CIDRAP 🚨Questions:

🔺Are the #H5N1 #AvianFlu fragments found in grocery stores INFECTIOUS❓

🔺What about store chicken?

🔺See info fr Danielle Beckman on 3-hour assay that could determine infectivity❗️

🔺Pls share👇🏼
#VetMed #MedEd Raina MacIntyre 😷💉💉💉💉 Andrew W a n g, PhD, MPH, CPH Louise Moncla Helen Branswell 🇨🇦

📍Let this sink in—a world leading virologist Rick Bright who has studied H5N1 bird flu says he is pausing all his milk consumption until he sees proof from both FDA & USDA that pasteurized milk is safe to drink. Pausing milk because of his concern over lack of transparent data.

🦠🐓🐄 #H5N1 #Evolution #Cows #Calves #Variants
But wait…

3. If cows are infected and shedding virus while showing no detectable clinical signs of infection, then the epidemic (technically epizootic) may be much broader than previously thought. This is, IMO, very bad news that makes surveillance and ultimately containment much harder.

🦇 The Virologist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤙
Michael Olesen 💉😷🇺🇸🇺🇦 #H5N1 #Influenza #Evolution
Christopher Wayne Fisher
'... #bat #H9N2 is descended from a common ancestor dating back centuries ago. However, the H9 & N2 sequences appear to be genetically similar to current avian IAVs, suggesting recent reassortment event'