Friday, August 08, 2025

Eurosurveillance: Novel influenza A(H1N2) Seasonal Reassortant Virus Identified in a Patient, Sweden, April 2025

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#18,830 Influenza reassortment - also known as Antigenic Shift - is something we've discussed often in the blog, albeit mostly in reg...
Thursday, August 07, 2025

Washington: Tacoma-Pierce County Health Dept. Investigating Possible Locally Acquired Case of Malaria

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Credit Martin County Health Department #18,829 Although roughly 2,000 travel-related cases of Malaria are reported each year in the United...

Pandemic NPIs & Fluid Dynamical Pathways of Airborne Transmission While Waiting in a Line

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  Breath `plumes' while in a queue #18,828 Regardless of what pathogen sparks the next pandemic, the public's first line of defense ...
Wednesday, August 06, 2025

Cambodian MOH Announces 15th H5N1 Case of 2025

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  #18,827 It's been just over a week since the last case was reported by Cambodia , and the summer surge in cases continues with the 12...

EID Journal: Attachment Patterns of Avian Influenza H5 Clade 2.3.4.4b Virus in Respiratory Tracts of Marine Mammals, North Atlantic Ocean

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Flu Virus binding to Receptor Cells – Credit CDC #18,826 We've known for over 4 decades that marine mammals (seals, whales, dolphins, et...
Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Svalbard: HPAI H5N5 Detected In Arctic Foxes

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Location of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean #18,825 While H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b is currently the dominant HPAI strain around the globe, older c...