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 influenza A viruses (infection with H5N8) (non-poultry including wild birds), Korea (Rep. of)    
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Information received on 29/11/2020 from Dr Dae Gyun Kim, Chief Veterinary Officer, Director General, Animal Health Policy Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Sejong-si, Korea (Rep. ...

OIE: Highly pathogenic influenza A viruses (infection with H5N8) (non-poultry including wild birds), Norway    
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Information received on 30/11/2020 from Mr Knut R?nningen, Director, Norwegian Food Safety Authority, Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Brumunddal, Norway SummaryReport typeImmediate notificationDate of ...

OIE: Highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N8), Korea (Rep. of)    
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Information received on 30/11/2020 from Dr Dae Gyun Kim, Chief Veterinary Officer, Director General, Animal Health Policy Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Sejong-si, Korea (Rep. ...

OIE: Highly pathogenic influenza A viruses (infection with H5N8) (non-poultry including wild birds), Iran    
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Information received on 29/11/2020 from Dr Ali Safar Maken Ali, Head, Iran Veterinary Organization (IVO), Ministry of Jihad-e- Agriculture, Tehran, Iran SummaryReport typeFollow-up report No. 1Date of ...

Kaplan BS, Falkenberg S, Dassanayake R, Neill J, V. Virus Strain Influenced the Interspecies Transmission of Influenza D Virus Between Calves and Pigs. Transbound Emerg Dis. 2020 Dec 1.  Abstract  
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Influenza D viruses (IDV) belong to a new genus in the family Orthomyxoviridae. IDV is the etiologic agent of acute, mild respiratory disease in ungulate species with agricultural importance (cattle, pigs, ...

Howland RE, Cowan NR, Wang SS, Moss ML, Glied S. Public transportation and transmission of viral respiratory disease: Evidence from influenza deaths in 121 cities in the United States. PLoS One. 2020 Dec 1;15(12):e0242990.  Abstract  
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One important concern around the spread of respiratory infectious diseases has been the contribution of public transportation, a space where people are in close contact with one another and with high-use ...

Caddy SL, Vaysburd M, Papa G, Wing M, O´Conn. Viral nucleoprotein antibodies activate TRIM21 and induce T cell immunity. EMBO J. 2020 Dec 1:e106228.  Abstract  
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Nucleoprotein (N) is an immunodominant antigen in many enveloped virus infections. While the diagnostic value of anti-N antibodies is clear, their role in immunity is not. This is because while they are ...

Bashashati M, Chung DH, Fallah Mehrabadi MH, Lee. Evolution of H9N2 avian influenza viruses in Iran, 2017~2019. Transbound Emerg Dis. 2020 Dec 1.  Abstract  
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Since its first detection in 1998, avian influenza virus (AIV) subtype H9N2 has been enzootic in Iran. To better understand the evolutionary history of H9N2 viruses in Iran, we sequenced 15 currently circulating ...

Powell JD, Abente EJ, Chang J, Souza CK, Rajao DS,. Characterization of contemporary 2010.1 H3N2 swine influenza A viruses circulating in United States pigs. Virology. 2020 Nov 21;553:94-101.  Abstract  
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In 2012, swine influenza surveillance detected a novel reassorted influenza A virus (IAV) strain containing human-seasonal hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA). Subsequently, these viruses reassorted, ...