Testing/surveillance will be more useful when the data is reported rapidly!

If we want to stay ahead of the virus.. then we need to push for rapid reporting as well..

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Timely publication..

1. Sequences of Dairy cattle and Cats are very similar
2. Drinking raw milk implicated

Small subset tested/sequenced

I'd not rule out direct wild bird exposure (or other route) yet

We have been anticipating this data for a while..

H/T Rick Bright

newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/…
Officials of animal husbandry dept has confirmed bird flu cases at 3 places in Alappuzha.
Officials said the presence of the H5N1 subtype of the Influenza A virus was detected in ducks & chicken.
Since then the dept has culled more than 17,000 ducks

#H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b updates

Short note about availability of sequences (and metadata) by Michael Worobey et al

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