Corona Calls

Corona Calls for 05.28.2024 – A second case of human bird flu

Discussed in this episode:

  • H5N1 Avian Influenza has been confirmed in a second dairy worker, this time in Michigan. There are now 56 dairy herds with confirmed outbreaks.
  • A Letter to the Editor in the New England Journal of Medicine details how a laboratory process similar (but not identical) to pasteurization failed to completely eliminate active H5N1 virus in infected milk samples. (There was enough active virus left to infect mice).

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