Friday, August 28, 2026

Japan MHLW Reports Unusually Early Start to the Fall Flu Season

›
  #19,312 Even though it is still August - and the Southern Hemisphere's flu season is still ongoing  -  Japan's Ministry of Health...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

UK National Risk Register 2026 - Urges Citizen Preparedness

›
  #19,311 In August of 2008 we looked at the first UK National Risk Register - which ran just 52 pages - and cited pandemic flu as the #1...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Norwegian Veterinary Institute Reports Another HPAI H5N5 Infected Polar Bear on Svalbard Island

›
    Credit: Multiple transatlantic incursions of HPAI  clade 2.3.4.4b A(H5N5) virus into North America  and spillover to mammals #19,310 Alt...

Australia H5N1 Update: CSIRO Testing 1st Land Mammal (Red Fox) For Suspected Infection

›
  #19,309 Our almost daily dose of increasingly bad H5N1 news from Australia continues with an announcement today that their first suspected...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Transb. & Emerg. Dis.: Genomic and Clinicopathological Characterization of a Reassortant HPAI H5N1 (Clade 2.3.4.4b) in an Endangered Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus) in South Korea, 2026

›
  Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume: 2026, Issue: 1, First published: 18 August 2026, DOI: (10.1155/tbed/2623621) #19,308 Yesterda...
Monday, August 24, 2026

Conservation Bio: Emerging threat of avian influenza to the world's vultures

›
  Black Vulture - Credit Wikipedia #19,307 Of the 19,631 entries in the USDA's  Detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild ...