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Great article

Our new vaccine could protect against coronaviruses that haven’t even emerged yet – new study theconversation.com/our-new-vaccin… via The Conversation
This sounds really promising

Case report bolsters evidence for H5N1 avian flu spread from cow to Texas dairy worker cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenz…
H5N1 has potential to become the next pandemic.
forbes.com/sites/matthewb…
The good news is that we can quickly develop vaccines against it.

Hundreds of patients died after catching COVID in Victorian hospitals, new data shows abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0… via ABC Australia
What is wrong with our health service managers?

COVID booster linked to 25% lower odds of long COVID cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid…
'Our findings suggest that ensuring individuals are up-to-date with their COVID-19 vaccinations could be an effective public health strategy for reducing the prevalence of long-COVID'.

time.com/6972143/covid-…
Information about the FLiRT variants of JN.1. WHO are now recommending that the next vaccine should be monovalent, based on JN.1.

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…
A sobering read.

theguardian.com/australia-news…
I believe a Royal Commission is warranted.

Australian National Surveillance Plan for COVID-19, Influenza, and RSV health.gov.au/resources/publ…
It looks as though the Interim CDC is up and running. The plan looks good, but it would be lovely to see some national agreed definitions. Also, what access will the public have?

Blood donor study finds 21% incidence of long-term symptoms attributed to COVID-19 cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/blood…
Large study comparing those with and without a confirmed diagnosis of COVID.

bbc.com/news/health-68…
Results from a large UK study of long COVID published in Nature Immunology. Shows that biomarkers of inflammation are heavily involved, and points to potential treatments.

Whooping cough is surging in Australia. Why, and how can we protect ourselves? theconversation.com/whooping-cough… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
Good explainer about whooping cough

The TGA has just approved Pfizer's Abrysvo vaccine against RSV. The vaccine is for pregnant women 24-36 weeks of gestation for prevention of RSV in infants from birth through 6 months, and people aged 60 and over.

Long COVID in a highly vaccinated but largely unexposed Australian population following the 2022 SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron wave: a cross‐sectional survey - Medical Journal of Australia - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/mj…
Very similar prevalence to the Victorian study.

Noma is a truly devastating tropical disease – more people need to know about it theconversation.com/noma-is-a-trul… via The Conversation
I'd never heard of this before

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
An interesting discussion. The authors argues that the risk of long COVID is much lower now than it was in 2020. However, a relatively recent (2022) Australian study found that 18% of infected people ended up with long COVID.
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

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COVID-19 lab leak study not credible: virology expert afr.com/policy/health-…
I try to give a balanced view!

Shingles cases are increasing in New South Wales. Experts say COVID might be why abc.net.au/news/2024-03-2…
Hmm - just about to get my Shingrex jab!

Use of a risk assessment tool to determine the origin of SARS‐CoV‐2 - Chen - Risk Analysis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ri…
Study shows that there is a reasonal probability that the pandemic was caused by a lab leak rather than from natural origins.