Olusola Ogunsanya

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There’s a serious Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria right now where 146 people have been confirmed dead in 11 weeks and there have been 582 confirmed cases. 25 doctors have been infected, and 3 have lost their lives. If you are reading this, please stay safe. This virus spreads through the urine or droppings of infected rats, or human-to-human contact. It starts like an ordinary fever, but it can quickly move to bleeding, a swollen face, and shock. ALWAYS: 1. Cover your food and pots tightly. 2. Block the holes where rats enter your house. 3. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap. 4. If you have a persistent fever, stop swallowing random drugs from the chemist. Go to the hospital immediately. Our health workers are at risk, and proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is life-saving. We cannot afford to lose more people to a preventable disease. Stay safe and retweet this to save a life today!

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Genomic characterization uncovers transmission dynamics of Marburg Virus in Rwanda following a single zoonotic spillover event medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #medRxiv

🎉Hearty cheers to Prof. Christian Happi @christian_happi on his induction into the United States National Academy of Medicine @theNAMedicine

🎉Today, we honoured the remarkable legacy of an icon by unveiling the Herbert Wigwe Memorial Garden. We are grateful to our esteemed guests including members of the Wigwe family, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Mr. Teslim Igbalaye @OsunSSG & top management & entire @myaccessbank family.

In a new Harvard Public Health magazine @PublicHealthMag article, @billdonahue13 tells the @acegid story of how we use different advanced genomics tools to fight infectious diseases. harvardpublichealth.org/tech-innovatio…

This is not 400 bases per second. 😂

Oxford nanopore sequencing

📢We invite you to @acegid's One Health Genomics International Symposium, 10th Anniversary & Grand Opening of ACEGID Genomics Centre 📅October 7 - 9, 2024 📌ACEGID, @RedeemersUni, Ede, Nigeria We invite you to submit your abstracts: conference.acegid.org

📢Save the date! One Health Genomics International Symposium, @acegid's 10th Anniversary & Grand Opening of ACEGID Genomics Centre 📅October 7 - 9, 2024 📌ACEGID, @RedeemersUni, Ede, Nigeria Join us to celebrate 10 years of African excellence in genomics and public health!

Congratulations, our distinguished Professor. This is truly outstanding. Wishing you more impactful contributions.

Our team just got trained on the use of our @PerkinElmer's Labchip GX Touch HT. The Labchip is a high-throughput bioanalyzer used to analyze & measure the size & concentration of DNA & RNA in samples. We are grateful to our partners @HTDS_SAS for the training. #CapacityBuilding

With this training, @acegid's genomics capacity building effort has reached virtually all African countries. We are proud of this progress and optimistic about the impact on public health in Africa and the world at large. Thanks to our partners and funders🎉

📢Glad to welcome participants from Eswatini, South Sudan, Lesotho, São Tomé and Príncipe, Mozambique, Angola and Mauritius to our training on: Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatics for Pathogen Detection 🧬

HJFMRI, in collaboration with with @wrair and @acegid, published a paper that identified previously unreported animal reservoirs for Lassa virus in Nigeria. Findings were published in @EMI_Journal More here: eidresearch.org/news/press-rel…

📢Readvertised: We have reopened applications for the Laboratory Supply Chain and Inventory Officer role @acegid. The candidate will be responsible for laboratory and operational procurement activities.

📢🎉16 years in the making! We are glad to present our new publication on Lassa fever out in @NatureMicrobiol! It is titled: Genome-wide association study identifies human genetic variants associated with fatal outcome from Lassa fever nature.com/articles/s4156…

Such a delight to have our colleagues from @broadinstitute, Liam Alec Stenson @LiamAlecStenson, Ian Baudi and Kyle Pacheco, here with us. For 2 weeks, they worked with our team, using mCARMEN assays to detect blood-borne pathogens.

Our study concludes that genomic confirmation of LASV in domestic animals supports public health efforts for early pathogen detection, vaccine design, and advocacy aimed at prevention.

Questions about the origin and duration of LASV circulation in non-rodent hosts, as well as their role in zoonotic infections, remain unanswered and require further investigation, including phylodynamic modeling.

Our study conducted zoonotic surveillance of Lassa virus and investigated its presence in various domestic and non-domestic animals. LASV was detected in non-rodent hosts like cats, dogs, lizards, goats, pigs, and chickens using molecular and serological methods.