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Flu keeps Australia under the weather

Posted onJanuary 11, 2019January 11, 2019Leave a comment

Influenza has been unseasonably hyperactive during Australia’s hotter and wetter months at the end of 2018 and the start of 2019. In what’s shaping up to be our biggest summer Read More …

CategoriesInfluenzaTagsAustralia, influenza virus, Queensland, seasonal influenza, summer

Influenza virus transmission: with or without symptoms, you’re dropping Flu virus

Posted onJanuary 14, 2018November 9, 202019 Comments

Influenza viruses infect our cells, but cell entry alone does not result in influenza (the disease). What happens after our cells get infected can depend on quite a few things. Read More …

CategoriesInfluenzaTagsaerosol, airborne, droplet, droplet nuclei, Flu, influenza, influenza virus, transmission

How the 2013 influenza A/H7N9 was thought to have arisen….

Posted onDecember 27, 2017Leave a comment

This is a graphical resurrection of sorts. An old image of mine I made back in 2013/14 and some text from what used to be the H7N9 page on my Read More …

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsavian influenza, bird flu, evolution, H7N9, influenza virus

Flu is bad…in many ways…

Posted onSeptember 20, 2017October 15, 2017Leave a comment

A Mum  gives birth to a baby but she is too ill with influenza to know it.[1] As we read another tragic story of the severe impact from disease (in Read More …

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsAustralia, epidemiology, flu season, H3N2, influenza virus, mutation, Queensland, reporting

Talking Flu to a wider audience: some measures of impact

Posted onSeptember 2, 2017June 6, 2018Leave a comment

We keyboard warriors love to talk into our echo chambers, shill our bigPharma ideas to pay the rent on our Bell 429WLG and generally hear ourselves think out loud. So Read More …

CategoriesInfluenzaTagscommunity engagement, flu season, influenza, influenza virus, metrics, quantitation, science communication, social media, SoMe

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