Showing posts with label reassortment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reassortment. Show all posts
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, March 04, 2015

Study: Recombinant H5N2 Avian Influenza Virus Strains In Vaccinated Chickens

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Photo Credit – FAO   # 9780   At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we’ve another study today that has documented multiple...
Sunday, February 08, 2015

HK’s Dr. Ko Wing-man On Flu Reassortment Concerns

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Reassortment is the mechanism where two different flu viruses infect the same cell simultaneously, and swap genetic material, producing a...

H5N1 Detected In B.C. Backyard Flock

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    # 9686 On January 15th of this year we learned of the first detection of a reassorted HPAI EA/AM H5N1 virus in North America, w...
Thursday, February 05, 2015

Virology J: Human-like H3N2 Influenza Viruses In Dogs - Guangxi, China

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  # 9674   Influenza viruses are constantly evolving, and do so via two well established routes; Antigenic drift & Antigenic...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

OIE: New Reassortant HPAI H5N1 In North America

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  # 9608 Yes , you read the title right;  H5N1 .     Not the same H5N1 as has been rife in Asia for the past decade, and is...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

EID Journal: Timing of Influenza A(H5N1) in Poultry and Humans Worldwide, 2004–2013

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Figure 3 . Monthly average number of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) infection outbreaks among poultry (black line) and human H...
Monday, November 10, 2014

FAO-EMPRES Report On The Emergence And Threat Of H5N6

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  # 9305   For many years Southeast Asia has been considered ` the cradle of influenza ’, an area of the world where both human an...
Thursday, October 09, 2014

EID Journal: Human Co-Infection with Avian and Seasonal Influenza Viruses, China

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Credit AFD   # 9169   One of the concerns we have with novel influenza viruses – those that primarily infect non-human species – i...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Whole-Genome Sequence Of Reassortant H5N6 Avian Virus

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Photo Credit – FAO   # 9074   Just over 5 months ago we first learned of a new reassortant avian flu subtype called H5N6 which ha...