Dan Shirley
danielshirley.bsky.social
Dan Shirley
@danielshirley.bsky.social
Infectious Diseases doc; Infection Prevention, Global Health
Reposted by Dan Shirley
USDA issues national milk testing order

The three-part order also requires affected farms to share epidemiological information and any positive test results.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
December 6, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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🚨 Experts are being deployed to Panzi, in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the #Congo, to support health authorities in investigating a yet undiagnosed disease. Laboratory tests are underway to identify the cause.
December 6, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while.
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky
Why hasn’t the bird flu pandemic started?
Some scientists examining mutations found in H5N1 viruses fear major outbreak is imminent but others says pathogen remains unpredictable
www.science.org
December 6, 2024 at 12:54 PM