Grateful for Dept. of Agriculture to finally share some #H5N1 flu virus sequences from a few of the cats in the ongoing / widespread outbreak in the food supply across the US (dairy, poultry)

Very oddly, they have chosen to hide the location of infected cats and when viruses were collected. No

Our friends are still visiting us :) now two beautiful chameleons

As we prepare our lab and systems to respond to the winter wave of infectious diseases in the global south, it is good to remind that the Next pandemic likely to be caused by flu 🦠 theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Planting indigenous in our garden attracted a lovely visitor today.

CLIMADE sponsors of amateur African football to get our data scientists out of the computer, exercise and play together! #CERI #CLIMADE

🎉 Exciting news! Our research group, CERI Centre for Epidemic Response & Innovation (CERI), took to the field for our inaugural friendly football game as CERI FC ⚽️. We're proud to showcase our teamwork in action! Check out our custom-designed kit in the photo! #ceri

Lovely morning with ⁦Francesco Petruccione⁩ & stopping at a lavender farm at a scenic setting

Peaceful view in a cloudy day in Stellenbosch

Malawi has seen a significant drop in cholera cases over the past year, thanks to a proactive 7-1-7 approach focused on rapid detection, notification & response.
With WHO support, enhanced surveillance & community measures are keeping infections in check.

afro.who.int/countries/mala…

This is incredible. World Bank comparison of how much a worker making $1,000 in Soweto keeps after taxes and transport costs vs a similar worker in Vietnam.

A damning indictment of both apartheid's spatial legacy and subsequent failures to expand public transport.

Cool game!

Put first official game, CERi FC!

Not long after hearing Tulio de Oliveira present on concerning; from what recall unprecedented cases in region, I co-facilitated an advanced advocacy workshop with
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Southern Africa fieldworkers. Terrible to hear how medical humanitarian colleagues were overwhelmed with #cholera patients.

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I went to the official opening of South Africa’s largest solar PV (540MW) and battery (225MW/1140MWh) plant today near Keinhardt in the N Cape. Seriously impressive, 9 km from one end to the other, nearly 1 million panels, R18 bn investment, built by Scatec in 15 months.

The Flu A (H5N1) strain has become 'a global zoonotic animal pandemic', will it evolve to human to human transmission and creates a human pandemic? Probably not but if keep transmission in animals we give more chance to this happen.

Congratulations Siya Kolisi to make the TIME 100 most influential list! It was an honor to me to be listed in the TIME 100 in 2022 and a great honour to have you also as part of the list! Siya Kolisi