#h9n2

[covid-safer-hotties]

China reports two more H9N2 avian flu cases

H9N2 is known to circulate in poultry in the region, and infections are typically reported in children who experience mild disease.

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By Lisa Schnirring

China has reported two more human H9N2 avian flu cases, which involve children in two different provinces, Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said today in its weekly avian flu update.

Both patients are 1-year-old girls. The first, from Guizhou province in southern China, became ill on October 28. The other, from neighboring Guangxi province, became ill on November 18.

The report did not note the patients' conditions or exposure to the virus.

H9N2 is known to circulate in poultry in the region, where sporadic infections are reported, especially in children, who typically experience mild disease following exposure to poultry. The new cases raise China’s H9N2 total for the year to 15 cases.

[nicolagriffith]

H5N1, H9N2, and H5N5 go into a bar...

We now have H5N1, H9N2, and H5N5 travelling the wild flyways and starting to play in the same space. The party might be about to get out of hand—with only an underfunded WHO and hollowed-out CDC to cope. Such joy!

Very briefly: We now have H5N1, H9N2, and H5N5 travelling the wild flyways and starting to play in the same space. The party might be about to get out of hand.. A woman in Wyoming hospitalised with H5N1 bird flu, probably infected via her backyard flock—I don’t know which strain. China has reported two more human infections involving H9N2 avian flu, and, this time, it’s two adults, both women…

[ricisidro]

🇻🇳 #Vietnam Reports 1st Human Infection with #AvianInfluenza #H9N2,a low pathogenic avian influenza virus. a different subtype than the highly pathogenic avian influenza #H5N1 virus that is commonly reported globally and is in poultry and cattle in U.S. now.

This is bad 😞

#Avianflu #BirdFlu

-https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2024-DON514

-https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/spotlights/2023-2024/vietnam-human-infection.htm

[hachi-mitsu-semi]

I still have the covid tracker app from when that was a thing here and they've pivoted to providing updates about Covid...and now Avian flu. H9N2 specifically

Taiwan has culled a lot of chicken recently so its almost impossible to get eggs, here at least, due to H9N2 and also I think H5N1. My Chinese isn't good enough to read this but you can probably work out the gist of it

anyway, don't eat raw eggs kids!

[clipseiriberri]

H1N1 and H9N2 flu viruses produce dangerous hybrids

HONG KONG, March 1 (Reuters) - The H1N1 swine flu virus is compatible with a bird flu virus that is endemic in poultry in Asia and they can produce hybrid viruses packed with greater killing power, Chinese researchers warned on Tuesday.  The scientists made 127 hybrid viruses by mixing genes of the H1N1 and the avian H9N2 virus in a laboratory, and eight of the hybrids turned out to be more virulent than either parents when tested in mice.  The H1N1 pandemic of 2009 turned out to be milder than feared and human infections of H9N2 in China in the past are not known to have caused severe disease. But the experts said their hybrid offspring - or "reassortants" - cannot be casually dismissed.  "The main message is that the H1N1 can combine in certain ways with the H9N2 to create reassortants and some of the viruses had an increased pathogenicity comparing with the parent viruses in mice," lead author Jinhua Liu, of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the China Agricultural University in Beijing, wrote in an email to Reuters.  Liu and his colleagues, who published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, warned in their paper: "The possibility of novel pandemic strains being generated from reassortment between avian H9N2 and H1N1/2009 influenza viruses exists."  Flu viruses have eight gene segments and one of the segments is called the PA gene. Interestingly, all eight dangerous hybrids carried the PA gene belonging to the H1N1 parent virus.  The eight hybrid viruses caused severe pneumonia, edema and hemorrhaging in infected mice, the experts wrote.  Liu said their findings underscored the importance of monitoring hybrid viruses that arise from the H9N2 and H1N1.  The H9N2 is prevalent in China and large antibody surveys in the past found that between 13.7 percent and 37.2 percent of people sampled had prior infections by the H9N2.  "We should decrease the chance of infection with the two viruses in a (single) host", Liu wrote in his email.  Experts believe that a classic way for hybrid viruses to form is when different viruses meet and "marry" inside a single host, swapping genes. Humans and animals, such as pigs, can be efficient "mixing vessels".  Some scientists believe the pandemics of 1958 and 1968 occurred in such a fashion, killing up to two million and one million people worldwide, respectively. — Reuters