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S2 E6: Playing Chicken with a Train: The Potential of Avian Influenza

S2 E6: Playing Chicken with a Train: The Potential of Avian Influenza

This is the Season Finale for Potential Infectious Diseases. We're looking at the potential of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. Could it become a pandemic? How would an outbreak affect the food supply? Let's find out.
Avian Influenza Research...

This is the Season Finale for Potential Infectious Diseases. We're looking at the potential of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. Could it become a pandemic? How would an outbreak affect the food supply? Let's find out.
Avian Influenza Research
Naming of Influenza Viruses:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/molecules-to-medicine/h1n-what-wading-through-the-alphabet-soup-of-flu-names/
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-meaning-numbers-next-h-and-n-avian-influenza-designations?qt-news_science_products=0#qt-news_science_products
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/viruses/types.htm
Avian Influenza as an Emerging Disease:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/h5n1/case-definitions.htm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0147957108000088?via%3Dihub
https://europepmc.org/article/med/19618616
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0147957108000088
Epidemiology, Etiology and Pathology:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6246153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459363/
https://www.fao.org/avianflu/en/clinical.html
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poultry/avian-influenza/avian-influenza
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK553072/
https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-021-01504-4
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/professionals/genetic-characterization.htm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579119360328
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-(avian-and-other-zoonotic)
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/avian-in-humans.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/virus-transmission.htm
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18403604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2329826/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0145305X99000786
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/viruses/change.htm