Personal account/views. Infectious diseases consultant & researcher. Emerging & high consequence infectious diseases. Humanist.
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Jake Dunning retweeted
There is still another 11 days to apply for this post to come and work with us on arboviruses and emerging infections! The ACF post is embedded within the @HPRUezi working with myself, @samtweed, @OutbreakJake, @tommyrampling and others.
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Jake Dunning retweeted
Delighted UKHSA has appointed Dr Gail Carson OBE as Chief Medical Adviser and Professor Robin May as Chief Scientific Officer. I have enjoyed working with them both and know they will make tremendous contributions to the health and wellbeing of the UK.
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Jake Dunning retweeted
Thank goodness for BBC Verify £3.3 million budget and 61 staff, or we would never have figured this out!
Jake Dunning retweeted
If everything that’s going on in Israel is incomprehensible to you, watch episodes 7-8 of Fauda season 5, about 7 October 2023. It will haunt you. But it helps, just a bit, to understand the fanaticism, murder, terror, rape, and carnage that began the latest round of violence.
Jake Dunning retweeted
Current El Niño likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years & will pile extra heat into atmosphere in which temperatures already rising rapidly due to human-caused global heating. 2027 expected to “blow apart” previous records & hottest year ever recorded theguardian.com/environment/…
Jake Dunning retweeted
Lassa fever outbreaks in Nigeria used to follow the dry season. Not anymore.
"Now we see cases throughout the year," says one doctor on the frontline in Ondo State.
Here's what's changing, and how health workers are responding: bit.ly/4xUTQEZ
Jake Dunning retweeted
Nature Africa: Protecting those who protect us: the ethics of Ebola post-exposure trials
Tom Fletcher et al @natAfrica1
go.nature.com/465ozmt
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"The Ebola outbreak deserves far greater attention than it is receiving today.
The communities affected deserve far greater assistance.
And the response deserves far greater support."
- UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres tells the press
Jake Dunning retweeted
To bring the Ebola outbreak under control, we must fully fund the Government-led $1.3 billion response plan and the remaining $1.1 billion humanitarian plan to meet the life-saving needs of people across the DRC.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the fastest-spreading Ebola epidemic ever recorded.
It's growing faster & wider than the response to contain it.
But it can be stopped.
We know how to contain Ebola & save lives.
The world must urgently step up action to get it under control.
Jake Dunning retweeted
.@AfricaCDC and @WHO today welcomed the end of the #Ebola outbreak due to Bundibugyo species in Uganda. This follows 42 consecutive days without a new confirmed case since the country’s last patient, an imported case, was discharged from care on 16 July 2026.
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Jake Dunning retweeted
We are hiring! @WHO Unit Head (P5 based in Geneva, Switzerland) Emerging Zoonoses & High Impact Epidemics
This is my former position, which I loved. Join us and work with incredible people at WHO and around the world.
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Jake Dunning retweeted
The #Ebola outbreak in #DRC remains a public health emergency of international concern, following the advice of today’s @WHO Emergency Committee meeting.
We call for the cooperation of all governments and all partners, working together as one, to scale up efforts even further, and raise the resources needed to protect communities over the coming months.
Updated recommendations to the government of DRC and other countries at risk will be issued in the coming days.
Jake Dunning retweeted
Read the latest #Ebola research, reviews, and commentaries published across The Lancet Group, free to access.
Visit the Lancet Ebola Collection: spkl.io/601178pXh
Jake Dunning retweeted
Current Ebola outbreak worst ever in DR Congo, WHO says bbc.in/4g7kunK
Jake Dunning retweeted
The Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in the #DRC is intensifying, with sustained transmission, rising cases and deaths, and expanding geographic spread.
This is now the largest #Ebola outbreak ever reported in the country.
As of 30 July 2026:
▶️3605 confirmed cases and 1587 deaths have been reported
▶️The continued rise in cases, widening spread, and high mortality highlight the growing nature of this public health emergency.
During the past week, the outbreak reached its highest weekly total, with 567 cases and 296 deaths, underscoring the exceptional pace of transmission.
Factors like insecurity, population displacement, and cross-border movement continue to hamper response efforts and increase the risk of further spread.
While national authorities, WHO, and partners are implementing extensive response measures, a substantial scale-up of operations across all activities is needed to get ahead of the outbreak.
Full report, read here: bit.ly/4g6lLeH
ALT Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Disease Outbreak News, 1 Aug 2026
Jake Dunning retweeted
Ebola has now killed more than 1,500 people and is spreading with an "exceptional pace of transmission".
151 health workers have been infected, 44 have died.
The Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in the #DRC is intensifying, with sustained transmission, rising cases and deaths, and expanding geographic spread.
This is now the largest #Ebola outbreak ever reported in the country.
As of 30 July 2026:
▶️3605 confirmed cases and 1587 deaths have been reported
▶️The continued rise in cases, widening spread, and high mortality highlight the growing nature of this public health emergency.
During the past week, the outbreak reached its highest weekly total, with 567 cases and 296 deaths, underscoring the exceptional pace of transmission.
Factors like insecurity, population displacement, and cross-border movement continue to hamper response efforts and increase the risk of further spread.
While national authorities, WHO, and partners are implementing extensive response measures, a substantial scale-up of operations across all activities is needed to get ahead of the outbreak.
Full report, read here: bit.ly/4g6lLeH
ALT Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Disease Outbreak News, 1 Aug 2026
Jake Dunning retweeted
Lancet ID: A review of Bundibugyo virus and the 2026 outbreak: lessons for epidemic preparedness
outstanding review/commentary by Krutika Kuppalli, Placide Mbala, Jake Dunning @KrutikaKuppalli @PlacideMbala @OutbreakJake @TheLancetInfDis
bit.ly/4wm6c7T
Jake Dunning retweeted
Congratulations to Drs. Gavin Harris (@EmoryUniversity), Anabel Sinchi (Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas), James Lawler (@unmc), and Maria Frank (@JohnsHopkins) on this important contribution to special pathogen preparedness!
Andes virus, the sole orthohantavirus with documented human-to-human transmission, causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (case fatality rate, 25 to 40%). Aggressive supportive care and strict infection-control measures are needed. Learn more in “Andes Virus — A Clinical Review” by G.H. Harris et al.: nej.md/3Ryz3Hz
ALT The image is a flowchart detailing the clinical course of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. It starts with "Incubation" and "Prodrome," proceeds to "Cardiopulmonary stage" (divided into "Initial symptoms" and "ARDS and shock"), then "Early recovery," and ends with "Convalescence." Each phase lists specific symptoms and findings. Examination and laboratory findings are provided beneath the phases, describing observations and test results like physical examination outcomes and laboratory markers. An arrow at the top indicates the progression through phases.