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Controlled human influenza infection reveals heterogeneous expulsion of infectious virus into air

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By Nahara Vargas-Maldonado, Nishit Shetty, Lucas Ferreri, Matthew Pauly, Kayle Patatanian, Shamika Danzy, Meredith Shephard, David VanInsberghe, Michelle Vu, A.J. Campbell, Vedhika Raghunathan, Jin Pan, Aaron J. Prussin, Anna Sims, Jessica Traenkner, Veronica Smith, Katia Koelle, Andrew Catchpole Verified, Alex Mann, Nadine Rouphael, Linsey Marr, Anice C. Lowen, Seema Lakdawala, Kayla Brizuela, Hollie Macenczak, Ralph Tanios, Christelle Radi, Dalia Gulick
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Keywords Transmission Influenza virus Infectious respiratory particle Aerosol Airborne Expulsion Controlled human infection model Variant Bottleneck Get full text access Log in, subscribe or purchase for full access. References 1. Leung, N.H.L. ∙ Milton, D.K. New WHO proposed terminology for respiratory pathogen transmission Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 2024; 22:453-454 2. Zhao, X. ∙ Nie, W. ∙ Zhou, C. ...
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Risk assessment of a highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus from mink - Nature Communications

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By David VanInsberghe, Vedhika Raghunathan, Anice C. Lowen
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Abstract Outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b viruses in farmed mink and seals combined with isolated human infections suggest these viruses pose a pandemic threat. To assess this threat, using the ferret model, we show an H5N1 isolate derived from mink transmits by direct contact to 75% of exposed ferrets and, in airborne transmission studies, the virus transmits to 37.5% of contacts. Sequence analyses show no mutations were associated with transmission.
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