Note about availability of H5N1 2.3.4.4b consensus sequences from cattle and other species:
On Sunday, April 21st, 2024, “in the interest of public transparency and ensuring the scientific community has access to this information as quickly as possible to encourage disease research and development to benefit the U.S. dairy industry”, the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) shared H5N1 sequence reads from 239 Biosamples related to the ongoing H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b influenza …