Prof Muhammad Munir
@VirologistMunir
Virologist studying viral zoonoses. Developer of vaccines for animal & people & smart diagnostic platforms for microbes. My political views are non-judgemental.
As bird flu evolves, keeping it out of farm flocks is getting harder sciencenews.org/article/bird-f…
Bats live incredibly long (>40 years) without developing cancer. Athar et al unlocked this secret, possibility by 2 methods: 1. Several copies of P53 gene in bats act as cancer blocker, 2. Extra p53 keeps a check on telomerase to avoid cancer development nature.com/articles/s4146…
UK - Avian influenza in mammals 2025 - FluTrackers News and Information flutrackers.com/forum/forum/eu…
The consequences of letting avian influenza run rampant in US poultry | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Health experts are sounding the alarm over a controversial proposal by U.S. officials to allow bird flu to spread unchecked through poultry farms nytimes.com/2025/03/18/hea…
New Covid strain spreads across UK with unique symptom | The Independent independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
The opportunity to identify the origin of SARS-COV-2 was lost in the first 3 months, it is and will remain a mystery for future generations to come...shall we not stop messing around with this? science.org/content/articl…
'I want to live to 100' Devi Sridhar & 9 other new books to read next | The Herald heraldscotland.com/life_style/252…
India: Kerala reports new Nipah virus case in Palakkad - FluTrackers News and Information flutrackers.com/forum/forum/em…
This is worrying BBC World Service - Science In Action, Bird flu surges in Cambodia bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…
Nipah virus is becoming a norm now in India and occasionally in Bengladesh - this is one of the most deadly infections know so far. India: Kerala reports new Nipah virus case in Palakkad - FluTrackers News and Information flutrackers.com/forum/forum/em…
More than 15 million biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 indexed by PubMed and show how the appearance of LLMs led to an abrupt increase in the frequency of certain style words. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Asmaa Nasr and Vidya Manju from Prof Munir’s Lab (@VirologistMunir) recently participated in the International Pandemic Sciences Conferece 2025 at the Pandemic Sciences Institute, Oxford. They presented their PhD research on viruses with pandemic potential. #PandemicSciences25
This is the fourth case recorded with bat lyssavirus which is transmitted through bites or scratches from infected bats. independent.co.uk/news/world/aus…
Avian reovirus induces autophagy-mediated cargo of progeny viruses to extracellular vesicles and enhancement of virus release - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Lumpy Skin Disease Hits Mainland Italy linkedin.com/posts/spidvac_…
