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, June 09, 2026

Preprint: The canine respiratory epithelium is a permissive ecosystem for influenza interspecies transmission and emergence

#19,196 Until 2004, dogs were considered relatively immune to influenza, but that changed abruptly when an equine H3N8 virus spilled over ...

Monday, June 08, 2026

USDA: 2 More Screwworm Detections in Texas

USDA Screwworm Dashboard -Updated Update: The USDA has clarified that the dog mentioned infected in yesterday's post was from New ...

EM&I: A new clade of H9N2 avian influenza virus circulating in Laos

In terms of risk of emergence, the H9N2 Y280 lineage is ranked higher than H5N1 #19,194 While LPAI H9N2 may not be the most headline grabb...

ECDC MERS-CoV Update: 2 Cases Reported By Saudi Arabia in 2026

#19,193 Although the number of MERS-CoV cases reported over the past few years has fallen dramatically, this high morbidity/mortality corona...

Sunday, June 07, 2026

USDA & Texas Announce 2nd New World Screwworm Detection

Credit USDA #19,192 Three days ago we saw the USDA Confirm the Presence of New World Screwworm (NWS) in the United States (Texas) for th...

WHO Influenza at the human-animal interface (May 8th): 10 Novel Flu Detections In Humans

#19,191 The WHO has released an update ( dated May 8th , but only recently posted ) of 10 human infections with novel flu reported between...

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