Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Virology: Acquisition of specific human respiratory tract binding by 2.3.4.4b H5N1 hemagglutinins requires multiple mutations

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  #19,288 There remains much interest in exactly what changes the HPAI H5Nx virus would need in order to become a more `humanized' viru...

JAMA Peds: Effectiveness of Oseltamivir in Hospitalized Children With Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza, 2014-2023

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  #19,287 While the timing and severity of the next flu season is uncertain, we are already seeing reports of increased flu activity in Asia...
Monday, August 10, 2026

A Summer Snapshot Of U.S. Wild & Captive Mammals With Confirmed HPAI H5

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  #19,286 The USDA maintains a public database of wild and captive mammals  ( excludes livestock ) infected with HPAI H5 across the country ...
Sunday, August 09, 2026

WHO: Risk assessment of the introduction, spread, and zoonotic spillover of MERS-CoV Clade B in camel populations of the Nile Basin and Across Africa

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  #19,285 While the number of human MERS-CoV cases reported over the past six years has fallen dramatically, this high morbidity/mortality c...
Saturday, August 08, 2026

Australia: Bird Flu Detection in Wild Birds Doubles in Less Than 4 Days

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  #19,284 On August 4th, the official count of H5 positive birds in Australia broke 100 ( n=102 ), today that number stands at 215, with the...

Referral: Two Related Papers (PNAS & The Lancet) on Preparing for The Next Pandemic

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  Credit  Mechanics of pandemics #19,283 In January of 2020 - 6 weeks before the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic - we revisited the WHO...