Wednesday, October 07, 2026

NHC: Isaias Now A Tropical Storm - Forecast to Threaten Northern Gulf Coast As A Strong Hurricane

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 #19,362 October storms born in the Bay of Campeche have a reputation for spinning up rapidly as they approach a landfall.  Although that do...

Referral Preprint: The mammalian-adaptive PB2-E627K substitution preserves viral fitness of clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 HPAIV in birds.

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  #19,362 While worrisome, HPAI H5Nx remains primarily an avian-adapted virus, despite increasingly spilling over into mammalian species ( i...
Tuesday, October 06, 2026

NHC Monitoring Gulf Disturbance with 80% Chance of Development

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  #19,361 As a hurricane weary Floridian (see 2024's Hurricane Watches Raised For Most of Florida's West Coast ),  our El Niño dampe...

Follow-up on The Russian `Lab Leak' Story

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  #19,360 Two days ago, in  About that Russian `Lab Leak' Story , we looked at admittedly sparse details on a purported lab accident at...
Monday, October 05, 2026

AVMA: How can veterinary personnel recognize and protect themselves from domestic cats infected with HPAI A(H5N1) viruses?

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  #19,359 Last May, in  MMWR: Serologic Evidence of HPAI A(H5N1) Virus Infection in a Veterinary Professional Exposed to an Infected Domesti...
Sunday, October 04, 2026

About that Russian `Lab Leak' Story

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#19,358 Over the past 72 hours there has been a media frenzy over a reported plague death, supposedly in a Russian laboratory worker, and th...