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.

Friday, September 04, 2026

#NatlPrep: 75% of Americans At Risk Of Experiencing A Damaging Earthquake

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Note: This is the 4th day of National Preparedness Month . Follow this year’s campaign on Twitter by searching for the #NatlPrep #BeReady or...

Seasonal Flu Signals From New Zealand, Australia & Japan

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Credit CDC #19,322 A week ago, in Japan MHLW Reports Unusually Early Start to the Fall Flu Season , we saw Japan's earliest start to the...
Thursday, September 03, 2026

MMWR: Notes From the Field - Characteristics and Monitoring of the 2026 Outbreak of Ebola Disease . . . (DRC)

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Figure 1. Distribution of cumulative confirmed cases of Bundibugyo virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as of 26 August #...

J. Raptor Research: Rapid Decline of Nesting Peregrine Falcons in the San Francisco Bay Region of California Synchronous with an Outbreak of H5N1 HPAI

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  #19,320 Twice last month (see here , and here ) we looked at the enormous impact of HPAI H5 on raptors and other scavenger birds around t...
Wednesday, September 02, 2026

Nature Comms: Acute viral infection accelerates neurodegeneration in a mouse model of ALS

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  #19,319 One of the great - yet unanswered - questions about acute viral illnesses is what role ( if any ) do they play in the development...
Tuesday, September 01, 2026

WHO WPRO Reports 2 Recent H9N2 Cases From Chinese Mainland

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  #19,318 While case reports remain widely scattered, and there are no signs of human-to-human spread , Mainland China's summer uptick o...
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