Avian Flu Diary

Covering Pandemic and Seasonal Flu, Emerging Infectious Diseases, public health, community & Individual preparedness. NOTE: All AFD blogs are written by a human - any mistakes are solely mine.

Thursday, October 08, 2026

WHO: Dr. Tedros Statement On `Plague' Incident In Russia

#19,364 Two days ago the WHO posted the above statement on the Russian `Lab Leak' Story we've been following for nearly a week. ...

ECDC Assessment: Zoonotic influenza A(H5) vaccination in humans in the EU/EEA

#19,363 In the summer of 2024 , the EU Commission secured access for Member States to purchase 665,000 doses of zoonotic influenza vaccines ...

Wednesday, October 07, 2026

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

#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.

#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

#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

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

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