“GISAID ,
a global database of influenza virus genetic sequences that typically gets
thousands of flu sequences each year, has not received a single B/Yamagata
sequence with specimen collection data after March 2020.”
posted 10/20/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[P]eople who were homozygous (had two copies) of this protective gene variant
involved in antigen presentation were 40 percent more likely to survive the
plague than those with two copies of a deleterious variant, which encodes a
broken protein.”
posted 11/3/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Wolves with antibodies against [Toxoplasma gondii ] were significantly more
likely to disperse (leave their packs and set out on their own) and to become
pack leaders. Pursuing both of these courses of action constitutes aggressive
and risky wolf behavior.”
posted 12/5/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[I]t turned out that the strain of plague that ravaged northern Kyrgyzstan in
1338–1339 was an ancestor of every other 14th-century plague genome that has
ever been sequenced. The plague strain from the Lake Issyk-Kul villages also
seems to be the most recent common ancestor of four Y. pestis lineages that
circulate in modern rodent populations.”
posted 9/25/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[A] new report published in The Lancet describing 41 early cases in the
outbreak indicate that the earliest identified person sickened had no
epidemiological links to the [Wuhan animal] market.”
(Added November 2022: This was the first thing I posted about the plague, and
the first thing that really made me think it might be something that would
affect my family.)
posted 1/28/2020 10:26pm ∞