Avian ‘Bird’ Flu – undue media panic or genuine concern for pandemic potential requiring global preparedness action?

Eskild Petersen; Ziad A. Memish; David S. Hui; Alessandra Scagliarini; Lone Simonsen; Edgar Simulundu; Jennifer Bloodgood; Lucille Blumberg; Shui Shan Lee; Alimuddin Zumla

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107062

Avian ‘Bird’ Flu – undue media panic or genuine concern for pandemic potential requiring global preparedness action?

Eskild Petersen^*, Ziad A. Memish, David S. Hui, Alessandra Scagliarini, Lone Simonsen, Edgar Simulundu, Jennifer Bloodgood, Lucille Blumberg, Shui Shan Lee, Alimuddin Zumla

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Article number	107062
Journal	International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume	145
ISSN	1201-9712
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107062
Publication status	Published - Aug 2024

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Eskild Petersen and Lone Simonsen acknowledge financial support for the PandemiX Center, from the Danish National Research Foundation (grant No. DNRF170). Professor Sir Ali Zumla acknowledges support from the Pan-African Network for Rapid Response, Research and Preparedness for Emerging and Re-Emerging Infections (PANDORA-ID-NET) funded by the EU-EDCTP2 - EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. He is in receipt of a UK NIHR Senior Investigator Award. He is also a Mahathir Science Award and EU-EDCTP Pascoal Mocumbi Prize Laureate.

Keywords

Avian influenza
Epidemics
H5N1
Highly pathogenic avian influenza
HPAI

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Petersen, E., Memish, Z. A., Hui, D. S., Scagliarini, A., Simonsen, L., Simulundu, E., Bloodgood, J., Blumberg, L., Lee, S. S., & Zumla, A. (2024). Avian ‘Bird’ Flu – undue media panic or genuine concern for pandemic potential requiring global preparedness action? International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 145, Article 107062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107062

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