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 avian influenza(H5N6), Vietnam    
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Report typeFollow-up report No. 3Date of start of the event23/06/2019Date of confirmation of the event25/06/2019Report date16/10/2019Date submitted to OIE16/10/2019Reason for notificationRecurrence of ...

OIE: Low pathogenic avian influenza (poultry)(H5N2), Dominican Republic    
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Report typeFollow-up report No. 2Date of start of the event02/11/2018Date of confirmation of the event29/11/2018Report date16/10/2019Date submitted to OIE16/10/2019Reason for notificationRecurrence of ...

OIE: Highly pathogenic avian influenza(H5N2), Chinese Taipei    
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Information received on 14/10/2019 from Dr Wen-Jane Tu, Chief Veterinary Officer, Deputy Director General, Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, Council of Agriculture, Executive ...

OIE: Highly pathogenic avian influenza(H5N5), Chinese Taipei    
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Information received on 14/10/2019 from Dr Wen-Jane Tu, Chief Veterinary Officer, Deputy Director General, Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, Council of Agriculture, Executive ...

Chan WM, et al. Development and evaluation of a conventional RT-PCR for differentiating emerging influenza B/Victoria lineage viruses with hemagglutinin amino acid deletion from B/Yamagata lineage viruses. J Med Virol. 2019 Oct 14.  Abstract  
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BACKGROUND: Recent influenza B/Victoria lineage viruses contain amino-acid deletions at positions 162-164 of the haemagglutinin (HA) protein. These amino acid deletions have affected the detection of B/Victoria ...

van Aalst R, et al. Comparative effectiveness of high dose versus adjuvanted influenza vaccine: A retrospective cohort study. Vaccine. 2019 Oct 9..  Abstract  
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BACKGROUND: Adults 65?years and older (seniors) experience more complications following influenza infection than younger adults. We estimated the relative vaccine effectiveness (rVE) of a trivalent high ...

Moriyama M, Koshiba T, Ichinohe T. Influenza A virus M2 protein triggers mitochondrial DNA-mediated antiviral immune responses. Nat Commun. 2019 Oct 11;10(1):4624..  Abstract  
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Cytosolic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) activates cGAS-mediated antiviral immune responses, but the mechanism by which RNA viruses stimulate mtDNA release remains unknown. Here we show that viroporin activity ...

Sobolev I, et al. Novel reassortant of H1N1 swine influenza virus detected in pig population in Russia. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2019;8(1):1456-1464.  Abstract  
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Pigs play an important role in interspecies transmission of the influenza virus, particularly as "mixing vessels" for reassortment. Two influenza A/H1N1 virus strains, A/swine/Siberia/1sw/2016 and A/swine/Siberia/4sw/2017, ...

An SH, et al. Novel Mutations Evading Avian Immunity around the Receptor Binding Site of the Clade 2.3.2.1c Hemagglutinin Gene Reduce Viral Thermostability and Mammalian Pathogenicity. Viruses. 2019 Oct 9;11(10)..  Abstract  
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Abstract: Since 2007, highly pathogenic clade 2.3.2 H5N1 avian influenza A (A(H5N1)) viruses have evolved to clade 2.3.2.1a, b, and c; currently only 2.3.2.1c A(H5N1) viruses circulate in wild birds and ...