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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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Virology: Pathogenesis Of Avian A/H5N8 In Ferrets

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# 9836 Despite being closely related to avian virus subtypes ( H5N1, H5N6 ) that have produced serious morbidity and mortality i...

Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Research: Ferret H5N1 Infection Via Consumption Of Infected Chicken

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Photo Credit Wikipedia # 8704 Although we’ve seen numerous warnings from public health agencies about the dangers of consu...

Thursday, April 03, 2014

Study: Airborne Transmission Of H7N1 in Ferrets After Serial Passage

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Classic serial passage study, albeit with ducks instead of ferrets # 8428 When novel flu viruses jump species, they rarely do...

Friday, August 09, 2013

Nature: Limited Airborne Transmission Of H7N9 Between Ferrets

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Photo Credit Wikipedia # 7556 Yesterday’s report on Omani camels carrying antibodies to the MERS Coronavirus (see Lancet: C...

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Science: H7N9 Transmissibility Study In Ferrets

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Photo Credit Wikipedia UPDATED : CIDRAP NEWS now has an extensive review of this paper up on their website, with expert com...

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Branswell: Studies Show Transmissibility Of H7N9 In Ferrets

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Credit NIAID # 7314 Helen Branswell has the details today on a new study which appears in the Journal Science , that l...

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