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ArticleViruses2025

Navigating Virology's Frontiers in Africa: Global Virus Network 2024 Durban Meeting.

Maggie L Bartlett, Rubeshan Perumal, Sten H Vermund, Salim Abdool Karim

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Article in Viruses, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Maggie L BartlettGlobal Virus Network, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1793-1189
Rubeshan PerumalGlobal Virus Network, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
Sten H VermundGlobal Virus Network, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
Salim Abdool KarimGlobal Virus Network, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Global Virus Network (GVN) is a voluntary consortium of virology laboratories and affiliated scientists that seek to prevent and control global viral threats. The meetings of the GVN are characterized by academic, health center, government, and industry participation, sharing information that is designed to further the mutual mission. In September 2024, the meeting in Durban, South Africa, highlighted diseases and investigators from Africa, and paid special attention to pandemic preparedness. Selected highlights from the meeting are presented here, along with a call-to-action in defense of global partnerships for research in the origins of human and animal viruses, the risk to humans from other animal sources, the pathogenesis of given viruses, and their prevention and treatment. Discussions of laboratory discovery science are juxtaposed with development of vaccines, antiviral drugs, immunotherapies, and innovative field strategies for control of viral diseases.

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VirologyVirus DiseasesAfricaAnimalsAntiviral AgentsHumansPandemicsSouth AfricaVirusesAntiviral AgentsAfricapandemicscientific misinformationvirologyzoonosis

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PMID40573408
PMCPMC12197373

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