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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 1h

AFD Blog `EM&J: Efficient Airborne Transmission of Influenza D Virus in Ferret Models and Serological Evidence of Human Exposure in Northeast China' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/10/em-e...

EM&J: Efficient Airborne Transmission of Influenza D Virus in Ferret Models and Serological Evidence of Human Exposure in Northeast China

#18,903 One of the more intriguing influenza discoveries of the past dozen years has been the discovery of a previously unknown type of fl...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 1d

AFD Blog `Nature: Viral Infections and the Risk of Neurodegenerative Diseases (Meta-Analysis & Systemic Review)' #COVID afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/10/natu...

Nature: Viral Infections and the Risk of Neurodegenerative Diseases (Meta-Analysis & Systemic Review)

Key findings from Liu et al. 2025 #18,902 One hundred years ago the world was in a post-pandemic era following the end of the 1918 Spanish F...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 2d

AFD Blog `Emerg. Microbes & Inf: Efficient Replication of Avian, Porcine and Human Influenza A Viruses in Well-differentiated Bovine Airway Epithelial Cells' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/10/emer...

Emerg. Microbes & Inf: Efficient Replication of Avian, Porcine and Human Influenza A Viruses in Well-differentiated Bovine Airway Epithelial Cells

Credit USDA #18,901 Nineteen months ago our view of avian influenza changed abruptly with the revelation that HPAI H5N1 had infected, and ...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 3d

AFD Blog `J. Wildlife Dis.: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Detected in 41 Species at Risk in Canada' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/10/j-wi...

J. Wildlife Dis.: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Detected in 41 Species at Risk in Canada

Credit FAO - Aug 28th, 2025 #18,900 The above map, showing reported outbreaks or spillovers of HPAI viruses around the world since October...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 3d

AFD Blog `UF/IFAS Extension: What Backyard Flock Owners Need to Know about Bird Flu (Influenza H5N1)' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/10/ufif...

UF/IFAS Extension: What Backyard Flock Owners Need to Know about Bird Flu (Influenza H5N1)

Credit CDC #18,899 Due to the government shutdown, we're not getting as timely of updates from the USDA on current poultry outbreaks of H...

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Thijs Kuiken @thijskuiken.bsky.social · 5d

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus detected in a commercial poultry farm (71,000 broiler breeders) in the Netherlands (Gasselternijveenschemond, province Drenthe). All of them will be killed to try to stop the virus from spreading.
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Vogelgriep vastgesteld in Gasselternijveenschemond

In Gasselternijveenschemond (gemeente Aa en Hunze, provincie Drenthe) is vogelgriep vastgesteld op een bedrijf met vleeskuikenouderdieren. Om verspreiding van het virus te voorkomen, worden de circa 7...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 4d

AFD Blog `J. of Infection (letter): Zoonotic Threat: Emergence of Mammalian-Adapted #H5N1 Virus in Migratory Birds at Qinghai Lake' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/10/j-of...

J. of Infection (letter): Zoonotic Threat: Emergence of Mammalian-Adapted H5N1 Virus in Migratory Birds at Qinghai Lake

#18,897 For more than 20 years repeated migratory bird die offs at Qinghai Lake, China - a major migratory bird stopover site - have hera...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 6d

AFD Blog `Preprint: Fatal Human #H3N8 Influenza Virus has a Moderate Pandemic Risk' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/10/prep...

Preprint: Fatal Human H3N8 Influenza Virus has a Moderate Pandemic Risk

Credit NIAID #18,897 While much of the world thinks primarily of HPAI H5 when it comes to avian flu threats, China's researchers have been u...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 7d

AFD Blog `NAS : Diagnostic Tools, Gaps, and Collaborative Pathways in Human #H5N1 Detection (Rapid Expert Consultation)' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/10/nas-...

NAS : Diagnostic Tools, Gaps, and Collaborative Pathways in Human H5N1 Detection (Rapid Expert Consultation)

#18,896 While the abrupt drop in human H5N1 cases reported over the past 8 months by the United States is encouraging, it must be tempered...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 8d

AFD Blog `Two More Cautionary Raw #Pet Food Studies To Ponder' #H9N2 #H5N1 #Pathogens afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/10/two-...

Two More Cautionary Raw Pet Food Studies To Ponder

Latest alert issued Sept 25th #18,895 Over the summer of 2023 we saw two high-profile H5N1 outbreaks in domestic cats; one in Poland and the...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 8d

AFD `Preprint: The Potential of #H5N1 Viruses to Adapt to Bovine Cells Varies Throughout Evolution' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/10/prep...

Preprint: The Potential of H5N1 Viruses to Adapt to Bovine Cells Varies Throughout Evolution

Phenotypes of the Reassortant viruses observed in this study #18,894 Over the past 3 years we've seen a dizzying array of reports and stud...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 10d

AFD Blog `Avian Flu's Unusually Active September in the United States' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/10/avia...

Avian Flu's Unusually Active September in the United States

#18,893 Until fairly recently, HPAI H5 infections in wild birds - and spillovers into poultry - were pretty much a fall and winter phenome...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 11d

AFD Blog `Cell Reports: Dairy cow- and Avian-origin Clade 2.3.4.4b #H5N1 Induce Severe Mastitis in Lactating #Goats and Transmission to Suckling Goats' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/10/cell...

