MessengerFlats @MessengerFlats@qoto.org

Over the past 27 years, #H5N1 #birdflu has repeatedly defied #flu dogma, doing things scientists thought #influenza viruses couldn't or didn't do. We would be foolhardy to assume it doesn't have more tricks up its sleeve. https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/09/bird-flu-upends-avian-influenza-dogma/

Scientists from #CDC and the Texas health department report on the human case of #H5N1 #birdflu infection, which they suggest may be the first detected case of H5 that involved mammal to human infection. https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/03/bird-flu-virus-texas-dairy-farm-worker-first-mammal-to-human-spread/

And then there were 28 .... mucosal Covid vaccines in clinical trials.

As well as a new oral vax entering first-in-human trial in Australia, an aerosol vax from Canada called AeroVax is on its way to phase 2.

Plus there's a new type of vaccine in development in Canada - a next generation of a next generation vax! & the human challenge study consortium has had its first international meeting.

Much more in my next generation vax update @PLOS
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2024/04/30/mucosal-covid-vaccines-advancing-plus-a-new-type-of-vax-in-development-next-generation-update-16/

#Vaccines #Covid #Covid19

New twist in the #H5N1 #birdflu in cows reporting saga. #USDA has upped the number of reported outbreaks to 36 in 9 states. The 2 newly reported outbreaks occurred in NM & were apparently confirmed on or before April 17, but only posted publicly today.
What's up with that?

It's been just over 1 month since #USDA reported finding #H5N1 #birdflu in dairy cows. There are still many, many questions about what's going on & the risk it poses to people. But some things are starting to come into focus. By @mmolteni.bsky.social & me. https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/30/h5n1-bird-flu-virus-cows-and-risk-to-people/

It's starting to look like pasteurization inactivates #H5N1 #birdflu viruses in milk. But people who drink raw milk are playing with fire right now. https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/29/bird-flu-raw-milk-h5n1-risk-us-cattle/