Introducing the 100 most influential people in health in 2024 ti.me/44nqUb0

.World Health Organization (WHO) webinar on the public health risk of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) in dairy cattle. Organized by WHO Information Network for Epidemics (who.int/teams/epi-win). To be held on 6 May 2024 from 13:00 Central European Time.

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It is with overwhelming gratitude, a little embarrassment, and a lot of excitement to share that I made it to the @TIME100 Health!

I’m equally floored to be alongside these other 99 incredible changemakers worldwide. Simply my heroes. time.com/collection/tim…

New post:

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Excellent interview about the current H5N1 situation and what we know and don't know.

Brilliant science communications - if you're not already following Katelyn Jetelina you should be!

Have questions about H5N1? We all do. Attempted to explain what we know and don’t know and some challenges in this Q&A for Scientific American with the brilliant Megan Bartels.

Read here: scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-ne…

We need to talk about that human case of H5N1 in Texas...

Here is a bootstrapped (NJ) tree showing how the closest realtive of H5N1 sampled in cattle is a virus the infected an male individual who reportedly worked on a farm with cattle (dairy, I believe).

It’s clear that “citizen science” is playing an important role in filling knowledge gaps. It would be great to see someone sequencing the samples from wastewater and watersheds that might be showing peaks of flu A in March/April.
- ⁦STAT⁩ statnews.com/2024/04/25/h5n…

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.

H5N1 update: We have to do better, faster, by Katelyn Jetelina open.substack.com/pub/yourlocale… Excellent update on #HPAI by 'Your Local Epidemiologist'

If you work with farm animals thought to be infected with #H5N1 , CDC recommends you wear personal protective equipment (PPE) and wash your hands after handling their litter, feces, or milk. More on how to protect yourself from #birdflu : bit.ly/4aLr7qD