Brigitte Flannery
@brigitteflan.bsky.social
PhD candidate interested in RNA viruses and host-path interactions!! @ UMN 🦠🧬
Super excited to be on this team! 🤓🧬
September 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Super excited to be on this team! 🤓🧬
Reposted by Brigitte Flannery
Reposted by Brigitte Flannery
You’ve been badly misled over COVID origins theconversation.com/how-conspira...
How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic
The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.
theconversation.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
You’ve been badly misled over COVID origins theconversation.com/how-conspira...
Reposted by Brigitte Flannery
H5N1 is a promiscuous reassorter (did I just make a new word?) and replacing N1 with N9 probably eliminates some preexisting human population immunity, potentially increasing it's pandemic threat. Surveillance is critical to see how well this virus does.
1st U.S. case of H5N9 bird flu (different from H5N1) reported on California duck farm
1st U.S. case of H5N9 bird flu reported on California duck farm - National | Globalnews.ca
The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry on a duck farm in California, the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday.
globalnews.ca
January 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
H5N1 is a promiscuous reassorter (did I just make a new word?) and replacing N1 with N9 probably eliminates some preexisting human population immunity, potentially increasing it's pandemic threat. Surveillance is critical to see how well this virus does.
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“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
Research supported by NIH has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99% of drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019.
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target
nytimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:58 PM
“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
Reposted by Brigitte Flannery
Here is why it is incorrect to blame the US response to the #H5N1 outbreak in dairy cattle for the human case in British Columbia: they are unrelated.
H5N1 is diverse, and the genotype involved in the dairy cattle outbreak is not the same as the one collected in BC
nextstrain.org/avian-flu/h5...
H5N1 is diverse, and the genotype involved in the dairy cattle outbreak is not the same as the one collected in BC
nextstrain.org/avian-flu/h5...
December 5, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Here is why it is incorrect to blame the US response to the #H5N1 outbreak in dairy cattle for the human case in British Columbia: they are unrelated.
H5N1 is diverse, and the genotype involved in the dairy cattle outbreak is not the same as the one collected in BC
nextstrain.org/avian-flu/h5...
H5N1 is diverse, and the genotype involved in the dairy cattle outbreak is not the same as the one collected in BC
nextstrain.org/avian-flu/h5...