AFD Blog `EM&I: Genetic evolution, phylodynamics, geographic spread of #H9N2 avian influenza viruses in China from 2014 to 2025: an increasing potential #zoonotic risk' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/08/em-g...
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Mike Coston
@fla-medic.bsky.social
Retired Paramedic Blogger Avian Flu Diary https://afludiary.blogspot.com/ past 19 years
AFD Blog `EM&I: Genetic evolution, phylodynamics, geographic spread of #H9N2 avian influenza viruses in China from 2014 to 2025: an increasing potential #zoonotic risk' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/08/em-g...
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AFD Blog `Australia: #H5N1 Positive Bird Detections (n=102) Continue to Rise' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/08/aust...
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AFD Blog `Mainland China, Taiwan & Hong Kong All Reporting Summer Surge of #COVID' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/08/main...
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AFD Blog `Australia Confirms First Mass Mortality Event (Birds) on Baudin Rocks Island' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/08/aust...
Australia Confirms First Mass Mortality Event (Birds) on Baudin Rocks Island
Video : @abcnewsaustralia #19,275 While there was little doubt of the outcome, for the past 2 days we've been waiting for test results fr...
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AFD Blog `Australia: Updated #H5N1 Detections In Wild Birds (n=62)' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/08/aust...
Australia: Updated H5N1 Detections In Wild Birds (n=62)
#19,274 While we are still awaiting results from the mass mortality event on Baudin rocks , CSIRO has confirmed 3 more South Australian b...
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AFD Blog `Finland Reports 1st #ASF Detection - Switzerland Investigating Unidentified #Bovine Disease' h/t FluTrackers afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/08/finl...
Finland Reports 1st ASF Detection - Switzerland Investigating Unidentified Bovine Disease
Note: Many countries are slow or reluctant to report outbreaks. #19,273 Although we spend most of our time looking at zoonotic diseases in ...
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AFD Blog `Australia: SA Confirms 19 More Birds with #H5N1 - Mass Mortality Event On Offshore Islet - Victoria Update' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/08/aust...
Australia: SA Confirms 19 More Birds with H5N1 - Mass Mortality Event On Offshore Islet - Victoria Update
#19,272 While Australia's first detection of H5N1 was in in Western Australia, and at least 5 states have now reported infected birds, Sou...
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AFD blog `@WHO WPRO Reporting 4 More #H9N2 Cases on Chinese Mainland' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/who-...
WHO WPRO Reporting 4 More H9N2 Cases on Chinese Mainland
#19,271 Three days ago we looked at an HK report on 3 recent human infections with avian H9N2 on the Chinese Mainland ( Guangxi Province,...
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Deadly H5N1 bird flu strain detected in Victoria for first time -Victoria seems to do less testing/person than Qld & NSW in the uuman respiratory virus arena; also animal testing? Not sure why they otherwise took this long to detect an infection. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Breaking: Deadly H5N1 bird flu strain detected in Victoria for first time
The deadly H5N1 bird flu strain has reached Victoria after a positive test was confirmed.
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AFD Blog `Australia: CSIRO Reports 4 H5 Positive Crested Tern Samples from Kangaroo Island' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/aust...
Australia: CSIRO Reports 4 H5 Positive Crested Tern Samples from Kangaroo Island
Credit Wikipedia #19,270 No sooner has I posted my last blog when the following statement was posted on the Australian government website:...
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AFD Blog `Australia: #H5N1 Reaches Victoria - SA `Suspect' Count Rises (n=24)' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/aust...
Australia: H5N1 Reaches Victoria - SA `Suspect' Count Rises (n=24)
#19,269 A few hours ago Victoria announced their first H5N1 detection, once again in a greater crested tern, this time found in Portland. ...
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AFD Blog `EID Journal Dispatch: #Seroprevalence of Influenza A(H5N1) Virus in Domestic #Cats at Epicenter of Dairy Cattle Outbreaks, California, USA, 2024–2026' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/eid-...
EID Journal Dispatch: Seroprevalence of Influenza A(H5N1) Virus in Domestic Cats at Epicenter of Dairy Cattle Outbreaks, California, USA, 2024–2026
Seropositive cats around HPAI Infected Dairy Farm #19,268 We've known for more than 2 decades that cats - both large and small - are susce...
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We're most definitely going off. The urgent reassurances of no die-offs or food security impacts won't last for too much longer I suspect.
A further 11 suspected cases of H5 bird flu have been detected in South Australia’s south-east and Kangaroo Island.
AFD Blog `Australia Confirms `Some Local Spread' of #H5N1 - CSIRO Testing An Additional 11 Samples From SA' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/aust...
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AFD Blog `New Zealand to Require Biosecurity Plans From Poultry Sector as Australia's #H5N1 Count Rises to 27' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/new-...
New Zealand to Require Biosecurity Plans From Poultry Sector as Australia's H5N1 Count Rises to 27
#19,265 No unexpectedly, the results overnight from Australia's National Lab CSIRO have confirmed the 7 suspected bird flu detections repo...
