The National Avian Influenza Summit focus was Australian preparedness for HPAI H5 2.3.4.4b. Photo: Attendees Paul Eden (chair of the NAIWBS Steering Group), Melinda Hashimoto (Egg Farmers of Australia), Verity Price (Australian Chicken Meat Federation) & Tiggy Grillo (WHA COO).

Cambodia's recent H5N1 case involved novel reassortant cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenz…

HKU5 in minks! 😣 ‘We identified a MERS-like coronavirus—Pipistrellus bat coronavirus HKU5—in two mink from a single farm associated with an outbreak of pneumonia, as well as the first report, to our knowledge, of a coronavirus in nutria.’ nature.com/articles/s4158…

A viral family tree gets a makeover! 🧬🦠🔍Our new study, out today in nature, reveals the Flaviviridae's hidden history. MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research #virology nature.com/articles/s4158…

🇺🇸 USDA reported 16 additional H5N1 detections in domestic cats, collected between Nov 2022-Nov 2023. ▶️ Cases span 5 states: South Dakota (6), Montana (4), Oregon (2), Nebraska (3), Wyoming (1). ▶️ Total H5N1 cases in US cats: 53 since Nov 2022. aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poul…

Nature: Farmed fur animals harbour viruses with zoonotic spillover potential flutrackers.com/forum/forum/we… h/t Commonground

Planary talk by Michelle Wille from University of Melbourne shares how #Genomics of low pathogenicity avian #influenza enhances our understanding of risk assessment and preparedness for high pathogenicity avian influenza in Australia. #InfluenzaResearch #QRW2024

It’s a total myth that lethal levels of coral bleaching in 2024 have only occurred in the southern section of the Great Barrier Reef. For the 1st time, severe bleaching occurred throughout the Northern, Central and Southern regions. Only the Far North escaped this time.

Really interesting talk by Michelle Wille here in Queenstown on avian influenza global and regional transmission patterns from genomic and ecological data. Michelle has a really useful page on avian influenza resources if you want to know more: michellewille.com/avian-influenz…

We will be at the 2024 World One Health Congress World One Health Congress in two weeks. If you are attending, don’t miss the presentation by our PhD student, Victoria Gonzalez. Victoria is super excited to share her doctoral research with you! Victoria Gonzalez #LZCI #WOHC2024 #OneHealth

A new scientific assessment published in British Birds has reported alarming declines in the UK’s seabird populations over the last 25 years. Five new species have joined the “red list,” which denotes the highest category of conservation concern. britishbirds.co.uk/seabird-bocc5a

Virus diversity in farmed fur animals in China: Unsurprisingly 3 subtypes of influenza —H1N2, H5N6 and H6N2—were detected in guinea pig, mink and muskrat lungs, respectively Based on the figures, the H5N6 found here is in the goose/guandong lineage 👉nature.com/articles/s4158…

1/🔁🧬– #H5N1 Update: – The 10 seqs uploaded to GISAID 8/31 are now also on SRA & Nextstrain – all are from cattle (locations are inferred): ▶️6 from CO ▶️3 from WY  – 1 seq has PB2 D740N  – 1 seq has PB2 A676V ("bulk tank")  ***More on these⤵️*** ▶️1 from ID cc Raj Rajnarayanan

Great opportunity for an ERC interested in #onehealth, #Zoonosis, and #Virology! Universität Bern MCID Bern ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs…

🆕🔬 Acute and persistent responses after H5N1 vaccination in humans Adjuvant-independent (AS03) early response signatures after #H5N1 vaccination persisted up to 100 days and, when present before vaccination, predicted vaccine immunogenicity cell.com/cell-reports/f…

We are running a massive online open course on AMR databases starting end of the month. Its completely free, study at your own pace and its ~15 hours overall over the 3 weeks (although you can finish any time in a year). Please spread in your networks! …erences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/antimicr…

BioRender finally made some changes to their license conditions and now claim their product is compatible with Open Access. Sorry to say that these conditions are legally invalid and don't fix anything. 1/

This is really a stunning paper. Cyanobacteria exposed to shorter days (in the lab) "rewire" their membrane lipids to anticipate cold weather. When those cells are plunged into cold water, they have "two or three-times higher survival" than cells exposed to longer days.

Mh, not great.

CDC confirmed a human case of H5 bird flu in Missouri in a person who has fully recovered. This is the 14th case in the United States in 2024. An investigation into the potential exposure is ongoing, but the public risk assessment remains low at this time. Read more: