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.

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Thursday, April 23, 2015

EID Journal: The Rapidly Expanding Range Of HPAI Viruses

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# 9971 What a difference a year makes. In January of 2014 a new, HPAI H5N8 virus ( which had only rarely been sighted in Ch...

Wednesday, April 08, 2015

EID Journal: Rapid Emergence Of Novel HPAI H5 Subtypes

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How viruses shuffle their genes (reassort) # 9912 After more than 17 years of relative stability (1996-2013) - during which ti...

Thursday, January 08, 2015

CIDRAP: FAO Reports Mutations In H5N1 Virus From Egyptian Poultry

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# 9543 Last night CIDRAP published a piece by News Editor Robert Roos which looks at genetic characterizations of H5N1 v...

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Study: Ebola Virus Is Rapidly Evolving

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Credit CDC PHIL # 9015 One of the concerns we have when any zoonotic virus spills over into the human population is that over...

Friday, June 27, 2014

Eurosurveillance: Genetic Tuning Of Avian H7N9 During Interspecies Transmission

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# 8788 This week’s Eurosurveillance bonanza of avian flu transmission & evolution papers has more than enough good ...

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

mBio: Spread, Circulation, and Evolution of MERS-CoV

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Distribution of MERS-CoV clades in time and space. - mBio # 8313 Although MERS has receded from the headlines over the past c...

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