Pandemics and Biosecurity

An Andes-strain hantavirus case has now been confirmed in a Swiss passenger from the MV Hondius cluster, the only hantavirus capable of person-to-person spread. H5N1 has resurfaced in Idaho dairy cattle, and a new Emory study finds the virus in milking-parlour air. On the defensive side, Africa CDC and the EU launched ARILAC on 6 May to build AMR laboratory capacity across eight African states, and CEPI announced the first Phase 3 trial of an mRNA H5N1 vaccine candidate on 22 April.