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.

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

WHO Statement: COVID-19 Still Causes Severe Disease & Renewed Vaccination Recommendations

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#19,005 Six years ago last night - a little before midnight - the dedicated newshounds at FluTrackers  began posting reports of a ` SARS-...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

PLoS GPH: Quantifying H5N1 Outbreak Potential and Control Effectiveness in High-risk Agricultural Populations

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  R 0   (pronounced R-nought ) or Basic Reproduction Number #19,004 In the spring of 2023, in  UK Novel Flu Surveillance: Quantifying TTD ...
Monday, December 29, 2025

Preprint: Emergence of D1.1 Reassortant H5N1 Avian Influenza Viruses in North America

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  #19,003 As we discussed at some length last August in H5Nx: Reassort & Repeat , in the Northern hemisphere millions of migratory birds...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

A Brief History of Influenza A in Canines & Canadian Report On A Recent Fatal H5N1 Dog Infection

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  Just one of many scenarios - Dogs as `mixing vessels' for Influenza   #19,002 Until a little over 2 decades ago dogs and cats were tho...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

WHO Multi-country Outbreak of Mpox: External Situation Report #61

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 #19,001 While based on limited reporting, the above graphic provides some valuable insight into how much progress the multiple strains of M...
Friday, December 26, 2025

South Korea: MAFRA Reports Increased Infectivity & Pathogenicity of This Year's Avian Flu Strains

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#19,000 Last August we speculated over what kind of fall avian flu season we might see ( H5Nx: Reassort & Repeat ) , following the previ...
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