100,000 Ducks to Be Killed After Bird Flu Strikes Long Island Farm The highly infectious H5N1 strain has caused outbreaks across the country. Now, Long Island’s last duck farm must kill its entire flock and may go out of business, its owner said.

Continuous trouble with this #H5N1 #birdflu #influenza virus

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Human Infection with a Novel Tickborne Orthonairovirus Species in China | NEJM This report describes a novel tickborne orthonairovirus species identified in patients presenting with an acute febrile illness in China.

New #virus [Xue-Cheng virus (XCV)] discovered in #febrile patients (nonspecific acute to severe disease) with recent tick bites in northeastern China. #XCV is an #orthonairovirus alike e.g. #CCHF @NEJM

Pakistan's polio count hits 67 for 2024 as 2 other nations confirm new cases Pakistan has 3 new wild poliovirus type 1 infections, while the DR Congo and South Sudan report more vaccine-derived cases.

Pakistan's polio count hits 67 for 2024 as 2 other nations confirm new cases www.cidrap.umn.edu/polio/pakist...

Epidemic Zika virus strains from the Asian lineage induce an attenuated fetal brain pathogenicity - Nature Communications During the 2015–2016 outbreak, Zika virus infection was linked to birth defects. Here, the authors show that epidemic strains cause less severe disease in mouse embryos than pre-epidemic strains and c...

Check our paper. Pre-epidemic #Zika virus strains cause more CNS-damage in mouse embryos than epidemic strains. The virus may have evolved to attenuation, resulting in disease rather than premature in utero death. @Nature

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Genetic Sequences of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses Identified in a Person in Louisiana CDC has sequenced the influenza viruses in specimens collected from the patient in Louisiana who was

The Louisiana patient with severe #H5N1 #birdflu contracted the virus from birds, but the virus next evolved (acquired mutations) in the patient. Importance of genomic surveillance in people & animals! Prevent exposure of people to infected animals & environments!

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Belgium becomes 8th non-African country to confirm clade 1b mpox case Belgium reported the case on December 18 in an adult traveler returning from an African country where the clade 1b virus circulates.

This patient had sexual contact with a person with #mpox (-like symptoms), they isolated on their own before diagnosis. No high-risk contacts in #Belgium identified. Risk to the public in Belgium remains low, according to the #ECDC

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Really good to hear that the #marburg #outbreak in @rwanda has come to an end.

Some patients in mysterious outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo have malaria, early testing reveals | CNN A mysterious illness outbreak that has sickened at least 416 people and killed 31 in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo may be at least partly caused by malaria, health officials said...

Short update by @WHO on the “mysterious” infectious disease in @DRC

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DRC Expects Diagnosis Of ‘Disease X’ By Weekend; Mpox Continues To Spread - Health Policy Watch The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) expects to diagnose ‘Disease X’, which has killed at least 79 people in the Panzi district of Kwango Province by the

People in the impoverished district “vulnerable” ~malnutrition rate ~ 40%, recent serious typhoid outbreak. The DRC is also experiencing a seasonal influenza outbreak.

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Unknown disease kills 143 in southwest Congo, local authorities say An unknown disease killed 143 people in Democratic Republic of the Congo's southwestern province in November, local authorities told Reuters.

Needs close attention!

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Thanks Dan! What a pleasure to work with you! Your talk at the #PRPconference2024 was -as always- top! Thanks for introducing me to bsky