Sunday, May 05, 2024

Referral: Preliminary Genomic Epidemiology H5N1 Influenza A virus Outbreak in U.S. cattle


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While their is an enormous amount of egregious (and dangerous) misinformation on Twitter/X regarding avian H5N1 (and other disease threats), if you look hard enough, you'll find an impressive array of real scientists sharing useful and timely information and perspectives on that platform. 

While governments (including our own) are often slow to release information, experts like Tom Peacock, Michael Worobey, Angela Rasmussen - and dozens of others - are willing to take the time to post data and analysis in a public forum in a timely fashion. 

On Friday, more than 20 researchers combined their efforts on Virological.org to post what is known about H5N1's spread in cattle.  This two-part series was announced by Tom Peacock in a series of tweets. 


You'll find the two parts at the following links: PART 1   and   PART 2

Needless to say, Highly Recommended.