Muge Cevik
Clinician Scientist β’ Infectious Diseases / Virology @univofstandrews β’ currently @IDIMakerere β’ globalhealth, TB, HIV β’ #veganπ±β’ RT β endorsement
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As the monkeypox virus (MPX) outbreak continues, a lot of data emerging in real-time & being rapidly disseminated (as well as misinformation). I complied the unfolding scientific d...
Late breaker session at #ECCMID2022 on acute hepatitis cases of unknown origin in children. So far, 169 cases have been reported from 11 countries since first case was identified...
Very interesting analyses about the virology of #Omicron, which may explain the faster spread of this variant. According to a new lab study, Omicron infects & multiplies ~70x fast...
Concerns about outdoor transmission risk seem to be trending again. What is the risk of transmission outdoors and should we be more worried about outdoors with the new more-transmi...
There are several reasons to think that the new UK #SARSCoV2 variant is an important one as it might be more contagious than other variants, but there are also some uncertainties....
I have been receiving Qs about why overestimating asymptomatic infections might misinform policy. 1/ Most importantly it endangers finding the best strategies controlling the epi...
A lot of discussion recently about transmission dynamics, most of which are extrapolated from viral loads & estimates. What does contact tracing/community testing data tell us abou...