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🚨 New HPAI H5N9 outbreak in the Philippines 🇵🇭 🦆 Domestic ducks in rice fields likely exposed to wild birds 🦠 First detection of H5N9 in the country 📆 Start: 15 Apr 2025 | Confirmed: 30 Apr 📊 110 susceptible | 84 dead | 26 culled 📌 Event ongoing wahis.woah.org/#/in-review/64…

NVLS uploaded 296 sets of #H5N1 seqs from wild birds dairy mammals (largly cats and skunks) to GISAID not yet in BLAST database

China reports more H9N2 and H10N3 avian flu cases. Old clades of #H5N1 continue to mutate/evolve. Bovine B3.13 and D1.1 clades of H5N1 continue to spread in the US. There has never been a higher global burden of #BirdFlu.

#H5N1 #BirdFlu is adapting to become a SwineFlu virus. Trial confirms limited spread of bovine H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b in pigs.👇👇 Pigs are excellent ‘mixing vessels’ for BirdFlu viruses, promoting transition from being an Avian gut virus to a human lung virus. Rick Bright

#USDA reported 2 new #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds in Texas today, the first there since last Dec. Anyone know if these are new spillovers? it isn't easy to get that kind of info from USDA anymore. Cumulative national total: 1065 herds in 17 states.

#CDC has been informed of another child who died from #flu this past winter. This brings the season's death toll in kids so far to 227, a record for a non-pandemic year. The child died in early January. CDC says that 90% of these kids weren't fully vaccinated against flu.

NVSL uploaded 384 sets of #H5N1 seqs, most of which were Dairy Herds collected in 2025

Two new #H5N1 B3.13 sets with PB2 E627K A/dairy cow/USA/013476-002/2025 A/dairy cow/USA/013476-003/2025

#USDA confirmed 5 more #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds in Idaho. Moving fast there. 70 herds have tested positive since late February. Cumulative national total: 1070 herds in 17 states. aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poul…

Idaho Dairy Herds with Avian Flu (1st infections only) 2024 wave - 203 days - 35 herds 2025 wave - 80 days - 70 herds 2024 was Boisie (orange) 2025 is Twin Falls, South Central (green) Drought + Migration + Flu = Spread Looking forward to typing and comparison to Brazil strain

Avian Flu in Dairy Cows Shown as a percentage of State Herds over time California has "ended" regular updates CRITICAL UPDATE -Wisconsin will start testing all 5,000+ herds once per month as Drought looks likely this summer -Brazil's bird migration moving through Wisconsin now

#H5N1 confirmed Dairy Herds in Idaho increase by 5 on May 19

Evolution, spread and impact of highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza A viruses | Nature Reviews Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4157…

Dr. Saskia Popescu Amazing how many species are affected by "Avian" flu...

Pennsylvania sees first avian flu cases in nearly two months | ⁦Rick Bright⁩ abc27.com/pennsylvania/p…

Australia, Taiwan, and Japan seem to be the major molnupiravir users these days. Sometimes it's hard to tell if a new MOV sequence is from recent MOV use or treatment from the past—like this recent FL.20.1 whose closest relatives on the tree were collected ~1 year ago. 1/4

The molnupiravir-associated nucleotide contexts of the mutations in this one—particularly the G->A contexts—leave little doubt MOV was used here. Figures from Theo Sanderson 's MOV nuc context calculator: movbranchapp.streamlit.app 2/4

This is very much a trend in recent MOV sequences (first noted by Sakaguchi Hitoshi), and not a happy one. MOV is intended to kill the virus by inducing harmful mutations. If instead MOV mutations are being positively selected for, that is very concerning. 4/4 x.com/LongDesertTrai…

It would be good to see this published and shared with U.S. FDA CDER Director Dr. Martin Makary for careful review.

Rick Bright U.S. FDA CDER Director Dr. Martin Makary Molnupiravir absolutely should be withdrawn; little or no benefit to individual people, already demonstrated harm in diversifying the SARSCoV2 genetic pool