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.

Sunday, July 26, 2026

South Australia Confirms 6th & 7th Seabird Infection - National Ttl = 20

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  #19,263 As mentioned yesterday , Australia's National Lab CSIRO was testing samples from 2 suspected H5N1 infected seabirds from South...

Preprint: A lethal human H5N5 influenza virus isolate exhibits low pandemic risk traits

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  Credit: Multiple transatlantic incursions of HPAI clade 2.3.4.4b A(H5N5) virus into North America and spillover to mammals   #19,262 We...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

Australia: CSIRO Confirms Qld's H5N1 - SA Reports 2 `Suspected' Local Birds

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  Confirmed Positive H5N1 in Birds (n=18) #19,261 While there was never much doubt, we now have confirmation from Australia's National L...
Friday, July 24, 2026

Preprint: Within- and between-host dynamics of highly pathogenic avian influenza in domestic birds from Pennsylvania farms and live bird markets

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Graphic Generated By Gemini using USDA Data   #19,260 Last month 3 east coast states (RI, NJ, PA) reported outbreaks of H5N1 in Live Bird Ma...

Queensland Reports `Presumed Positive' H5N1 Test in Migratory Seabird

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  #19,259 After going a week without any new reports of H5N1 in Australia or New Zealand, overnight Queensland's Department of Agricultu...
Thursday, July 23, 2026

Probably Nothing . . . But It feels a Bit Like Deja Flu

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  Credit China Daily - March 2006 #19,258 Readers with extremely long memories will remember the great shuttlecock shortage of 2006, which ...
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