Tag Archives: h5n1

I have been writing about avian influenza since April 1st a year ago in a large number of blog posts. To understand why I have written so much about this virus and why it remains a concern to me, let’s first review information I have previously provided and then let’s discuss an update and whyContinue reading “A Comprehensive Review and Update on Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) in the U.S.”

My co-author and I wrote a book https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12896/preparing-next-global-outbreak to capture the learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic because we were convinced that it did not serve as the wake-up call that it should have and that memories would be short-lived. In fact, we saw how the global outbreak of MPox shocked the world in 2022 –Continue reading “Bird Flu – So many lessons that you would think we should have just learned, but apparently, we did not”

In my post last night on avian influenza, I mentioned a recently published article (yesterday) that I thought should give us pause about many of the assumptions being made about the current H5N1 outbreak in dairy cattle, and that should cause us to increase and improve our response to containing this outbreak. Today, we willContinue reading “More on my Update on Avian Influenza from yesterday”

In my last update, I expressed concern that something has changed (for the worse) with this virus. We were seeing a change in virulence to cattle in California with prior reports of case fatality rates in infected dairy cattle being 1 – 2%, but in California herds, the case fatality rates were being reported inContinue reading “Update on Avian Influenza (H5N1) Outbreak in US.”

I have written before about our country’s lethargic public health response (with notable exceptions for the states of California, Colorado and Michigan) to the A(H5N1) avian influenza outbreak among U.S. poultry and dairy farms, and some of the developments that should be increasing our concern for the potential of this epizootic (epidemic in animals) toContinue reading “Avian Influenza Update”

Surveillance and Containment of Novel Infectious Agents with Pandemic Potential – We are Not Good at This The old saying, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” is no more apt than in the field of global outbreaks and pandemics. In other words, the cost of responding aggressively to novel infectious agentsContinue reading “The H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Outbreak in the U.S.”