Officially, there is only 1 documented case of #H5N1 #birdflu spilling from cows to humans during the current US outbreak.

But an epidemiologist suspects the true number is higher, based on what he heard from vets & farmers as the virus hit their herds.

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Texas vet who cares for 40,000 cattle said nearly every farm that had cows sick with bird flu also had sick workers: ‘I had people who never missed work, miss work’ fortune.com/2024/05/01/tex…

Honored and grateful to be included in TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People in health.

See the full list here: time.com/time100health

#TIME100HEALTH TIME

H5N1 Transmission information and other analyses released by USDA as a preprint

While nice to see an academic paper come from USDA and colleagues, its not good enough

raw data +
metadata should be made public so the scientific community can support

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“ #Dengue is now endemic in over 100 countries – here’s what you need to know” Wellcome

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TIME 100 Health: 'Eric Topol: Scientific translator'

'..he faithfully interprets the latest research on COVID-19 for a following of almost 700,000—including many fellow scientists and public-health experts..'

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Congrats to our EVP Eric Topol, who is included in the 2024 TIME #TIME100Health list! The list recognizes the impact, #innovation , and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals in #health . 🎉🌟 ow.ly/Iej650Rv1KM

TIME 100 Health: 'Ziyad Al-Aly: Advocating with research'

All of these efforts are guided by Long COVID patients, Al-Aly says. “I feel connected at a visceral level,” he says. “People are asking us [to do this work] and I feel a sense of responsibility.”

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Jynneos estimate show strong protection against mpox

Fve studies reported two-dose adjusted VE estimates ranging from 66% to 90%.

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CDC / Brian W.J. Mahy

Very honoured to have been in the TIME 100 list of Most Influential People in Health. Even happier, that I got a picture with my electric bike as in addition to science and hunting virus, I love cycling and nature. #TIME100Health

Some really excellent folks on this list, including:

Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, Prof. Akiko Iwasaki, Eric Topol, uché blackstock, md, Tulio de Oliveira, Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

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Pleased to be on a panel for this event at The Brookings Institution #Biosafety and the Origin of the #COVID Pandemic. A great lineup of speakers.
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Heart breaking! His courage saved million of lives and he is punished for sharing data that was used to characterised SARS-CoV-2 and develop vaccines and diagnostics. When the world will stop punishing scientists for sharing crucial data? nature.com/articles/d4158…

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever ( #CCHF ) is the May theme for the EID journal. You can read the articles and see this month’s cover image, Harvest by Vladimir Donatovich Orlovsky (1842–1914), online now. bit.ly/3sF44cR

#WesternAustralia records its first case of encephalitis for 2024 after adult was bitten by mosquito in the #Pilbara region, thought to have #MurrayValley encephalitis.
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Genomic analysis suggests that the #AvianInfluenza #outbreak in dairy farms in the #US probably began in late December or January. This implies a protracted, undetected spread of the virus.
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I'm told that Dept. of Agriculture got 2 samples from New Mexico that were labeled as non-bovine. They tested positive. Not sure when this was but I think early April. USDA later discovered the samples were from cows & has adjusted the outbreak total to include 2 additional NM outbreaks.
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'he urged her to move the work to a more secure BSL-3....WIV continued to perform CoV research at...an inappropriately low (BSL2). Of #lableak “You can’t rule that out…..the market was a conduit for expansion..Is that where it started? I don’t think so.” vanityfair.com/news/story/ral…

“Baric told investigators that the experiment in dispute, in which technicians [at the Wuhan Inst Virology]created a chimeric virus that made lab mice sicker, was ‘absolutely’ gain-of-function research: ‘You can’t argue with that.’” vanityfair.com/news/story/ral…