Post Reply - H5N1/flu (other types)

Stay tuned.

   https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/07/gisaid-plot-thickens.html or https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/07/gisaid-plot-thickens.html ;
While we await further details, overnight several experts weighed in on Twitter/X, including Raj Rajnarayanan @RajlabN Assistant Dean of Research and Associate Professor, NYITCOM at Arkansas State University:

And virologist Tom Peacock @PeacockFlu: 

Obviously, getting sequences from the infected poultry and from wild birds in Weld County, Colorado would go a long ways towards answering these questions.  Hopefully those will be forthcoming sooner rather than later. 
Stay tuned.  

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Helen Branswell 
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 continues to insist that the #H5N1 #birdflu outbreak in cows can be stopped. 
Serious question: How do you stop transmission when you don't know where the virus is?

DJ, We are at the early stages of a H5N1 pandemic. (Click on the orange blocks to get to the twitter behind it). 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammals_that_can_get_H5N1 or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammals_that_can_get_H5N1 May be only less than 1% of real cases...So at least 40 sorts of mammals may be able to catch/often spread H5N1....

A reason why it may NOT become a pandemic would be if earlier flu-types and/or flu-vaccines still would offer (some) protection against H5N1...

CoViD-weakening immunity-however does increase of catching-also-H5N1...So "Flu-Rona" may become "a big problem/killer"...Masks/eye protection may still be of use !