Alex Matía

Postdoc fellow investigating the mechanisms of viral neuropathogenesis @StanfordMed and @CZBiohub | PhD in Poxvirus ☣️ @CSIC
#viromics #poxrocks #flavis

[Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network @czbiohub]

🚨 Announcing: the Frontiers in Comparative Systems Virology Symposium, hosted by #CZBiohubSF; keynotes by @jbloom_lab, @RNA_Life, @ElEarlyBird.

#VirusHostInteractions #SystemsVirology #SystemsBiology

Go here to learn more, register, submit a poster ▶️
https://t.co/28V8no0er8

[Manuel Leonetti @LeonettiManuel]

So excited to start the year w/ our new paper @CellCellPress! #proteomics spatial map of human cells + dynamics using #organelle IP at scale. 🙌 to amazing teamwork @czbiohub and beyond. Check out portal https://t.co/Gb1TvlKcCH and paper https://t.co/YskVRBUqZi. 1/n

[Infectious Disease Tracker @HmpxvT]

⚠️ BREAKING:

The "mystery epidemic" in the Democratic Republic of Congo is believed to be partly linked to influenza, the Congolese government announced Friday evening.

According to laboratory analysts, the prevalence of the influenza virus is 28%.

[Infectious Disease Tracker @HmpxvT]

⚠️ BREAKING:

California reports one presumptive human case of H5N1 bird flu in a child with mild symptoms, according to the California Department of Public Health.

They had no known contact with an infected animal.

[0bFuSc8 @0bFuSc8]

2/ Closer views of GISAID subsampled #H5N1 trees w/seq from BC's human case

NOTE: "X" = undetermined & usually indicates mixed AAs at that position
➡️PB2 E627X – important b/c E627K confers mammalian adaptation

➡️Also in HA – E202X, G238X – both cld be significant

(more soon)

[Infectious Disease Tracker @HmpxvT]

The Public Health Agency of Canada confirms that the case involves H5N1 bird flu (clade 2.3.4.4b).

This version of the virus is found in wild birds, so not connected to the outbreak in dairy cows.

https://t.co/melP98sQc9

[Infectious Disease Tracker @HmpxvT]

⚠️ BREAKING:

Health officials in Hawaii have detected H5 bird flu in wastewater on Oahu Island.

State officials are investigating the source of the positive test in Hawaii, the only US state without any confirmed outbreaks in birds or animals.

[Infectious Disease Tracker @HmpxvT]

Wastewater in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Sacramento, Sunnyvale and Turlock has tested positive for H5 bird flu virus in their latest sample.

[Fundación iO @fundacionio]

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[Alex Matía @alex___me]

Happy to share that I just started as a Postdoctoral Fellow between @czbiohub and @StanfordMed !!

@Stanford_MCP @rhuttenhain

[Alex Matía @alex___me]

It is urgent to determine if both were infected from the same source or there is sustained transmission. #H5N1 #HPAI

[Infectious Disease Tracker @HmpxvT]

⚠️ BREAKING:

A second pig on the same farm might have been infected with H5N1 bird flu, authorities revealed, according to Stat News.

Tissue testing from the first infected pig showed that it “had virus throughout their body,” said Ryan Scholz, Oregon’s state veterinarian.

[nature @Nature]

Yet another strain of the virus that causes mpox might be readily spreading from person to person https://t.co/NGkG5Yvu1n

[Prof. Nikolai Slavov @slavov_n]

Timescales in Cell Biology

[Alex Matía @alex___me]

H5N1 could combine with seasonal flu to create a more dangerous virus strain https://t.co/nvvyr9fZik

[BNO News @BNOFeed]

California reports another human case of H5N1 bird flu, taking the total to 6 in one week

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

.@USDA confirms another 13 dairy herds infected with #H5N1 #birdflu in California, bringing the state's total to 96 in just 6 weeks. Would be good to get some answers about what is going on there.
Cumulative national total: 296 in 14 states.
https://t.co/2BioBG14K4

[Infectious Disease Tracker @HmpxvT]

⚠️ BREAKING:

California reports another human case of H5N1 bird flu.

The case is unrelated to the previous two reported this week.

[BNO News @BNOFeed]

BREAKING: California reports human case of H5N1 bird flu at dairy facility

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

Another Friday surprise: A 2nd health worker who cared for a Missouri person who had #H5N1 #birdflu got ill after the fact. Missouri only learned of this illness after he/she recovered, so no diagnostic test. Will be asked to submit blood for testing. https://t.co/mIxecXqIfk

[Alex Matía @alex___me]

@HelenBranswell @USDA At this point it could be more useful to show the new cases (per week or month and state) rather than the cumulative to better observe the trend.