Thursday, April 09, 2026

Preprint: Using an Evolutionary Epidemiological Model of Pandemics to Estimate the Infection Fatality Ratio for Humans Infected with Avian Influenza Viruses

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Credit CDC #19,112 The assumption is - for practically every infectious disease - that official case counts are significant undercounts; aka...
Wednesday, April 08, 2026

Taiwan CDC: Letter To Doctors on Locally Acquired H7N7 Case

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  #19,111  Six days ago, in  Taiwan CDC: Human Infection with a Novel H7 Avian Virus , we saw the first locally acquired human H7 influenza ...
Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Preprint: Bovine H5N1 Influenza Viruses Have Adapted to More Efficiently Use Receptors Abundant in Cattle

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  Positively selected mutations in the cattle H5N1 head domain are reaching fixation as the virus continues to circulate . #19,110 We've...
Monday, April 06, 2026

The Lancet: Long COVID and Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease

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Atrial Fibrillation  #19,109 During the opening salvo of the COVID pandemic we saw an abrupt increase in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests; in...
Sunday, April 05, 2026

Emerg Microbes & Inf: Antiviral Activities of Multiple Antivirals Against HPAI H5N1 in Vitro and in Mice

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CDC Influenza Antiviral Medications: Summary for Clinicians - Jan 2026 #19,108 For Americans ( and indeed, for much of the world) , our firs...
Saturday, April 04, 2026

EID Journal: Tropism and Replication Competence of Cattle Influenza A(H5N1) Genotype B3.13 Virus in Human Bronchus and Lung Tissue

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Flu Virus binding to Receptor Cells – Credit  CDC #19,107 Over the past 2 years we've seen 2 new genotypes of H5N1 emerge in North Ameri...