#H5N1 is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 67 people shared 274 posts with it — around 9 a day. Activity is up 46% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 15 with 28 posts.

Posts with #H5N1

Katie Mack

@astrokatie.com

over 1 year ago

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

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Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect

Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

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BK. Titanji

@boghuma.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

If you have heard about the new strain of #H5N1 #Birdflu spilling into cattle and do not understand what it means, I suggest reading this excellent report from the US department of agriculture. I have summarized key point below TLDR: "Houston we have a problem" www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/….

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19)

@covid19disease.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

The H5N1 sequence found in the hospitalized teenager shows two important mutations that improve the virus's ability to bind to human α2,6 sialic acid receptors. This adaptation is crucial for the virus's potential to spread between humans. The virus is evolving. #H5N1

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André Picard @picardonhealth

@picardonhealth.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Ottawa purchases 500,000 doses of bird flu vaccine for people at higher risk, by @kellygrant1.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/c…. via @theglobeandmail.com #H5N1

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Ottawa purchases 500,000 doses of bird flu vaccine for people at higher risk of catching virus

The majority of the doses will be handed out to provinces and territories, which will decide when and where to deploy the shots

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Katie Mack

@astrokatie.com

over 1 year ago

PLEASE do not feed raw milk to your cats. Or your kids. Or yourself. #H5N1

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Henry L Niman PhD

@hlniman.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

NEVADA DAIRY WORKER WITH BIRD FLU HAS... PB2 D701N per @cbarbermd at X attributed to @CDCgov #H5N1 PB2 D701N had been detected in cows from the first four tested herds in Churchill Co NV Additional conf Dairy workers linked to these 4 farms and 2 new farms also expected to be D701N pos

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦

@helenbranswell.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/….

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HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics

HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.

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Kai Kupferschmidt

@kakape.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while. So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet? Story here, 🧵 to come: 🧪#IDSky

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Why hasn’t the bird flu pandemic started?

Some scientists examining mutations found in H5N1 viruses fear major outbreak is imminent but others says pathogen remains unpredictable

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Danielle Beckman

@daniellebeckman.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

“It took a while for scientists to discover COVID was entering the brain. We know – the literature shows – from cases in the past that these viruses [H5Nx variants] like to hide in the brain,” Beckman said. My short interview with The Front about #H5N1 is out www.thefrontonline.com/ar….

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Whatcom County reports its first flock infected with Avian influenza

A teenager was hospitalized in critical condition on Nov. 9 in Vancouver, B.C. after contracting the first recorded human case of bird flu in Canada, according to Canadian health officials. 

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦

@helenbranswell.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

The #H5N1 #birdflu virus from a severe case in Louisiana shows it was developing mutations that could help it attach to cells in human respiratory tracts, including a mutation seen in a recent severe case in British Columbia, Canada, the #CDC reported today. www.statnews.com/2024/12/….

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CDC says H5N1 bird flu sample shows mutations that may help the virus bind to cells in the upper airways of people

The CDC said Thursday that the mutations, detected in a sample taken from a Louisiana patient, may help bind the virus to the upper airways in people.

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Nick Mark, MD

@nickmark.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Report in NEJM describing the first critically ill adolescent with #H5N1 D1.1 (aka #BirdFlu) in North America. A 13 yo rapidly progressed from mild symptoms to respiratory & renal failure. She survived thanks to IMV + ECMO + CRRT. Scary stuff. 📄 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦

@helenbranswell.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

[email protected] reports finding #H5N1 #birdflu virus in raw milk. The producer, Raw Farm LLC of Fresno County, has agreed to recall a batch of a whole milk product called "cream top." Milk from infected cows contains staggering levels of virus. www.statnews.com/2024/04/….