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That's quite a few at once. And given these "suspect" infection announcements have regularly been confirmed, these are likely to be confirmed. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Seven new suspected H5 bird flu cases detected in SA
Federal Agriculture Minister Julie Collins says urgent testing is being conducted by the CSIRO.
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AFD Blog `South Australia Reports 7 More `Suspect' #H5N1 Detections In Native Shore Birds' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/sout...
South Australia Reports 7 More `Suspect' H5N1 Detections In Native Shore Birds
Video Link #19,264 Once again Southern Australia is reporting a number (n= 7 ) of `presumed positive' H5N1 tests in local seabirds, all ...
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AFD Blog `South Australia Confirms 6th & 7th Seabird Infection - National Ttl = 20' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/sout...
South Australia Confirms 6th & 7th Seabird Infection - National Ttl = 20
#19,263 As mentioned yesterday , Australia's National Lab CSIRO was testing samples from 2 suspected H5N1 infected seabirds from South Aus...
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AFD Blog `Preprint: A lethal human #H5N5 influenza virus isolate exhibits low pandemic risk traits` afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/prep...
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AFD Blog `Australia: CSIRO Confirms Qld's #H5N1 - SA Reports 2 `Suspected' Local Birds' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/aust...
Australia: CSIRO Confirms Qld's H5N1 - SA Reports 2 `Suspected' Local Birds
Confirmed Positive H5N1 in Birds (n=18) #19,261 While there was never much doubt, we now have confirmation from Australia's National Lab C...
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AFD Blog `Preprint: Within- and between-host dynamics of highly pathogenic avian influenza in domestic birds from Pennsylvania farms and live bird markets' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/prep...
Preprint: Within- and between-host dynamics of highly pathogenic avian influenza in domestic birds from Pennsylvania farms and live bird markets
Graphic Generated By Gemini using USDA Data #19,260 Last month 3 east coast states (RI, NJ, PA) reported outbreaks of H5N1 in Live Bird Ma...
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AFD Blog `Queensland Reports `Presumed Positive' #H5N1 Test in Migratory Seabird' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/quee...
Queensland Reports `Presumed Positive' H5N1 Test in Migratory Seabird
#19,259 After going a week without any new reports of H5N1 in Australia or New Zealand, overnight Queensland's Department of Agriculture ...
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AFD Blog `Probably Nothing . . . But It feels a Bit Like Deja Flu' #China #poultry afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/prob...
Probably Nothing . . . But It feels a Bit Like Deja Flu
Credit China Daily - March 2006 #19,258 Readers with extremely long memories will remember the great shuttlecock shortage of 2006, which ...
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AFD Blog `China CDC Weekly: First Human Infection with Influenza A(H1N2)v Virus — Yunnan Province, China, 2026' #H1N2v afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/chin...
China CDC Weekly: First Human Infection with Influenza A(H1N2)v Virus — Yunnan Province, China, 2026
#19,257 While avian flu continues to sit at - or near the top of - most people's pandemic threat lists, swine influenza viruses ( which of...
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AFD Blog `Preprint: HPAI #H5N5 in a Polar Bear and Atlantic Walrus, Svalbard, 2026, with Widespread Seroconversion in Polar Bears' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/prep...
Preprint: HPAI H5N5 in a Polar Bear and Atlantic Walrus, Svalbard, 2026, with Widespread Seroconversion in Polar Bears
#19,256 While running a distant 2nd to H5N1, a spin-off ressortant - HPAI H5N5 - continues to make inroads in northern Europe, Canada, ...
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AFD Blog `Preprint: Bovine-derived #H5N1 influenza virus efficiently infects lactating #swine via the mammary gland' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/prep...
Preprint: Bovine-derived H5N1 influenza virus efficiently infects lactating swine via the mammary gland
#19,255 As alarming as the spillover of HPAI H5N1 to dairy cattle has been, the mammalian livestock species believed to have the greatest po...
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AFD Blog `Front. Vet. Sci: Biosecurity deficiencies in HPAI-affected poultry farms in Korea, 2020/2021–2024/2025 seasons' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/fron...
Front. Vet. Sci: Biosecurity deficiencies in HPAI-affected poultry farms in Korea, 2020/2021–2024/2025 seasons
Biosecurity Violations - Photo Credit MAFRA #19,254 South Korean farmers, and their agricultural department ( MAFRA ), have been dealing wit...
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AFD Blog `Infection: Severe pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by avian influenza A (H10N3) in a young female: a case report' #H10N3 afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/07/infe...
Infection: Severe pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by avian influenza A (H10N3) in a young female: a case report
#19,253 Although reporting has been sporadic, since 2021 China has reported at least 7 human infection with LPAI H10N3 . The most rece...
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A small Australian 2026 #COVID19 update. 18JULY2026 In the ~82 days since my last update (27APR), detections have risen by 23,933. That's a daily rate of 292, up from ~100 per day in April.