sharon sanders
Editor-in-Chief & President
A great synopsis of the H5N1 situation as it was accelerating in the last two years.
Dr. Dhanasekaran's recent paper discussed in this podcast:
Nature . The episodic resurgence of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 virus
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Bird flu is terrifying. Although avian influenza only rarely infects people, when it does, it kills half or more of them.
For the past 25 years, the number one avian influenza threat has been highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. Like other influenza A viruses, it gets its name from the two important components of the virus – the hemagglutinin, or H designation, and the neuraminidase, or N.
Less important than the name is what the virus has been doing. Tens of millions of birds around the world have been infected, from poultry to wild migrating birds, and H5N1 is making friends with other viruses.
https://onehealthtrust.org/news-media/podcasts/watching-out-for-the-ever-changing-bird-flu/
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Vijay Dhanasekaran
Associate Professor
Division of Public Health Laboratory Sciences
BSc, MPhil, PhD
Hong Kong University
https://sph.hku.hk/en/Biography/Dhanasekaran-Vijaykrishna
Dr. Dhanasekaran's recent paper discussed in this podcast:
Nature . The episodic resurgence of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 virus
snip
Bird flu is terrifying. Although avian influenza only rarely infects people, when it does, it kills half or more of them.
For the past 25 years, the number one avian influenza threat has been highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. Like other influenza A viruses, it gets its name from the two important components of the virus – the hemagglutinin, or H designation, and the neuraminidase, or N.
Less important than the name is what the virus has been doing. Tens of millions of birds around the world have been infected, from poultry to wild migrating birds, and H5N1 is making friends with other viruses.
https://onehealthtrust.org/news-media/podcasts/watching-out-for-the-ever-changing-bird-flu/
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Vijay Dhanasekaran
Associate Professor
Division of Public Health Laboratory Sciences
BSc, MPhil, PhD
Hong Kong University
https://sph.hku.hk/en/Biography/Dhanasekaran-Vijaykrishna