WHO launches new global influenza strategy    
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WHO released a Global Influenza Strategy for 2019-2030 aimed at protecting people in all countries from the threat of influenza. The goal of the strategy is to prevent seasonal influenza, control the spread ...

China: A human case of avian influenza A(H10N3) reported in Yunnan Province    
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Yunnan Province:A 51-year-old male with onset on Feburary 28, 2024.

WHO: Influenza at the human-animal interface summary and assessment, 28 March 2024    
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Avian influenza A(H5) viruses A(H5N1), Viet Nam Since the last risk assessment of 26 February 2024, one human case of infection with an A(H5N1) influenza virus was notified to WHO from Viet Nam on 25 March. ...

WOAH: United States of America - Influenza A viruses of high pathogenicity (Infection with H5N1) (non-poultry including wild birds) (2017-) - Follow up report 46    
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GENERAL INFORMATIONCOUNTRY/TERRITORY OR ZONEZONEANIMAL TYPETERRESTRIALDISEASE CATEGORYListed diseaseEVENT ID4451DISEASEInfluenza A viruses of high pathogenicity (Infection with H5N1) (non-poultry including ...

U.S.: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Detected in South Dakota Dairy Herd    
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The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR) and the Animal Industry Board (AIB) have received confirmation from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National ...

Guiming Liu, Jingyi Dai, Jun Zhao, Jiawei Xia, etc. First human case of avian influenza A (H10N3) in Southwest China [preprint]. DOI:10.21203/rs.3.rs-4181286/v1.  Abstract  
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In recent years, the avian influenza virus has emerged as a significant threat to both human and public health. Despite this, only two cases of human infection with the H10N3 strain have been documented. ...

Bedair NM, Sakr MA, Mourad A, Eissa N, Mostafa A,. Molecular characterization of the whole genome of H9N2 avian influenza virus isolated from Egyptian poultry farms. Arch Virol. 2024 Apr 16;169(5):99.  Abstract  
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H9N2 avian influenza viruses (AIVs) affect both poultry and humans on a global level, and they are especially prevalent in Egypt. In this study, we sequenced the entire genome of AIV H9N2 isolated from ...

VanInsberghe D, McBride DS, DaSilva J, Stark TJ, L. Genetic drift and purifying selection shape within-host influenza A virus populations during natural swine infections. PLoS Pathog. 2024 Apr 16;20(4):e1012131.  Abstract  
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Patterns of within-host influenza A virus (IAV) diversity and evolution have been described in natural human infections, but these patterns remain poorly characterized in non-human hosts. Elucidating these ...

Wendy B. Puryear and Jonathan A. Runstadler. High-pathogenicity avian influenza in wildlife: a changing disease dynamic that is expanding in wild birds and having an increasing impact on a growing number of mammals. DOI: 10.2460/javma.24.01.0053.  Abstract  
submitted by kickingbird at 4 days ago from DOI: 10.2460/javma.24.01.0053
While diverse strains of low-pathogenicity avian influenza have circulated in wild birds for a long period of time, there has previously been little pathology in wild birds, ducks have been the primary ...

Murashkina, T.; Sharshov, K.; Gadzhiev, A.; Pether. Avian Influenza Virus and Avian Paramyxoviruses in Wild Waterfowl of the Western Coast of the Caspian Sea (2017–2020). Viruses 2024, 16, 598.  Abstract  
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The flyways of many different wild waterfowl pass through the Caspian Sea region. The western coast of the middle Caspian Sea is an area with many wetlands, where wintering grounds with large concentrations ...