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 ...

GISAID: H5N1 Bird Flu continues to take its toll in the United States    
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Clade 2.3.4.4b of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus causing outbreaks in wild and domestic birds around the world, continues to spread in dairy cows, poultry and other animals across the ...

USCDC: CDC A(H5N1) Bird Flu Response Update March 19, 2025    
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CDC has been responding to the public health challenge posed by a multistate outbreak of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus, or "H5N1 bird flu," in dairy cows, poultry, and other animals in the United States ...

US: H7N9 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Diagnosed in Mississippi Poultry Flock    
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The Mississippi Board of Animal Health (MBAH) has been notified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratory that poultry from a commercial broiler breeder chicken flock ...

USFDA: Update on Ongoing Research Exploring if Aging Raw Milk Cheese Can Reduce or Eliminate Viable H5N1 Virus    
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March 14, 2025Interim Results from FDA 60-day Aged Raw Milk Cheese Research Don’t Detect H5N1 in Samples Collected to DateBeginning in December 2024, the FDA initiated an assignment sampling 60-day aged ...

Ford, Colby T. et al. Large-scale computational modelling of H5 influenza variants against HA1-neutralising antibodies. eBioMedicine, Volume 114, 105632.  Abstract  
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BackgroundThe United States Department of Agriculture has recently released reports that show samples collected from 2022 to 2025 of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) have been detected in mammals ...

Mingsheng Zhao, etc.,al. Genetic Evolution and Molecular Characteristics of Avian Influenza Viruses in Jining from 2018 to 2023. Front. Microbiol. Volume 16, 2025.  Abstract  
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Objective This study aimed to analyze the genetic evolution and molecular characteristics of H5, H7, and H9 subtypes of avian influenza viruses in the external environment of poultry in Jining from 2018 ...

Sebastian Bittrich, etc.,al. Visualizing and analyzing 3D biomolecular structures using Mol* at RCSB.org: Influenza A H5N1 virus proteome case study. TOOLS FOR PROTEIN SCIENCE.  Abstract  
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The easiest and often most useful way to work with experimentally determined or computationally predicted structures of biomolecules is by viewing their three-dimensional (3D) shapes using a molecular ...

David J Bacsik, etc.,al. [preprint]Validation of H5 influenza virus subtyping RT-qPCR assay and low prevalence of H5 detection in 2024-2025 influenza virus season. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.17.25324122.  Abstract  
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A sustained outbreak of H5N1 influenza virus among wild fowl and domestic livestock has caused more than 70 zoonotic infections in humans in the United States, including one death. The Centers for Disease ...

Daniel Janies, etc.,al. [preprint]Analyses of phylogenetics, natural selection, and protein structure of clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 Influenza A reveal that recent viral lineages have evolved promiscuity in host range and improved r. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.15.641219.  Abstract  
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H5N1 influenza has been circulating in birds from Eurasia and Africa for more than 146 years, but human infection has been sporadic. H5N1 (clade 2.3.4.4b) has recently infected hundreds of species of wild ...