Rise in upper respiratory infections in India, Himani Chandna puts together this report including current COVID situation: tests are turning positive but disease not severe.

With infrequent testing, it is difficult to know the exact incidence.

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Growing incidences of bird flu in a short span. Concerning developments

We are not prepared.

Not good if it establishes H2H capability in the medium-term!

Bird Flu outbreak in Jharkhand, India with close contacts placed under quarantine.

This article suggests the hospital staff at a regional poultry farm are infected and samples have been taken. Article not clear if bird flu has been confirmed among humans (yet) or only among…

Oops!

‘They couldn’t have foreseen this’

Right, T. Ryan Gregory

No one could have foreseen this.

The H5N1 outbreak in dairy cows may be much much more extensive than has been reported.

Nearly 40% of pasteurized milk tested from throughout the Midwest (38/150 samples) had evidence of H5N1 RNA.

To prevent a pandemic, we have to get this under control.…

This is scary.

We don’t want a H5N1 pandemic now. As a race, we are probably enabling it 🤦‍♂️

The quality here is very poor - have to step up monitoring to prevent spillover.

Terrific write up of H5N1 today by Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 (of course)

However in it one of the CDC interviewees refers to wastewater samples that turn H5N1 positive due to birds as false positives. I disagree!!! If birds are infected around cows, those are highly relevant samples.…

🚨 The really bad news is if #H5N1 nucleic acid has reached grocery store milk, the outbreak in cattle in US is much larger than the 30 herd / 8 state outbreak as we know today.

Possibly we have many more asymptomatic cattle infected and shedding virus in milk.

Milk could be the new wastewater for #H5N1 !

Yale says C19 leaves a lasting impact on the immune system altering it, the risk of LongCovid goes up with each re-infection & the risk of an autoimmune immune condition also nearly doubles after an infection. Viral reservoirs and viral persistence are present. Immune…

Zookeeper: “meerkats can catch viruses like cvd & the flu so can everyone pls put on mask to protect them?”

Safest, cutest, most fun outing in Melb - outdoors, everyone masked (keeper in P2 earloop) & meerkats 😍

plus lunch outdoors afterwards with my 2 younger daughters 🥰

Swiss champion Adrian Lehmann dies of a heart attack.

Last year Adrian Lehmann became Swiss champion at the Zurich Marathon. He has now died at the age of 34 after a heart attack during training.

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❗️Dysregulated innate immunity, the MIS-C driver in children.....
Not the best day for those still propagating that SarsCoV2 doesn't impair your immune system! 😬