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.

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 NiƱo 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...
Saturday, October 03, 2026

Antiviral Research: N70S/Y155H Combined Mutation of Neuraminidase of Avian Influenza H9N2 Virus confers oseltamivir and zanamivir resistance and pathogenicity to Mice

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Range Of Endemic H9N2 Viruses #19,357 LPAI H9N2 has gained a reputation for spreading uncontrollably in Asian and African poultry, for frequ...
Friday, October 02, 2026

Communications Medicine: Pathogen-specific ripple effects of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions in reshaping endemic disease dynamics

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Heatmap of respiratory infections in Tokyo 2016-2026 #19,356 We've a new report in Nature  today which looks at the reported incidence ...
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