China: CHP notified of human case of avian influenza A(H5N6) in Guangxi    
submitted by kickingbird at Aug, 21, 2018 from Hong Kong Governmental News
The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH) today (August 20) received notification of an additional human case of avian influenza A(H5N6) in Guangxi from the National Health ...

OIE: Equine influenza, Colombia    
submitted by kickingbird at 3 days ago from OIE
Information received on 21/09/2018 from Dr Luis Humberto Martínez Lacouture, Gerente General, Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario (ICA), Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Bogotá ...

OIE: Low pathogenic avian influenza (poultry), United States of America    
submitted by kickingbird at 4 days ago from OIE
Information received on 19/09/2018 from Dr John Clifford, Official Delegate, Chief Trade Advisor, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, ...

Case reports of human AIV infection -- Guizhou province    
submitted by kickingbird at 4 days ago from F.I.C
[With more papers published, we gathered the reports related to the previous cases acknowledged in the outbreak news in past years. The acdemic background varied between authors, so did their angle to ...

Case reports of human AIV infection -- Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region    
submitted by kickingbird at 4 days ago from F.I.C
[With more papers published, we gathered the reports related to the previous cases acknowledged in the outbreak news in past years. The acdemic background varied between authors, so did their angle to ...

Li L, DeLiberto TJ, Killian ML, Torchetti MK, et a. Evolutionary pathway for the 2017 emergence of a novel highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H7N9) virus among domestic poultry in Tennessee, United States. Virology. 2018 Sep 17.  Abstract  
submitted by kickingbird at 15 hours ago from Virology. 2018 Sep 17
In March 2017, a novel highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H7N9) virus was detected at two commercial broiler breeder facilities in Tennessee, United States. In this study, a wild bird low pathogenic avian ...

DeDiego ML, Chiem K, Topham DJ.. Directed selection of amino acid changes in the influenza hemagglutinin and neuraminidase affecting protein antigenicity. Vaccine. 2018 Sep 14..  Abstract  
submitted by kickingbird at 15 hours ago from Vaccine. 2018 Sep 14.
Influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) proteins elicit protective antibody responses and therefore, are used as targets for vaccination, especially the HA protein. However, these proteins ...

Benton DJ, Nans A, Calder LJ, Turner J, et al. Influenza hemagglutinin membrane anchor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Sep 17.  Abstract  
submitted by kickingbird at 15 hours ago from Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Sep 17
Viruses with membranes fuse them with cellular membranes, to transfer their genomes into cells at the beginning of infection. For Influenza virus, the membrane glycoprotein involved in fusion is the hemagglutinin ...

Gonzalez AJ, Ijezie EC, Balemba OB, Miura TA, et a. Attenuation of influenza A virus disease severity by viral co-infection in a mouse model. J Virol. 2018 Sep 19..  Abstract  
submitted by kickingbird at 15 hours ago from J Virol. 2018 Sep 19.
Influenza viruses and rhinoviruses are responsible for a large number of acute respiratory viral infections in human populations and are detected as co-pathogens within hosts. Clinical and epidemiological ...

Scheller N, et al.. Pro-viral miRNAs detected in BALF extracellular vesicles of patients with influenza virus-induced ARDS. J Infect Dis. 2018 Sep 15.  Abstract  
submitted by kickingbird at 15 hours ago from J Infect Dis. 2018 Sep 15
Influenza A virus (IAV) causes severe respiratory infections and alveolar epithelial damage resulting in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Extracellular vesicles (EV) have been shown to mediate ...