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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.1031 [SLACK_001245] · slack_pm:msg:10784

Date: 2021-11-26 09:29
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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Sounds good Andrew - and happy to help out with this. This definitely is a weirdo strain, so I think we need to consider seriously the potential animal link - also because of the timing.

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2021-11-26 09:14 Robert F. Garry open

Genets are cat-like right?
2021-11-26 09:17 Andrew Rambaut open

Yes!
2021-11-26 09:17 Andrew Rambaut open

Are you updating your Christmas card
2021-11-26 09:19 Robert F. Garry open

Ha - Yeah - and the fact that it's Christmas time may not be purely a coincidence. I was thinking of posting it onvirological but I like the approach of something a bit more substantial put up pretty quickly---
2021-11-26 09:29 Kristian G. Andersen

Sounds good Andrew - and happy to help out with this. This definitely is a weirdo strain, so I think we need to consider seriously the potential animal link - also because of the timing.
2021-11-26 09:30 Robert F. Garry open

Let's do it quickly though- I can update the Christmas card if that's helpful...
2021-11-26 09:32 Robert F. Garry open

I'm already getting over-whelmed with media requests - on the big UK radio stations wanted to interview at 11pm - Ididn't...
2021-11-26 09:37 Andrew Rambaut open

What we are waiting for now is genomes from other parts of RSA. The initial genomes were extremely targeted to auniversity outbreak. Interestingly they had already noticed the rise in SGTF in multiple provinces before sequencingNu. There were not doing much genome sequencing so it is a bit of a rush to get samples from across the country.So if the new ones lie outside Jo'burg then that gives an older root and more likely a non-RSA origin. If they are all within Jo'burg clade then point source (possibly across the border in Botswana or somewhere).
2021-11-26 09:42 Andrew Rambaut open

New Botswana ones are quite interspersed and possibly basal: [shared file(s): image.png]

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