Apr 17, 2026
Join the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph for their 2026 Chappel Memorial Lecture will featuring Darwyn Kobasa, Head of the High Containment Respiratory Viruses Group in the Special Pathogens Program at the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in...
May 9, 2025
EPIC member Samira Mubareka will co-host a webinar organized by the Canadian Association for HIV Research. Attendees can expect to learn about the latest scientific findings on the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus strain currently affecting dairy cattle...
Jan 30, 2025
(Left to right): Michael Norris, Samira Mubareka, Sharon Walmsley, Vanessa Allen and Beate Sander January 30, 2025 By Sunitha Chari The University of Toronto’s Emerging & Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC) has launched a Rapid Research Response to address the...
May 7, 2024
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1), commonly referred to as bird flu, has been making headlines around the world, as the virus rapidly spreads to new animal species. Already the cause of a panzootic (global animal pandemic), last month a human H5N1 case...
Jan 9, 2024
Continental and intercontinental waves of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAI) in wild birds and domestic poultry have been punctuated by viral reassortment and spillover into mammalians. This global change in HPAI epidemiology has been associated with a...
