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Emergence of Animal-Origin #H3N2v Influenza Presentation by Lyn Finelli, CDC, Atlanta, GA, United States http://www.microbeworld.org/index.p...&catid=89:backend-submitted-videos&Itemid=240 … #ICAAC #fb
Finelli: 302 #H3N2v cases as of last night in 10 states:16 hospitalizations: 1 death - transmission mostly via swine #ICAAC
Finelli: Little #H3N2v transmission. CDC asking doctors to use PCR quality tests to diagnose and treat with 2 types of antivirals #ICAAC
Finelli: #H3N2v is circulating widely in the USA.
Finelli: Same symptoms in both pigs and humans - secondary respiratory infections common. #ICAAC
@ASMnewsroom Will it be harder to spot H3v cases in the community (ie not among fair-goers) when seasonal flu viruses start to circulate? (Helen Branswell)
Finelli: Good surveillance in USA. Many labs have ability to sub-type viruses.
Finelli: Show pigs have extensive contact with handlers causing human infections. #ICAAC
Finelli: H1N1 pandemic strain w/ M gene may be more transmissible due to the M gene- need more study on #H3N2v & M gene for consensus #ICAAC
Finelli: About 10 total human to human transmission incidences of #H3N2v #ICAAC
Finelli: Hard to predict what will happen. Vigilant to see if #H3N2v human to human transmission develops in coming Winter.
Finelli: CDC so far not seeing #H3N2v in humans in other countries but increasing surveillance to monitor this. #ICAAC
This concludes this presentation. #ICAAC
MicrobeWorld @MicrobeWorld
@FluTrackers Thanks for the great live tweeting during the H3N2 session.
@MicrobeWorld Thank you for inviting us.
@ASMnewsroom Can you please ask Dr. Finelli for the reference she mentioned, the paper in July on the impact of M gene from pandemic H1N1? (Helen Branswell)
@ASMNewsroom When you say H3N2v is seen widely among swine in US, is this the virus w/ the M gene from pandemic H1N1? Is that widespread? (Helen Branswell)
Jim Sliwa @ASMnewsroom
@HelenBranswell @FluTrackers Here's the article http://bit.ly/RDN949
@ASMnewsroom Thank you Jim.
Finelli: 302 #H3N2v cases as of last night in 10 states:16 hospitalizations: 1 death - transmission mostly via swine #ICAAC
Finelli: Little #H3N2v transmission. CDC asking doctors to use PCR quality tests to diagnose and treat with 2 types of antivirals #ICAAC
Finelli: #H3N2v is circulating widely in the USA.
Finelli: Same symptoms in both pigs and humans - secondary respiratory infections common. #ICAAC
@ASMnewsroom Will it be harder to spot H3v cases in the community (ie not among fair-goers) when seasonal flu viruses start to circulate? (Helen Branswell)
Finelli: Good surveillance in USA. Many labs have ability to sub-type viruses.
Finelli: Show pigs have extensive contact with handlers causing human infections. #ICAAC
Finelli: H1N1 pandemic strain w/ M gene may be more transmissible due to the M gene- need more study on #H3N2v & M gene for consensus #ICAAC
Finelli: About 10 total human to human transmission incidences of #H3N2v #ICAAC
Finelli: Hard to predict what will happen. Vigilant to see if #H3N2v human to human transmission develops in coming Winter.
Finelli: CDC so far not seeing #H3N2v in humans in other countries but increasing surveillance to monitor this. #ICAAC
This concludes this presentation. #ICAAC
MicrobeWorld @MicrobeWorld
@FluTrackers Thanks for the great live tweeting during the H3N2 session.
@MicrobeWorld Thank you for inviting us.
@ASMnewsroom Can you please ask Dr. Finelli for the reference she mentioned, the paper in July on the impact of M gene from pandemic H1N1? (Helen Branswell)
@ASMNewsroom When you say H3N2v is seen widely among swine in US, is this the virus w/ the M gene from pandemic H1N1? Is that widespread? (Helen Branswell)
Jim Sliwa @ASMnewsroom
@HelenBranswell @FluTrackers Here's the article http://bit.ly/RDN949
@ASMnewsroom Thank you Jim.