Cell Reports: Dairy cow- and Avian-origin Clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 Induce Severe Mastitis in Lactating Goats and Transmission to Suckling Goats

#18,892 Although quickly overshadowed by the news of the spillover of HPAI H5N1 into Texas and Kansas dairy herds ( announced only 3 day...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 12d

AFD Blog `NPJ Vaccines: Effects of Repeated influenza #Vaccination and Infection on Durable Seroprotection in Healthcare Workers' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/09/npj-...

NPJ Vaccines: Effects of Repeated influenza Vaccination and Infection on Durable Seroprotection in Healthcare Workers

#18,891 I'll be rolling up my sleeve for my 20th consecutive seasonal flu shot next week, but I am keenly aware that there are some studie...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 12d

AFD Blog `Taiwan CDC Statement On Increased Antiviral #Resistance in Seasonal #H1N1 Cases in 2025' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/09/taiw...

Taiwan CDC Statement On Increased Antiviral Resistance in Seasonal H1N1 Cases in 2025

Credit NIAID 8,890 While spontaneous `resistance' to oseltamivir (aka ` Tamiflu ') develops in roughly 1%-2% of treated patients, for the ...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 12d

AFD Blog `Preprint: #H5N1 Influenza A is Now Promiscuous in Host Range and Has Improved Replication in Mammals' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/09/prep...

Preprint: H5N1 Influenza A is Now Promiscuous in Host Range and Has Improved Replication in Mammals

Flu Virus binding to Receptor Cells – Credit CDC #18,889 As humans, we like to believe that tomorrow will be pretty much like today, or the ...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 14d

AFD Blog `Sci. Adv.: PB2 and NP of North American #H5N1 Virus Drive Immune Cell Replication and Systemic Infections' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/09/sci-...

Sci. Adv.: PB2 and NP of North American H5N1 Virus Drive Immune Cell Replication and Systemic Infections

#18,888 While the HPAI H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b virus currently circulating in the United States is a direct decendent of the Eurasian H5N1 strai...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 15d

AFD Blog `@WHO Recommendations for Influenza Vaccine Composition for the 2026 Southern Hemisphere Influenza Season' #H1N1 #H3N2 afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/09/who-...

WHO Recommendations for Influenza Vaccine Composition for the 2026 Southern Hemisphere Influenza Season

Credit ACIP #18,887 Twice each year international influenza experts meet to discuss recent developments in human and animal influenza viru...

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 15d

WHO replaces H1N1 and H3N2 strains for Southern Hemisphere flu vaccines

The two influenza A picks are different from the current Northern Hemisphere vaccines and from last season's Southern Hemisphere vaccines.

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 16d

AFD Blog `L.A. County Public Animal Health Alert: Another #H5N1 Domestic Cat Cluster Linked To Raw Cat Food' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/09/la-c...

L.A. County Public Animal Health Alert: Another H5N1 Domestic Cat Cluster Linked To Raw Cat Food

#18,886 Last January - after a number of reports of domestic cats sickened or dying from raw (H5N1 contaminated) cat food (see here , here...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 16d

AFD Blog `CDC MMWR x 2: Record Pediatric Flu Deaths & Pediatric Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy and Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/09/cdc-...

CDC MMWR x 2: Record Pediatric Flu Deaths & Pediatric Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy and Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy

#18,885 Although the 2024-2025 flu season hasn't quite ended, last winter's influenza-related hospitalizations are reportedly the highest in...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 17d

AFD Blog `V. Research: Identification of #H1N2 Influenza Viruses in Turkeys After Spillover from #Swine and In Vitro Characterization' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/09/v-re...

V. Research: Identification of H1N2 Influenza Viruses in Turkeys After Spillover from Swine and In Vitro Characterization

#18,884 Normally, our concern with the cross species transmission of flu viruses between birds and pigs is that an avian flu strain will j...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 17d

AFD Blog `WHO & Other Major Medical Stakeholders Push Back On Suggested Acetaminophen/Autism Link' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/09/who-...

WHO & Other Major Medical Stakeholders Push Back On Suggested Acetaminophen/Autism Link

Photo Credit – Wikipedia #18,883 This week's announcement by the White House linking the use of acetaminophen (Tylenol/Paracetamol) by pre...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 19d

AFD Blog `#Natlprep 2025: Personal #Pandemic #Preparedness' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/09/natl...

#Natlprep 2025: Personal Pandemic Preparedness

Note: September is National Preparedness month. In recognition, each fall I publish a series of new or updated essays on preparing for e...

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 20d

AFD Blog `South Korea: MAFRA Conducts A Preemptive Virtual Quarantine Exercise (CPX) to Prepare for an Outbreak of Avian Influenza (AI)' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/09/sout...

South Korea: MAFRA Conducts A Preemptive Virtual Quarantine Exercise (CPX) to Prepare for an Outbreak of Avian Influenza (AI)

Major Global Migratory Flyways – Credit FAO #18,881 Last year saw the emergence of several unique North American H5N1 genotypes ( B3.13 in ...

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