🧵Lots of interest in #H5N1 in 🇺🇸 so wanted to provide a little background on World Health Organization (WHO)’s work in #flu (For latest in US see: CDC Dept. of Agriculture U.S. FDA)

And some info on the H5N1 flu vaccine pipeline in humans (note, we don’t need this yet, but I’m getting a lot of questions about this)

I am happy to announce our annual New York City Virus Hunters Research Symposium. Join us if you want to learn about our community science program that looks for viruses in birds in New York City. Our students will present our newest data. redcap.mountsinai.org/redcap/surveys…

Excited to announce the launch of the Compatible Products Programme.

The new initiative is designed to expand the network of approved third-party products to foster a more accessible genomics ecosystem & new applications of nanopore technology.

Read: bit.ly/4dfinuQ

Due to enormous and collaborative effort from the Nextstrain team, james hadfield Trevor Bedford and of course Dept. of Agriculture , we now have the USDA cattle sequences on Nextstrain: nextstrain.org/avian-flu/h5n1… visualized with new, 2-year builds.

(1/2) Dept. of Agriculture published 239 genetic sequences of the U.S. H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b influenza virus from samples associated with the ongoing highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak in poultry/wild birds...

Given all the interest in dairy cattle, I've added relevant documents, reports, updates, papers (new and old) to my HPAI resource page
👉michellewille.com/avian-influenz…

What US CDC is doing in respons to the cow flu outbreaks cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/s…