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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Bird flu: if or when? Planning for the next pandemic - PMC
Avian influenza or “bird flu” is causing increasing concern across the world as experts prepare for the possible occurrence of the next human influenza pandemic. <strong>Only influenza A has ever been shown to have the capacity to cause pandemics</strong>. Currently ...
today.com
Will Bird Flu Lead To A Pandemic? First U.S. Patient Dies From H5N1
The most recent human H7N9 virus infection was reported in China in 2019, according to the CDC. <strong>A lockdown due to bird flu is not likely for this strain</strong>, since H5N1 isn’t posing a threat to the general public, both experts say.
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pbs.org
How America lost control of the bird flu and raised the risk of another pandemic | PBS News
"It came from somewhere and we don't know where, but that hasn't triggered any kind of reset in approach — just the same kind of complacency and low energy." Sam Scarpino, a disease surveillance specialist in the Boston area, wondered how many other mysterious infections had gone undetected. Surveillance outside of farms was even patchier than on them, and bird flu tests have been hard to get. Although pandemic experts had identified the CDC's singular hold on testing for new viruses as a key explanation for why America was hit so hard by COVID in 2020, the system remained the same.
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economictimes.indiatimes.com
Can bird flu trigger another pandemic and cause more lockdowns? Here's what experts have to say on the possibility - The Economic Times
"Do I personally think it’s going to be responsible for the next pandemic? No. Could it be? Yes.” However, experts are more concerned about other strains of bird flu, such as H7N9, which has caused significant human infections in China. H7N9, though not highly transmissible, has led to severe illness in people who were infected. The question of whether bird flu could lead to nationwide lockdowns, similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, has also been raised.
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pnas.org
Bird flu can already get inside human cells. So why hasn’t it sparked a pandemic? | Journal Club | PNAS
When the researchers tested the avian flu virus’s proteins one by one, the matrix protein M1 stood out. It sharply suppresses STING’s ability to activate the NF-κB pathway. A search of influenza genome databases showed just how important that workaround may be: More than 95 percent of human pandemic strains carry this mutation in M1.
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factcheck.org
Bird Flu Pandemic Preparedness Activities Are Not Evidence of a Conspiracy - FactCheck.org
<strong>Social media posts have baselessly implied that these efforts are evidence that a new laboratory-derived version of the virus is going to cause a pandemic</strong> -- or even that there is a conspiracy to release bird flu from a lab.
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