Scientific American - Influenza D is only known to sicken cattle and pigs, but it "has everything it needs" to jump into people
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The U.S. government is taking action to stop ‘cow flu.’ Is it too little, too late?
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This Cow and Pig Influenza Virus Could Infect Humans: What We Know So Far
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What to Know About the Bird Flu Outbreak in Dairy Cows
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Bird Flu & Dairy Cattle: Insights from Epidemiologist and Livestock Analyst
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Bird flu’s outbreak in cattle spreads
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This Cow and Pig Influenza Virus Could Infect Humans: What We Know So Far
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Preparing for pandemics: The One Health approach
For three days this week, decision-makers of the World Health Organization gather for a special global assembly. With COVID-19 and its variants still very much in the news, the pandemic tops the agenda. And one of the policy briefs up for discussion concerns a concept called "One Health," which considers that the health of all living beings results from the interface between humans, animals and their environment. Université de Montréal professor Hélène Carabin, an epidemiologist in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and the School of Public Health, is the co-lead author of the 30-page brief, titled "One Health as Pillar for a Transformative Pandemic Treaty." With six colleagues from the University of Ottawa, University of New Brunswick and universities in Germany, Norway and Ghana, Carabin argues for making animals and the environment part of the human equation in planning for future epidemics.
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Your kid is (probably) not going to get monkeypox
August 13, 2022, The Slate news website interviewed Dr. Susan McLellan, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. “At this point, if it was so easy to jump into the child population, it seems like it would have done so,” she said. “There might be isolated outbreaks, but I’m not super worried about elementary schools and day cares turning out to be hugely important.” Dr. McLellan also spoke to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on the same topic. “Worrying about it on the bus I think is silly,” McLellan said. “Worry more about being hit by the bus.”
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Dog with monkeypox sparks questions about human-to-animal transmission
Newsweek, August 19, 2022 - Dr. Gary Kobinger, director of the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch, told Newsweek, "It is expected that current vaccination regiments that show protection in other animal species, and/or humans, will also work in dogs. This could be one prevention measure to confirm (in dogs) and use."
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Ghana declares first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease
Accra/Brazzaville - Ghana has announced the country’s first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre laboratory confirmed earlier results.