Post Reply - H2H-H5N1 spread in US

But I digress . . .

   https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/07/cdc-coca-call-on-h5n1-for-clinicians.html or https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/07/cdc-coca-call-on-h5n1-for-clinicians.html ;
Last week the CDC Held a 1-hour webinar for clinicians and healthcare centers on the epidemiology, identification, and treatment of HPAI H5N1 cases which is now online, and available for viewing.  This presentation also comes with a 48-slide PDF file. 

The goals for this webinar are stated as: 
At the conclusion of today’s session, the participant will be able to accomplish the following:
Discuss the epidemiology and clinical features of human cases of HPAI A(H5N1) virus infection.
Describe risk of human infection with HPAI A(H5N1) viruses, identify higher risk populations, and what to assess in clinical settings. 
Describe testing, using antivirals, and infection prevention and control recommendations for patients with HPAI A(H5N1) virus infection. 
This presentation is at times fairly technical, and is of greatest interest to clinicians and healthcare providers, but also may be of interest to the general public.  
It is a far better source of information than most of what I've seen on trending on social media.  But I digress . . . 

A fully captioned video and edited transcript will be posted within the next few days, but between the video and PDF, most will find the current presentation easy enough to follow.  

DJ, Only trained medical staff can tell/test for H5N1. So -there may be "stories" of H2H spread of H5N1-for now it is "just that"...however;

Case counts mentioned in this webinar, which reflect what was known last week, have changed.  Dr. Uyeki refers to 4 infected poultry workers in Colorado, but 6 have now been confirmed (and a 7th is reportedly awaiting confirmation). 
There are also anecdotal reports of symptomatic dairy workers who were never tested for the virus (see EID Journal: Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus among Dairy Cattle, Texas, USA), raising the possibility that some cases have gone undetected.
DJ, Good info is needed !
https://emergency.cdc.gov/coca/calls/2024/callinfo_071624.asp or https://emergency.cdc.gov/coca/calls/2024/callinfo_071624.asp 