournal/recherche…
#santé #virus #epidemie
GCEVD retweeted
Hundreds of children die within months as measles cases soar in Bangladesh bbc.in/3RAIvK8
GCEVD retweeted
Five urgent realities in the #Ebola outbreak in the DRC:
1⃣This is not just a virus problem — it’s a health systems crisis.
2⃣Healthcare worker infections are a major warning sign.
3⃣Diagnostics are just as critical as vaccines and therapeutics.
4⃣Community trust determines whether outbreaks are contained.
5⃣The world cannot keep cycling between panic and neglect.
Outbreak control depends on speed, trust, infrastructure, and sustained investment — not just emergency declarations.
GCEVD retweeted
Two children of an American Ebola patient look through a window at their father in the isolation ward at the Charite hospital in Berlin, Germany reut.rs/4dBAJXM 📸 Charite Hospital
GCEVD retweeted
A lot of misinformation about #Ebola is circulating right now. Key facts:
1️⃣ It spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids from someone who is sick.
2️⃣ People are NOT contagious before symptoms begin.
3️⃣ Early supportive care saves lives.
4️⃣ Travel bans don’t stop outbreaks — surveillance, testing, IPC, and community trust do.
5️⃣ Frontline health workers and affected communities deserve support, not fearmongering.
Public health must be guided by facts not fiction.
GCEVD retweeted
🚨 Hantavirus and genomic epidemiology: Has it been smooth sailing?
Join a special PHA4GE & IPSN webinar exploring how genomics supported the response to the Hantavirus outbreak.
📅 20 May 2026
🕒 14:00 CEST
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#PHA4GE #Hantavirus
GCEVD retweeted
There is a LOT going on as researchers and public health experts are racing to respond to the #Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in DRC and Uganda before it grows bigger.
My story in @ScienceMagazine is here:
science.org/content/article/…
GCEVD retweeted
Great to see #DRC post the initial genomes from May 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease Outbreak.
It helps improve diagnostics, track transmission, and accelerate development of vaccines and therapeutics.
Transparent, real-time data sharing is essential for outbreak control.
virological.org/t/initial-ge…
GCEVD retweeted
The misinformation and disinformation being spread about #Ebola is disrespectful to those exposed, those infected, and those who have lost their lives.
It also undermines the many frontline healthcare workers, laboratorians, epidemiologists, and response teams working tirelessly to contain this outbreak under incredibly difficult conditions.
Outbreaks demand facts, science, compassion, and solidarity, not fearmongering and falsehoods.
GCEVD retweeted
The reports of unlinked #Ebola cases in Kampala and a case in Kinshasa are deeply concerning.
Kampala and Kinshasa are densely populated cities with millions of residents and major regional and international transit hubs. Combined with ongoing transmission in mining towns with constant cross-border movement, this creates significant opportunities for further spread if containment efforts are not rapidly intensified.
2. Four health workers are among the dead; health workers are always at elevated risk in #Ebola outbreaks.
2 cases unlinked to each other have been confirmed in Kampala, the Uganda capital. And a confirmed case has been reported in the DRC capital, Kinshasa.
Bad signs.
GCEVD retweeted
@WHO Disease Outbreak News #Ebola disease caused by #Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda
who.int/emergencies/disease-…
GCEVD retweeted
@emilylmullin @florian_krammer i think the story of CDC and PCR assays for research use only is a warning: complete clinical validation for a rare disease is very difficult. The research use only label has to to with accreditation that diagnostic labs have to abide by @CDCgov
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Ebola is no stranger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has seen more than a dozen outbreaks since the virus was first identified there 50 years ago. But a new outbreak announced by the Ministry of Health has raised more red flags than usual.
The ministry says there are already 246 suspected cases, including 80 deaths, in the remote province of Ituri, suggesting the virus spread widely before it was identified.
The virus is a rare species called Ebola Bundibugyo, which standard field tests often miss, and for which no vaccines and therapeutics exist. scim.ag/42A38se
