Follow-up information regarding the #avianflu outbreak in #Australia

The outbreak is related H7 rather than #H5N1 which is causing the global outbreak and the one in US cows.

A second person who works on dairy farms has been diagnosed w/H5N1. A sample drawn from their irritated eye tested positive. A swab from their nose did not.

A recent preprint found that human eye cells have receptors for the virus circulating...

BREAKING: Michigan reports a case of #H5N1 #birdflu in a farm worker who had exposure to dairy cows. statnews.com/2024/05/22/bir…

More information regarding the human #H5N1 case detected in #Australia

It is clade 2.3.2.1a which is different from the clade causing the global outbreak and the one in dairy cows in the US which is clade which is 2.3.4.4b

Six signs of sepsis not to ignore telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness…

Why does it have to be a political football? Could it be cross party??

child contracted the avian influenza A infection while in India
news.com.au/lifestyle/heal…

Delighted with the participation of Sudan FMoH Minister HE Dr. Heitham Awadalla, Professor Salman Rawaf, and Dr Shible Sahbani in the EMPHNET webinar with insights on the Sudan situation and the resilient action of the ministry and partners to combat a grave emergency.

Good move on the part of the CDC so we can identify any changes in #Influenza activity in the coming months

Medicaid giant acknowledging that social determinants of health are 80% of what determines our health - healthcare is the rest. Centene building affordable housing. Time to fully implement value-based financing on a robust primary care infrastructure.
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Dame Rachel -
“If you're going to deprive a child of their liberty, you're talking about the most vulnerable children in our country and worthy of our support,” she says. “How we treat the most vulnerable is such a sign of what we think about childhood.” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Raids by Israeli forces in Jenin, #WestBank , Palestine, have left at least 8 people dead, including Dr Osayd Jabarin, a Ministry of Health surgeon from MSF-supported Khalil Suleiman hospital, who was shot on his way to work.

Happening now! Research networks, MS & partners are exchanging knowledge, collaborating & building capacity for operational & implementation research into Health #Emergency & Disaster Risk Management. Joint workshop held in Oxford, UK, by WHO/Europe, WHO Centre for Health Development, supported by UK Health Security Agency

Proud to share that World Health Organization (WHO) co-launched the Competencies for #OneHealth Field Epidemiology Framework #COHFE with Food and Agriculture Organization & World Organisation for Animal Health

This is a major milestone in strengthening #OneHealth capacity worldwide as we support workforce development

More info👇🏿
who.int/initiatives/co…

Final and official copy of Global Report on Primary Health Care is released.
Happy reading :)
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Serological evidence of zoonotic filovirus exposure among bushmeat hunters in Guinea

New paper from our group + collaborators. Out now in Nature Communications

nature.com/articles/s4146…

Yesterday, a senior African global expert (Chancellor of a university) told us about how Global North actors come to him all the time with a plan to 'develop his capacity'

Thank you!

Congratulations Susanna Dunachie @SusannajdNDM, recently nominated Director of the NDM Centre for Global Health Research
NDM Centre for Global Health Research
MORU OUCRU KEMRI-Wellcome Trust
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Congratulations to PSI Director Peter Horby for being elected as a Fellow of the The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.

Prof Horby joins a cohort of exceptional researchers recognised for their contributions to science.

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