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Global Virus Network Celebrates the 2024 Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award for Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Salim S. Abdool Karim
The Global Virus Network (GVN) proudly congratulates Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Salim S. Abdool Karim on their receipt of the prestigious 2024 Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award. As leading members of the GVN, including as hosts of the GVN Annual Scientific Meeting last month in Durban, South Africa, Drs. Abdool Karim have demonstrated unwavering commitments to…
Read MoreGlobal Virus Network’s Annual Meeting Fortifies Bonds on the African Continent to Catalyze Innovative Research, Strengthen Pandemic Preparedness, and Combat Scientific Misinformation
Duke-NUS Medical School’s Dr. Linfa Wang Awarded GVN’s 2024 Robert C. Gallo Award for Scientific Excellence and Leadership Durban, South Africa (,September 18, 2024) – The Global Virus Network concluded its annual meeting of closed scientific sessions held 16-18 September 2024 with a press conference. Co-hosted by the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research…
Read MoreGlobal Virus Network Bolsters Multinational Mpox Response Through Critical Meeting of Key Global Partners
Laboratory Leadership Service (LLS) fellow Nicolle Baird piloting a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay in Ghana to better understand the mpox outbreak occurring in the West Africa region in November 2022. Credit: U.S. CDC Last week’s meeting marked a prelude to GVN’s international meeting in Durban, South Africa, September 16-18, 2024 Tampa, FL (August…
Read MoreThe Global Virus Network (GVN) Escalates MPOX Emergency Response Across Africa and Beyond
Credit: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium The GVN MPOX Action Committee is poised to mobilize resources and catalyze efforts in the urgent global call to action As the World Health Organization (WHO) declares MPOX a public health emergency of international concern, the Global Virus Network (GVN), headquartered at the University of South Florida (USF), USA,…
Read MoreGVN Experts Convene to Discuss H5N1 Flu — 3rd ad hoc panel
On July 30th, the Global Virus Network hosted a 3rd ad hoc panel of experts to discuss the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. This panel brought together experts to discuss and analyze potential implications for human health and global health security, strategizing responses to this viral threat. The 1st ad hoc panel occurred on May…
Read MoreGVN Experts Convene to Discuss H5N1 Flu — 2nd ad hoc panel
On June 27th, the Global Virus Network hosted a 2nd ad hoc panel of experts to discuss the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. This panel brought together experts to discuss and analyze potential implications for human health and global health security, strategizing responses to this viral threat. The 1st ad hoc panel occurred on May…
Read MoreUSF Selected as the International Headquarters of the Global Virus Network
Dr. Robert Gallo, world-renowned scientist and co-discoverer of HIV, joins USF medical school faculty TAMPA, Fla. (June 5, 2024) — The University of South Florida will serve as host for the international headquarters of the Global Virus Network, a distinguished organization comprised of virologists spanning in excess of 80 Centers of Excellence and Affiliates in…
Read MoreGlobal Virus Network Experts Convene to Discuss H5N1 Flu
On May 13 at 10 a.m. EDT, the Global Virus Network will host an ad hoc panel of experts to discuss the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) circulating worldwide, now considered a “pandemic among animals” (panzootic). This panel brings together experts to discuss and analyze potential implications for human health and global health security,…
Read MoreBattling Pandemic Viruses Like Avian Influenza
Authors: Maggie L. Bartlett, PhD, and Sten Vermund, MD, PhD The increasing number of avian influenza spillovers to non-bird species demands innovation to prevent a future influenza pandemic. As deadly as the coronavirus pandemic has been, the catastrophic potential of influenza viruses is much worse. The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic infected a third of the world’s…
Read MoreDengue virus: Urgency in our warming world
Why is this important? In the summer of 2023, Mexico and countries in Central America and the Caribbean were in the news because of extensive outbreaks of the mosquito-borne dengue virus (DENV) (1). These outbreaks were at least partially weather-related: Warmer temperatures exacerbated by El Niño and global warming are linked to heavier-than-normal precipitation…
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