This ‘minor’ bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic
Experiments suggests
H9N2 has adapted to human cells (
Oct 28, 2025)
SUMMARY:
Less attention is being paid to
H9N2, says Kelvin To, a clinical microbiologist at the University of Hong Kong, despite the virus being the second most common strain of bird flu that infects people...
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H9N2 might be more prevalent than we realize, says Michelle Wille, who studies bird flu at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne. Infections are probably being missed because they do not result in severe infection or hospitalization in people, or because people are more commonly tested for H5N1 instead, she adds.
LINK:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03519-1COMMENT by 'An Anonymous Reader':
" The
H9N2 has NOW! adapted to human cells. Would the CDC like to comment?
(
Nov 3. 2025)"
Non-Reply:
CDC Ends Bird Flu Emergency Response (
JULY 9, 2025)
LINK:
https://www.idse.net/Influenza/Article/07-25/bird-flu-emergency-ended-CDC/77649?ses=ogst#:~:text=..Response by 'An Anonymous Reader: '"a little birdie told me, right now the CDC is stranger than fiction probably due to government cutbacks and layoffs of those qualified in the field".
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