Post Reply - A new pandemic

and future iterations that may emerge

   DJ, both in "wars" and "climate" one can see a political western elite very creative in denying/ignoring/down playing reality...The level of lies and hatred is shocking...it is NOT solving anything-only making matters worse...
The same bunch of idiots are against "criminal" masks covering nose/mouth...CoViD-Flu by definition "always will be mild"...even if excess deaths indicate otherwise...

https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/11/canada-phac-confirms-hpai-h5n1-genotype.html or https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/11/canada-phac-confirms-hpai-h5n1-genotype.html ;

We now have the answer to at least 2 of our questions regarding the H5 virus infection in a teenager from British Columbia; according to a statement from the PHAC (h/t FluTrackers) the subtype has been confirmed to be H5N1 and the genotype is D1.1. 
Genotype D1.1 first showed up last month in Washington State, and is responsible for the infection of 14 poultry workers who were involved in culling.  A similar genotype - D1.2 - appeared last month in poultry, and 2 pigs in Oregon. 
These genotypes are genetically distinct from the B3.13 genotype which is found in cattle, and has turned up in some adjacent poultry infections.  It has been widely assumed that genotype D1.1 or D1.2 was behind the recent spike of poultry outbreaks in British Columbia, which this statement confirms.
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There have been no further cases identified at this time. The investigation has not yet determined how the individual became infected with avian influenza.
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While a lot of attention has been focused on the B3.13 genotype affecting cattle, it is just one of more than 100 genotypes of HPAI H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b detected in North America since late 2021, and any one of them (and future iterations that may emerge) has the potential to evolve into a public health concern. 

Influenza's superpower is its ability to continually reinvent itself though reassortment, and that means that even if we mange to eradicate it in cattle, the problem won't have vanished. 
Which is why, nearly 3 decades after it first appeared in Hong Kong, HPAI H5 continues to pose a credible threat. 
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Raj Rajnarayanan
@RajlabN
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#COVID19 #VariantDashboard - #USA |11/14/24

#SARSCoV2 #Lineages #30DAYTRENDS

KP.3.1.1  (38.7%)
XEC  (14.2%)
KP.2.3  (4.2%)
KP.3.1  (3.4%)
MC.13  (2.5%)
MC.1  (2.4%)
LB.1.3.1  (2.3%)
MC.10  (2.1%)
MC.16  (2.1%)
XEC.2  (2%)

DJ, what variant of CoViD could "work best" with H5-types of flu ? Young people may not have had flu-so no immunity against it...But may have (had) CoViD-weakening the immunity...So once they get any type of flu a lower viral load may bring more disease...

https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/europe/h5n1-tracking/germany/983787-germany-h5n1-avian-flu-in-wild-birds-2024?view=stream or https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/europe/h5n1-tracking/germany/983787-germany-h5n1-avian-flu-in-wild-birds-2024?view=stream ...

We do see human H5 infections in both the US/Canada and "East Asia" China, Cambodia...
When -not if-we will see an increase of H5 spread in Europe ? It must be just a matter of time...