Judith Aberle

Most believe it’s unlikely H5N1 will develop into a pandemic, but in low probability scenario it does, U.S. will have only itself to blame. Agricultural officials did just about everything wrong over last year, hoping virus would burn out and it didn’t 1/2 statnews.com/2024/12/26/cdc…

We cannot predict if a next pandemic will evolve out of this situation. But it does tick many boxes, telling us to be on the alert. Here is what a network of global expert centers calls for: H5 avian influenza sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In 2024, Austria experienced its largest measles outbreak in at least 24 years (542 cases - all over Austria, different age groups, several independent outbreaks!). So we wondered: is there an immunity gap in our population? #Measles #immunizationweek eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280…

First study on measles immunity gaps in Austria by amazing colleagues David Springer, Lukas Weseslindtner and many others from our team at @MedUni_Wien

It turns out our cHA universal vaccine strategy induces long lasting anti-stalk responses in humans. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40132593/ Awesome work by @GuthmillerJenna and Patrick Wilson

Not surprising: infectiousness of H5n1 can be retained in cheese made from raw milk. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. Why am i not surprised? This has been described before, for tick borne encephalitis for instance frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

🦟🦠 #AedesAegypti females recently found again infected by #dengue virus in Funchal, Madeira, #Portugal 🇵🇹‼️ #Arboviruses #VectorControl #Mosquitoes expresso.pt/sociedade/2025…

🦟 Do you know that #Dengue local transmission has occurred in Southern Europe countries like #Croatia, #Italy, #France, #Portugal & #Spain in recent years⁉️ 🦠In 2024 all records were overcomed with more than 300 autochtonous cases in #Europe‼️ #VectorControl #Aedes #Arboviruses

🚨 Keynote Speakers Announced! 🚨 We’re excited to reveal the keynote speakers for the 27th ESCV Conference 🧬, happening Sept 17-20, 2025! 🎤🔬 Join top experts in clinical virology as they share cutting-edge insights & research. Don't miss it! 🔗 escv2025.org

It's like, how many warnings do we have to give? Every disaster starts with scientists being ignored and that is not a movie... #BirdFlu #H5N1 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Long title and a year late - but still a pretty interesting paper. Great collaboration with @VivianaSimonLab. XBB.1.5 monovalent vaccine induces lasting cross-reactive responses to SARS-CoV-2 variants such as HV.1 and JN.1, as well as SARS-CoV-1, but elicits limited XBB.1.5…

Europe needs a sustainably funded influenza research and response network - especially in the light of H5N1 and current developments in the US. Read our commentary in The Lancet ID: thelancet.com/journals/lanin… With @wendybarclay11, @MarionKoopmans and many other colleagues.

I finally solved the mystery of why there are so many cryptic lineages in Northern Ohio. This is a mystery I’ve been working on for the last 18 months. 1/

Another one to watch: h3n3 influenzavirus bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Cat infections with avian flu linked with cat food containing raw turkey. cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenz… Same story was observed in poland although authorities did not confirm the raw food finding. That was chicken for human consumption, btw pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10…

Vaccine is restarting its Young Investigator Program - in case anybody is interested. sciencedirect.com/journal/vaccin…

Graph showing all human infections with HPAI A(#H5N1) bird flu virus since the first human cases in 1997. The red bar on the right is the United States - amazing how much has changed in one year.

Almost all countries reporting data to ECDC are observing sharp increases in indicators of both influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events…

We are honoured and excited to announce that the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research of Austria (BMBWF) and the Austrian Science Fund (@FWF_at) have funded our project, “Alternative methods for #tick rearing and #infection #models”: doi.org/10.55776/PAT84…. #3Rs