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Influenza: Public Health Information and Recent Genomic Insights

CDC information: The flu season in the United States has begun and about half the country is experiencing high levels of flu activity

CDC information: The flu: What to do if you get sick

CDC information: Influenza virus genome sequencing and genetic characterization

This season’s flu activity has reached the epidemic threshold, the CDC says, Washington Post, Dec 30, 2014

CDC: Flu at epidemic level; 15 children dead this season, by Eve Bower, for CNN, Dec 31, 2014

Get your flu shot anyway, despite genetic "drift", Kroll D. Forbes.com, Dec 31, 2014

Predicting host tropism of influenza A virus proteins using random forest.
Eng CL, et al. BMC Med Genomics. 2014 Dec 8;7 Suppl 3:S1

Global avian influenza surveillance in wild birds: a strategy to capture viral diversity
Machalaba C, et al. Emerg Infect Dis, April 2015.

Reverse zoonosis of influenza to swine: new perspectives on the human–animal interface
Nelson MI, Vincent AL. Trends Microbiol, Jan 4, 2015.

Evolution of the H9N2 influenza genotype that facilitated the genesis of the novel H7N9 virus
Pu J, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, Dec 29, 2014.

Contemporary avian influenza A virus subtype H1, H6, H7, H10, and H15 hemagglutinin genes encode a mammalian virulence factor similar to the 1918 pandemic virus H1 hemagglutinin
Qi L, et al. mBio 2014; 5(6): e02116-14.

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