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 ...

OIE: Highly pathogenic influenza A viruses (infection with H5N6) (non-poultry including wild birds), China (People´s Rep. of)    
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Information received on 17/01/2020 from Dr Huang Baoxu, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, Animal Health and Epidemiology Centre, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Qingdao, ...

OIE: Highly pathogenic avian influenza(H5N8), Hungary    
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Information received on 15/01/2020 from Dr Lajos Bogn醨, Deputy State Secretary Chief Veterinary Officer, Food Chain Safety Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Budapest, Hungary Summary Report ...

OIE: Highly pathogenic avian influenza(H5N8), Romania    
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Information received on 14/01/2020 from Dr Robert Viorel Chioveanu, President, Secretary of State, Chief Veterinary Officer, Veterinary Services, National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety ...

OIE: Highly pathogenic avian influenza(H5N2), Chinese Taipei    
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Information received on 13/01/2020 from Dr Wen-Jane Tu, Chief Veterinary Officer, Deputy Director General, Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, Council of Agriculture, ...

Chan M, et al. H7N9 Influenza Virus Containing a Polybasic HA Cleavage Site Requires Minimal Host Adaptation to Obtain a Highly Pathogenic Disease Phenotype in Mice. Viruses. 2020 Jan 5;12(1)..  Abstract  
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Low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) H7N9 viruses have recently evolved to gain a polybasic cleavage site in the hemagglutinin (HA) protein, resulting in variants with increased lethality in poultry that ...

Qu B, Li X, Cardona CJ, Xing Z. Reassortment and adaptive mutations of an emerging avian influenza virus H7N4 subtype in China. PLoS One. 2020 Jan 17;15(1):e0227597..  Abstract  
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Human infections with avian influenza viruses including H5, H7 and H9 hemagglutinin subtypes occur at a low rate. Among human infections with H7 viruses, regional outbreaks with H7N2, H7N3, H7N7 and H7N9 ...

Aegerter H, et al. Influenza-induced monocyte-derived alveolar macrophages confer prolonged antibacterial protection. Nat Immunol. 2020 Jan 13.  Abstract  
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Despite the prevalence and clinical importance of influenza, its long-term effect on lung immunity is unclear. Here we describe that following viral clearance and clinical recovery, at 1?month after infection ...

Salomon A, et al. Influenza increases invasive meningococcal disease risk in temperate countries. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020 Jan 11..  Abstract  
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OBJECTIVES: Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is a severe bacterial infection that displays wintertime seasonality in temperate countries. Mechanisms driving seasonality are poorly understood and may ...

Kupke SY, et al. Single-Cell Analysis Uncovers a Vast Diversity in Intracellular Viral Defective Interfering RNA Content Affecting the Large Cell-to-Cell Heterogeneity in Influenza A Virus Replication. Viruses. 2020 Jan 7;12(1).  Abstract  
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Virus replication displays a large cell-to-cell heterogeneity; yet, not all sources of this variability are known. Here, we study the effect of defective interfering (DI) particle (DIP) co-infection on ...