Sunday, March 30, 2025

Experimental Infection of Rats with Influenza A Viruses: Implications for Murine Rodents in Influenza A Virus Ecology

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Credit CDC #18,397 Over the years the idea that  rats and other rodents could be potential hosts for novel flu viruses has come up a numb...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

NPJ Vaccines: Modeling the Impact of Early Vaccination in an Influenza Pandemic in the United States

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  #18,396 Although there are no guarantees that avian H5N1 will spark the next pandemic, it is a pretty good bet that the next pandemic will...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Avian Flu: What Goes Around, Comes Around (Twice Each Year)

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  #18.395 A decade ago, some experts were still bitterly divided over the impact of  migratory birds on the spread of avian flu (see 2014...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Cell: Early-warning Signals and the Role of H9N2 in the Spillover of Avian Influenza Viruses

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  #18,394 While H9N2 may not be at the very top of our pandemic threats list, this LPAI virus is viewed by many as an important and influen...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Virology: Detection of Antibodies Against Influenza A Viruses in Cattle

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  #18,393 A year ago today, in the wake of the surprise announcement of the first detection of H5N1 in dairy cows in Texas and Kansas, I wr...

Nature: Lengthy Delays in H5N1 Genome Submissions to GISAID

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Vast Swaths of the world with little or no H5 Reporting #18,392 While many countries have long held avian flu ( and other emerging infectiou...