New preprint from myself/colleagues: H3N2 canine influenza (CIV) evolution + epidemiology. 🐕 Tl;dr, US spread correlates w/ metro size + shelter network, recent US outbreaks are international intros (≥2), zoonotic risk (despite proximity) remains low. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Evolution and Epidemiology of H3N2 Canine Influenza Virus After 20 Years in Dogs

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Feels like showrunners cut catering for the writers room and they are all quiet quitting.

Frankly, that's not a good excuse.

Dairy cows don't get up and walk to the next farm, or state. If H5N1 is spreading in the US, humans are facilitating it. It's inherent in the economic system we have set up around dairy production.

HBhelenbranswell.bsky.socialMay 7, 2024 8:34pm

Movement of cows in the US is massive, Shweta Bansal & Colleen Webb write for @statnews.bsky.social. Stopping spread of diseases like #H5N1 #birdflu in cattle requires much more information about how & where that's happening. www.statnews.com/2024/05/07/t...

As livestock move around the country, so does H5N1. The U.S. needs real-time tracking of livestock movements

Managing diseases in livestock in a country the size of the U.S. is a huge challenge due to the frequent and extensive movement of animals across the nation. That means local animal disease problems q...

Movement of cows in the US is massive, Shweta Bansal & Colleen Webb write for @statnews.bsky.social#H5N1#birdfluwww.statnews.com/2024/05/07/t...

As livestock move around the country, so does H5N1. The U.S. needs real-time tracking of livestock movements

Managing diseases in livestock in a country the size of the U.S. is a huge challenge due to the frequent and extensive movement of animals across the nation. That means local animal disease problems q...

Judge Cannon’s rationale for the postponement is that a large number of pretrial motions remain unresolved, a state of affairs that she has literally engineered by failing to resolve them.

If you're interesting in the #H5N1virological.org/t/preliminar...

My colleagues and I have just posted a "Note about availability of #H5N1virological.orgvirological.org/t/note-about...

Note about availability of H5N1 2.3.4.4b consensus sequences from cattle and other species:

On Sunday, April 21st, 2024, “in the interest of public transparency and ensuring the scientific community has access to this information as quickly as possible to encourage disease research and devel...

It also has the best Droid character of the franchise. Long live Elthree.

Yay. It's house centipede season.